Internet Archive Forums: Text Archive Forum http://home.us.archive.org/details/texts#forum The most recent posts from the IA forum: Text Archive Forum en-us info@archive.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:57:55 UTC How to upload to The Computer Magazine Archives http://home.us.archive.org/post/933911 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:35 UTC I have scanned in Creative Computing v04 n02 (Mar-Apr 1978) which is missing from "Ebook and Texts Archive > The Computer Magazine Archives > Creative Computing Magazine". What is the process fo...

Posted by: MrPhil

 request http://home.us.archive.org/post/933874 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:23:12 UTC Good morning, I need Silvio Tonnini Le Epilessie in rapporto alla degenerazione, Bocca, Torino, 1891, Someone can help me? Thanks

Posted by: banzo

 Re: OCR questions http://home.us.archive.org/post/933743 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 05:10:04 UTC the derived formats from original files is at http://archive.org/help/derivatives.php. the abbyy OCR file is not derived from djvu.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 OCR questions http://home.us.archive.org/post/933736 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:30:49 UTC I am wondering if there is a way to get the same OCR routine(s) in play during the typical PDF-upload to DjVu-derivative-creation to run if you just uploaded a DjVu file instead? If I'm following the ...

Posted by: WikiSourcerer

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933256 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:13:47 UTC Thanks, Jeff. Got it!

Posted by: Russ McClay

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933218 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:00:38 UTC it can be added after but you would need to manually start another derive task. here's how: Edit item > change the information > Item Manager > click the "derive" button.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933206 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:00:29 UTC Thank you, Gerry. I already use Irfanview (great program). And I have Adobe Pro.

Posted by: Russ McClay

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933205 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 03:25:23 UTC Awesome, thank you very much, Jeff! Just did a test and it works perfectly. Another quick question: does this file have to be uploaded on the initial creation/upload, or can the images zip file be ad...

Posted by: Russ McClay

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933204 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:36:04 UTC Russ, Convert them to PDF, use PDF Merge and create one PDF file then upload that, the Server will automatically render everything else. Irfanview can be used for the conversion, they are both Open S...

Posted by: garthus1

 Re: How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933200 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:04:53 UTC name the files sequentially. put them in a directory (folder) with a name that end with _images. zip the file and upload the _images.zip file.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 How To Upload A Book and Activate the Read Online Link? http://home.us.archive.org/post/933162 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:59:03 UTC I have search the forums, read the FAQs, done Google searches, but so far I haven't found a definitive answer. Let's say I have 10 jpeg scans. They are my book. How can I upload them so they will ...

Posted by: Russ McClay

 Hypnotherapy surrey | hypnotherapy woking | hypnotherapy surrey http://home.us.archive.org/post/932763 Fri, 31 May 2013 11:52:01 UTC Hypnosis surrey existed in one form or another for long time without sustenance which is used in the dream temples as a form by Egyptians Hypno Sense 26 Woburn Hill Park Woburn Hill Addlestone, Surrey...

Posted by: hypno123

 Re: Please move my file http://home.us.archive.org/post/932669 Wed, 29 May 2013 21:14:48 UTC moved.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Please move my file http://home.us.archive.org/post/932648 Wed, 29 May 2013 13:47:42 UTC Just uploaded these set of images (documents): https://archive.org/details/CASIO_WK1500_Reference They need to be pushed into this category. https://archive.org/details/synthmanuals-casio Can someon...

Posted by: greg-kennedy

 ThemesFinder.com http://home.us.archive.org/post/932217 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:18:18 UTC http://www.themesfinder.com is a unique theme search engine for searching themes for wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal and many more

Posted by: themesfinder

 Re: Wrong File http://home.us.archive.org/post/932202 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:27:28 UTC Unfortunately, reel 639 has been scanned twice. By now some 20 errors have been reported in the Allen County library scans (amongst some 74,000 scans). I have written a mail to the IA staff, perhaps...

Posted by: aibek

 Wrong File http://home.us.archive.org/post/932179 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:46 UTC Roll 633 of the 1860 Missouri census is wrong. It should be McDonald, Mercer and Miller counties. When clicked, it goes straight to roll 639, Phelps and Pike county.

Posted by: sharylcasey

 Re: Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932157 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:44:45 UTC Ok, thanks for the reply. I haven’t really studied Windows; I suppose it is possible to turn it into something good enough.

Posted by: aibek

 Re: Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932150 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:36:00 UTC aibek, I never use restore function, I disable it in the Windows registry. I just reinstall the OS if there is a problem. I also use Linux, BSD Unix and Solaris. My preference is BSD Unix and Debian ...

Posted by: garthus1

 Re: Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932143 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:33:05 UTC Gerry, How do you restore the operating system files? The Windows <em>System Restore</em> never worked for me. Check the link too. http://superuser.com/questions/201468/can-system-restore-remove-vir...

Posted by: aibek

 Re: Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932121 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:52:55 UTC Philly_Bob, I am never 'nervous' about such things. Any materials that I work on in my desktop are saved to an external medium. If my machine gets infected (which it almost never, does because I know...

Posted by: garthus1

 Re: Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932116 Mon, 20 May 2013 19:24:47 UTC How about some sample links? Torrent2Exe is merely a bittorrent client (with a built-in torrent). It does not contain the file you want to download; it is just a program which knows how to download t...

Posted by: aibek

 Nervous about running EXE files downloaded viaTorrent http://home.us.archive.org/post/932099 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:34:55 UTC I did not see this in the Torrent FAQ. I've noticed more and more documents available as Torrents in the Texts section only have EXE files. I imagine this is a sign of success of the new Torrent2Exe u...

Posted by: philly_bob

 More massive SPAM, please delete http://home.us.archive.org/post/931673 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:57:18 UTC over 1000 new Spamfiles: http://archive.org/search.php?query=LUCKY%20LINK This post was modified by bookshark on 2013-05-17 17:57:18

Posted by: bookshark

 Re: please-change-uploader http://home.us.archive.org/post/565736 Fri, 10 May 2013 20:15:57 UTC those items have been moved. btw, you have over 50 items created by that account so you may have a collection created for your items. if you want one please send a request to info@archive.org. This p...

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 newmath http://home.us.archive.org/post/562862 Fri, 10 May 2013 19:14:19 UTC newmath This post was modified by newmath on 2013-05-10 19:14:19

Posted by: newmath

 Re: Order in which files are listed http://home.us.archive.org/post/931258 Thu, 09 May 2013 03:53:20 UTC oh, it's a text item. the file name ordering is for audio items. you can't control the order in a text item.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Re: Order in which files are listed http://home.us.archive.org/post/931241 Wed, 08 May 2013 20:11:59 UTC Thank you for replying. Take this page for example: https://archive.org/details/LociTheologici PDF files are listed in following order: 7 Tomus Septimus.pdf 8 Tomus Octavus.pdf 9 Tomus Nonus.pdf Inde...

Posted by: willeh

 Re: Order in which files are listed http://home.us.archive.org/post/930976 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:03:31 UTC the order is dertermined by the alphabetic order of the file names. just add 01, 02, etc. at the beginning of the file names to force the order.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Order in which files are listed http://home.us.archive.org/post/930963 Mon, 06 May 2013 09:11:03 UTC Uploaded files seem to be listed in completely random order. Is there a way to affect the order in which the files are listed?

Posted by: willeh

 Re: 'There is a networking problem' when uploading http://home.us.archive.org/post/930952 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:23:46 UTC Jeff, Seems like the problem that I was having. The new one stopped working for me. Gerry

Posted by: garthus1

 Re: 'There is a networking problem' when uploading http://home.us.archive.org/post/930950 Mon, 06 May 2013 05:08:32 UTC give the "Classic Uploader" a try at archive.org/create

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 "There is a networking problem" when uploading http://home.us.archive.org/post/930851 Sat, 04 May 2013 15:01:54 UTC Hello I've tried to upload the same pdf file about 3 times. Each time I get the message "There is a networking problem." Not sure what to do. I've uploaded before with no trouble. THank you

Posted by: JBPL02532

 Re: deleting a book http://home.us.archive.org/post/930698 Fri, 03 May 2013 05:15:43 UTC removed.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 deleting a book http://home.us.archive.org/post/930685 Fri, 03 May 2013 02:00:40 UTC I am very sorry, I want to delete the book Escritos de teatro and I don't know how to do it correctly. This is my first experience. The e-pub is just unredeable. I believe the author has to do some ed...

Posted by: Rosa Ileana

 Re: How to download book from Print-disabled collection http://home.us.archive.org/post/930668 Thu, 02 May 2013 19:40:56 UTC That book is currently only available in locked DAISY format which is for listening devices used by the print disabled.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Re: Wrongly listed book http://home.us.archive.org/post/930665 Thu, 02 May 2013 19:35:40 UTC i'll pass your information to the scan center coordinator. thanks for your feedback.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 How to download book from Print-disabled collection http://home.us.archive.org/post/930654 Thu, 02 May 2013 17:19:55 UTC Howdy all. New here. While Googling for book ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference, came across archive.org and the OpenLibrary.org. Signed up for both but still can't seem to access from these site the abo...

Posted by: reycbx

 Wrongly listed book http://home.us.archive.org/post/930615 Thu, 02 May 2013 07:32:29 UTC Supposedly the listing is: British Columbia coast names, 1592-1906 [microform] : to which are added a few names in adjacent United States territory, their origin and history (1909) http://archive.org...

Posted by: Niftyniall

 Re: Daisy Files http://home.us.archive.org/post/930554 Wed, 01 May 2013 14:31:52 UTC Thanks Gerry! I will try it right away : ) Kitt

Posted by: Kitt Rider

 Re: Daisy Files http://home.us.archive.org/post/930497 Wed, 01 May 2013 02:06:21 UTC Kitt, Try this: http://softwaretopic.informer.com/zip-daisy-to-pdf-converter/ Gerry

Posted by: garthus1

 Re: Why does the main PDF link go to Google Books? http://home.us.archive.org/post/930400 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:06:05 UTC For a cleaner copy of the same scan, go here: http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk To view available books, use drop down at right end of search bar and select 'Online Resources'. Then select ' Physical Ite...

Posted by: martyveldman

 Re: Daisy Files http://home.us.archive.org/post/930386 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:54:29 UTC only with a audio device for the print-disabled. that is what they are intended for.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Daisy Files http://home.us.archive.org/post/930360 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:38:21 UTC does anyone know how I can read the daisy protected books in OpenLibrary? Thanks in advance : )

Posted by: Kitt Rider

 Re: Why does the main PDF link go to Google Books? http://home.us.archive.org/post/930357 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:07:28 UTC &gt; why Google Books doesn't host and make available for free the book which the public library allowed them to scan? In this case click on Preview (on Google Books) it takes you to a full viewing a...

Posted by: stbalbach

 Re: Why does the main PDF link go to Google Books? http://home.us.archive.org/post/930350 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:35:19 UTC rgs, Just go into all files --&gt; https and upload the PDF. I do not like that link to Google, I guess that was part of their agreement to allow their files to be placed in the Archive. Gerry Gerr...

Posted by: garthus1

 Why does the main PDF link go to Google Books? http://home.us.archive.org/post/930217 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:53:17 UTC Why does the main PDF link go to Google Books when there is no free PDF download there? Here's an example: http://archive.org/details/reminiscencesma00sluggoog That page links to a PDF at: http...

Posted by: rgs_uk

 Re: Site counter not working? http://home.us.archive.org/post/929835 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:42:18 UTC yes, we're aware of it. hopefully fixed soon. our apologies.

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan

 Site counter not working? http://home.us.archive.org/post/929776 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:12:32 UTC I have added a new entry a couple of days ago, but there does not seem to be a counter for the page... an error?

Posted by: Deichbrand_1

 Re: admin intervention http://home.us.archive.org/post/929442 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:12:55 UTC at this point there is nothing wrong wit the item. the issue is that the server is temporarily offline. you can see that by logging in and going to http://archive.org/catalog.php?history=1&amp;identif...

Posted by: Jeff Kaplan