tech update: dropbox, email, and pdfs

First of all, welcome! The update of the OE Alums Facebook page seems to have sent a lot of you this way in search of my thesis. I'm looking forward to hearing what y'all make of it. I hope very much that it's a work in progress and will have future lives - and your feedback will help me think about how to move forward with my research.

Meanwhile, some unforeseen technical difficulties: a number of you have reported getting an error message ("The file is damaged and could not be repaired.") when you tried to download the PDF of my thesis from DropBox. I've opened it through several browsers in a couple of different locations since yesterday and everything looks good ... so I'm thinking it's the size of the file (39 MB) that is causing the issue for people. Unfortunately, the nature of the problem means I can't email it to you either - because the file exceeds the attachment limit of most email systems.

What I'm going to do is break the PDF into chapters and see if that helps with the download issue. Since I don't have the full Adobe program on my computer, this will mean a bit of fiddling and may take a week or two before I have a chance to get to a library that has the right software. In the meantime please please please feel free to message me on Facebook, email me (feministlibrarian [at] gmail [dot] com), or leave a message here at the blog and request a copy. I'll keep a master list of folks' names and email addresses and be in touch as soon as I've worked out alternatives for document delivery!

If only I could just walk it across the road ...

Thanks so much for your patience,
Anna