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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by kaybe on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:02AM (#16265791)
This is the job of the national library. They keep every book printed in your nation for unlimited time. In the US that seems to be the Library of Congress, so they should have the book you miss.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress

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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:07AM (#16265827)
It was a 'vanity press' book produced by an itinerant book publisher in the 1880's.

And its listed! https://lccn.loc.gov/03003442

Still not the same in e-book form, as having the original bound pages from 135 years ago in my hands. But good to know.

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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by kaybe on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:22AM (#16265950)
Does it have the plates? There is a long list of names at the end, maybe that's them.

God sometimes I love the internet. I can only imagine how hard it was to do scientific research before, when the journals were all paper and you had to get the library to search articles for you. Now it takes me a few minutes to access anything. Or most of it at least. We have to work on that.

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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:10AM (#16266384)
Downloaded (finally) and looked thru all 1000 pages - no plates! Why wouldn't they scan those too? Just because its not amenable to OCR? Sigh.
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Re:Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books by yaur on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:55AM (#16266825)
Archive.org has lots of old books which I've used in family history research. It looks like they have 3 distinct scans of the one you linked.
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