The woes of scholarship

[fpb]

Aie aie aie. Woe oh woe.

Having to read very large books.
Having to read very large books in German.
Having to read very large books in German and printed in Gothic script.

Comments

[filialucis]

Ouch.

You might get lucky and find a modern reprint, though. I have an eight-volume paperback edition of Römische Geschichte sitting on my shelf courtesy of DTV; maybe your thing has been republished in a sensible typeface too? In which case a library near you might have it.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It looks as if the issue has been solved for me anyway - Google is refusing to download the damn thing, in spite of five successive attempts.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Update - after three more tries, I finally managed to download the damn thing. I do not know whether it was my unloved system (a Vista that has been a nightmare since the beginning) or Google who were the problem, but I never had such trouble with downloading an e-book before. But this is Mommsen and one has to have it.