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Just curious.....does your source for these issues have January - June, 1924 and January - June, 1926 which are missing on free 'Internet Archive' site...??.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=ta ... hine+world

These same issues are missing in the digital set you can buy for under $10 on Ebay with free shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TALKING-MACHINE ... Sw1ZBUw0X0

No, my source is missing those as well. For right now, I'm only editing the volumes up to 1915, so the set will be complete up to that day.

What are you editing..??. Which to me means your removing content. Or are you just coping these out in 'hard copy' form and binding them as annuals...??.

"Editing" is converting the scans to a true black and white copy. Otherwise the yellowed pages would print as a gray. Because of the different conditions of each page, each page has to have this process done to it separately; no batch editing. The grayscale images on each page have to be selected (these would not to discernible if turned to black and white), and the inverse selected. The page then is desaturated, and the colors adjusted to remove the background effectively. This leaves you with a printable page. This has to be done to each page individually, quite a time consumer. As well, any larger-than-speck defects are removed, with letters often having to be "reconstituted" afterwards.
No originally printed content is being removed, these are just being returned closer to their originally published state, without the wear and disfigurement of a 100+ years.

benjaminh wrote:"Editing" is converting the scans to a true black and white copy. Otherwise the yellowed pages would print as a gray. Because of the different conditions of each page, each page has to have this process done to it separately; no batch editing. The grayscale images on each page have to be selected (these would not to discernible if turned to black and white), and the inverse selected. The page then is desaturated, and the colors adjusted to remove the background effectively. This leaves you with a printable page. This has to be done to each page individually, quite a time consumer. As well, any larger-than-speck defects are removed, with letters often having to be "reconstituted" afterwards.
No originally printed content is being removed, these are just being returned closer to their originally published state, without the wear and disfigurement of a 100+ years.

Sounds great. Maybe you can post a before & after page for all to see..??.

Sure thing; just as an example I quickly grabbed, here is a before and after image of the front cover. The image was separated from it's background, and a new background, created from the average colour of the original, substituted. As you can see, the original cover had creasing, fading, and the bottom right corner had been creased, damaging the colour. The edited version has all of these issues corrected, and an even colour put in. Of course the bottom edited version has a back cover and spine added as well.

Benjamin

Sign me up too. Very pleased with Vol. 2.

Clay

Add me to the list. I am a big fan of paper over digital.

I will buy a set. Steve

Will the additional volumes be shipped in increments, or all at once when the project is done?

Clay