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That's cool about the WikiSource parallel text+image page view, TIL. Thanks!

As an example flow (since it took a minute to figure out): we can start at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica then click to navigate/browse volume > section > topic to get to a text page, then click Source tab, then click a Page Number (maybe hunt around for the correct page number), and see the parallel view, text + image. With previous and next page buttons available, retaining the parallel text + image view.



Following up, another WikiSource flow is the following:

1. Go to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britan...

2. Click button "Search the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica". This currently goes to the page at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&prefix...

3. Enter the search term and click Search. (There is auto-suggest for some topics, but Search button seems to give more complete results.)

4. Get to the text page of interest, such as https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britan...

5. Notice the left margin contains hyperlinks like [105] whwere 105 is the page number nd links directl;y to the side-by side view of page 105. Click the [105] link on the left (for example), to get to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AEB1911_-_Volume_02.djv... which shows the text-and-image side by side (for that page).

This flow avoids the hunting-for-the-right page step, by using the direct links.




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