Out of Print SDB Publications Available Online
by Nick Kersten
There is good news for Seventh Day Baptists regarding out-of-print SDB and SDB-related publications!
The Historical Society frequently receives requests for information which come from out of print volumes. These requests are sometimes accompanied by inquiries about where these out of print volumes can be found for purchase. Purchasing the books through used or rare books dealers is frequently very expensive, and so this alternative is less expensive. Through the Google Books project, many of these volumes are available online in .pdf format. In order to save the documents to a computer, Adobe Acrobat (or a reader program for Adobe files) is necessary, but it is a means by which rare volumes can be found for free on the internet. (You can find a free version of the Adobe reader here.)
In the interest of full disclosure, it was not the Historical Society that scanned these volumes for inclusion in the Google Books Project, but because the books are public domain, there is very little control over where the books are now propagated, and so their availability online is good news. To read more about this project Google has undertaken, click here. Many of the books were in the collections of large university libraries. These libraries are now making their older books available online, and that is the means by which these are now available. (The more careful users of the Google Book Search will even be able to tell which books were in which libraries by the stamps in the front of the volumes!)
A list follows of some of the volumes which are available in this way:
Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia, by Corliss F. Randolph
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius Friedrich Sachse
It is important to note that not all of the volumes which are currently out of print are available in this way and not all books listed are available in a downloadable format, but searches of key topics like "Seventh Day Baptist" or authors names can be a tool used to determine what books may be available in your area of interest. Often the books which are not available for download are included in our archives, and so requests might be made of the Society regarding the nature of the information contained in different volumes.
The Historical Society frequently receives requests for information which come from out of print volumes. These requests are sometimes accompanied by inquiries about where these out of print volumes can be found for purchase. Purchasing the books through used or rare books dealers is frequently very expensive, and so this alternative is less expensive. Through the Google Books project, many of these volumes are available online in .pdf format. In order to save the documents to a computer, Adobe Acrobat (or a reader program for Adobe files) is necessary, but it is a means by which rare volumes can be found for free on the internet. (You can find a free version of the Adobe reader here.)
In the interest of full disclosure, it was not the Historical Society that scanned these volumes for inclusion in the Google Books Project, but because the books are public domain, there is very little control over where the books are now propagated, and so their availability online is good news. To read more about this project Google has undertaken, click here. Many of the books were in the collections of large university libraries. These libraries are now making their older books available online, and that is the means by which these are now available. (The more careful users of the Google Book Search will even be able to tell which books were in which libraries by the stamps in the front of the volumes!)
A list follows of some of the volumes which are available in this way:
Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia, by Corliss F. Randolph
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius Friedrich Sachse
It is important to note that not all of the volumes which are currently out of print are available in this way and not all books listed are available in a downloadable format, but searches of key topics like "Seventh Day Baptist" or authors names can be a tool used to determine what books may be available in your area of interest. Often the books which are not available for download are included in our archives, and so requests might be made of the Society regarding the nature of the information contained in different volumes.
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