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[lollardfish]

Being able to legally download and print an old-French crusade chronicle from a 19th-century edition of the BNF site pretty much rocks.

But not as much as being to download 5 600-1000 page 19th-century collections of crusade sources. I love technology today.

Edit: It turns out that the French have been very, very, busy generating .pdfs of lots of stuff in the national library. I'm in the academic equivalent of a child who just ate tons of chocolate cake. Very happy. A little sugar-shocked.

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[groomporter.livejournal.com]

Neat!
But... I can read one of the books (well look at it, I don't read French) but I don't see a link to download it all at once.

[groomporter.livejournal.com]

Oohh I think I found it Télécharger = download.
What's your favorite beer I owe you a 6 pack, (or a decent bottle of wine).

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

TELECHARGE ME BABY!

Uh, um, I like Newcastle. And Italian wine. Anything Valpolicella!

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming you've found all the medieval illustrations and illuminations (well, not all, but various searchable ones in the database). I'd think those might be quite inspiration for your art.

[groomporter.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'll be looking for that as well as books on games.
I'm currently downloading L'art du tourneur Diderot's work on wood turning. Woohoo!
Oh to have a high speed connection in stead of the dial-up...

I suppose it might be faster if I went someplace with free wifi and had a couple beers?

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Research always is faster with beer.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask "what's BNF in this context", but I think I just figured it out*. I'm a little slow today, probably because I haven't been awake for very long.

* Bibliotecque Nationale Francaise, being lazy about accents.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Yessssssssss.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

starcat_jewel just pointed me over here. I don't need to know anything about you besides this one entry... :-D

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

And yet, you're also a friend of NeoG, with whom I went to grad school (before she moved schools).

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Yep, we recently friended each other. "LiveJournal: it's better than Kalamazoo!"