Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 08/02/2005 15:00, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

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> Karl Randolph wrote:
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> > Are there any sites on the internet to view these varient forms? 
> > The only places I have found have been either paper or 
> > purchased, both costing many hundreds of $$ that I don't have.
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> Even if I found an internet site I probably wouldn't trust it too much.
> I prefer reference works.  Do you have a University library nearby?
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Karl and I would love to have good libraries near where we live, but 
unfortunately we don't. That is why we find Internet editions so 
valuable. Of course it is easy to fake Internet sites. But one reason 
why such a high proportion of Internet sites have rubbish on them is 
that the real scholars have such a negative attitude and try to restict 
access to a fortunate few who have access to libraries.

My dream Internet site would be a library which scanned pages from books 
more or less on demand and put them on the Internet for me. I would be 
prepared to pay something for such a service. Any one page would need to 
be scanned only once, and then stored in a large database. I realise 
that it would be hard to set up such a service for copyright reasons - 
although authors could get royalties foreach page downloaded. But it 
would make life much easier for people like me and Karl.

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Peter Kirk
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