Monday, December 5, 2011

Fiftythousand Free Folios Featured




Mazel Tov to Hebrewbooks.org on reaching the 50,000 plateau!

50,000

6 comments:

  1. truly thankful to them and the G'vir from Los Angeles who bankrolls the project. I have found it to be an invaluable resource, research tool and whenever I'm on the site I feel like a kid in a candy store.

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  2. Halevai we both should have as many hits as they have Seforim! :-)

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  3. http://thepartialview.blogspot.com/2011/12/time-to-rebuke-time-to-dance.html

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  4. They just added 44 volumes of the Torah Shelemah.

    After you smell your smelling salts and get up off the floor, you better download them fast as there's a chance that they will not stay there; The copyright situation may not be so poshut.

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  5. Wow. Thanks for sharing that, S.

    Sometimes I just can't believe how fortunate we are to live in this digital age. Years ago I needed to travel to the rare books rooms of libraries to access old Seforim. Now available with a click of a mouse.

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  6. I agree. It's a shame that it's also somewhat paralyzing - then again, that happens to me in libraries with browseable stacks too.

    I generally think in terms of not now, but in 10 or 20 years, what it will be like. I recently saw someone forecast that in 15 - 20 years on-demand printers that can spit out an entire book in a few seconds or a minute will be what normal printers are capable of. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that this is probably correct. Who ever dreamed we would see this, even what we see now? Incredible.

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