[Bell Historians] et al - ELECTRONIC BOOKS

[Brian Meldon]

Yes Alan my mistake, sorry.
Having a hard copy is sometimes the best way. I have often printed out
the relevant pages of an electronic version of a book or document. But
having an accurate facsimile in original format would be far better
and a worthy item in it's own right. 
Unfortunately I have not seen any of your publications, or even seen a
list of what is available. I have only been seriously looking into the
history of the Canewdon bells for about 7 months now, prior to that I
had very little knowledge on the subject. Most of what I knew came
from our ringing instructor David Sloman and my late friend and our
village historian Ken Smith whose memorial service was on 12th June
2008, the day first visited the Records Office. 
I do a lot of my research in the Essex Records Office but most is done
using a laptop with internet access in a location where having lots of
my own books around is not possible. 

Brian

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Alan Ellis <alan_ellis at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello Brian,
> 
> Perhaps you are confusing me with the person who makes the CDs.
> 
> My books are facsimile copies and are printed and hand bound as
close to 
> the originals as possible, considering available materials and cost.   
> Definitely not able to word search  in my case.   :-)
> 
> Have you not seen one of my publications?
>  
> Best wishes
> 
> Alan Ellis
> Vancouver, B.C.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Meldon wrote:
> 
> > Hi Alan
> > Most of the books on the Million Books Project are more than just
> > facsimile copies made by scanning the original books pages. They can
> > also be word searched. This is possible because they use a very clever
> > piece of software to process the scanning of the books in to multiple
> > formats. One example of this is `The Church Bells of Essex' by Deeds
> > and Walters (1909) that has only recently been made available.
> > >From what I have been told it has something to do with it being 100
> > years old. Each book has an entry for the copyright status of the
> > book, in the case of the above book it states:
> >
> > Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
> >
> > Can your PDF books be word searched? If so I would be interested to
> > know what software you are using.
> >
> > Brian Meldon.
> >
> > --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
> > <mailto:bellhistorians%40yahoogroups.com>, Alan Ellis <alan_ellis@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Everybody,
> > >
> > > As a publisher of facsimile books on ringing, may I clarify a
couple of
> > > points.
> > >
> > > All my facsimile copies have been made by copying original books
with
> > > permission where needed. The books are either in my own library or
> > are
> > > borrowed from other ringers or, in one case, the Bodleian Library. I
> > > do not down load them off the internet.
> > >
> > > Although an attempt was made to use the CD for "Church Bells of
> > > Cornwall", it turned out that the CD was incomplete as it failed to
> > > include the two title pages and the three page index.
> > >
> > > The use of the CD for the "Church Bells of Oxfordshire" is being
> > > investigated as the source for a facsimile book but all permissions
> > will
> > > be in place before we proceed.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > >
> > > Alan Ellis
> > >
> >
> >
>