05-04-2018, 09:18 AM | #811 |
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Frederick Rolfe's "Hadrian the Seventh" - how come this doesn't seem to be available as a Public Domain ebook? It was published in 1904 and the author died in 1913, so I can't see any impediment.
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Full page scans are available on Hathi Trust if anyone wants to have a go, but if you aren't affiliated with an institution that supports Hathi, getting them will be tedious. Hathi subscribers can download PDFs. Others will need to do screen captures. See https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...view=1up;seq=1 ______ Dennis |
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05-04-2018, 05:10 PM | #813 |
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... or use the Hathi Download Helper ...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Interne...d-Helper.shtml Works like a charm, especially if you "enable AutoProxy" in the download menu. Last edited by doubleshuffle; 05-05-2018 at 01:26 PM. |
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Frederick Rolfe sounds interesting, actually. I have to finish a bigger project first, but after that I'd do the Hadrian. However, if someone else did it I wouldn't mind. Just say so here, please, to avoid unnecessary work.
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I'm just downloading from Hathi and having a look at the book there. Doing this will be no picnic, since there are many passages in Greek, Latin, German in the first few pages already, which will mean a lot of work going through the OCR. But the guy is fascinating. Consider me hooked.
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Thanks for the hint. I'm not sure if I'll translate all the foreign language stuff, but this might come in handy. What I really hate is Greek. Picking out all the unicode characters is so tedious...
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@dwig --- apparently the MS Translator only works on Windows 10, and refuses to let me download on my Win7 machine to install to a different computer.
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Thanks for the tip, dwig, btw. And @DaleDe: I've never even checked if ABBYY can pick up the Greek along with the English... If that is really possible I'll give myself a dozen of these: |
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I guess all this answers my original question of how come this doesn't seem to be available as a Public Domain ebook. Thanks all for your endeavours!
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Which wouldn't be a problem if I still found it as exciting towards the middle as at the beginning, but the way the protagonist is presented as the only person in the world who has a clue, and all the others as bigoted idiots, is getting less and less funny by the page. (No wonder the book appealed to D.H. Lawrence...) Long story short: Given that there is an ebook version available for three euros, which, from having a look at the preview in the Kobo store, looks very clean and well-made, I guess I am about to give up. Sorry. http://www.valancourtbooks.com/hadri...enth-1904.html There's a recent Penguin edition as well, also available as an ebook: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/3062...n-the-seventh/ |
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