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Poster: R Pal Date: Apr 4, 2021 6:01am
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Book Spines are very useful

Many of the books printed in the early 1900's have information on the spines and paper covers that does not exist inside the book pages. A great deal of knowledge is lost when these covers are not scanned.

It would also be possible to have a "Library Shelf" feature here at the Archive. This would be a virtual view of book shelves using the scaned spines. A lot less screen space would be needed and browsing might be more enjoyable.

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Poster: lothphil Date: Apr 26, 2021 1:39am
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Book Spines are very useful

I concur!

A comment from the staff on this would be greatly appreciated.

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Poster: lothphil Date: May 4, 2021 3:03pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Book Spines are very useful

No-one in authority here thinks this topic is worth addressing, even to point out why it is a bad idea ?

Not very "Open" of them.

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Poster: hoffhuff Date: May 21, 2021 2:08am
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Book Spines are very useful

I think not digitising the books' spines is leaving out something important:

https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2018/01/quick-look-fine-art-book-spine-design/

https://lithub.com/on-the-beauty-of-book-spines/

https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/122/