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1. Images of books now available on our web-site
Finally, we have made our entire collection of books available for viewing via our web-site. Think of it as a "digital library". We hope that this will be of value to those of you who only want to look at a few pages from several different books - and this should be quicker and cheaper now the "digital library" is available. However, if you want to browse a book it will still be cheaper, and arguably better, for you to buy the facsimile on CD to read on your own computer - and we will continue to offer this option.
We are therefore now offering two ways for you to access our books. In all cases, the books are presented as images in Adobe PDF format. For the on-line options individual pages are downloaded. Obviously, the format on CD is unchanged. The options to view books are thus now:-
To access the digital library please do the following:-
More details are available on the web site.
How will you find the right page on-line?
There are now 200,000 pages available, so we are offering a variety of ways of finding the "right "page, as follows:-
The most efficient way (and thus the cheapest ways) of finding the pages most relevant for you are the first two items on this list. The last may yield results, but you may have to view a lot of pages before finding anything at all which will be costly. Therefore, if you want to browse a book in this way, it will almost always be better for you to obtain the book on CD for viewing on your own computer. However, browsing may be a useful way of establishing that a book is relevant before purchasing.
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So you can get a feel for the digital library, there are 20 FREE page views waiting for you on the web-site as a subscriber to this newsletter. They will be valid for 20 days from the date of this newsletter. To access them, register on the web site, obtain a password via Email, and log on using that password. The page credits will be immediately available for your use, as long as they are still valid.
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Whilst doing the development work for the new web-site, we have also scanned a few new books which are listed below. To order any of these, please click the link (if it has arrived in your mailbox), or visit our web-site, where these titles are now available.
Directories
Post Office Directory of Warwickshire (1868)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Warwickshire
Kellys Directory of Warwickshire (1896)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Warwickshire
Kellys Directory of Warwickshire (1924)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Warwickshire
Kellys Directory of Birmingham & Suburbs (1950)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Birmingham.
Kellys Directory of Birmingham & Suburbs (1969)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Birmingham.
Kellys Directory of Birmingham & Suburbs (1973-4)
Comprehensive directory of residents and businesses in Birmingham.
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