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Poster: Prince-Of-Dorkness Date: Apr 25, 2024 11:38am
Forum: general Subject: Comments from deep left field

Could you add a link to the borrow-book you were using, or a similar one?

The IA document viewer usually performs well. Of course, you cannot download the book's PDF for viewing with Acrobat, so you have to use the viewer. There are settings in the viewer which might help, such as page display mode (e.g., one or two at a time) and expand.

One thing to note: there are often two scroll bars at the right, and the inner one is hard to see. Maybe this could be the issue? See image for example.





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Poster: bcaldrich Date: Apr 25, 2024 5:09pm
Forum: general Subject: Re: Comments from deep left field

Thanks for your reply. Here is the link:

https://archive.org/details/senexpuer0000hill

Senex and Puer by James Hillman

The two sliders were not the issue. I could not easily "slide" the guide that moves the page up and down. It jumped from page to page. I ordered a hardcopy from the library

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Poster: Prince-Of-Dorkness Date: Apr 25, 2024 6:33pm
Forum: general Subject: Re: Comments from deep left field

Thanks for link. FYI: I use an old desktop PC running Win-10/64, and Chrome as a browser.

I tried the one-page view (where pages scroll up & down), and could scroll slowly OK with my mouse wheel. If I used the scroll bar at right, the viewer balked as data (page images) were missing, so I got the little balls in a circle thingie (a.k.a. "hey wait a sec, will ya?" icon).

I guess Archive can't load the whole book, so when we scroll down many pages it takes a while for the pages to load, which is frustrating when you have a one-hour borrow time hanging over your head.

If you really need to use a book like this, and can't download a PDF to your device, then hardcopy is the way to go (which you've mentioned). I tend to buy cheap book copies online, then give them away (that was less frustrating than dealing with my library -- long story). Online the cheapest copies of this book in used form run $25 (US) per Book Finder dot com.

I'm disappointed that the borrow copy which was scanned and posted here has underlines in it, and in various colors (red pen underlines, really?!). They seem to have been made by shaky hands (for an example see page 256).

Shame on the underliner! OOOOHHH, a new supervillian: The Underliner! "No book is safe from (ta ta-ta taaa) The Underliner!"

OK, that's really deep left field. Sorry!

Anyway, I couldn't really duplicate an issue with scrolling the book in the link save the delay in data loading. Sorry!