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chaffneue
5200 days ago
I'm excited about the digitzation project, but the search experience is so poor that it's difficult and cumbersome to locate any actually digitized work. Some of the digitized documents appear to be broken - like this one
http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000016939
. Those that you do find are virtually impossible to read, because they aren't actually transcriptions, they're relatively low-res image scans of his manuscripts.
http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Digital/EAR000000025#...
- then there's access wall pdfs embedded in some of the DB entries
https://sec2.einstein.caltech.edu/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogon?cu...
What a mess. I can only hope they make it much better in future revs.