Arabic-L:GEN:Library of Alexandria downloadable books

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Date: 23 Aug 2006
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Library of Alexandria downloadable books

Here's something that might be of Interest.

The Library of Alexandria, http://www.bibalex.org/arabic/index.aspx,  
has a site, http://archive.bibalex.org/mybook/fp/, which provides  
electronic books in image format.

These books are downloadable for free.  The file format of the  
downloaded book is .DjVu.

Two sites, “FileExt”, http://filext.com/detaillist.php? 
extdetail=djvu, and “DjVuLibre”, http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/, both  
provide information about this kind of file.

For Windows users, the site LizardTech, http://www.lizardtech.com/,  
provides a DjVu Browser Plug-in for Windows Internet Explorer.

I downloaded one of the books from the geographical section (Ibn  
Battuuta), and downloaded the Browser Plug-in from LizardTech.  The  
system works well.

Waheed

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