A most wonderful suggestion! Thank you. Kathy> Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:24:47 -0700> From: howlands@verizon.net> To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Annals of Manchester legibility> > Hello all,> > Yes, I was thrilled at the prospect of reading this and then started getting > a headache after half a page. Fortunately, there's a better way. Google has > this book online. If you go to the webpage below, you'll see it. (the > tinyurl is the same link as the big one, but shorter) At first, it's about > the same as the other version. But, you can do one of two things to improve > the situation. Either click on "View plain text" in the upper right. (This > makes things a lot more legible, but the conversion seems to scramble a lot > of words in the process) or Download (19.5M). The downloaded version is > great. It's a pdf so you can blow it up a little to get the type to a more > eye friendly size and it's not nearly as blurry as the other online > versions. Enjoy.> http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=41cJAAAAIAAJ&dq=annals+of+manchester&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ayU1Q0cOdB&sig=aagmBNNV0bObOYLihHrkk2YgO2I&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA209,M1> > http://tinyurl.com/68w7ub> > Daryl> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sally Haden" <haden.sally@googlemail.com>> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 12:23 AM> Subject: [ENG-MAN] Annals of Manchester> > > > Hi folks,> > thanks so much to Ruth for the link to the Annals of Manchester.> >>> >> (http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsofmanchest00axon)> >>> >> This is the website. You can read the book on line because> >> Microsoft has> >> digitised it.> >>> > I have been reading some of it (though it is a bit hard on the eyes -> > anyone know how to increase the size?The "Help" doesn't say) and> > found some most interesting things. For anyone wanting daily detail,> > it's a good online substitute for scouring the newspapers on fiche.> >> > For instance,there is an extract from Queen Victoria's diary when she> > and Prince Albert visited Manchester in 1851 (Page 258) giving lots> > of interesting detail.> >> > I found an account of a big flood in the city in July 1872 (starts> > page 333), which makes one feel glad of modern flood defences and> > public services.> >> > Which reminds me, what was the cause of the water damage on the 1851> > census? Was it a large flood, or a simple building flood?> >> > Sally> > in Yorkshire> >> >> >> >> >> > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~> >> > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list.> > Other people can learn from them!> >> > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~> >> >> > -------------------------------> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~> > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list.> Other people can learn from them!> > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________