Good news: we the salon are now in possession of Wilhelmine's travel diary! The consulting gig hasn't worked out yet, but I got my first raise in 3 years last week, and ten minutes later I was on the internet buying this book, which just arrived.
The tricky part is now going to be getting it out of French and into a language we can read. Half the pages are uncut at the top, as you can see here:
, plus the volume is oversized. It remains to be seen whether the pages will fit in my scanner once I remove them from the book, or whether they'll need to be trimmed further. Fortunately, as you can see, the margins are huge.
I'll let you know once I've got the pages out of the book, onto my computer, cleaned up, run through the translation algorithms, and into the library!
(You can also see my ongoing book digitizing project off to the side in the pics. ;))
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Wilhelmine's travel diary
Date: 2021-08-20 02:13 pm (UTC)The tricky part is now going to be getting it out of French and into a language we can read. Half the pages are uncut at the top, as you can see here:
, plus the volume is oversized. It remains to be seen whether the pages will fit in my scanner once I remove them from the book, or whether they'll need to be trimmed further. Fortunately, as you can see, the margins are huge.
I'll let you know once I've got the pages out of the book, onto my computer, cleaned up, run through the translation algorithms, and into the library!
(You can also see my ongoing book digitizing project off to the side in the pics. ;))
Re: Wilhelmine's travel diary
Date: 2021-08-21 05:43 am (UTC)Re: Wilhelmine's travel diary
Date: 2021-08-21 06:52 am (UTC)