Specific ELECTRON Scans Wanted.

[BeebMan2018]

Hey Guys I posted a topic a while back looking for PDF's about programming in BASIC. Since then I've found a tonne of books both digital and physical.

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=17218

I've really been lucky to have found as many books as I have. A collection on E-Bay really helped out a lot but now i have some need of your assistance.

I'm specifically looking for the following, Specifically the ELECTRON publications.

Games For Your Electron
The Electron Book
100 Programs For The Acorn Electron
An Introduction To Programming The Acorn Electron
BASIC Programming On The Electron
Easy Programming For The Electron
Programming For Education On The Electron
Exploring Adventures On The Electron
Instant Arcade Games For The Electron
Graphic Art For The Electron Computer
Official Guide To The Electron
Learn BASIC Programming On The Electron
Programming The Electron
Adventure Games For The Electron
Electron Assembly Language
Eighteen Quality Programs For The Electron
Discover Your Electron
Educational Programs For The Electron
The Working Electron
40 Educational Games For The Electron
Advanced Programming Techniques For The Electron
Electron Magic - Your First Programming Book
Mastering The Electron
Sixty Programs For The Electron
Software For The Electron
Take Off With The Electron and BBC Micro
Vary Basic BASIC - The First 15 Hours with Your Electron
Electron Graphics and Sound
The Electron Programmer
Electron Machine Code For Beginners
Handbook Of Procedures And Functions For The Electron
Advanced Programming For The Electron
Advanced Electron Machine Code Techniques

Whew... I think that should be enough for now ! Just until i get going I have about 12 or so books already and maybe 20 or so scans but this list is mostly books i don't have in either format and ,, well i cant afford to buy every Electron book that appears on E-Bay :/ Give me a shout out if you can help !

[acorn]

It turns out, that everygamegoing has quite a few books too. It has some of what you are looking for, i.e. The Electron Book: Basic, Sound And Graphics (1983) (Acorn Electron, Book)

[rmbrowngr]

I would take a look at www.acornelectron.co.uk. There’s a ton of stuff available on USB stick if you purchase it.

[BeebMan2018]

It turns out, that everygamegoing has quite a few books too. It has some of what you are looking for, i.e. The Electron Book: Basic, Sound And Graphics (1983) (Acorn Electron, Book)

BLEH. 330 Jpegs. Im guessing but i reckon someone dosent know how to scan to pdf in his settings Unuseable without a fair bit of processing.

[BigEd]

If you upload a zip file named anything_images.zip to archive.org, it will build a PDF for you, with OCR, and also present a flipbook version on the web.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/artic ... ake-a-book

[acorn]

Unuseable without a fair bit of processing.

It is literally a few lines of script using ocrmypdf on any platform, i.e.:

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#!/bin/sh
# download zip
wget https://www.everygamegoing.com/download/electron/addison/books/The-Electron-Book.zip
# unpack
unzip The-Electron-Book.zip
# list files, but could pipe it directly without list of filenames, or use img2pdf as mentioned in
# the ocrmypdf docs
ls *.jpg | sort > text-file-containing-list-of-image-filenames.txt
tesseract text-file-containing-list-of-image-filenames.txt output-prefix pdf
# rotate, deskew
ocrmypdf --force-ocr -r -d -l eng output-prefix.pdf The-Electron-Book.pdf

and you get something 38Mb big, which unfortunately is too big to be attached (sorry). It needs to be proofread though with something like LibreOffice. Regrettably, I do not possess the magical abilities of dv8 to remaster it with Scribus and Krita.

[paulb]

If you're still looking:

"Exploring Adventures On The Electron", Peter Gerrard, 1984.

No PDF, however, just the online reader page images.

[origami_camera]

I bought the USB stick from AcornElectron.co.uk and over time PDF'd the JPEGs. I can't recall what method I used but I don't remember it being so onerous. Still, I wish I knew about the method BigEd describes.

I ended up with a bunch of relatively big files - mostly more than 20 MB. Not sure what the upload limits/rules are here. If you're still interested, perhaps send me a private message and we can figure out how I can help.