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]

I very much doubt you could change the font even if it were possible in apps like Acrobat Reader. You can only highlight text in a PDF at all if it was entered AS text, and Google book scans consist of images. Short of actually performing OCR on a Google PDF, what you have is nothing any computer application would see as text.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes, and if you performed OCR you would need careful proofreading. Like I said, you would not believe what gibberish turned up on the page when I tried to download the so-called plain text version.