05-14-2015, 12:44 AM
Francis, thank you very much!!! How has this has managed to elude me so long? Excellent.
Also thanks Evan. Thayer's site is an essential - and great to use, pages are 'unfussy', download fast, easy to search. Only problem is if you have to cite an author, you need details which Thayer doesn't provide (and, quite rightly so, otherwise he'd be republishing the books). But that means you have to get your hands on the original (or something near as dammit to it) and you're off to archive.org.
Speaking of archive.org, I can't make up my mind whether I like its new 'look' or not. You used to be able to trawl through bins of pdfs to see which ones had been ocr-scanned, which ones you preferred. Now you get a fancy page with one choice of each format. That said, the new reader seems much faster and (meter-wise) much cheaper to use than used be the case. I also like its little orange pointers when you search - the way they swoop down and you can navigate through a zillion of them but not miss any. Very clever.
Cheers
Howard / SPC
Also thanks Evan. Thayer's site is an essential - and great to use, pages are 'unfussy', download fast, easy to search. Only problem is if you have to cite an author, you need details which Thayer doesn't provide (and, quite rightly so, otherwise he'd be republishing the books). But that means you have to get your hands on the original (or something near as dammit to it) and you're off to archive.org.
Speaking of archive.org, I can't make up my mind whether I like its new 'look' or not. You used to be able to trawl through bins of pdfs to see which ones had been ocr-scanned, which ones you preferred. Now you get a fancy page with one choice of each format. That said, the new reader seems much faster and (meter-wise) much cheaper to use than used be the case. I also like its little orange pointers when you search - the way they swoop down and you can navigate through a zillion of them but not miss any. Very clever.
Cheers
Howard / SPC
Spurius Papirius Cursor (Howard Russell)
"Life is still worthwhile if you just smile."
(Turner, Parsons, Chaplin)
"Life is still worthwhile if you just smile."
(Turner, Parsons, Chaplin)
