Yorkshire CD books
Computer Searchable CD roms
covering the whole of Yorkshire
All our CD roms are presented as scanned images in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format,
and are supplied in a virtually unbreakable flexible black plastic case (see photograph).
Prices quoted are post paid to your door (by Airmail if abroad) to anywhere in the world.
Payment can be made either by Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank,
or with a Credit Card via
in your own currency (I don't charge my buyers extra)
Please see the ordering and payment information page
for details on methods of payment.
A simple list of the books available for the above area follows.
For details on the book/CD rom, please take the relevant "Details" link.
The whole of Yorkshire |
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History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, Volumes I & II and The Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire 3 books on one CDrom |
Edward Baines and Thomas Langdale |
£15 |
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"Yorkshire, Past and Present" |
Thomas Baines |
£12 |
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"The Yorkshire Genealogist and Bibliographer" and "Yorkshire Notes & Queries, and Yorkshire Folklore" 6 volumes (5 books) on one CDrom |
J. Horsfall Turner |
£12 |
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"Old Yorkshire" Series I. 5 books on one CDrom |
William Smith |
£15 |
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"Old Yorkshire" Series II 3 Books on one CDrom |
William Smith |
£12 |
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Yorkshire folk talk and East Riding Dialect, A farmer's adventures in London, Yorkshire tales (3 books), Yorksher Puddin' and Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds 8 books on one CDrom |
Rev. M Morris, T. Holderness, T. Goorkrodger, John Hartley and J. Keighley Snowden. |
£12 |
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Four volumes of The Yorkshire County Magazine. 4 volumes on one CDrom - a total of over 1,100 pages |
J. Horsfall Turner |
£12 |
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Included on all our Yorkshire CDroms are 5 maps:
- A map showing the wapentakes.
- 3 maps showing the parishes within the Ridings
- A detailed map of Yorkshire showing which places were within which parishes in the pre 1832 era (i.e. the ancient parishes)
Quality.
I take pride in my work, and I try to put the best possible scanned images on the CDroms that I produce so that they are easily readable on a computer monitor without having to strain to read. The scanned images of text pages on my CDroms are black and white (not greyscale) and when printed will give you a good facsimile of the page as it was when originally printed. The images have around 95% of the spurious dots removed (and 99.9% of the smaller ones), and are centred on the pages which are, where possible, a consistent size - I write my own software for doing this. The images are as square to to page as I can get them. Needless to say, the processing required to give you this quality image, along with making the image on the CDrom searchable, all takes time and money, and I believe my CDs are second to none in quality and value for money.
All of the books above are machine searchable i.e. you can search for a word (name) or a phrase. Being machine searchable also allows the Acrobat "Read out loud" facility to work for those who are visually impaired.
All my books are scanned with the pages as flat as possible to the image sensor in order to keep scanning distortions to a minimum - I do not use an overhead scanner which gives horizontally compressed characters towards the centre of the book due to the curve on the pages and does not remove the print skewing relative to the page edges that occurs in many of the older books.
Presentation
The images on the CDrom are in Acrobat pdf format, and are presented as individual books accessible from a common starting point which should appear automatically when the CDrom is inserted in the computer.
If you would prefer the real book(s), please contact The Idle Booksellers through their website.
Page last updated at 20.27 on Sunday, 24 February 2008, by Colin Hinson. ©2008
