Re: [Wikisource-l] Danish books until 1900 scanned for free on demand

Ole Palnatoke Andersen <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Nov 2012 17:37:11 +0100
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As mentioned on [email protected] last week-ish, I have ordered a
book to see how it works.

Regards,
Ole


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/07/2012 04:54 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>
>> The limitation to Danish IP addresses seems ridiculous
>> to me. I have asked for the reason. I hope someone in
>> Denmark can mass upload these PDF files to Wikimedia
>> Commons.
>>
>
> The reason given by KB.dk for the limitation to Danish
> IP addresses is that the older (pre-1700) books are
> digitized in collaboration with ProQuest as part of
> their commercial offering 'Early European Books',
> http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/**materialer/e-ressourcer/**proquest.html<http://w=
ww.kb.dk/en/nb/materialer/e-ressourcer/proquest.html>
>
> So, can someone in Denmark download one such
> book and see if the PDF file uses DRM, or if we can
> somehow extract its content and upload it to
> Wikimedia Commons?
>
>
>
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>   Lars Aronsson ([email protected])
>   Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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