{"id":40700,"date":"2020-08-04T05:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=40700"},"modified":"2020-08-04T05:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:32:25","slug":"revue-de-la-bnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/revue-de-la-bnf\/","title":{"rendered":"Revue de la BnF and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cthulhu on the cover of the <em>Revue de la BnF<\/em>, the substantial journal of the French National Library. Sadly it&#8217;s not open access. The issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/editions.bnf.fr\/revue-de-la-bnf-n%C2%B059-world-building\">#59<\/a> (October 2019), was a world-building special issue and led into a 2020 &#8216;year of comics&#8217; for the Library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/r59_couverture_1ere_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/r59_couverture_1ere_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40702\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is open access and public is the Library&#8217;s shorter quarterly &#8216;lobby magazine&#8217; <em>Chroniques<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniques.bnf.fr\/pdf\/\nchroniques_87.pdf\">Issue #87<\/a> (January-March 2020) of <em>Chroniques<\/em> was their special BD (comics) \/ fantasy \/ Tolkien issue (they had the big Oxford Tolkien show visiting, and made it even bigger). <\/p>\n<p>The #87 issueof <em>Chroniques<\/em> well worth a look, even though it&#8217;s all in French. I&#8217;d recommend a translator software but, amazingly, in 2020 it&#8217;s still impossible to translate the text of a PDF <em>in place<\/em>, without uploading it to some Cloud service or doing a half-baked conversion to MS Word first. Sure, the PDF format is hard to parse. But how difficult can it be to take a 3000px snapshot of a page, OCR and translate the text on it, erase the original text, then return the translated text into the erased area? <a href=\"https:\/\/projectnaptha.com\/\">Project Naptha<\/a> can do that, though only for English&#8230; so why can&#8217;t at least one desktop PDF reader software do it?  On a page such as this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/tolk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/tolk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"511\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40732\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it may also interest some readers to know that the Library&#8217;s CNLJ (children&#8217;s literature dept.)  produces a very long-running journal in French <em><a href=\"http:\/\/cnlj.bnf.fr\/\">La Revue des livres pour enfants<\/a><\/em> (Review of Books for Children).  This has a two year rolling paywall, during which only free samples are available online.  After that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cnlj.bnf.fr\/fr\/liste-des-num-ros-de-la-revue-des-livres-pour-enfants\">open access all the way back to 1965<\/a>. This back-list reveals choice items such as <a href=\"http:\/\/cnlj.bnf.fr\/fr\/detail_revue\/Nicole_Claveloux\/242\">N\u00ba 242: a Nicole Claveloux special-issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cthulhu on the cover of the Revue de la BnF, the substantial journal of the French National Library. Sadly it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/08\/04\/revue-de-la-bnf\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}