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Digital Library of India
This site is not very user friendly and is sometimes unavailable. The quality of the scanned print varies from excellent to poor. Individual books do not have their own URL and it will be necessary to search for the book you require. The great advantage of the site however, is that you can find books which are not available elsewhere.
Book Reader 1 is now the only option. Make sure you can see the bottom of the screen which has the arrows and the page numbers. You will need to see these to be able to turn the pages. If you can’t see these, there are two scrolling devices on the side of the screen, and you will need to scroll the bottom one until you can see the arrows etc. Individual books do not have a search facility. If however you have a page reference (from the index, or elsewhere), you can first click over the existing page number to delete it, type the page number you require, then press ‘enter’ on your computer keyboard. (''' Note that the facility to type in the page number may only be available with the browser Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 has this facility (current versions not known). It appears Google Chrome and Safari currently (at September 2013) do not.''') This may not bring you to exactly the page you require, but by looking at the actual page number of the page displayed, (as opposed to the computer page number) you should be able to find the page you require. The first few pages of the book may be blank, you just need to keep going further into the book before you can read a page.(Note that the facility to type in the page number was, until October 2013, apparently only available with the browser Internet Explorer but now extends to other browsers including Google Chrome and Safari)
This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1300628694 post] advises that for Reader 1, “I scrolled through on the text option so that download time was faster, and then I switched to the tiff images if I wanted to see the full image”. However, it seems as though your options very much depend on your particular computer, as for the writer of this section, within Reader 1, the only reading option which works is the TIFF option. (Reader 2 no longer exists)
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