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All of Einstein's writings are now online
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#12The thing that makes me saddest about Einstein is that his last words are forever lost since they were in German to a nurse that did not speak the language.
I haven't heard this nor can find the narrative. Please cite.
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#13we should always have people commenting when the site goes down after HN/reddit effect (if no one has done it already) and then we can have an avg time goes down/host provider graph show up. :)
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#14This is great. Would love them in a more accessible format. 10 mins in and I still haven't been able to find anything actually written by him… :-)
I had exactly the same thought. Although I gave up after 3 min. :)
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#15The thing that makes me saddest about Einstein is that his last words are forever lost since they were in German to a nurse that did not speak the language.
I haven't heard this nor can find the narrative. Please cite.
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#16This is great. Would love them in a more accessible format. 10 mins in and I still haven't been able to find anything actually written by him… :-)
I agree, the UI is kinda terrible :(
The search is. The reader is the same one as the internet archive, which is IMHO pretty great:
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#17This is great. Would love them in a more accessible format. 10 mins in and I still haven't been able to find anything actually written by him… :-)
Just did a wildcard search and found all the documents in a second. All 80,000+ documents from the archives: http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Search/Results?lookfor=*&...
I did the same, but I still can't figure out how to read a document once you clicked the search result. i.e. http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000000005/T...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just did a wildcard search and found all the documents in a second. All 80,000+ documents from the archives: http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Search/Results?lookfor=*&...
I did the same, but I still can't figure out how to read a document once you clicked the search result. i.e. http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000000005/T...
You have to click on the blurry DB Info image.
I know, intuitive, right? You know it's a "a user-friendly interface" because they say so [1].
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#19The thing that makes me saddest about Einstein is that his last words are forever lost since they were in German to a nurse that did not speak the language.
Maybe something like: "Now I see if I was right."
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#20I'm excited about the digitzation project, but the search experience is so poor that it's difficult and cumbersome to locate any actually digitized work. Some of the digitized documents appear to be broken - like this one http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Record/EAR000016939. Those that you do find are virtually impossible to read, because they aren't actually transcriptions, they're relatively low-res image scans of his manuscripts. http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Digital/EAR000000025#... - then there's access wall pdfs embedded in some of the DB entries https://sec2.einstein.caltech.edu/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogon?cu...
What a mess. I can only hope they make it much better in future revs.