The International Machine Cancel Society News Item

October 13, 2011

Current Status of the Machine Cancel Society Electronic Projects

Some of the Society resources available on-line have been converted to portable reader formats, so that our members can view the documents on their iPad's, Nook's, Amazon Kindle devices, and mobile smart phones.

Currently, most of the Society's documents are stored on the website in PDF format, which is readable on some of these devices. Unfortunately, PDF files are not optimized for all of those small devices.

The iPad, Nook, and others, ideally read a format called EPUB. The Kindle can read the propietary "MOBI" format. The following links will allow you to download the Society's documents in formats other than PDF.

Auctions

Some recent auction lot listings are available. For example, we offer an EPUB file of an upcoming auction. Get the file at Machine Cancel Society Auction, Closing November 22, 2011 (EPUB).

For users of Amazon Kindle (tm), the upcoming auction is now available as a MOBI file, which is readable on the Kindle device. Get the file at Machine Cancel Society Auction, Closing November 22, 2011 (MOBI).

For more information on this auction, see the auction description page.

Bob Swanson's Articles

Some of Bob Swanson's articles include:

Extracting Cancellations from Images of Scanned Covers and Stamps [.mobi file].

Extracting Cancellations from Images of Scanned Covers and Stamps [.epub file].

Using Google Book Search for Postal History Research [.mobi file]

Using Google Book Search for Postal History Research [.epub file]

Special Editions of The Machine Cancel Forum

We are proud to report that more than one special edition of the Machine Cancel Forum is available on our website.

For instance, a special edition was generated for the 2009 APS Stampshow by our Forum editor. Electronic copies of this special edition have been previously made available as PDF files, including: the entire Forum as a single PDF file [9 megabytes] and individual PDF files for each article in the special Forum edition [9 megabytes].

This special edition of the Forum is also available in the "MOBI" format, which is compatible with the Amazon Kindle (tm), and mobile "smart" phones. Interested Kindle and phone owners should try downloading the Special Edition 2009 Stampshow Machine Cancel Forum [16 megabyte .mobi file].

And that's not all: another special edition of the Forum was created by our very-busy editor for the Garfield-Perry Show in 2010. See: Special Edition Garfield-Perry Machine Cancel Forum.

The Garfield-Perry special edition did not convert well to the MOBI format, so we have created a special version of its PDF file that reads quite well on the Kindle (especially when viewed horizontally). Try: Special Edition Garfield-Perry Machine Cancel Forum ["narrow margin version", 8MB PDF file].

Military Flag Census

Our webmaster, Bob Swanson, has made available online, his spreadsheet of the current census of American Flag Cancels of Military Facilities. This file is stored on Google Documents, so does not require any special reader software. It should be readable by any web browser. The file has a Copyright statement, but the data is free to use for personal and research use. The original information for this census came from Page 61 of the previous edition of the Flag Cancel Encyclopedia by the late Frederick Langford. Bob maintains this listing of every reported date, and has enhanced the historical data by adding more dates and cancellations to the listing over the years. You can view the spreadsheet at: spreadsheet with all known usage dates of American flag cancellations of U.S. domestic military facilities of the First World War.

Software for Reading Portable Data Formats

The MOBI files, are of course for the Kindle, but can also be read by the free Kindle (tm) APP on smart phones, and Kindle application on desktop computers. The EPUB format is compatible with a wide array of smart phones and tablets, such as the iPad. EPUB files can be read using the free APP FBReader. EPUB files can be read on desktop computers using the AZARDI program. Please contact the webmaster if you experience difficulties with any of these files.

Main Machine Cancel Society Web Page

Contact information for the Society's President.

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