Oops! my bad. I looked at another app's menu. Guess it's time for bed. CORRECTION: 2) Under EDIT, click Find -----Original Message----- From: Allen Kleiman ...
Thank you so much for you reply. However this standard method does not work. Sometimes the first requested entry is found but rarely. On the second request it...
Allen Kleiman
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May 4, 2008 1:59 pm
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Am I remember incorrectly? Or can't you turn off the ability to search in .pdf files as one of the DRM "features"? In any case, the search ability is dependent...
Hi Kent: I am not sure how Adobe categorizes the files but if I scan a file with, e.g., ABBYY fine Reader and ask for a .pdf file I get a file that I can read ...
Allen Kleiman
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May 5, 2008 12:43 am
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From: TVC Alert Research News The Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com 5 May 2008 Biographer Unknowingly Relies on Fiction ... <http://tinyurl.com/69w7n3>...
http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/?page=engine&id=751 May 2, 2008 | Rockefeller University Newswire | PRESS RELEASE New policy at Rockefeller University Press...
Allen, this sounds to me like a technical support problem.. I don't know if it is a problem with ABBY Fine Reader or with Adobe or with the combination of the...
Hi, Allen: I have just checked what happens when you get ABBYY FineReader to write a PDF from the pages it has just OCRed. It seems to me that you get a very...
Anyone know much about Numilog? From today's Publishers Lunch: Hachette Livre has agreed on terms to purchase Numilog, the top online catalogue of French...
Mobipocket have an arrangement with about 40 retailers, as they call them. These people can advertise and sell eBooks from the Mobipocket catalogue. On the...
For those interested, today I posted a TeleRead blog article entitled "How ePub beats obsolescence": http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/15/how-epub-beats- ...
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2008/05/23/book-search-winding-down.aspx Friday, May 23, 2008 | Microsoft's 'Live Search' blog Book search winding...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080527.WBmingram20080527120809/WBStory/WBmingram May 27, 2008 | Toronto Globe & Mail | Mathew Ingram's...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080814154329.htm Aug. 19, 2008 | ScienceDaily Computer Users Are Digitizing Books Quickly And Accurately With New...
I can't remember if it was in the early days of this list, or the late days of BookPeople, but someone was looking for an old book about Sitting Bull and the...
Dear Book People: I have a book with the binding cut off. I want to scan one side into a file and then the other side into another file. I then would like to...
While this is about newspapers and a scandal it has many points of interest for all areas of publishing. Some hard figures give an indication of the selling...
I've just put out version 1.04 of Simultaneous Stanza Reader. The web site is: https://sites.google.com/site/mikeybeesoftware/ This new version includes a...
Hi, Everybody, I have not received mail in a long while- I think the last post I received was back in May, is the list still active? I have a question that is...
MichelaRialto
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Aug 31, 2009 6:37 pm
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Hi-- I know zip about Eliot Bliss, country/state she resided in, travels, etc. But in searching for A.M.G., you might try likely cemetery records with "b. 1868...
Hi, Thank you for the suggestion. I’ll try London cemetery, since Bliss at the time was residing in England. She was a creole writer – I guess I’m the...
MichelaRialto
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Sep 1, 2009 5:05 pm
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Michela -- Could this possibly be Maud Gonne (1866-1953), who, as the Wikipedia article puts it, was an "English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and...
Thank you Tom, Unfortunately it is not the same Maud! The dates I’m looking for are: birth 1868, death 1922. In the collection I’m editing there are many...
MichelaRialto
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Sep 1, 2009 6:38 pm
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I happen to have a subscription to view the various English registers of births deaths and marriages. As this cost me nothing but time I checked the deaths...
Nick, I think it was "A.M.G." whose dates are 1868 to 1922--he wasn't sure it was a "Maud Gawn", just guessing her. So anyone w/ those initials? (a little...
Hi, everybody First: thanks for helping me. And, yes, it was “A.M.G. 1868-1922”. The name was just guessing since Eliot Bliss used to know a person with...