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Memoirs of Oratory - available as an ebook in English
ROME: 12 July 2005 -- Given that Memoirs of the Oratory has been out of print for sometime, and that at each opportunity during his visit through EAO last year the Rector Major has encouraged confreres to regard this as essential reading, Bosconet now makes MO available as an ebook. This means that it is in pdf or Portable Document Format, readable with Acrobat Reader. If you do not have a copy of the free Reader, pick it up on the homepage link on Bosconet. The MO.pdf file is bookmarked for each chapter, you can easily go to relevant chapters, you can search the entire 'book' for a word, and you can enlarge the text for your own convenience, all within the reader itself. You can also copy text if you wish, again with the reader, or even save the entire book as a text or pdf file.
Several things need to be said about this version. Firstly, it is thanks to the enormous and painstaking work of the novices from FIN/S in Cebu that we have a scanned copy of the now out-of-print version. The novices had actually put the entire work together as a website, but it was very 'heavy' in byte terms, in fact ran to 14 Mb, which is rather too large for our purposes, so austraLasia took the file, converted it to pdf and stripped out the images. It is down to 2.10 Mb. You have just the text here, not the maps and other images from the original paper version.
It also needs to be said that this is a stop-gap measure to ensure any confrere who wishes can have access to MO. A new edition, updated, corrected and in paperback, is due out 'soon' (no dates!) from New Rochelle. Communities and individuals will be encouraged to buy the new edition when and if, especially since it contains much updated commentary, and will have fixed earlier errors.
Finally - scanning is never an exact science, but again the Cebu novices need to be congratulated - they had obviously worked through their text over and over again to eliminate error. austraLasia has done similarly, and picked up several dozen errors that had been missed. We cannot say the text is perfect, but it is about as perfect as one could hope for in this game.
You will find the file on the LHS of the www.bosconet.aust.com homepage. Immediately below it is an additional text that you may find very useful. Let it explain itself. It is a companion text to MO.
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Memoirs of Oratory - available as an ebook in English
ROME: 12 July 2005 -- Given that Memoirs of the Oratory has been out of print for sometime, and that at each opportunity during his visit through EAO last year the Rector Major has encouraged confreres to regard this as essential reading, Bosconet now makes MO available as an ebook. This means that it is in pdf or Portable Document Format, readable with Acrobat Reader. If you do not have a copy of the free Reader, pick it up on the homepage link on Bosconet. The MO.pdf file is bookmarked for each chapter, you can easily go to relevant chapters, you can search the entire 'book' for a word, and you can enlarge the text for your own convenience, all within the reader itself. You can also copy text if you wish, again with the reader, or even save the entire book as a text or pdf file.
Several things need to be said about this version. Firstly, it is thanks to the enormous and painstaking work of the novices from FIN/S in Cebu that we have a scanned copy of the now out-of-print version. The novices had actually put the entire work together as a website, but it was very 'heavy' in byte terms, in fact ran to 14 Mb, which is rather too large for our purposes, so austraLasia took the file, converted it to pdf and stripped out the images. It is down to 2.10 Mb. You have just the text here, not the maps and other images from the original paper version.
It also needs to be said that this is a stop-gap measure to ensure any confrere who wishes can have access to MO. A new edition, updated, corrected and in paperback, is due out 'soon' (no dates!) from New Rochelle. Communities and individuals will be encouraged to buy the new edition when and if, especially since it contains much updated commentary, and will have fixed earlier errors.
Finally - scanning is never an exact science, but again the Cebu novices need to be congratulated - they had obviously worked through their text over and over again to eliminate error. austraLasia has done similarly, and picked up several dozen errors that had been missed. We cannot say the text is perfect, but it is about as perfect as one could hope for in this game.
You will find the file on the LHS of the www.bosconet.aust.com homepage. Immediately below it is an additional text that you may find very useful. Let it explain itself. It is a companion text to MO.
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