Hello List Noel, thanks for advising about the pdfs for Thackers Indian Directory on the Digital Library of India. Currently, the Digital Library of India seems to have two websites, the old which uses TIFF format, and the new, where the books are available as pdf files. Lokking at the Thackers available on the new site, I suspect they are books from the old site, which have been changed to pdf format. Perhaps the intention is to do this for all books currently on the old site. As far as I know, the Indian Army Lists are new additions, which were never on the old site The main problem I find with the new site is the Search facility. Even though I use the title tab in the advance Search, I get hundreds of search results. Cheers Maureen > On 8 Sep 2015, at 10:33 am, Noel Clark <nhclark@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > > Maureen, many thanks for the links to the Indian Army lists. > The same site can also be used for its other books etc. For example, by > putting "Thackers" (without quotation marks) into the seach field, and then > using the advanced feature to restrict results to those with "Thackers" in > the title you can access and download all their Thacker's Directories in > .pdf form. Previously, as you know, it was a laborious process of > downloading page by page - after guessing which page you actually wanted! > I downloaded the Army List for January 1890 - 355 MB; it took about 5 > minutes with no problems whatsoever. > The home page is http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/ This is a great new > resource. >