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I'm looking for a specific ad, so am wading through the original images of a Talking Machine World scan. Look at this - no wonder so many of the archive files stink! The book is laid on a piece of cardboard, with no effort to flatten the pages and the book is obviously un-square with the camera frame. There's usually no focus checking, either, and often half or more of a page is unreadable. THEN they compress these into a clunky form of PDF which takes forever to open.

Yes, yes - I know - we should be grateful for any access to such old material....but it would be nicer if it was halfway decent.

ps - I'm looking for an advertisement pushing a Vincennes 10-record changer that's spring powered.

On Archive.org, there are several years of the TMW available through the Library of Congress. Nice, clean scans, nothing like this. And you can save them as well. I always select the "read online" option. Try here:

http://archive.org/stream/talkingmachin ... 9/mode/2up

Sean

Have you tried the Digital Public Library of America? http://dp.la

They have a lot of public domain material available. Worth a shot.

OrthoSean wrote:On Archive.org, there are several years of the TMW available through the Library of Congress. Nice, clean scans, nothing like this. And you can save them as well. I always select the "read online" option. Try here:

http://archive.org/stream/talkingmachin ... 9/mode/2up

Sean

They are the same images, after being rotated more or less upright & cropped.