I am happy to report that, with my posting of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's fascinating autobiography, "The Days of My Life", my posting of Haggard's (pretty much) complete works is now completed. There are 16 volumes of the "Haggard Anthology" (containing approximately 60 novels), plus the autobiography. Should be enough to keep people going for a while, at least :).

Haggard is one of my favourite authors. Hopefully these postings will serve in a small way to bring him back to the attention of some modern readers who may be unaware of his books. He didn't write great literature, but he certainly knew how to write a gripping adventure story.

The only works of Haggard that I've not posted are some (to my mind) rather tedious works of non fiction (eg a book on the state of the British agricultural industry) that he wrote while working for the British government in various roles. These are all described in his autobiography, for those interesting in learning what they are.

I will try and revise the earlier volumes that I posted over time - in those early days I didn't know nearly as much about how to produce a nice-looking book as I do now.

Does this mean we'll get em dashes thanks to Book Cleaner?

Yes Jon :)

Oh nice! Then I'll wait till the new versions to read.

Just completed a major re-formatting and "cleaning up" of vol 1 of my Haggard Anthology. Now has proper dashes, line breaks cleaned up, verse properly formatted as such, etc. A great improvement.

Now I've got my Gen3, I've decided to concentrate for the time being on producing improved versions of my favourite books, especially for MobiPocket. I'm re-doing them in BD, preserving proper dashes etc (just to make Jon happy!), and making sure they have a cover pic that shows up properly in the Gen3's library.

I've just uploaded (another) improved version of my "Haggard Anthology Vol 1", and a significantly better "Father Brown Omnibus".

Want to also fix the Dr. Thorndyke books?

They are high on my priority list! It's not trivial to do these - the Father Brown one took me about 4h work.

They are high on my priority list!
I recently finished the first book in the first omnibus and I rather enjoyed it. So I'll wait till the revised sedition before moving onto the next. Thanks.

I just wish that I had read the Haggard many years ago. He can sure tell a story.

But you get to read Haggard now and enjoy.

But you get to read Haggard now and enjoy.
Very true and very enjoyable. Thanks Harry.

As promised, new versions of Dr Thorndyke Vol 1 uploaded. More to follow.

I've spent the whole day creating a new version of my "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus". Completely re-formatted the material to preserve dashes, etc, and replaced much of book by new updated source material. Now properly formatted for MobiPocket devices such as the iLiad and CyBook Gen3, displays a cover picture, etc.

This is an ongoing work. If you find any errors, or have suggestions for further improvements, please do let me know.

I've recreated my "Raffles Omnibus", containing the four "Raffles" books by E.W.Hornung. Complete re-formatting, preserved dashes, added cover image for iLiad and Gen3. Uploaded v2 for both Sony and Mobi.

I've uploaded a completely revised version of the "Dr Thorndyke, Vol 2" omnibus with improved layout, preservation of dashes, cover image for iLiad and Gen3, etc.

Uploaded a new version of my E.F.Benson "Mapp and Lucia" omnibus. Improved the layout and formatting, and added a cover picture and a picture of the author.

Completely re-created Vol 2 of my H. Rider Haggard Anthology, adding many of the illustrations which were missing from the original version (which I managed to find from an on-line version in Australia). Improved the layout and formatting. Added a cover picture for iLiad and Gen3. Uploaded v2.

I think that this is my personal favourite volume of all the Haggard books I've uploaded. "She" is a wonderful book, one of the greatest adventure stories ever written (IMHO), and its three sequels/prequels are excellent too.

In an effort to make my "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus" as "definitive" a version as possible, I've started carefully proofreading it against a good printed edition of SH (Leslie Klinger's "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes"). I've got about half way through "A Study in Scarlet" so far, and found and fixed literally dozens of minor errors, ranging from spelling mistakes (mainly in proper names) through to punctuation errors (missing question marks, commas where there should be semi-colons, etc).

Because this is likely to be a long-term project, what I plan to do is release a new version every time I finish proof-reading a book in the omnibus, rather than doing that whole thing at once.

Just uploaded a new v5 of "Sherlock Homes" which now has both "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" proofed and corrected. "The Sign of Four" was in a shocking state with errors in virtually every sentence. I've corrected literally hundreds of errors in it.

There's a new Victor Appleton on PG in the "Moving Picture Boys" series. There are 3 books now. If Harry wants to do these to add to his "Tom Swift" series, great. Otherwise, if he passes, I will get to them later in the week.

Thanks - I'd missed those. I'll do them!

Uploaded an omnibus edition of the three books in the "Moving Picture Boys" series so far released by PG.

I am creating the Harvard Classics in IMP format for the eBookwise. This is still a version 1 of the books as all I have done is to add an explicit Table of Contents to the books. Someday I may revise them all into another version; but, not today.

Currently working to produce a .prc of Wilkie Collins' "The Law and the Lady".

May take a few days though, the PG text needs a fair bit of revising :bookworm:

I'm currently revising my (pretty) complete works of Charles Dickens for the Sony, and creating versions for Mobi too. I've managed to get hold of the complete original illustrations for several more of Dickens' books, so I'll add these to them as I get that far.

I'm doing them more or less in alphabetical order, using my beloved 36 volume "Centenary Edition" of Dickens' complete works as a reference for formatting and placement of the illustrations.

I'm going back to my earlier books done with Book Designer and redoing them to fit my new formatting. Also I am making sure that each book I've posted have PRC & IMP formats. Also, I'll redo the IMP that were made as graphic images. I'm going in order based upon the ebook list when sorted by uploaded. So if a book you want is not yet done in the format you want, I will get to it.

My first fix is Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper.

After I've finished my initial round of "Dickens" books, I'm going to start experimenting with creating more sophisticated MobiPocket format books using MobiGen. It looks to be reasonably straightforward; exporting in HTML format from BD gives a nice HTML file which can then be hand-edited to add the custom Mobi tags. This should allow me to create Mobi books with a proper external TOC, larger images, etc.

I am much more interested, these days, in producing the very highest-quality versions that I can of my few favourite books, rather than turning them out in volume, as I've done during some earlier periods of time. My goal is to create books which are the electronic equivalent of high-quality hardback editions. I'm going to concentrate on my favourite authors - Dickens, Conan Doyle, and Haggard - for that purpose.

This may mean my abandoning the Sony format and concentrating purely on producing Mobi-format books; I'm not yet sure whether this will be necessary.

After I've finished my initial round of "Dickens" books, I'm going to start experimenting with creating more sophisticated MobiPocket format books using MobiGen. It looks to be reasonably straightforward; exporting in HTML format from BD gives a nice HTML file which can then be hand-edited to add the custom Mobi tags. This should allow me to create Mobi books with a proper external TOC, larger images, etc.

I am much more interested, these days, in producing the very highest-quality versions that I can of my few favourite books, rather than turning them out in volume, as I've done during some earlier periods of time. My goal is to create books which are the electronic equivalent of high-quality hardback editions. I'm going to concentrate on my favourite authors - Dickens, Conan Doyle, and Haggard - for that purpose.

This may mean my abandoning the Sony format and concentrating purely on producing Mobi-format books; I'm not yet sure whether this will be necessary.

Please don't leave out Tarzan!!:help:

I found 3 books by Richard Henry Savage that I will be posting. Some say that he was the inspiration for Doc Savage.

I found 3 books by Richard Henry Savage that I will be posting. Some say that he was the inspiration for Doc Savage.

Excellent! Sounds great!

There are a number of L. F. Baum fairy story books that I will add to the download area soon. The Wizard of Oz series has already been very well done by Roy White and I will not touch that area.

There are a number of L. F. Baum fairy story books that I will add to the download area soon. The Wizard of Oz series has already been very well done by Roy White and I will not touch that area.You might consider the Andrew Lang fairy books -- the Red Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, etc.
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I am much more interested, these days, in producing the very highest-quality versions that I can of my few favourite books, rather than turning them out in volume, as I've done during some earlier periods of time. My goal is to create books which are the electronic equivalent of high-quality hardback editions. I'm going to concentrate on my favourite authors - Dickens, Conan Doyle, and Haggard - for that purpose.Harry, thank you.

I'm a fan of small press books because of the craftsmanship and care lavished on the titles. It's nice to see people creating ebooks attempting to produce that kind of quality, within the limits imposed by the technology.
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You might consider the Andrew Lang fairy books -- the Red Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, etc.
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Dennis: Those were done and posted some time ago. All of them are posted except for the "greatest hits" collection which was only a selection of works from his final works and not among the best of his stories at that.

Dennis: Those were done and posted some time ago. All of them are posted except for the "greatest hits" collection which was only a selection of works from his final works and not among the best of his stories at that.OK, I didn't happen to see them. I now see that they exist.

Looking at the thread on the Lang, I wouldn't worry about not having a source for the Rose Fairy Book - it appears the stories in it were all published in one or another of the other fairy books. I found a nice site devoted to them here with indexes and links to individual stories: http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/index.htm
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Recently added two additional books (in Vols 4 and 5 respectively) to my "Complete Dr. Thorndyke" series of R. Austin Freeman. The two new ones are "The D'Arblay Mystery" in Vol 4, and "Mr. Pottermack's Oversight" in Vol 5. A must for all "Dr. Thorndyke" fans!

Uploaded an improved version of ERB's 4-book "Venus" series.

Added 8 new stories to my omnibus edition of Ernest Bramah's "Max Carrados" stories (about a blind detective) and reposted.

Uploaded an improved version of my "Tom Swift Vol 1" omnibus (books 1-5 of the "Tom Swift" series) for both Sony and Mobi.

Uploaded an improved version of my "Tom Swift Vol 2" omnibus (books 6-10 of the "Tom Swift" series) for both Sony and Mobi.

Uploaded an improved version of Haggard Anthology Vol 3 for Sony and Mobi.

Uploaded improved Sony/Mobi versions of John Buchan's "Richard Hannay" books ("The Thirty-Nine Steps", etc).

I am working on The complete Mr. J. G. Reeder stories by Edgar Wallace. This is going to be an omnibus.

I am working on The complete Mr. J. G. Reeder stories by Edgar Wallace. This is going to be an omnibus.

You know that I've already done it, Jon? Just checking!

Uploaded new versions of "Tom Swift Vol 3" for Sony and Mobi.

Uploaded a new v4 of Dickens' "Great Expectations" for Sony and Mobi. Meticulously proofed against a printed version, corrected all the paragraph breaks and many other minor flaws. I'm finally "happy" with this version; I think it's probably as close to the "perfect" eBook as I've been able to create so far.

Your efforts are nothing short of amazing. Your books are better than we have a right to expect and far better than we have ever had before. If only the publishers would take as much time and effort for products that they charge for as you do with books that are given away for free we would all rejoice.

I agree. Harry's books are brilliant.

Thanks - glad they're appreciated. I must point out, though, that I'm creating them for my own benefit. The fact that others enjoy them too is just a "bonus" :).

<sigh>

I suppose it was inevitable that after saying how "thoroughly" I'd proof-read Great Expectations that I should immediately spot four additional errors (two instances of missing commas, hyphens used in place of dashes, "again" spelled as "a gain". Now fixed. Uploaded v5 for Sony and Mobi. Hopefully this one will last a little longer than the last version!

Uploaded a new v5 of "Oliver Twist" for both Sony and Mobi. This version has been proofed against a printed version. Many lines missing from the original (typed in) PG version have been restored, hundreds of paragraph endings corrected, and numerous other minor errors put right.

NB: I would now regard this as a "finished" version of this eBook. If you find any errors, please either post on the thread to which the book has been posted, or send a PM to "Harry T" to let me know about them.

My next project (between proofing my existing books) will be an omnibus edition of Plato's dialogues.

My next project (between proofing my existing books) will be an omnibus edition of Plato's dialogues.

Lovely. I'm looking forward to that.
I imagine that you will be using the Benjamin Jowett translations, Harry?
They are out of copyright and generally good.

Lovely. I'm looking forward to that.
I imagine that you will be using the Benjamin Jowett translations, Harry?
They are out of copyright and generally good.

They are good but unfortunately they lack the standard section numbering which is useful when looking up references.

I've already started this, and used the Henry Cary HTML versions of the translation of "Apology", "Crito", and "Phaedo"; they are much better laid out than the Jewett text versions and have footnotes, etc. Have you any thoughts on how good or otherwise they are? Would you recommend that I use the Jewett versions instead?

The Jewett versions have nice introductions, though, so I've used those.

I'd appreciate your advice, because I know that this is your professional field of knowledge, whereas I'm strictly an "amateur".

I really like the way the dialogues are presented at http://socrates.clarke.edu/index.htm

I think it's a great reasource :2thumbsup (plus they have the text from the surviving fragment of the little-known dialogue 'Eukiddenme' http://socrates.clarke.edu/eukiddenme.htm)

Harry, the Cary translations are also very good. And you are right: the PG version does include the Stephanus reference numbers (and these are the standard way of referencing Plato's works, so this is a great advantage).

Sparrow: I suspect that Eukennme is a spurious work. It has affinities with Aristophanes' comedy, The Clouds (which features Socrates as one of the characters) and contains anachronistic elements. But great fun though. I shall tell mystudents about it.

Thanks Patricia - much appreciated!

I have posted the complete works of Plato, in two rather large volumes, for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are mainly the late 19th century translations of Benjamin Jowett, and include his essays on each of the dialogues, which greatly enhance the enjoyment of the dialogues for "non experts".

These books represent the fruits of about a week's solid work, 8 hours a day, of effort, but I'm very pleased with the results.

Suggestions for improvements, or the pointing out of errors are, of course, extremely welcome.

Enjoy!

Suggestions for improvements, or the pointing out of errors are, of course, extremely welcome.

Enjoy!One suggestion: they show up in Mobipocket's Library list as Complete Works Vol(x). Er, whose complete works?

Might want to embed Plato in there somewhere...
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Brilliant work, Harry: many thanks.

One suggestion: they show up in Mobipocket's Library list as Complete Works Vol(x). Er, whose complete works?

Might want to embed Plato in there somewhere...
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The book has (I hope!) full metadata, and all the versions of Mobi I'm using show the author as "Plato". On the Gen3, at least, the library also shows the cover image, as below. I'm rather pleased with that cover.

Are you using a version of Mobi which doesn't show you the name of the author?

The book has (I hope!) full metadata, and all the versions of Mobi I'm using show the author as "Plato". On the Gen3, at least, the library also shows the cover image, as below. I'm rather pleased with that cover.The cover is lovely. I'm playing a bit with Mobi Creator here, and creating cover images that have type overlaid on a graphic.

Are you using a version of Mobi which doesn't show you the name of the author?I'm running Mobi 5.3 beta on Palm OS.

If I tap and hold on the entry for the book in the Library listing, and select Details, the Author does show as Plato.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/2238574107_c3fdf7aae4_o.jpg

But the Library list entry itself just says "Complete Works Vol X".

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/2239342624_a76c291fa7_o.jpg

Since it's entirely possible I'll have other "Complete Works" collections, the question becomes how I distinguish between them.

The Contents, incidentally, looks like this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2239342690_a8aca918bd_o.jpg

(using a converted 10pt Cambria font)

This is one reason I'm fond of Plucker: I can rename the title shown in the library list if needed to disambiguate. Mobi for PalmOS doesn't seem to include that ability.
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Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I've uploaded new Mobi versions of the books with the titles changed to "Plato - Complete Works Vol 1" and "Plato - Complete Works Vol 2" to avoid the confusion.

I don't believe this is an issue for the Sony version, since the Sony library screen always displays the author's name.

Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I've uploaded new Mobi versions of the books with the titles changed to "Plato - Complete Works Vol 1" and "Plato - Complete Works Vol 2" to avoid the confusion.Bless you!

I don't believe this is an issue for the Sony version, since the Sony library screen always displays the author's name.I assume the Cybook behaves the same way, and I suspect the Kindle does, too.

I'd be curious to know how Mobi versions for Symbian, PocketPC, and Blackberry behave. I suspect the problem is much smaller screen size, and things don't get shown to conserve space.
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I am working on a new version of The Collected Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. I have a version in LRF already posted, but I am redoing it to function a lot better and to fit my new formatting. I'm adding in sub-ToC for stories that have them. And I'll be posting IMP and PRC versions sometime after. But because today is Superbowl Sunday, I may only get the LRF and IMP versions done.

Created and uploaded a new version of my "Tom Swift Vol 4" omnibus, containing books 16-20 of the original "Tom Swift" series, for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Today being Ash Wednesday, I'm planning a few religious works, suitable for Lent.

There will be more secular works in the next few days and, as soon as I can next face some poetry, an illustrated Paradise Lost.

as soon as I can next face some poetry, an illustrated Paradise Lost.

oh, brilliant ! i would love to have that ! are you planning to make an imp version (please !) ?

I'm planning to do James Hilton's books, available on Gutenberg Australia:
Was it Murder?
Random Harvest
Morning Journey
So Well Remembered
Time and Time Again

I see that Lost Horizon and Good-bye Mr Chips are already done by Patricia and [edit - Harry, not UncleDuke]. I'll have to get up to speed with BookDesigner, so it may take me a few days.

It was actually me who did "Goodbye Mr Chips" (unless someone else has done another version, that is :) ).

Sorry, Harry, I saw UncleDuke as the last post on the thread and was misled by that.
05-19-2007 09:52 PM
by UncleDuke

I have posted the complete works of Plato, in two rather large volumes, for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are mainly the late 19th century translations of Benjamin Jowett, and include his essays on each of the dialogues, which greatly enhance the enjoyment of the dialogues for "non experts".I've been going through these as time permits. Frankly, I haven't even looked at Plato's actual dialogues yet. I've been having far too much enjoyment reading Jowett's commentary.

Enjoy!I am. This is good stuff. Thank you.
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Uploaded a new version of Tom Swift Vol 5 for both Sony and MobiPocket.

I'm planning to do James Hilton's books, available on Gutenberg Australia:

Random Harvest uploaded as lrf, prc and imp files: Sony Reader, Mobi and Imp. Please let me know feedback if any, since this is my first time with BookDesigner.

Could we have a Mobipocket version of 'Goodbye Mr Chips' ? I've heard of it for ages, and really ought to read it! Thanks for ALL these wonderful books!

Uploaded a new v2 of my omnibus edition of H. Irving Hancock's "High School Boys" series for Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new v2 of my omnibus edition of H. Irving Hancock's "High School Boys Vacation" series, for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new version 2 of my omnibus edition of H. Irving Hancock's "Dick Prescott at West Point" series. Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Could we have a Mobipocket version of 'Goodbye Mr Chips' ? I've heard of it for ages, and really ought to read it! Thanks for ALL these wonderful books!

Done, for Imp and Mobipocket formats - for me it was a test of the BookCleaner filters (from http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11649 )I've just installed. Makes life much simpler.

Goodbye, Mr Chips: Done, for Imp and Mobipocket formats - for me it was a test of the BookCleaner filters

Thank you!!!

Created a new version 2 of my omnibus edition of H. Irving Hancock's "Dave Darrin at Annapolis" juvenile series. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new v2 of my omnibus edition of H. Irving Hancock's "Grammar School Boys" juvenile series for both Sony and MobiPocket. Book 3 of this book 4 series is current unavailable as an eBook, but this does not alter the enjoyment of the other three books.

Nevermind..... your new version shows up in "new posts" so I can find it there.

Created a new v2 of my omnibus edition of the 5 book "Young Engineers" juvenile series by H. Irving Hancock. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Discovered a great new juvenile series last night - now released for both Sony and MobiPocket.

The "Submarine Boys" series, by "Victor G. Durham" (a "house name", of course) was a series of 8 books published between 1909 and 1912 narrating the exciting adventures of two boys on board submarines. PG currently have the first 6 books of the series, which I've made into an omnibus edition; I'll add the other two books to it if they are subsequently released. Book 3 is illustrated.

I love these late 19th/early 20th century juvenile series (as you may have noticed!). They portray a much more "innocent" world than today, which has now vanished, but still lives on in these books.

Enjoy!

Created a new version of my omnibus edition of Edgar B.P. Darlington's "Circus Boys" 5-book juvenile series, originally published between 1910 and 1920. To quote from the publisher:

"No call to the heart of the youth of America finds a readier response than the call of the billowing canvas, the big red wagons, the crash of the circus band and the trill of the ringmaster's whistle. It is a call that captures the imagination of old and young alike, and so do the books of this series capture and enthrall the reader, for they were written by one who, besides weilding a master pen, has followed the sawdust trail from coast to coast, who knows the circus people and the sturdy manliness of those who do and dare for the entertainment of millions of circus-goers when the grass is green. Mr. Darlington paints a true picture of circus life."

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket (the previous version was created only for Sony).

Seeing that Fictionwise are currently promoting "Tarzan of the Apes" for $3.50 spurred me into doing a new (and much improved) version of the previous Tarzan anthology I created for the Sony Reader, this time for both Sony and MobiPocket. This volume contains the first five books in the Tarzan series:

1. Tarzan of the Apes
2. The Return of Tarzan
3. The Beasts of Tarzan
4. The Son of Tarzan
5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

And all for free, rather than $3.50 per book :D.

Enjoy!

The rest of the series to follow over the next few days.

Seeing that Fictionwise are currently promoting "Tarzan of the Apes" for $3.50 spurred me into doing a new (and much improved) version of the previous Tarzan anthology I created for the Sony Reader, this time for both Sony and MobiPocket. This volume contains the first five books in the Tarzan series:

1. Tarzan of the Apes
2. The Return of Tarzan
3. The Beasts of Tarzan
4. The Son of Tarzan
5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

And all for free, rather than $3.50 per book :D.

Enjoy!

The rest of the series to follow over the next few days.
And likely a better crafted edition than the Fictionwise offerings.

I've never gotten into Tarzan, though I'm re-reading the Barsoom series now, courtesy of your splendid anthology. I just added the first five Tarzans to the SD card where I keep my Mobi volumes.

Thanks, Harry!

(And if you feel inspired, you might want to take a whack at the Otis Adelbert Kline stuff available on PG AU. It goes nicely on the same shelf with Burroughs. Now, if only the C. L. Moore "Jirel of Joiry" and "Northwest Smith" stuff would become available...)
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Harry, would you mind if IMP versions of your Mobipocket versions were created using nrapallo's mobi2imp script once we are sure it makes proper IMP conversions?

I don't mind at all, since I shan't be doing IMP versions myself.

Uploaded volume 2 in my Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan series", containing books 6-10 of the series as follows:

6: Jungle Tales of Tarzan
7: Tarzan the Untamed
8: Tarzan the Terrible
9: Tarzan and the Golden Lion
10: Tarzan and the Ant-Men

Versions uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

More in the series to follow - enjoy!

More thrilling juvenile fiction from 1916; the exciting adventures of a boy fire-eater in an American circus. Something for all your children to try and copy!

Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket. Enjoy!

More early 20th century juvenile fiction. Very much in the style of "Tom Swift". Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Harry, that was our 3999th book.
Why not do another, so that we have a round 4000?

(I'm at work, so can add any more till this evening.)

Thanks for the tip-off, Patricia :)

Our 4000th/4001st book:

Juvenile fiction from 1922. The type of boys' fiction that was popular at the time, combining an exciting adventure with practical instruction in how to do something (in this case, building a radio receiver).

Enjoy!

MR user "dynabook" very kindly reported a number of errors found while reading the previous version of "Great Expectations". I've fixed all these (all minor, but still worth fixing) and uploaded a new v6.

I'm extremely grateful to have errors reported. If you find any while reading any of the Dickens books especially, please do "bookmark" them while you're reading and report them to me when you've finished the book. It's virtually impossible to get a completely error-free book, but if people do report errors, each version gets closer to that goal.

Thanks!

Created and uploaded a new version of volume 3 of my Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan" series, containing books 11-15 of the series, as follows:

11: Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
12: The Tarzan Twins
13: Tarzan and the Lost Empire
14: Tarzan at the Earth's Core
15: Tarzan the Invincible

I previously included "Tarzan at the Earth's Core" in my "Pellucidar" omnibus, but it belongs here too, so I've duplicated it.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

More thrilling juvenile fiction from 1916; the exciting adventures of a boy fire-eater in an American circus. Something for all your children to try and copy!

hehe ! :p HarryT is looking for trouble...

looking forward to reading the circus boys series !

looking forward to reading the circus boys series !

It's a lovely series, that one. Gives me a real sense of nostalgia to read it; it's a memory of a much more "innocent" world which has long-since vanished. It's well-worth reading.

An updated version of the finish of the "Tarzan" series (those written by ERB, anyway). The books are:

21: Tarzan and the Forbidden City
22: Tarzan the Magnificent
23: Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
24: Tarzan and the Castaways

This now completes the series. Enjoy!

Uploaded v2 for both Sony and MobiPocket.

I am working on the Rifters series by Peter Watt released under a Creative Commons License.

Starfish
Maelstrom
Behemoth
Blindsight

Uploaded a new and improved version of vol 5 of my H. Rider Haggard series for both Sony and Mobipocket.

I noticed that PG have released an improved version of Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island", so I've created and posted a new version of it for both Sony and MobiPocket (my previous version was Sony only).

This is one of my favourite books; it tells the story of 5 men who get stranded on a seemingly deserted island when their balloon is caught in a hurricane, and who build a "civilization" from literally what they have in their pockets when they land. The island, though, has a secret...

This is the book, it's perhaps worth noting, which inspired the popular US TV series "Lost".

Very well worth reading if you haven't previously done so.

Enjoy!

A new edition of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", for both Sony and MobiPocket. The classic story of underwater adventure.

BTW - Jon, I've started using your suggestion of replacing an empty <DIV> by <BR>; you're right - it does fix the blank lines issue in the desktop Mobi reader. I'll use it on all my future Mobi books.

A new edition of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas", for both Sony and MobiPocket. The classic story of underwater adventure.

BTW - Jon, I've started using your suggestion of replacing an empty <DIV> by <BR>; you're right - it does fix the blank lines issue in the desktop Mobi reader. I'll use it on all my future Mobi books.
Happy to help. I was wondering what it was that was losing the blank lines and took me less then 5 min to figure it out once I saw the code for the blank lines.

A drastically improved new version of the Jules Verne classic adventure, "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" for both Sony and MobiPocket.

This is one of the few English versions which is actually an accurate translation of the French original. By far the most commonly-encountered English version, generally called "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", is a complete "re-write" of the book rather than a translation, with most of the names changed and considerable plot differences. I'll upload that one so that people can see just how different the two versions are!

Interesting piece of triva: this book (first published in 1864) is the first novel to describe what we now call dinosaurs.

I've just uploaded, for both Sony and MobiPocket, what is still the most commonly-encountered English "translation" of the Verne original, so you can see how very different it is to the "real" translation I posted yesterday. It's a good story, certainly, but it's not what Verne wrote!

I am working on The World's Greatest Books. Condensed versions of the classics. Vol 1 has already posted. Their are 8 Vols in the fiction category. For those of you who want you classics even more condensed I recommend Book- A -Minute Classics.

http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml


For example here is their version of A Tail of Two Cities:

Doctor released,
Marquis deceased,
Darnay acquitted,
Monarchy submitted,
Marriage announced,
Darnay denounced,
Places are switched,
Blades are twitched,
Seamstress cries,
Carton dies.

Thank you for creating a proper Mobi book - it makes it so much nicer to read on the Gen3 and Kindle to have metadata in the file.

A new version of Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon" in a single volume, for Sony and MobiPocket.

A new version of the Verne classic for both Sony and MobiPocket.

This book describes the eventful journey of an English gentleman, Mr Phileas Fogg, and his manservant, Passepartout, as they attempt to go around the world in 80 days to win a large wager.

A new version of Verne's adventure story for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Strange events are occurring around the world, involving lights, sounds and flags that are hung in seemingly impossible-to-get-to locations. At the meeting of the Weldon Club in Philadelphia, Uncle Prudent (President) and Phil Evans (Secretary) and the membership debate about whether their balloon the Go-Ahead, should have its directional screw located in the front or the back. A man called Robur interrupts and takes over their meeting; he insists that to master the skies, a flying vehicle must be heavier than air. His remarks infuriate the balloonists and after their meeting, Uncle Prudent and Phil are kidnapped and taken on an around the world trip in the Albatross, Robur's heavier than air "Clipper of the Clouds".

One of Verne's perhaps lesser-known works, but very enjoyable. I'll do the sequel, Master of the World, shortly.

Enjoy!

New and improved version uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

The sequel to "Robur the Conqueror".

"It was seen first in North Carolina, or something was, smoking up from a mountain crater. With blinding speed, it roared past cars on a Pennsylvania road. It skimmed the Atlantic, then at the flick of its captain's will dove beneath the waves...It was the "Terror"...ship, sub, plane, and land vehicle in one and a letter from its inventor claimed that with it, he would rule the world." Long recognized as a truly prophetic science fiction classic, this exciting adventure was also Verne's last novel.

Enjoy!

More improvements to my omnibus edition of E.F.Benson's "Mapp and Lucia" series. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket - the Mobi version is now a proper Mobi book with metadata, navigation links, etc.

Enjoy!

An omnibus edition of a (partially complete) juvenile series by H. Irving Hancock, the sequel to the "Dave Darrin at Annapolis" series. This series describes the adventures of Dave Darrin as a young naval officer in the U.S. Navy immediately prior to, and during, the First World War. There are six books in the series, of which numbers 1, 2, and 6 are currently available as eBooks. I'll add the others to the volume as and when they are released.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Enjoy!

I am working on a decent version of Maelstrom. The original HTML is awful and it doesn't work all that well in Book Designer. So I'm using HTML2LRF to do the Sony Edition and I'll work on it from the html for the LRF edition to make the Mobipocket and then use that to do the IMP.

Angela Brazil, (pronounced "brazzle"), 1868–1947, was the first of the British writers of "modern" School Girls' Stories genre - written from the characters' point of view. This twentieth century genre aimed to write entertaining stories for girls, rather than the much more overtly moralizing, instructional style which had been popular earlier in the 19th century.

Exceptionally, she did not write any books in a series - each stood on its own with different characters every time. These were considered to deal accurately and sympathetically with the highs and lows in the lives of middle-class schoolgirls, including the tangle of emotional friendships. The realism is particularly shown in her frequent use of slang expressions; a factor leading some teachers of the time to ban her books.

This volume contains five of Angela Brazil's books, as follows:

1. The New Girl at St. Chad's (1911)

2. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth (1913)

3. For the Sake of the School (1915)

4. The Luckiest Girl in the School (1916)

5. A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl (1919)

Hugely enjoyable stories for all lovers of juvenile fiction, even those of us who never were "schoolgirls" :).

More to follow.

Enjoy!

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket

A series of six juvenile books, written under the "house" name of "Charles Amory Beach", describing the adventures of two American boys in the flyings corps during the First World War. Posted for both Sony and MobiPocket.

The books in the series are:

1. Air Service Boys Flying for France *

2. Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines

3. Air Service Boys Over the Rhine *

4. Air Service Boys In the Big Battle

5. Air Service Boys Flying For Victory *

6. Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic

* This book is not currently available as an eBook; it will be added to the omnibus as and when released.

I must confess that, fan though I am of early 20th century juvenile books, I do not like these books. They are basically "propaganda" material of a rather crude and unsubtle kind.

I've been thinking of working on The Gods of Pegana (1905) and its follow-up Time and the Gods (1906) by Edward Dunsany. Some of Dunsany's work has already been posted on Mobileread. However, reading about Dunsany on Wikipedia I see that all of his work is still in copyright around the world except in the USA where his pre-1923 work is public domain. After one of my recent book uploads got some comment about possible copyright violation, I'm a wee bit gun shy. I honestly don't want to cause anyone grief or get this site into trouble, but a lot of interesting work is not available worldwide. Yet anyone can go to PG or other sites and download the files. What to do? Forget about the conversion of such work or include a warning that it's only available to people residing in the USA? I'd appreciate some clear guidance on this. I'll be converting some of this stuff for my own use and it seems kind of a waste not to make it available to others.

An omnibus edition of Otis Adelbert Kline's "Venus" series, consisting of the following books:

1. Planet of Peril

2. Prince of Peril

3. Port of Peril

These books have a very similar style of those of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Barsoom" series; if you enjoy those you should enjoy these too.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Various books by Otis Adelbert Kline uploaded. All classic "pulp" SF, very much in the style of Burroughs. Great stuff if you enjoy such things.

"Dr. Drib" uploaded some of these books previously, but I'm re-uploading because I prefer my own formatting style, and also because the original uploads were for the Sony Reader only, and I wanted MobiPocket versions.

An omnibus edition of the "Just Men" books of Edgar Wallace, which relate the activities of a group of men who "put right" miscarriages of justice. Posted for both Sony and MobiPocket. The book in the series are:

1. Four Just Men (1905)

2. The Just Men of Cordova (1917)*

3. The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)

4. The Three Just Men (1924)

5. Again the Three Just Men (1929)*

* This book is not currently available as an eBook. It will be added to the volume if it is subsequently released.

I shall be re-doing all the Edgar Wallace books I've posted previously (and the ones not previously done, too); most are currently only available for the Sony, and the early ones aren't very well done.

After one of my recent book uploads got some comment about possible copyright violation, I'm a wee bit gun shy. I honestly don't want to cause anyone grief or get this site into trouble, but a lot of interesting work is not available worldwide.
Please don't mind comments about "possible copyright violation" - if, as in this case, it's not applicable to you. If necessary, you can just add a line to your ebook submission, saying "Out of copyright in the United States, published in 1905" or whatever.

I've been thinking of working on The Gods of Pegana (1905) and its follow-up Time and the Gods (1906) by Edward Dunsany. Some of Dunsany's work has already been posted on Mobileread. However, reading about Dunsany on Wikipedia I see that all of his work is still in copyright around the world except in the USA where his pre-1923 work is public domain. After one of my recent book uploads got some comment about possible copyright violation, I'm a wee bit gun shy. I honestly don't want to cause anyone grief or get this site into trouble, but a lot of interesting work is not available worldwide. Yet anyone can go to PG or other sites and download the files. What to do? Forget about the conversion of such work or include a warning that it's only available to people residing in the USA? I'd appreciate some clear guidance on this. I'll be converting some of this stuff for my own use and it seems kind of a waste not to make it available to others.

There is work going on behind the scenes to resolve this sort of problem. I don't want to say more, until everything is sorted out and ready to run. But expect an announcement in the next week or 10 days. Alex has a cunning plan.

There is work going on behind the scenes to resolve this sort of problem. I don't want to say more, until everything is sorted out and ready to run. But expect an announcement in the next week or 10 days. Alex has a cunning plan.

Ohh, a mystery plan. Excellent!

There is work going on behind the scenes to resolve this sort of problem. I don't want to say more, until everything is sorted out and ready to run. But expect an announcement in the next week or 10 days. Alex has a cunning plan.

hmm... please don't take this as pre-emptive criticism, or any kind of trollishness, but i sincerely hope that the "cunning plan" will continue to leave the option of downloading or not open to the user, with the corollary being that the responsibility of respecting copyright / pd falls to them as well...

first, because it's almost assuredly ineffectual to block a user based on location (simple use of proxy will allow you to bypass most blocks, or depending on the system why not just lie and say you live in whatever country is most convenient ?) but no less annoying to the legitimate user,

second, because i am a mature, responsible adult, i have to pay my own rent and cook my own dinner, so if i'm obligated to be responsible for the annoying bits i'd like the privilege of being responsible for the less annoying bits ;), and

third, in some specific cases, i may feel justified in downloading a book which is not in public domain in my country ; for example, what if i have already bought the book in paper format, but would like to have it in electronic format ? regardless of the legal status of format shifting i consider that to be fair use, and i would like such situations to be left to my own discretion (as an adult, who also understands that if she breaks the law and gets caught, she's also the one who will pay the fine / go to jail).

i do fully understand that it is not all about me :rolleyes:, and obviously the most important thing to take into consideration is the protection of MR for everyone's continued pleasure and edification. but just in case you were feeling indecisive i thought i would mention how i feel... :)

i bring this up partly because the site booksinmyphone.com (http://www.booksinmyphone.com) uses a system which blocks downloads from France of all but the creative commons books they offer, to be absolutely sure no copyright violation is possible (:rolleyes: well, not without going through one or two extra steps first anyway). i wanted "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, which has been in the PD in France for a couple hundred years, but i couldn't download it directly. I wrote to the owner of the site and explained the situation (and suggesting he revise his system if possible), and he very kindly emailed me the book i wanted, so no lasting harm done. but still : how incredibly annoying, especially since my desire was completely legitimate and legal.

...we now return you to your regularly scheduled topic... :rolleyes:

hmm... please don't take this as pre-emptive criticism, or any kind of trollishness, but i sincerely hope that the "cunning plan" will continue to leave the option of downloading or not open to the user, with the corollary being that the responsibility of respecting copyright / pd falls to them as well...


It will; don't worry about it.

It will; don't worry about it.

ouf ! brilliant. thanks for the reply.

sorry for the (temporary) thread hi-jack.

Just finished a marathon upload of the Complete Works of Charles Dickens in .IMP formats. First of 25 uploads started here (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21394)

Each is hand-crafted from HarryT’s beautifully illustrated and carefully formatted .prc version of this set of 25 Dickens' classics.

See new .IMP Wiki entry for Works of Charles Dickens (http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Complete_Works_of_Charles_Dickens_Available_at_Mob ileRead)

I feel they are as good as they will ever get!

I was able to strong-arm JSWolf into letting me finish this .IMP conversion that I had started three weeks ago. He had previously gained HarryT's permission to 'do' the .IMP conversion and so graciously allowed me to see this to fruition.

Many thanks to HarryT for initially procuring this set for all to enjoy!

Nick,

Thank you for doing this. The only thing I'd ask is that you please keep an eye on the book uploads forum and re-do the IMP conversion of any Dickens books that I issue new versions of. I'd like the IMP versions to stay "in step" with the other versions, so PLEASE make sure that you use the same "version number" in the thread titles, etc, and re-do them when I do. I specifically ask people to let me know about errors in them, and obviously it would be highly inconvenient for people to report typos in v5 of "Great Expectations" which I've already fixed and released a v6. For that reason, the version numbers are important to me.

Thanks!

One of the first things I did when I got my Sony Reader was to create illustrated versions of Jane Austen's novels. Looking at them now, they have many flaws, so I've started re-creating them for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are classic novels which deserve "the full treatment" when it comes to creating nice e-Book versions of them.

Just posted "Pride and Prejudice"; the rest will follow over the next few days.

One of the first things I did when I got my Sony Reader was to create illustrated versions of Jane Austen's novels. Looking at them now, they have many flaws, so I've started re-creating them for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are classic novels which deserve "the full treatment" when it comes to creating nice e-Book versions of them.

Just posted "Pride and Prejudice"; the rest will follow over the next few days.

illustrated Jane Austen, yay ! Pride and Prejudice is my favorite... i already have the straight Gutenberg text of it (of course) but i am going to switch it this second for your new (illustrated !) version. if you don't mind, i'll post the imp version (including the current mobi version number, as per your request to nrapallo above), so all of us eb1150-having people can enjoy them. thanks for these !

Nick,

Thank you for doing this. The only thing I'd ask is that you please keep an eye on the book uploads forum and re-do the IMP conversion of any Dickens books that I issue new versions of. I'd like the IMP versions to stay "in step" with the other versions, so PLEASE make sure that you use the same "version number" in the thread titles, etc, and re-do them when I do. I specifically ask people to let me know about errors in them, and obviously it would be highly inconvenient for people to report typos in v5 of "Great Expectations" which I've already fixed and released a v6. For that reason, the version numbers are important to me.

Thanks!

Yes, I am in tune with your thinking and will re-do them as necessary.

I 'copied' your thread title with the latest version numbers (as of last week) and used 'them' as my .IMP thread titles.

At first I thought about changing the 'posting date' to 01 March 2008, but I deliberately didn't alter your 'posting date' in the title so that it would be easier to 'spot' any new revisions as they appear.

New version of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" just posted for both Sony and MobiPocket. Fully illustrated.

New versions of "Northanger Abbey", "Mansfield Park", and "Persuasion" uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket. I hope to finish this tomorrow with "Emma" and the shorter works.

A new illustrated version of "Emma" uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket. That's all 6 of Jane Austen's novels done now. I'll put together a compilation of her shorter works.

A new illustrated version of "Emma" uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket. That's all 6 of Jane Austen's novels done now. I'll put together a compilation of her shorter works.

Nice, maybe I should read the two I have not yet read. Or re-read Pride and Prejudice.

I saw that you had done some Wodehouse in Sony format. Will you redo them to MobiPocket format? Since I recently read a Wodehouse with missing images it would be nice to find better versions than the ones I probably downloaded from Manybooks.

I intend to redo the Wodehouse. No pictures in those, I'm afraid!

I intend to redo the Wodehouse. No pictures in those, I'm afraid!

It was in one I notice that pictures should probably have been there since the text describing the picture was left in the book (it was Love Among the Chickens). Looking forward to read your versions of the Wodehouse books I have left to read.

Letters of Jane Austen, edited, with an introduction and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord Brabourne.

This edition of Jane Austen's letters was edited by Jane Austen's great-nephew Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne, 1829-1893), and was published in 1884. It's neither complete (about two thirds of the letters now known to have survived are included), nor are the texts of the letters necessarily always transcribed with minute scholarly fidelity, but it's out of copyright, and includes many annotations and interesting comments on the letters.

There are some wonderful passages in these letters. One of my favourites is:

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

This was an extremely complex book to format - it's taken me about 20h work to get it looking nice. Hope that others find it as interesting to read as I do myself.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Having now done the complete works of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, I have decided to continue creating my own versions of the works of what I consider to be the great British novelists of the 18th and 19th centuries. I realise that most of what I'm going to post is going to be a duplicate of what others have posted previously, but this is in no way intended as a slight on the earlier posters, nor is it intended to suggest that my versions will be in any way "better" than those earlier versions. The reason I'm doing it is simply that I've evolved a formatting style that I personally like, and want to have a set of "great novels" that are formatted in a consistent manner to suit my entirely personal likings.

I shall be concentrating solely on British authors. The field of American literature I leave to others more knowledgeable in that field than myself.

I shall be doing other "lighter" stuff as well; the "great literature project" will be an ongoing "background activity".

I will be picking up the rest of the Arthur B. Reeve books that others have not done. In PMs with Dr. D I have his permission to also provide Mobi and IMP versions of Reeve books he has already posted.

This stuff is pure pulp for fun -- by no means could it be considered among the great writings in the English language.

I have the html files for 17 Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit series of books that my wife loves. I am leaning toward an omnibus version as each book is quite small even with the illustrations in them.

Any suggestions or comments?

I love Beatrix Potter! In fact, I have a giant hardcover book including all her works (I bought it before reaching adulthood, so please don't mock me :P).

Anyways, I think one big file is definitely the best way to go (assuming there's a Table of Contents :)). I think most of the illustrations will translate well to black and white, so if you can get it all formatted nicely it should turn out great.

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era--the role of governess to the children of the wealthy. In working with two different families (the Bloomfields and the Murrays), she comes to learn about the troubles that face a young woman who must try to rein in unruly, spoiled children for a living, and about the ability of wealth and status to destroy social values.

This was Anne Brontë's first novel, and was based on her own experiences, working as a governess.

First published in 1847.

Uploaded for both Sony and Mobipocket.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë's second (and last) novel, was published in June 1848, less than a year before her death. It is the sombre account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. Writing with a power not usually associated with the youngest of the Brontë sisters, Anne portrays the decline of an aristocratic husband whose drunken excesses and domestic violence force his loving wife into a reluctant rebellion.

Uploaded for both Sony and Mobipocket.

A fully illustrated version of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre".

This is a lovely and somewhat autobiographical tale of Jane Eyre, orphaned and raised by self-centered and uncaring relatives until they send her off to an orphanage. Eventually she is hired as a governess to a young girl and meets the girl's guardian Mr. Rochester, and of course they fall in love and plan to marry. But, there is a mystery about the house that once it is discovered destroys the wedding plans...

Uploaded for both Sony and Mobipocket.

The Professor is Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, and in it can be seen the roots of much of her subsequent writing like "Jane Eyre" or "Vilette". The novel is based on the author’s own experiences in Brussels. The central character, William Crimsworth, an orphan, leaves his dreary clerking post in a Yorkshire mill to start a career as a teacher of English in the Belgian capital. He falls in love with a Protestant pupil, Frances Henri, teacher and lace mender. However William’s relationship is complicated by the manipulative and beguiling Catholic headmistress, Zoraide Reuter, and her cunning attempts to divert him from his destiny.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

"Wuthering Heights" is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.

Description from Amazon:

In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere ...As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death. And how desire can kill.

New version uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

A much less well-known novel than "Jane Eyre" but, nonetheless excellent. Well worth a read.

Description from Amazon:

This novel is based on the author's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. It is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. It is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.

Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

I'm working on a Kwa Omnibus featuring the books: Kwa and the Beast Men and Kwa and the Ape People.

A Tarzan knock-off written by Perley Poore Sheehan (real name: Paul Regard)

There are only two Kwa books available on gutenberg that I could find, and I will be combining them into one volume. I guess two books doesn't really count as an omnibus, but I plan to post and then add other Kwa books/stories as I can find them.

Patricia very kindly proof-read the text of "Sanditon" against a printed edition and made a very large number of changes as a result (mainly adding punctuation) which make it a lot more readable.

New version uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

(Finally!) finished proofing "The Valley of Fear". This was in reasonable shape, with only a few minor typos. The main thing I've done is change it to the original British text, rather than the previous American version.

Uploaded a new version 7 of the "Sherlock Holmes Omnibus" for both Sony and MobiPocket. The Mobi version is (at last) a proper Mobi book with metadata, working navigation links, etc.

I'll now start proofing the short stories. This should, hopefully, be done rather faster than it's taken me to do the novels!

New version 3 of Dickens' travel books uploaded to preserve the original paragraph breaks, and add the (previously missing) original illustrations (scanned myself from printed editions).

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Uploaded a new MOBI ONLY version of "Barnaby Rudge" and "Bleak House" to correct a formatting issue (this didn't affect the Sony version).

Reformatted "The Battle of Life" in the "Christmas Books" omnibus to correct a problem with paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version of "Christmas Books" for Sony and MobiPocket.

Reformatted "Christmas Stories" to correct paragraph problems. New version uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Recreated "A Child's History of England" due to some non-ASCII characters being missed from it due to the wrong language setting in BD. New versions for Sony and MobiPocket.

Completely new version of "David Copperfield", fully illustrated, to fix problems with incorrect paragraph breaks in earlier versions. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

New version of "Dombey and Son", as above.

Improved the formatting of the MobiPocket version of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood".

New versions of "Master Humphry's Clock" and "Great Expectations" uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket to fix problems with paragraph endings.

New versions of these two books uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket to fix problems with paragraph breaks. Rescanned a couple of the illustrations in "Little Dorrit" which weren't previously very clear.

New versions uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket with improved formatting.

I've updated my LRF edition (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10393) of H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy to conform to my formatting and added in an inline ToC.

I've also made a proper Mobipocket edition (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17503) as well as IMP versions (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17504) for the EB1150 and 1200.

New version of "The Old Curiosity Shop" created. Comparing against a printed version I found two illustrations not present in the eBook; these have been scanned in and added. Greatly improved formatting. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

More proofing done on "Oliver Twist"; quite a few minor errors corrected, and paragraph breaks made to conform with a printed edition. New version uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new version of "The Pickwick Papers" to sort out an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new version of "A Tale of Two Cities" to correct an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

Some of the illustrations in the previous version of "Our Mutual Friend" weren't very clear, so I've re-scanned them myself, somewhat increased the size of the pictures, generally improved the layout a bit, and uploaded a new version for Sony and Mobi.

Created new versions of the "odds and ends" Dickens books: "Miscellaneous Papers", "Reprinted Pieces", and "The Uncommercial Traveller". Not to fix any particular problems, but just to bring them into line with the formatting of the rest of the books. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket. (No new Sony version of "The Uncommercial Traveller" - there were no changes which affected it.)

Uploaded a new MobiPocket (only) version of this book to correct some formatting issues (which didn't affect the Sony version).

Created a new version of the "Father Brown" omnibus to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded the new version for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Created a new version of my "Raffles" omnibus, by E.W.Horning, to fix a problem with paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version for both Sony and MobiPocket.

(*finally*) made imp versions (1150 and 1200) of HarryT's P&P. will do the rest of his Austen series as well. tempted by the Raffles and Chesterton omnibuses (omnibi ??)... we'll see how i do with the Austens first ! :rolleyes:

imp conversion of HarryT's mobi book. this one was fast, no images :rolleyes:

MR user "dynabook" was kind enough to bring to my attention a number of scanning errors in "Jane Eyre", which he confirmed by looking at the page scans at Google Books. These errors exists in (probably) all eBook versions of the text.

I've created and uploaded a new version of the book for both Sony and MobiPocket which fixes the errors.

If you find any errors in ANY book I've uploaded, PLEASE let me know, as dynabook so very kindly did, so that it can be corrected.

Thanks!

R.D. Blackmore's famous 1869 novel, Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor, is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is also a moving love story told through the life of the young farmer John Ridd, as he grows to manhood determined to right the wrongs in his land, and to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Lorna Doone.

This 1893 edition is lavishly illustrated with notes, maps, an introduction, and lots more. I've split the book into two volumes on account of its size.

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Replaced two books in my "Haggard Anthology Vol 1": "King Solomon's Mines", and "Nada the Lily", to correct problems with incorrect line breaks. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

Note: If you download this between the time it was initially uploaded and about 1400 GMT, could you re-download, please? (That's two people who'd downloaded the Mobi version, 7 the Sony). I'd forgotten to properly format the several songs in "Nada the Lily", so re-uploaded with the same version number. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Replaced the first book in the omnibus: "Queen Lucia", with a new version to sort out an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

Replaced the final book, "Wisdom's Daughter", in "Haggard Anthology Vol 2", to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

As a result of reading the book, spotted two typos and an uncentred scene change. Fixed, and uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

If you spot any more errors, please let me know!

Recreated the books to sort out an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded new versions for Sony and MobiPocket.

New version uploaded to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Recreated the book to improve the formatting, preserve dashes, etc. Uploaded new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

This is my favourite Haggard volume, containing the absolutely wonderful what today would probably be called an "SF" story - "When the World Shook".

Created a new version of the book to improve formatting, preserve dashes, etc. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

New version created to improve formatting, preserve dashes, etc. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

MR user "dynabook" sent me a list of errata in "Northanger Abbey", and some helpful suggestions for stylistic improvements (eg systematically replacing "the general" by "the General", when referring to General Tilney). Fixed the errata and made the suggested improvements.

Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

I very much appreciate dynabook's feedback on my books. If you read any of the books I upload and spot a mistake, please bookmark it and let me know when you've finished the book, so I can correct it.

Recreated vol 9 of my H. Rider Haggard anthology to improve the formatting, preserve dashes, create a proper Mobi version, etc. Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

MR user "Jellby" has done an absolutely wonderful job of proofing "Great Expectations" against a scanned 1st edition that's available online at Standford University, and has found several errors, and literally dozens of words which should have been either capitalised or in italics, and weren't. (The PG text I originally used to create the book had no italics marked). I've applied all these changes, and the book is now hugely better as a result. Many, many thanks to Jellby for doing this - it really does make a difference!

Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

Read "King Solomon's Mines" and bookmarked a number of typos and formatting errors while doing so. Corrected these errors, and uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

MR user "Jellby" has done an absolutely wonderful job of proofing "Great Expectations" against a scanned 1st edition that's available online at Standford University, and has found several errors, and literally dozens of words which should have been either capitalised or in italics, and weren't. (The PG text I originally used to create the book had no italics marked). I've applied all these changes, and the book is now hugely better as a result. Many, many thanks to Jellby for doing this - it really does make a difference!


How do you decide which is the best version to use? It seems like the first edition will contain more errors than later editions.

I do not know if you already do it but you should write in the book which version of the text you are trying to replicate.

PG texts (which mine are all based on) specifically state that they do not aim to reproduce any particular edition.

PG texts (which mine are all based on) specifically state that they do not aim to reproduce any particular edition.
this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

Yes, indeed. I do include the year of publication, where I know it, in many of the books I create.

this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

Yep, that's what happened to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' - although the versions aren't hugely different - the most common version is the revised third edition of 1831; and is probably what you get if you just see 'Frankenstein'.

The first edition, from 1818, generally has an indication of the date to make it clear it is not the common text - my Oxford University Press paperback says 'Frankenstein 1818 text' on the cover.

When I posted a version here I called it 'Shelley_ Frankenstein 1818'.

I plan on doing the four Lone Wolf books by Louis Joseph Vance available at Gutenberg USA. There are other Lone Wolf titles but I have not found them.

No, I will not be using Jon's avatar for the cover art.

PG just posted a number of Doc Smith files which I will prepare and upload.

Added the two books previously missing from the omnibus edition ("The Just Men of Cordova" and "Again the Three"), which have now been released as eBooks. This makes the volume complete.

Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

New version of Vol 1 uploaded containing an improved version of the short story collection, "John Thorndyke's Cases". Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

Now uploaded improved versions of all 7 volumes of the "Dr Thorndyke" detective novels of R. Austin Freeman for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Completely recreated the book with greatly improved layout and formatting. Added an illustration. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

Walt Whitman: Earliest Unpublished Notebook

Uploaded version 2. I have optimized the brightness and contrast of the images for the Reader. Now, the notebook pages are about as readable on my Reader as on my PC monitor. I will post a Mobipocket version if I can figure out how to properly size the images.

I know that Dr. Drib has done Sony BBeB versions of these book. However since I am planning to create Mobipocket versions of the Project Gutenberg Australia versions for my own enjoyment, I thought I would share. I will be uploading them over the next few days.
From Wikipedia:
The three Emily novels are Emily of New Moon (1923), Emily Climbs (1925) and Emily's Quest (1927). The series follows Emily through her school years and her climb up the symbolic "Alpine Path" of becoming a successful author (the Alpine Path is a phrase from a poem which was inspirational to her from a young age). The later books also follow Emily through several romances. Emily is a heroine with a love for the beauty in nature and art, loyalty to her friends, a thirst for knowledge, and a passionate dedication to her writing.

Recreated the book to fix an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded new versions for Sony and MobiPocket.

A parallel volume to the "High School Boys Omnibus". Created a new version to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

New versions of the "West Point Omnibus" and the "Annapolis Omnibus" uploaded. These juvenile series follow the adventures of cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, respectively, and run in "parallel". They follow on from the "High School Boys" series' posted previously.

New versions created for both Sony and MobiPocket to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks.

It seems this thread started for stating works "in progress", but it's now a sort of announcement of new uploads...

Anyway, following the original title, I'm currently working in PDF versions (you know, 9x12cm page size, with "chapterbars"...) of Lewis Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno" and "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded", fully illustrated by Harry Furniss; and of Dumas's "Vingt ans après", the second part of The Three Musketeers (in French). In fact, I have the books ready, but I'm reading them before uploading.

Pamela, originally published in 1740, is widely regarded as the first ever English novel. Although some authorities consider the works of earlier authors such as Defoe to be novels, it is probably true to say that most do not, and that Pamela is the first work generally considered to be a novel. For this reason it is an enormously important work.

This book contains Pamela, its sequel (generally referred to as simply Pamela, Volume II, and Samuel Richardson's complete original introduction to the work (very often omitted from modern versions, but nonetheless interesting to read).

Like many early novels, Pamela is "epistolary" in form - ie, it tells its story through letters and diaries, rather than as a straightforward narrative.

As the book opens, Pamela, a 15 year old ladies' maid, is wondering what to do following the death of her mistress. She fears the attention of her late mistress's son (known only as "Mr. B.", throughout the novel), (quite rightly) worrying that he will try to take advantage of her. The novel tells the story of Mr. B's attempts to seduce Pamela, leading to his eventual imprisonment of her on his country estate, initially via letters to her parents and later, once she has been imprisoned, via a series of diary entries. Pamela's virtuous conduct eventually wins over Mr. B, he marries her, and the novel goes on to describe her attempts to win over Mr. B's family and friends, all of whom are shocked that he has married so far beneath his social class, and who tend to despise Pamela as a "gold digger".

Pamela is a wonderful portrayal of everyday life in the middle of the 18th century in England, and a fabulous read.

Enjoy!

Uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

All 3 Emily books have been uploaded in Mobipocket format. I used Bookdesigner so if any other formats are wanted please let me know. I won't be able to test them, but I am happy to create them.

I added a cover picture, corrected formating, and added a TOC. Original files were from Project Gutenberg Australia.

Edit: Uploaded all 3 books in IMP format as well. Could someone please test them and let me know if they turned out ok?

I'm working on Jack Boyle's Boston Blackie collection published in 1919.

Finished reading the book, marked and corrected all the errors - probably around 100 in total, mostly minor typos. Created a new version of the book for Sony and Mobi.

This will probably be the final version of the book - at least for a while.

I have uploaded these 2 books in Mobipocket, SonyReader, and IMP formats.

These were a couple of my favorite books as a child, I read them over and over. It's almost time to read them again, so I had to create them to read on my Cybook.

Story Girl - Told by a boy who lives for a time with relatives on the King farm on Prince Edward Island, it focuses on Sara Stanley, who tells the many stories that punctuate and advance the narrative.

Golden Road - A sequel to The Story Girl, the story continues about the King children, Sara Stanley, the hired boy, and the people in their rural PEI community.

I'm planning to free up some space on my religious bookshelf by converting PD religious classics from the Buddhist. Hindu and Confucian traditions. The paper copies can then go to a charity.

Just finished entirely re-creating (or creating for the first time, in the case of the MobiPocket version), all the books of John Galsworthy's massive "Forsyte Saga" for Sony and Mobipocket. This series of books tells the story of the Forsyte family - a typical upper middle-class Victorian family - from the 1880s right through to the early 1930s (Galsworthy died in 1933). Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, primarily for these books.

The books are, in reading order:

Forsyte Saga - First Trilogy.
On Forsyte 'Change (short story collection).
Forsyte Saga - Second Trilogy.
Forsyte Saga - Third Trilogy.

A monumental work, and by no means a "light read", but enormously satisfying.

Enjoy!

I have uploaded these 2 books as a compilation in Mobipocket, SonyReader, and IMP formats. I added a cover image, table of contents (for both books), and corrected formating.

Pat of Silver Bush (1933) portrays a girl named Patricia Gardiner, who hates changes of any kind and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. She is very devoted to her family: her father and mother, her brothers Joe and Sid, and her sisters Winnie and Rachel(Cuddles). The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18.

Mistress Pat (1935) is the sequel to Pat of Silver Bush, and describes Patricia Gardiner's life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remained single and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. Pat hated changes as much as ever, and found in Silver Bush a refuge where she was shielded from them, but changes happen nevertheless. In the course of eleven years, new servants, new neighbors and new lovers came and went, her brothers and sisters all got married, and life at Silver Bush was no longer as pleasant as before, but Pat clung to her love of it desperately. It was only in the face of horrible disasters that Pat found where her heart belonged for the rest of her life.

A new and improved version of a wonderful juvenile series:

More juvenile fiction. An omnibus edition of the 5-book "Circus Boys" series, originally published between 1910 and 1920. The books tell the exciting adventures of Phil and Teddy, two teenage boys who run away to join the circus (a popular activity of the time, seemingly!).

As described by the publisher:

"No call to the heart of the youth of America finds a readier response than the call of the billowing canvas, the big red wagons, the crash of the circus band and the trill of the ringmaster's whistle. It is a call that captures the imagination of old and young alike, and so do the books of this series capture and enthrall the reader, for they were written by one who, besides weilding a master pen, has followed the sawdust trail from coast to coast, who knows the circus people and the sturdy manliness of those who do and dare for the entertainment of millions of circus-goers when the grass is green. Mr. Darlington paints a true picture of circus life."

Er, "sturdy manliness"? ...

"Phil Forrest, proud and happy, bounded out into the paddock, resplendent in pink tights, a black girdle about his loins, sparkling with silver spangles....Mr. Sparling, hardened showman that he was, brushed a suspicious hand across his eyes and sat down suddenly. "Such grit, Such grit!" he muttered..."

Leaving aside the pink tights and silver spangles ( :D ) this is a wonderful series. Thoroughly recommend reading!

I will be working on a few by Randell Garrett. Some have already been posted by another in LRF format only -- these may be expanded. As he died in 1987 these will be for the US only.

A new edition of an omnibus version of all 6 of Earl Derr Biggers' "Charlie Chan" detective novels, uploaded for both Sony and MobiPocket.

Put aside any misconception of "Charlie Chan" you may have received from the dreadful Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 50s; the books are excellently-written detective stories with tightly-crafted plots.

Uploaded most recent version of the latest 16 of 25 revised by HarryT from mid March 2008 to early April 2008 in .IMP formats.

These versions incorporate Cover images and correctly-sized illustrations (for the REB 1200 or EBW 1150).

Enjoy!

p.s. the other 9 Dickens Classics had already been updated in mid March 2008, but are just missing the Cover images. These may be replaced at a later date when and if HarryT revises them again.

p.s. the other 9 Dickens Classics had already been updated in mid March 2008, but are just missing the Cover images. These may be replaced at a later date when and if HarryT revises them again.

All my Dickens books have cover images, to the best of my knowledge. Which ones do you believe they are missing from? You've got me a bit worried now :). The last batch of revisions were the books which had been created from text files incorrectly, with paragraph breaks in the wrong place. All the books were already (as far as I'm aware) in "proper" MobiPocket format with cover images.

All my Dickens books have cover images, to the best of my knowledge. Which ones do you believe they are missing from? You've got me a bit worried now :). The last batch of revisions were the books which had been created from text files incorrectly, with paragraph breaks in the wrong place. All the books were already (as far as I'm aware) in "proper" MobiPocket format with cover images.

No, just those first 9 .imp conversations I did in mid March 2008 do not include the cover image (my choice back then); your .prc versions all have cover images.

Thanks for clarifying that, Nick!

Recreated the former two-volume version as a single volume, with improved layout and formatting. Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

The complete works of Plato, in a single (very large!) volume.

Plato (approx. 424 BC - 348 BC) was a student of Socrates and, in turn, Aristotle was a student of his. These three philosophers can rightly to be said to have laid the cornerstones of western philosophy, and to have asked many of the fundamental questions that philosophers today are still seeking the answers to.

Plato was not only a great philosopher, but a great author, and his works (especially the early works) can be enjoyed as literature even by those with no interest in philosophy.

Plato's works are conventionally divided into three broad categories: early, middle, and late, although there is considerable disagreement about precisely which works should go into which category. They cover more than 50 years of his writings, and form the basis of the teachings at, the "Academy", the philosophical school which he founded in Athens.

Plato's early works mainly reflect the teachings of his teacher, Socrates, and are almost all in the form of Socratic Dialogues, in which Socrates asks somebody what appears at first glance to be a straightforward question, such as "what is beauty?" or "can virtue be taught?". The person gives an answer, but Socrates, by asking further questions, shows that the person really doesn't know the answer after all. The key feature of the early works is that they never give "the answer" - their purpose is to make the reader think for himself and come to his own conclusions about the subject being asked. These dialogues are beautifully portrayed "dramas" in their own right, and often feature real historical figures. They probably give a reasonably accurate picture of what Socrates (who left no writings of his own) was really like (an astonishingly irritating man to try to have a conversation with!). Several of these works are attacks on the "sophists" - professional teachers of rhetoric who made a living by teaching aristocratic young men who wanted to learn the art of public speaking (an extremely important skill in Athens). Socrates considered the sophists to be completely "amoral" because they taught how to argue anything from both sides, without reference to which was "right" or "wrong".

In the "middle" dialogues, Plato's Socrates actually begins supplying answers to some of the questions he asks, or putting forth positive doctrines. This is generally seen as the first appearance of Plato's own views. What becomes most prominent in the middle dialogues is the idea that knowledge comes of grasping unchanging forms or essences, paired with the attempts to investigate such essences. The immortality of the soul, and specific doctrines about justice, truth, and beauty, begin appearing here. The Symposium and the Republic are considered the centrepieces of Plato's middle period.

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