Finding more stuff to read

[nancylebov]

You need to know about these because their contents don't show up in an ordinary google search.

https://archive.org/ A huge amount of various media. What I've seen of the books is nice clean scans. Fairly pleasant to read, but not nearly as convenient as text.They have If and Galaxy magazines, and that's a lot of good sf.

https://www.freesfonline.de/

This is a spectacular list put together by librarians. I've got a couple of challenging books to go after. My god, there's even a cover search link.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/11/22/finding-book-forgotten-title?page=4&fbclid=IwAR0DmNmG0CfEcTNx0j_xk-RCkZxb4rEZ11CCCqC5Rb6nLmbLy-3lX-SqYPI

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[calimac]

Blimey. I went to archive.org and typed in "Galaxy" and got a bunch of random early issues randomly mixed up with other stuff with that word in it. Let me know when they've learned to organize their search results.

Tried looking at an issue, and found it hard to find a viewpoint that was large enough to be readable yet small enough to let me see the whole page.

[nancylebov]

You're right, their indexing is much harder to use than I realized.

It's like the computer archive in Le Guin's Always Coming Home-- it's all there, but it's too much of a mess.

I use a browser. I don't know whether it's possible to make it work on a smaller screen.

I'm sorry for your disappointment.