I'm wondering where I could find more "Official Automobile Blue Books"? I would like to map out, at least, the 1918 routing of the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean & National Old Trails Road autotrails in Kansas & Colorado. Would I have to buy a copy. The one that I am interested in is the "1918 Official Automobile Blue Book, Volume 7". Google Books has some, but not all, of them. I would prefer a PDF copy of the books. I have seen some for sale on eBay & Amazon. Are there any other places that I could get a copy of this book.
Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.
Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13
Quote from: Mapmikey on February 11, 2021, 08:42:55 AM
Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.
Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13
Ok, thank you. I didn't know about that website. The only thing that I don't like about that website is that I can't download the whole book, or at least more than 1 page at a time.
I would still get the hard copy versions from eBay. Feel free to copy them to you heart's content, they are all in the public domain due to copyright expiration.
Mike
Quote from: Route66Fan on February 11, 2021, 09:04:03 AM
Quote from: Mapmikey on February 11, 2021, 08:42:55 AM
Hathi Trust has a lot of stuff.
Here is the 1919 version of the location you are looking for - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052908552&view=1up&seq=13
Ok, thank you. I didn't know about that website. The only thing that I don't like about that website is that I can't download the whole book, or at least more than 1 page at a time.
It takes a little effort, but you can automate the download and then stitch the pages together (on the Mac, drag them all into the first page pdf).
Run it in a separate window (it pauses 10 seconds between pages, to not trip any "hey, he's scraping our site!" alarms)
DOC="ien.35556021219647" # get from any page url
for i in `seq 1 144` # select the page range you want
do if [[ ! -s "$i.pdf" ]]; then
curl "https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/download/pdf?id=$DOC;orient=0;size=100;seq=$i;attachment=0" \
-o "$i.pdf"
sleep 10
fi
done