Put all three documents in the same folder.

Click the arrow on the right of the FIND box and Click on Open Full Acrobat 
Search (Or Press CLICK+CTRL+F).

You are now given the option to search "In the current PDF documents" or 
"All PDF documents" in a Folder of your choice.

You can now also use Copy and Paste &c.

You must use the searchable files on Rapidshare and the Internet Archive. 
The files on Charm will not work.


SA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Stern" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Download a W.E.R.M.


> WOW!  What a wonderful gift to the archive community!
> A HUGE THANK YOU to all involved.
> It took me years to obtain a copy of WERM, and now a computer searchable
> copy at my fingertips.
> A note, and a question:
>  At first, I thought something wrong with my downloads - but there are a
> number of BLANK pages
> at the start of each document.
>  How do you search all 3 WERM volumes at once?
> THANKS!
> Best wishes, Thomas.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steve Abrams
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:16 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Download a W.E.R.M.
>
>
> The World's Encyclopaedia of Recorded Music (WERM), an heroic endeavour by
> F. F. Clough and G. J. Cuming published in 1951, "aimed at the inclusion 
> of
> every record of permanent music issued since the advent of electrical
> recording up to April, 1950, throughout the world". Three Supplements
> covered the period up to the end of 1955.
>
> The whole of the W.E.R.M. has been scanned and put online by CHARM, the
> Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music, and is available 
> for
> free download in PDF format from their site:
>
> http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/discography/disco_resources.html
>
> Their  PDF of the 1951 WERM is a huge, 357 MB, unsearchable image scan. 
> Mr.
> Joseph Serraglio has converted it to a searchable format, downsampled it 
> to
> reduce file size by 60%, and uploaded it to Rapidshare.
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/242040824/WERM_1951_-searchable-optimized.pdf
> (148 MB)
>
> This volume, pp. 912 including the first supplement, was posted to a 
> private
> list, but Mr. Serraglio has given me permission to pass the link to
> ARSCLIST.
>
> The scans of the second and third supplements on Charm are similarly 
> bloated
> and also unsearchable.  However, Mr. Serraglio has drawn  my attention to
> the fact that compact searchable PDF scans of these two volumes, 294 and 
> 599
> pages respectively, are available from the Internet Archive, courtesy of
> Microsoft:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/secondsupplement010477mbp (33 MB)
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/thirdsupplement1007508mbp (82 MB)
>
> If you keep all three files in a single folder you can search all of them 
> at
> once.
>
> Finally, the Gramophone Shop Encyclopaedias of 1936 and 1942 are also
> available in PDF from the Internet Archive:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/gramophoneshopen010034mbp
> (1936 edition - 68 MB)
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/gramophoneshopen007344mbp
> (1942 edition -  60 MB)
>
>
> Steve Abrams