[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Old Hydrated Lime Text Book available as a pdf file.

[Chris Green]

Lawrence Lile wrote:
> Chris, that is a fascinating archive!  Not just from a Green
> perspective.  Similar to the Gutenberg project, they publish a lot of
> old, out of copyright material, or new material published under a
> GNU-type license. But unlike the Gutenberg project, it is full-color
> scans of old books, not just ascii text. It's a lot more fun to read old
> books with the original typeface and the illustrations.  I can almost
> smell them.  Thanks for pointing it out! 
You're Welcome. I read about this project in a BBCNews article last 
night and went and had a tiny look. The first thing I thought of looking 
for, after downloading the neat Handbook, was the the term 'lime 
plaster,' and  that's what I found.
I posted it because I know people want to know more about lime plaster 
and so-forth.

BBC News article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6924022.stm


> Hopefully we'll find more old,
> technical books on long-forgotten technologies that apply anew to Green
> building. 
>   
The folks behind this are the ones who host the amazing Wayback Machine 
and the Internet Archives.
The idea these folks have is to set up a Book Wiki, and that people scan 
and load books into the collection. The hope is that this site will 
eventually contain /every book ever printed in every language/....
Yeah.
 From clay tablets in ancient Sumerian onwards...
That is one honkin' /big/ job.

So, in order for the books to get into the system, they need volunteers 
to scan the books and upload them. Looks like it's off to a good start, 
since this has only been going on for maybe six months, though.

There are some titles available in formats other than pdf, I notice.

If you want, you can take the files to a printing and binding 
service--don't know which ones-- and have a custom printing made of it, 
and bound, thereby getting a real book.
> http://www.archive.org/index.php
>   
This is going to be another one of those big changes to come out of this 
technology.

Maybe some others will find other interesting books like the two I 
mentioned--we'll have to start a forum or list somewhere to exchange 
titles,  I guess.

Cheers,

Chris Green.