I tried a new approach to my work with “The Etude” Music Magazine. Flipbook. I may have explored this option years ago but I don’t think it was realistic. Today there are dozens of software packages that allow conversion of PDF documents to fully-searchable flipbook documents. The OCR conversion is not as good as with ABBYY Finereader, but it’s not half bad either.
My scans are not perfect, but they are way better than other sources. I intentionally skipped a lot of pages in some issues, omitting pages completely filled with advertisements. I find this is no great loss, since the advertisements are frequently repeated from one issue to the next, and I did scan those pages in a few issues.
I have also intentionally omitted the sheet music pages. Much of that music was pithy, but I do have plans to single out the real gems that occasionally appeared in those pages.
After a few experiments I uploaded the full year of 1920:
- “The Etude”, January, 1920 (Added June 3, 2014)
- “The Etude”, February, 1920 (Added June 3, 2014)
- “The Etude”, October, 1901 (Added June 9, 2014)
- “The Etude”, March, 1920 (Added June 10, 2014)
- “The Etude”, April, 1920 (Added June 10, 2014)
- “The Etude”, May, 1920 (Added June 10, 2014)
- “The Etude”, June, 1920 (Added June 10, 2014)
- “The Etude”, July, 1920 (Added June 11, 2014)
- “The Etude”, August, 1920 (Added June 11, 2014)
- “The Etude”, September, 1920 (Added June 11, 2014)
- “The Etude”, October, 1920 (Added June 11, 2014)
- “The Etude”, November, 1920 (Added June 12, 2014)
- “The Etude”, December, 1920 (Added June 12, 2014)
