Yorkshire CD books

Computer Searchable downloadable pdf files
for the East Riding of Yorkshire
and the Ainsty and City of York.

All our downloads are presented as scanned images in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. We have now cleared all of our CDroms and now do downloads only.

Note that downloads are set up manually and therefore will not be instant.

Payment can be made either by a PayPal account, or with a Credit Card via PayPal in your own currency, or by Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank.

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, please take the relevant "Details" link.

The East Riding of Yorkshire
"The History and Antiquities of the Seignory of Holderness"	George Poulson	Book Details
"History and Directory of East Yorkshire" and Topographical Dictionary of Yorkshire	Bulmer and Thomas Langdale	Book Details
"History of Hull"	James Jospeh Sheahan	Book Details
"The History of Beverley" (Scaum's Beverlac)	George Scaum, compiled by George Poulson	Book Details
Sutton in Holderness (Sutton on Hull)	Thomas Blashill F.R.I.B.A.	Book Details
"The History and Antiquities of Hemingbrough"	Thomas Burton	Book Details
The History of South Cave and surrounding area	J.G. Hall	Book Details
The History of Kirby Underdale 3 volumes on one Cdrom	The Rev. W.R. Shepherd, M.A.	Book Details
The early History of Hedon	J.R. Boyle F.S.A.	Book Details
A Picture of Hull	John Greenwood	Book Details
A History of Withernsea and other parishes in South Holderness	George T.J. Miles & William Richardson	Book Details
Hornsea, or "An account of Hornsea in Holderness"	E.W. Bedell	Book Details

The Ainsty and the City of York
"York City Business Directory and Year Book for 1936"	Gazette and Herald Newspaper	Book Details

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.
We take pride in our work, and try to put the best possible scanned images on the CDroms that we produce so that they are easily readable on a computer monitor without having to strain to read. The scanned images of text pages in our pdf files 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 - we write our own software for doing this. The images are as square to the page as we 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 we believe our 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 of the books are scanned with the pages as flat as possible to the image sensor in order to keep scanning distortions to a minimum - we 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 CDroms and in the downloads are in Acrobat pdf format. For the CDroms these are presented as individual books accessible from a common starting point which should appear automatically when the CDrom is inserted in the computer. The downloadable pdf files are single pdf files for the CDrom equivalent.

If you would prefer the real book(s), please contact The Idle Booksellers through their website.

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Yorkshire CD books

Computer Searchable downloadable pdf files for the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Ainsty and City of York.

The East Riding of Yorkshire

The Ainsty and the City of York

Computer Searchable downloadable pdf files
for the East Riding of Yorkshire
and the Ainsty and City of York.