You can download certain public domain materials from the HathiTrust collection in a variety of formats. Download capabilities follow our current download restrictions. “Temporary access” books cannot be downloaded and will not have these options. Most materials that are available to view in full are also available to download in full, but only for users who are affiliated with a HathiTrust member library and are logged in. Some books do not have download restrictions and may be downloaded by all users. Here is one such book: A Handbook of Greek Lace Making.
For more information about what you can download, please see our help article on What You Can Download from the Collection.
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Some text or ePub files may contain nonsense characters or text problems. These files are created from automatically generated Optical Character Recognition (OCR). As an automated process, it is subject to error. In order to interpret the images of letters on a page, the OCR software must first determine the script and language of the page. When the OCR software misidentifies the script or the language of the volume or the page, it will tend to produce gibberish. |
\uD83D\uDCCB Factors that determine the resolution in which you can download a book
Authenticated users (from member institutions or as guest users) receive additional download options: They can download full books as TIFF, which is fairly resource-intensive. Anyone can download one page at a time.
The maximum resolution at which you can download a file is dependent upon the format in which the document was originally contributed to HathiTrust. Black & white TIFFs are usually 600ppi, but JPEG2000s are usually 300ppi/400ppi. And some volumes are a combination of both, which means only the lower resolution would apply.
Materials in the collection are contributed as JPEG2000 most of the time, and it doesn’t tend to work well with Firefox. If you are having trouble viewing a downloaded file, we recommend using a different browser, or opening the file using Adobe Reader.
If our download options do not meet your needs, we would recommend reaching out to the interlibrary loan department at your local library to see if they can get better quality scans for you. Alternatively, you could travel to a library that has the physical materials and scan them at a higher resolution for yourself.
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