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Hi, Karl. If you want a mess-o bib records, the LC Books All file (to
2006) is at:
http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net
As you probably know, you'll find those in the 300 $c, in centimeters:
"23 cm."
There is also a dump of the OL data in JSON:
http://www.archive.org/download/oldumps/jsondump.json.gz
That includes records from sources other than LC (other libraries,
Amazon). That will have the size in "physical_dimensions". In addition
to the LC height in centimeters, there you will also find some that look
like: "11 x 9.4 x 0.7 inches." Those come generally from Amazon.
Have fun!
kc
Karl Fogel wrote:
> Hank Bromley <hank {_AT_} archive.org> writes:
>
>> We don't really compile data on the physical sizes of our books, but I
>> can tell you that the maximum page size our own scanning stations can
>> handle (not counting the special tables for imaging "foldouts") is
>> about 9.5" x 14".
>>
>> I added Edward and Karen because either of them could probably do some
>> basic statistical analysis for you on large numbers of MARC records,
>> and the MARC records often include the book's height.
>
> Thanks! The 9.5x14 information is useful, in that it tells me I'll need
> more data -- because that's already larger than we can probably build a
> mass-marketable scanner for :-).
>
> Edward and Karen, if you want to just send me a pointer to the MARC
> records, I'd be happy to download them myself and do the analysis.
>
> Dan also suggested asking Robert, so I'm CC'ing him. Robert, my
> original question is below; any stats or off-the-top-of-the-head
> knowledge you have would be most welcome.
>
> Best,
> -Karl
>
>> Karl Fogel wrote:
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>>> Can you point me to the right person to ask for some stats on book
>>> sizes, based on Archive.org's book scannings?
>>>
>>> I'm working with a project (bkrpr.org) to market an affordable personal
>>> book scanner, and we're wondering what the maximum size of "common"
>>> books is. Obviously, the bigger they build the device the more
>>> expensive it is to manufacture, so knowing that, say, less than 0.5% of
>>> all books are more than 10 inches in height or whatever would be very
>>> helpful.
>>>
>>> The Internet has some data on this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size,
>>> for example), but not the kind of broad sample that Archive.org probably
>>> has...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Karl
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