disdain

[truepenny]

Read two pamphlets this afternoon. Have I mentioned how much I love Early English Books Online? It's a subscription service that costs the earth, but happily the university library system subscribes, and my god it's the best thing since self-adhesive stamps. Because:

1. I don't have to use the microfilm reader. Which means


2. I do not get a headache like the Wrath of God from the microfilm reader; and


3. I don't have to go down to campus and deal with the material impedimenta and paraphernalia associated with the reading of microfilm. Moreover


4. I can work at my own computer, with my own text files (although cutting and pasting is sadly not an option), and


5. If I should realize, at 9 p.m. tonight, that I didn't get a citation for the one quote I absolutely need, all I have to do is log in again and find it.


6. And the absolute pinnacle of perfection: EEBO has a zoom function. I can blow the text up to any size I damn well please. Words cannot express how much I love EEBO for this one thing alone.

Happily, neither pamphlet required much work to fit into my pamphlet chapter (which had been "finished" for several months until I happened to find the citations for these two pamphlets in some very early notes of mine), so while it's a small task, it's also a completed task.

I think the next task is to write some text on The Tragedy and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois.

Comments

[pameladean]

Just so you know, I don't find stuff to comment on in such entries, but I just enjoy the hell out of the "dis" accounts.

Pamela

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Suggestion - even if you can't do the highlight, control C, find another page, control V thing - you can usually do alt + printscreen, and drop the thing on another document, which at least gives you an ongoing record, and there are also ways to copy bits of printscreens.

I don't know the 'proper' ways to do a lot of these things, but I've found some good workarounds.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

God, I wish someone would digitize old newspapers and phone books now only on microfilm...