Hi All,
I came across some interesting about free online books,
thousands of them, almost none on jewellery, but a couple of related
ones. I am sure there are more if you dig.
Here is Cellini’s autobiography (the man was really kind of an
immoral creep, but he was a pretty good goldsmith and entrepreneur).
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7clln10h.htm
Here are downloadable versions of the same book.
Gold Mining book
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/ggold10.txt
Book on oxy-acetylene welding and working steel.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8oxac10.txt
A page of lots of online books on art:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?N
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Article on google’s deal with major world libraries to add millions
of online books.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3447411
Project Guttenberg - one of the oldest of these repositiories.
The one million books Project:
http://www.archive.org/texts/
3000+ online books (NAP)
76,000+ books at the net library
http://legacy.netlibrary.com/about_us/company_info/index.asp
Ebrary project
best
Charles
Charles Lewton-Brain/Brain Press
President, Canadian Crafts Federation
Box 1624, Ste M, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2L7, Canada
Tel: 403-263-3955
Fax: 403-283-9053
@Charles_Lewton-Brai1