Problems with excellent-looking Greek (ancient and modern) resources site

May 30, 2014 21:42

I recently came across the excellent-looking www.projethomere.com when I was looking for a decent online Modern Greek dictionary. I've tried opening two or three different texts on there (specifically, Volume 9 of the Dimitrakou dictionary) but all I get is a cute little drawing of a bicycle with two spinning "loading" discs for wheels, and the ( Read more... )

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lied_ohne_worte May 30 2014, 23:52:25 UTC
I get the bicycle on the site you linked, as well. From the look of the site and the source code, I assume the bit on the bottom is intended to be an embed of a Scribd book, but considering that I can't get it to work either in two separate browsers, it seems to be broken.

However, when I click the link on top of that, with the Greek title, I can see a rather nice-looking dictionary of 547 pages on Scribd, not that I understand any of it. Can you see the book on Scribd? I can do so without being logged in.

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tortipede May 31 2014, 07:22:40 UTC
Oops, should have looked at the cource-code myself - I thought of doing so...

Yes, I can see the dictionary on Scribd, which is both (a) how I stumbled across projethomere and (b) why I suspected Scribd might be implicated. Unfortunately, if you scroll through it on Scribd, you find that most of it isn't available on a Free Preview. I've seen a few things on Scribd lately that I'd like, but have been reluctant to join because I'm not sure if they're all legally uploaded... (Much as I want to save money, ripping off the publishers of interesting academic books doesn't seem entirely ethical...)

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