Week 9, Thing 22

I checked out the World Book Fair, but since the open period has expired, I couldn't look at either copy of "Plays of Old Japan". I got 4,250 hits on the title without quotes, 2 with them. It seems counter intuitive that there was no direction to use quotation marks in the first place. I would have liked to look at text to get a feel for the site's product, but not curious enough to sign up for the $8.95 membership. It also seems to me that for WPL to say it offers free access isn't accurate as a yearly membership fee is charged. Granted users can presumably download as many titles as they like in that year, that message isn't easily apparent. I tried the same search in Project Gutenberg, but there were no hits.

I've been familiar with PG for many years, but didn't know about WBF.

I checked out the public domain music score library and emailed our Music Appreciation/Chorus teacher to see whether she knew it existed and/or could make use of it.

I checked out LibriVox, but couldn't determine how many books are currently available in the format. A ball park figure would have been nice.

I took the tour of the British Library and examined some of the pages from manuscripts. All were visually difficult to read. I visited some of the archived exhibitions. The would have been more useful if they had been edited to exclude details of past events or replaced with videos or slideshows of the closed events' content.

I saved the following from the list of free ebooks at friedbeef.com to give to students searching for e and audio books: manybooks.net, wowio.com, digital.library.upenn.edu/books, ebooksearchr.googlepages.com, internetarchive.org/index.php, memowdre.com, gutenberg.org, librivox.org.