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edit on Sun Sep 14 2014 by DontTreadOnMe because: solicitation snipped



Several years ago in 2011 Isaac issued a challenge to the ATS community to see if anyone could come up with a way to download the entire National Archive Blue Book library I realized at the time there was a simple solution . So I threw in my hat and decided to give it a try.The bulk of the coding was done in my spare time in a month after Isaac posted the initial thread.Thanks to Isaac's willingness to volunteer to test the program. I was able to track down most of the bugs pretty quickly.What I wasn't prepared for though was just how long it would take to download everything.The first pass took well into 2012 before it completed. During that initial pass lots of files were still missing. So with all the improvements and fixes, the plan was to let the program start all over again from the top to see how many of the holes it could fill in. By 2013 we had a second copy that was finally good enough that it was usable for basic research.Since then there has been extra development on the side to convert the files to PDFs and automate the OCR process, but life has been busy with lots of other craziness. So the NARA project has dwindled.That is up until an an hour ago when I decided it was high time to release what we currently have to the ATS family and let everyone play with the results.To download the archive you'll need BitTorrent Sync.There will be additional improvements at some point. I definitely want to convert everything to PDFs, but I need to make sure I have all the pages (there are a couple missing) before I run that leg of the process. [snip]Anyhow, that is the news!Enjoy folks!