Originally published at: This search engine gives you weird old book scans | Boing Boing
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Very cool. Thanks, @Clive_T!
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Yeah, thats the good shit!
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Glad you like it!!
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I’d like it a lot more if i didn’t have to enable a bunch of scripts from the hydra that is G but it’s a neat idea nonetheless. Well done.
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Kind of makes me sad to see so many engravings absolutely destroyed by moiré and other artifacts. Those books really need to be rescanned in once more,
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Am I the only one that gets just a blank page no matter what I use as search term? I tried on android phone and pc laptop; neither worked.
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This search tool would return only one book at a time. Why? I wanted to avoid the paradox of choice, where we get frozen when we’re confronted with too many options.
This is a really great idea. I know that there are millions of fascinating books available in project Gutenberg but I almost never sit down on an evening to look through them for exactly that reason
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So cool! I had some good fun with this last night. I suggest searching “bread” the resulting book was amazing!
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I had the same thing in two browsers even after enabling the G scripts but a couple of refreshes seemed to kick it up the arse and they showed.
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Project Gutenberg has a mere 60,000 books. They tend to be better proofread, than other e-book collections, however.
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It wouldn’t work in firefox for me, but was fine in chrome.
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