Hermetically open? Where's the download link?

It really frustrates me that fantastic projects like this end up only being made available via some "online catalogue" with tiled zooming and no option to download.

Just stick it on the internet archive, and then voila, the data is actually open, everything gets automatically OCRed, and then we can do fun transformative things like the Internet Archive Book Images project..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/

https://ia804508.us.archive.org/21/items/vrr-texts-imageryof...

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johtso 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Pinned comment on their Youtube video 6 years ago "There is no option to download them. We will let you know if one day that will come!"

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account42 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ironic that your Internet Archive Book Images is also just an online gallery rather than something you can download.

	▲	johtso 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		All 7ishTB of images are also available on the internet archive, Flickr was a collaboration that allowed browsing them in a vaguely user friendly way. I guess serving over 5 million images isn't trivial and it made sense as a way to help with discovery. https://archive.org/details/bookimages

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mvdwoord 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Fully agreed. I thought it was just because I'm on mobile right now, but apparently not.