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I want to upload some PDF and images scanned by myself. Contains the travel flyer(or brochure? My English is not good.) and ACGN related artbook. I think many of them are difficult to be called "book", it even have not ISBN... I don't know should I upload them here. Even not talking about the artbook, there are many flyers have archival value.
And, hopes the website can improve the search engine for asian-script, includes Chinese and Japanese.

iseki wrote: 27 Jun 2026, 14:30 I want to upload some PDF and images scanned by myself. Contains the travel flyer(or brochure? My English is not good.) and ACGN related artbook. I

Flyers aren't books. Neither are the pamplets you might get at the store. Please don't upload them. Brochure, not...really. Not unless it has some historic significance? Its a judgement call there. We have a handful of furniture catalogues from the 1910s that stay because they're an eye-opening view into what is practically an alien world.

Generally:
• Make sure its the whole book, including covers if possible.
----- Make sure all the pages are the same way up. Try to avoid including your body parts on the scans. Try to avoid madly snapping images with your phone of a book being windswept whilst being clutched onto desperately by your other hand. Yes difficulty with all of these have happened.
• Check it doesn't have any personally identifiable info in it.
• If possible, an OCRed scan is preferred to an image scan. An optimised OCRed scan even more so, as it makes the file much smaller. The free tool PDF24 can handle both if required. It doesn't send the data anywhere.
----- Related, consider your audience when making the book. A 5gb ultra high definiton scan doesn't really help anyone, as very few will be able to open it. (again, happened)
• It doesn't matter if a book doesn't have an ISBN, so long as its complete. Nothing made before 1970 is likely to have an isbn. A lot of kindle self-publish only have ASIN. Some books have DOI. That's fine to include.
• Artbooks are fine to upload.
• If you're not sure if its a book, or a report, the library has an articles section. Use own judgement, it can be changed later.
• When filling out the upload form, language is by far the most important field to double-check. This determines which moderators it will go to, and you'd really, really prefer it went to someone who can read it...
Otherwise include as minimum please, title, author, and as many isbns as you can. They really help with the book being matched to those who are asking for it.Preferably fill in as many fields as you can, as it really helps the moderators.

Flyers aren't books. Neither are the pamplets you might get at the store. Please don't upload them. Brochure, not...really. Not unless it has some historic significance? Its a judgement call there.

How about https://z-lib.fm/book/kZbVpmxbZR and https://z-lib.fm/book/XZq2epdE0p ? It's all composed by multi pages. not a single collapsed page.

Vika wrote: 27 Jun 2026, 18:51 Flyers aren't books. Neither are the pamplets you might get at the store. Please don't upload them. Brochure, not...really. Not unless it has some historic significance? Its a judgement call there.

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iseki wrote: 27 Jun 2026, 19:07 https://z-lib.fm/book/kZbVpmxbZR

I can't read that language. Its Japanese, or Chinese or Korean I think. Looks like one of those three. But even without understanding what's going on, the book looks complete. Short, at only 16 pages, but I can't talk, as some of my stroke rehabilitation exercise books have been that length. If its complete, then yes.

I wouldn't go much shorter, esp if it doesn't have an isbn. An 8 or 10 page report would probably be better going in articles.

We've had people upload two page flyers before. Or four page, that are those two pages folded in half. Those, absolutely do not stay. That's more what I was picturing.

Vika wrote: 27 Jun 2026, 19:32 We've had people upload two page flyers before.

Sadly, I have some pages like that. It's valuable for Miku fans. Some of them are not only for ad., such as it has an area let you colorize the miku you liked. Personally I'm finding the pages for snow miku 2021, but... nothing get.

iseki wrote: 27 Jun 2026, 19:57 Sadly, I have some pages like that. It's valuable for Miku fans. Some of them are not only for ad., such as it has an area let you colorize the miku you liked. Personally I'm finding the pages for snow miku 2021, but... nothing get.

Were they ever published as a collection? Individually they're no good, but as an art book they'd be fine. The library has no problems with colouring books (so long as you upload first, then colour).