Hi,

I am contacting you to see if you have a personal, academic book collection on either Ancient or Modern Japan. I have been looking for free materials on the net for more than a year and have found that some of the most general authors are not available even as works for research on sites that require hundreds of dollars to use.

If you have a personal library, whether printed or digital, perhaps you would like to trade books with me. I don't know if you are looking to develop your collection, assuming that you have one, however most of the links provided on library sites contain works without copyright that are of little value to the researcher.

I guess it would be like asking your public librarian if she knew where the academic section of the library were (you know, all the books that have copyright on them and that are technical in nature) and her pointing you to a section of books published in the 1800's. It's just so insulting.

If you know of any place on the net where I might find technical, acaedmic, up-to-date ebooks on Japan, I would very much be interested in acquiring that information from you. And, again, if you would consider trading ebooks with me, that too would be of interest. If you have a printed collection, perhaps you would be willing to scan a book or two on my behalf in exchange for several ebooks, considering the fact that scanning would take so much more time and effort.

You can contact me at polisny@hotmail.com
Thank you.
Justin