An index of the 1880 edition of Cooley’s Cyclopædia

Kragen Javier Sitaker, 02020-09-17 (updated 02020-10-23) (9 minutes)

The 1880 sixth edition of Cooley's Cyclopædia is available in the Archive (vol. 1, vol. 2). However, the scans are 400 dpi and render rather slowly on my netbook, tens of seconds per page, or eight seconds in mupdf (which nevertheless doesn't prefetch or give any kind of "working" notice!) so I thought I would add a partial headword index to accelerate the process of finding things.

Without this index, a binary search for a headword would require looking at 11 or 12 pages distributed over both volumes, about a minute and a half of rendering time. With it, the worst case should be 6 pages, but the average more like 4; about 5% of pages are included directly in the index.

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