NOTE: This blog post is now obsolete. Update here.
A library section is now available on the comstockhouse.org website. To be clear: this is an electronic library only, and has nothing to do with the paper books resting on the shelves of Comstock House (although a catalog of that library is available over at LibraryThing).
The main objective of this e-library is to digitize non-copyrighted materials not found elsewhere on the Internet – and in some cases, are probably the only copies of those documents that still exist in any form, anywhere. These unique entries have a red star * at the end.
Most of the entries in this catalog, however, are facsimiles of books from Google, Internet Archive, or other on-line libraries that are referenced from our blog posts or essays, or likely to be referenced in the future. On our private network at Comstock House, these book-page images have been converted into “flip books” (more about flip books below).
Since this is also the catalog for our personal electronic library, still other books and magazines in the collection are for our private reference or pleasure reading; the first edition of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” for example, with its Victorian typography and abundant thumbnail illustrations, or the remarkable 1919 Hotel St. Francis cook book, a field guide to state-of-the-art fine dining in the early 20th century that could be a graduate course in Escoffier school cookery.
But flip book files can consume lots of bandwidth and disk space, and there’s no reason to duplicate here any of the e-books that are freely available elsewhere on the Internet. For every entry in the public portion of our electronic library, a link is always provided for downloading a PDF copy of the material from our same source. If you’d like to turn that material into a flip book, send e-mail and I’ll be glad to send instructions and supporting files.
ABOUT FLIP BOOKS
“Flip books” are electronic copies of printed materials, presented in a way that simulates reading an actual paper book or magazine. Two pages are presented side-by-side, and the reader flips pages by clicking on the left or right page. These flip books will display on any type of computer but will not work with Internet Explorer. Please view flip books with Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, or any other browser that complies with industry standards.
Below is a guide to using the Comstock House library flip book reader:
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1 INDEX Return to Comstock House electronic library index |
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2 mySearch Find other e-books or search for used books |
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3 RELATED ARTICLE Essay or blog post referencing this material |
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4 Source Book Link Where to read this book on-line or download it free |
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5 Zoom controls Magnify or demagnify the current page |
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6 Single Page/Flip Book Switch between single and double page mode |
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7 Auto page turn When clicking to turn the page is just too much work |
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8 RAW PDF Download the current page as a PDF at higher resolution (not available for all books) |
This flip book reader is a modified version of the open source GnuBook Bookreader.