Now we have a "book uploads" section, I thought it might be of use to have a thread in which people can say which books they are working on, to avoid duplicated effort.

To start the ball rolling, I'm continuing my "Illustrated Dickens" books by creating fully illustrated versions of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Should have those done in the next few days.

Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky?

Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky?
Agreed. Done. ;)

Thanks Alex. ;)

what are the rules for uploading a book? I have several books I have put together in rtf format, but they arent as elegant as BookDesigner books with TOC's and the like. Can I still upload them? -lint

Perhaps Alex could advise us on this. I don't know whether or not he intends this to be a forum specifically for LRF-format files. The forum description suggests that this was the aim.

Converting your RTF files into LRF is very easy. Just download "Book Designer", load your RTF file into it, and click the "Make Sony Reader e-Book" button.

My personal view (and I must stress that this is purely a personal opinion) is that we should perhaps reserve this uploads forum for books that people have added some significant "value" to over the original Project Gutenberg (or whatever) originals. There seems little point in uploading something here that someone can download from PG and have on their Reader a minute later. By "added value" I mean things like cleaning up the formatting, adding a nice TOC or index to a complicated book, adding pictures, hyperlinks, stuff like that.

Again though, I don't make the rules, and all this is nothing more than my personal opinion. Alex is "the man" and he can give you a definitive answer.

I agree we should focus on uploading books that have some added value, more than just auto-converted content. I intend to write a friendly sticky guideline to clarify this matter.

I'm currently working on Don Quixote and The Three Musketeers in LRF. (Actually, I've got them done already but I want to give them a onceover before uploading them even in a version 1 format.)

I don't know who came up with the idea to upload ebooks here. Anyway, I think it is brilliant that idea.
I agree with Harry and with Alexander and I don’t agree. Yes, it’s a nice idea to just collect all the perfectly formatted books here, but I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers? So there could be this page for “perfect” books and the other one for “okay” or “nice” books and here I come back to the beginning, I really think there are much more “nice” books ready to be uploaded than “perfect” books.
Somewhere in the forum someone made “Shakespeare” available. I think it should be uploaded here. I have got the files, but I as I didn’t do the work I don’t want to “snatch” the credit.
Ah, I just found the thread and the link: http://www.falstaffshouse.com
And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532
Thanks a lot.
Friedhelm

I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers?

Friedhelm

I would have to agree that even a quick .rtf formatted book, if done well, would be nice to have here. I *love* having the tables of contents and proper footnotes, but to have an entire library of PD .rtf (and completely auto-generated .lrf books) in one place would be awfully nice.

Definitely should be a separate forum, and as there would likely be more books, perhaps one thread per author? Or is this likely to be too many files and too unmanageable a situation?

Anyway, just wanted to chime in with my 1.5 cents.

If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format.

I have been absent from these forums lately as I have been involved with two projects. First, I have been savoring the reading of the TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom and, second, I have finally started work on the Wiki expansion for Best Practices in Book Designer. I have almost finished the first and expect to finish the latter this week.

You see, RWood? That's exactly the sort of thing that makes your karma so high. :laugh4:

If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format.


I believe that Alex's original idea (and I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong) was to keep the "device forum" upload section for device-specific books, and create another upload section elsewhere on MR for "open format" books such as RTF, etc. I don't know if this has yet been done or not.

And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532
Thanks a lot.
Friedhelm

Jeez - I'm busy enough uploading my own books, without uploading other peoples', too :grin:. This forum is for anyone to upload to, not just me :happy2:.

Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs?
There are planty of websites(such as blackmask, manybooks, baen etc.) that are professionals in this particular subject. I think that uploading only books for device-specific books would be useful. Maybe I don't understand something?

Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs?


Well, to be fair, most of the PG books are plain text, and a nicely formatted RTF with proper formatting is certainly a "value added" thing compared with the PG original. The only question is where it should be uploaded to - this forum or (because it's not device-specific) a general "any device" upload forum.

What does PG stand for?

I thought that the sites mentioned above have RTFs. Sorry, my mistake. I didn't really download there anything because I am reading fantasy only, which is copyright material :)

Sorry. PG = "Project Gutenberg"; the biggest source of public domain books. See:

http://www.gutenberg.org

Sites like "manybooks" get most of their stuff from PG, but they only have a tiny fraction of what PG offers.

Sorry. PG = "Project Gutenberg"; the biggest source of public domain books. See:

http://www.gutenberg.org

Sites like "manybooks" get most of their stuff from PG, but they only have a tiny fraction of what PG offers.

Thanks :)

Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs?
There are planty of websites(such as blackmask, manybooks, baen etc.) that are professionals in this particular subject. I think that uploading only books for device-specific books would be useful. Maybe I don't understand something?

I completely agree with Harry. There are more things between two covers than the mentioned websites offer as RTFs. And believe it or don't believe it, there are even some strange people using a strange language (German) who don't get nicely formatted RTFs from the above mentioned pages, but from the German section of "Gutenberg" and those files are text files and not properly formatted RTFs.
Friedhlem

I will be publishing the Harvard Classics series in LRF format.

I have already collected the majority of the raw files and have found sources for the remaining raw files.

Due to the nature of the work, the volumes will be published out of sequence. I apologize in advance for any discomfort that this may cause anyone.

All suggestions are welcome.

You're a machine, RWood, a total machine. http://forums.shoryuken.com/images/smilies/applaud.gif

You're a machine, RWood, a total machine. http://forums.shoryuken.com/images/smilies/applaud.gif
I am not R. Daneel Olivaw (aka Eto Demerzel.) But thanks for the compliment. The HC series will not come all at once and may very well take over a year to complete.

There are still some questions to be answered:

1. Are all volumes to be published complete or in sections?
2. If complete volumes do we use a master TOC or a main and section TOC?
3. What cover art? Unique for each volume/section?
4. Will Bob Russell keep his printed copy of the HC or will he fully convert to the electronic version and sell/dispose of the printed version?
5. Will anyone read them?

I will be publishing the Harvard Classics series in LRF format.

I have already collected the majority of the raw files and have found sources for the remaining raw files.

Due to the nature of the work, the volumes will be published out of sequence. I apologize in advance for any discomfort that this may cause anyone.

All suggestions are welcome.

Do you mean the "Loeb" stuff? Where are the files available from, as a matter of interest? I get my Latin and Greek texts from "Perseus".

I'm sure that such things, by their very nature, have a rather restricted audience, but I'm certainly extremely interested!

There are still some questions to be answered:

1. Are all volumes to be published complete or in sections?


My personal preference would be for complete volumes.


2. If complete volumes do we use a master TOC or a main and section TOC?

Have you looked at any of the books I've uploaded? I've settled on having a "Book Index" at the start, with each entry in that leading to a contents page for that book. I think that works very well, and is better than having to wade through pages of TOC at the start.

I'll leave the other questions for other people to answer :grin:.

Do you mean the "Loeb" stuff? Where are the files available from, as a matter of interest? I get my Latin and Greek texts from "Perseus".

I'm sure that such things, by their very nature, have a rather restricted audience, but I'm certainly extremely interested!
This is not the Loeb material. There was an earlier thread (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5390) about it. It is a 50+ volume set designed just before World War I. It is all in English with a very American slant.

Ah, thank you for the clarification. I haven't come across this at all, I must admit! Sorry, whenever anyone mentions "Harvard" I automatically think of their "Loeb" series (to me the word "classics" means "Greek and Latin"), but I'm sure they must publish all sorts of other things too :grin:.

That sounds fascinating - I look forward to reading it.

Hello all. I'm brand new to the forums and reasonably new to owning a Sony Reader; just got it on Tuesday.

I'm also one of those poor bastards that only has a Mac, and not even an Intel Mac at that, so I feel quite limited in what I can actually do with the Reader.

For the last couple days I've been browsing the forums learning what I can, and I know I have far more to learn. I finally checked this area and downloaded everything you've offered so far. You're my hero Harry! Do you have plans to collect Tarzan? Or are there reasons you can't?

First a question. Is there a Mac equivalent to Book Designer? Or would it be possible to run it in Virtual PC?

Next, a suggestion. I understand the desire to keep RTF files out of this section, since it is likely that it would be flooded and there are already many sites out there that offer RTF versions of books – obviously of varying quality. I also know that you are all working on your own projects, converting the books that you want to convert. But how about making a thread where someone who doesn't have Book Designer or know how to make a well formatted LRF file could upload a RTF file of the book they would like to see converted? Then someone who knows what they are doing, provided they have the time and interest, could take the RTF file and run with it. Upload the final LRF file and then delete the request. If I ever find a way to get Book Designer working and learn my way around it, I'll be willing to pitch in as well.
For myself, I would love to see all of the Oz books collected the way that Harry did the Burroughs books.

Ill be working on some obscure stuff:

An Island to Oneself - Tom Neale
THE SMOKY GOD (A Voyage to the Inner World) - Willis George Emerson
We Met The Space People (The Story of the Mitchell Sisters) - Helen & Betty Mitchell

-lint

For the last couple days I've been browsing the forums learning what I can, and I know I have far more to learn. I finally checked this area and downloaded everything you've offered so far. You're my hero Harry! Do you have plans to collect Tarzan? Or are there reasons you can't?

Delighted you're enjoying the books. They take quite a long time to do (about 6h work for each of the "Haggard" volumes, for example) but I'm primarily doing it for my own benefit, so if other people enjoy them too, that's just a bonus!

I do plan to do the "Tarzan" books shortly. I have them all (all the ones that ERB wrote, that is), and I will get around to doing them - promise. There's just so much I want to do :grin:.

First a question. Is there a Mac equivalent to Book Designer? Or would it be possible to run it in Virtual PC?

I certainly can't think of any reason it shouldn't run in Virtual PC. One thought - if you're serious about this stuff, why not consider buying a cheap 2nd hand PC for doing it on? The hardware requirements are minimal, and you could buy a machine very cheaply indeed which would be more than adequate for it.

Next, a suggestion. I understand the desire to keep RTF files out of this section, since it is likely that it would be flooded and there are already many sites out there that offer RTF versions of books – obviously of varying quality. I also know that you are all working on your own projects, converting the books that you want to convert. But how about making a thread where someone who doesn't have Book Designer or know how to make a well formatted LRF file could upload a RTF file of the book they would like to see converted? Then someone who knows what they are doing, provided they have the time and interest, could take the RTF file and run with it. Upload the final LRF file and then delete the request. If I ever find a way to get Book Designer working and learn my way around it, I'll be willing to pitch in as well.
For myself, I would love to see all of the Oz books collected the way that Harry did the Burroughs books.

You could always ask, but I suspect that those of us who are actively creating books are pursuing our own interests at present. There's a lot of us who have only "discovered" Book Designer in the last few weeks, and I know that, speaking personally, I have a virtually limitless list of books I'd like to do nice versions of for the Reader. So many books, so little time...

Having got this far with my 8 complete volumes (and a 9th almost done) of my anthology of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's works (that's 35 novels, if I've counted correctly, up to Vol 9) I hope you'll forgive my self-indulgence in deciding that I may as well go the whole way and make this series into a "Complete Works" (or as complete as PG has, at least).

The volumes I've done so far are mostly books of his that I've read; the ones from here on in will be "unexplored territory" for me too. I've never read anything of Haggard's that I've not enjoyed though so, as I say, please forgive my indulgence in doing these remaining volumes purely for my own future reading pleasure, and understand that the book descriptions from now on will be a little vague, or even non-existant. I will intersperse them with things of more general interest.

What I plan to do from now on with the Haggard is basically do volumes pretty much in order of publication date, carrying on with four novels per volume. I'll leave the non-fiction until last, and finish up with his autobiography. I would guess that I'm about half way through his complete works, something like that.

I hope that these works bring pleasure to other people too.

I've never read Haggaard before but based on your other interests -- Vern, Burroughs, Doyle -- I'll give them a try. The worst that could happen is that I like them and read all of them and forget my own work.

I've never read Haggaard before but based on your other interests -- Vern, Burroughs, Doyle -- I'll give them a try. The worst that could happen is that I like them and read all of them and forget my own work.
that's the last we'll hear from him for a while. they're like potato chips, you can't eat just one.

Should anyone be interested, I've now uploaded fully illustrated versions of all six of Jane Austen's novels:

Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Emma

Each has 24 full-page watercolour illustrations by the eminent Victorian illustrator C.E.Brock.

Hope these are of interest to someone.

Please plunder also the SF Bookshelf of PG. Namely the recently posted E. E. Smith works and H. Beam Piper.

Look forward to seeing your conversion work on those, Robert :grin:.

Hey I am working on some of the SF stuff as we speak. :) Right now I am working on Space Prison (otherwise known The Survivors) and I'm going to do H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy.

Working on those today, so look for them later today and tomorrow...:)

I could already be finished with H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy. Just have to check it out now that it's created.

Ahh, ok, well I had just started on the cover artwork for it and didn't have a chance to convert the text---so well done! :)

Ahh, ok, well I had just started on the cover artwork for it and didn't have a chance to convert the text---so well done! :)

if you have a better cover then the one I used, feel free to post it and I'll make a version using your cover.

I only have a Palm T3 and no time to work on my Mobipocket converter.
My idea is to create .opf files and use the various converters already available. MS Litgen OCX, Mobipocket mobigen.exe etc. For several other generator programs an .opf frontend could be written.

This is excellent - really good to see so many new book uploads. Keep them coming!

Hey all, I am working on posting all of the public domain Robert E. Howard stories I can find. Specifically Conan and Solomon Kane, but other stuff that crops up as well... :)

Please plunder also the SF Bookshelf of PG. Namely the recently posted E. E. Smith works and H. Beam Piper.I'll take up that challenge and do one of my childhood favorites, The Spacehounds of IPC by E.E. "Doc" Smith.

One summer my uncle gave me a copy along with a bag of other paperbacks, none of which I still remember. It was a great read.

I've never read Haggaard before but based on your other interests -- Vern, Burroughs, Doyle -- I'll give them a try. The worst that could happen is that I like them and read all of them and forget my own work.

If you've not read Haggard yet then, in a way, I envy you. I remember my first time through his books. They are inspiring. Once you read one you won't be able to set them down. I recommend She or Allan Quartermain first.

I recommend She or Allan Quartermain first.

"Allan Quatermain" is a sequel to "King Solomon's Mines", so I'd strongly suggest starting with that one. The first few volumes of my Haggard Anthology have the books in what I'd suggest as being a reasonably sensible reading order, so you could just read them in the order I've done them. Many of the books mention things that have taken place in other books, so you get the most from them by reading them in the "right" order.

You may have noticed that I've already done a few Dickens books: Bleak House, Oliver Twist, and (most recently) David Copperfield. It is my plan, over the coming months, to produce a "complete works of Dickens" for the Reader, formatting each book as closely as I can to match the printed versions. I have a complete set of the "Oxford Illustrated Dickens" which I'll use as my reference for this.

All the Dickens books I've done so far have been fully illustrated. There are a couple more that I have the illustrations for; the others I'll do "plain text", but try to add illustrations over time as and went I came find them.

It is my utlimate goal to try and make this a kind of "definitive" Dickens for the Reader. I know that he's not exactly everyone's cup of tea, but he is, to my mind, one of the greatest English language novelists who has ever lived, and his books are timeless.

I don't know how long this will take me; it's a long-term project, and I'd rather do each book "right" than rush it for the sake of some artificial deadline.

Hope this will be of interest to at least some other people - as I said above, I know that Dickens doesn't appeal to everybody.

This is of big interest to me -- I even have that library bound many volume collection. I'd much rather use a nice digital version. I had put it aside basically because I had trouble getting into the Pickwick Papers and one other book, but the other books I read in the past were really wonderful, including Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. The very first part is boring, but once you get into it, you might not sleep very much!

Completely agree with you about the "Pickwick Papers". It was, as I'm sure you know, amongst Dickens' first published work, and I think it shows his relative immaturity as a writer at that time. I find it somewhat tedious, and I far, far prefer his later novels.

i liked pickwick papers, i like dickens

anymore twain out there?

By the way, in case anyone's wondering why I'm posting some of this pretty wierd Dickens stuff that nobody's ever heard of, like the travelogues and the "Child's History", I'm working through my "Oxford Dickens" complete works pretty much in order, and that's just the order they come in. Don't worry - most of the well-known novels are coming up soon :grin:. I know Dickens isn't to everyone's taste, so I'm interspersing it with more "fun" stuff like the Wilkie Collins and the Haggard.

I just wonder..just by chance do you plan to make a few books by James Fenimore Cooper? :)

I've never read any of his stuff (although I know roughly what he wrote). No - no plans - my time is filled with my existing projects for the foreseeable future. Why not have a go yourself?

I've never read any of his stuff (although I know roughly what he wrote). No - no plans - my time is filled with my existing projects for the foreseeable future. Why not have a go yourself?

Ok, nevermind then :)

I am not qulified to do it properly, like you do. I don't have time to learn it although you have provided excellent instructions. Even the books I create for myself (I am slow reader, I read 1 book for 4-5 weeks) I never do it properly. Maybe during summer time I will get a chance and learn how to do it. Right now if I have some spare time, I edit RAW pics from my last summer (August) holidays. I absolutely must finish it before august 2007 :)

Which one(s) did you have in mind, astra_lestat? I've never read any of his work directly, but my dad used to call me 'Bumppo' when I was a small child, so I've always been somewhat aware of them.

Which one(s) did you have in mind, astra_lestat? I've never read any of his work directly, but my dad used to call me 'Bumppo' when I was a small child, so I've always been somewhat aware of them.

Cannot easily answer on that question. I need to check my notebook that I have started when I went to school at 6.5 years old. I will also have to translate it from Russian to the proper English titles :) Some of the books that HarryT uploads here I can recognise only by desciption, some by the title while the writer's name doesn't say much to me and sometimes by writer's name :)
I will have a look at it in the evening at home.

First of all I would like to say that it is not a request.
Please, please I would not want any of you guys who work hard on making nice books for us to spend your time for the books. I was just curious, although I might re-read it in about 3 years :) Only if you are interesed to read them yourselves, then I will be more than happy to download beauteful LRFs :)

OK. Here is the first list and the link.
Leatherstocking Tales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deerslayer)

A concise version is here:
1744 The Deerslayer
1757 The Last of the Mohicans
1750s The Pathfinder
1793 The Pioneers
1804 The Prairie

I have read the first 4. I loved the first 3 a lot. Disliked the fourth and never read the fifth. But I was a child then. 10-12 something like that :)

Some 3-4 years later I read another 2 books by Cooper but I don't remember the titles, so I have to wait until I come home and have a look at my notebook.

Ok, nevermind then :)

I am not qulified to do it properly, like you do. I don't have time to learn it although you have provided excellent instructions. Even the books I create for myself (I am slow reader, I read 1 book for 4-5 weeks) I never do it properly. Maybe during summer time I will get a chance and learn how to do it. Right now if I have some spare time, I edit RAW pics from my last summer (August) holidays. I absolutely must finish it before august 2007 :)
When I did Little Fuzzy, it took my no more then 15 min from once I had downloaded the HTML. It's not hard to do. If you are doing single volumes it's not hard at all.

I've always thought I ought to read these, actually, and I've been wanting to contribute to this effort, but most of the stuff I'm reading is not PD (Baen, in particular, is my frieeend http://www.mobileread.com/forums/images/smiliesadd1/wink2.gif)

The trouble I've run into (after ~7 minutes of looking) is that the texts over at PG are pretty much plain text, (The Last of the Mohicans is available in HTML, but it's an HTML of a plain text, so no help there). That complicates getting the formatting, let alone illustrations, right. When I get another ~7 minutes, I'll poke around a bit more and see if I can find any better sources. :beam:

Tell you what - I'm waiting for my Reader to arrive and so I'm planning on trying to get to grips with BD over the next few days. I may as well start practicing with one of Cooper's books as anything else.

I'm not promising anything, I may be crap at this, but I'll give it a go - wikipedia seems to have some photo's of book covers and stuff that I could incorporate so we'll see what I can come up with.

Natch, p'raps between us we can get some of them done at least?

Sounds like a plan, Gravitas. :beam:

ok, I'm going to make a start on The Pioneers - wikipedia recommends the leatherstocking series be read in the order they were published, not the order in which the story takes place, so looks like that's first.

I've poked around some more, and I'm not finding much that's any more complete than the Gutenberg texts, and Manybooks.net will output an LRF for you on the fly. I'm not really in a position at the moment to go re-scanning them from scratch, and I'm a bit reluctant to duplicate Manybooks' effort unless I can find something more than just cover art to add to the mix. :sad:

I have found the other two novels by J.F. Cooper I have read:
The Pilot (1824)
The Spy (1821)
:)

I've poked around some more, and I'm not finding much that's any more complete than the Gutenberg texts, and Manybooks.net will output an LRF for you on the fly. I'm not really in a position at the moment to go re-scanning them from scratch, and I'm a bit reluctant to duplicate Manybooks' effort unless I can find something more than just cover art to add to the mix. :sad:

hmm, didn't realise that manybooks.net would do that (not visited there yet).

I've almost done The Pioneers, but all that's really different to the PG texts is the TOC, cover art, and I re-formatted the quotation at the start of each chapter. So may not be worth doing any of the others.

I have a problem with BD - when I click on the Make ebooks button I get the list of formats, but when I click on the Sony Reader (lrf) button nothing happens. Same when I click the make sony reader file button. Nothing happens, no dialog boxes or anything. All the other formats seem to work ok, just not the Sony Reader format. Also when I double click on a picture to resize it, nothing happens either.

I'm running windows XP Pro with 2Gb RAM. The date the book designer exe was created was 12th april 2007 if that's any help?

Having read them all in my younger years and a few of them again as part of an American Lit course in college, you may find a certain sameness in all of them akin to the formula approach found in many (if not most) of the pulp fiction of the 20th century. Perhaps the Russian translator improved them.

Having read them all in my younger years and a few of them again as part of an American Lit course in college, you may find a certain sameness in all of them akin to the formula approach found in many (if not most) of the pulp fiction of the 20th century. Perhaps the Russian translator improved them.

Do you mean thay are not that interesting at all?
I read them when I was very young and I liked adventure a lot. Quite possible that if I read it now I would not be able to get through 1/3 of them :) Maybe you are right and russian translation was improved a bit. Who knows? They were more or less free to do it long time ago.

I have a problem with BD - when I click on the Make ebooks button I get the list of formats, but when I click on the Sony Reader (lrf) button nothing happens. Same when I click the make sony reader file button. Nothing happens, no dialog boxes or anything. All the other formats seem to work ok, just not the Sony Reader format. Also when I double click on a picture to resize it, nothing happens either.

I'm running windows XP Pro with 2Gb RAM. The date the book designer exe was created was 12th april 2007 if that's any help?

Sounds like you've not installed BD properly. What you need to do is FIRST run the BD 4 installer, which has a proper installation program. Once you've done that, extract the latest BD update to a folder, and then copy that folder over the BD 4 installation folder, overwriting all the files.

/D'oh! :o

Not at all - it's far from obvious!

...I really enjoy his writings.

note: Added Version 2 to The Devil's Guard.

Question: Is there a way for browsers to see that a new version has gone up? (Inside one's thread you can change the header, but nothing showed on the original thread to indicate that a fixed version had been added.)

Is there a way for us to delete older versions from our threads? Or to make requests for older versions to be deleted, thus not clogging up space?)

Thanks all. This is really time-intensive work, but it's a labor of love.

When you edit a post, there's a "manage attachments" button. That allows you both to upload new files, and to remove attachments which are already there.

If you add a new post to the end of the upload thread, that will push it to the top of the thread list, so people can see that there's something been added to it.

...if someone wants it.

It's ready to go. Let me know if someone wants this. The only reason I'm hesitant is that I don't have PART TWO.

Please let me know, and I'll do it instantly.

Thanks,
Don

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 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?

Go for it!

Jon

I didn't realise that these were out of copyright, but I've just checked the dates and you're absolutely right - they are!

I'd go for an omnibus edition. Has to be illustrated, of course - it's the pictures which "make" these books.

...if someone wants it.

It's ready to go. Let me know if someone wants this. The only reason I'm hesitant is that I don't have PART TWO.

Please let me know, and I'll do it instantly.

Thanks,
Don

"Part 1" and "Part 2" are completely separate books - don't worry about it. "Part 1" is the book that everyone knows as "Pilgrim's Progress". Part 2 was written many years later, and is much less known - it's basically "more of the same", but for Pilgrim's wife and family rather than him.

I'm 1/3 through it, but I decided to READ last night. (Fancy that, actually reading!!!)

What's slowing my progress - other than READING - is dividing the lines into the correct stanzas.

Oh, yes -- did I mention that I'm READING.

You see, I just discovered that I can READ the wonderful books that everyone's making available to us!

:rolleyes5 :D

Don

By the way - I've just posted the complete "Dr Thorndyke" short stories of R. Austin Freeman. This is an author I've only recently discovered, and I'm completely "hooked". Dr Thorndyke is a "forensic investigator", and one of the first "scientific" detectives, and he features in numerous novels and short stories. I'll do some collections of the novels over the next few days.

Freeman invented the "inverted" detective story, where the reader knows all the details of the crime from the beginning, and the story concerns the progress of the detective in piecing together the crime from the evidence (yes, exactly the "Columbo"!). Not all his books are of this type, but those that are are a refreshing change from the conventional "whodunnit".

It's so fantastic to come across a new author who "hooks" you, and Freeman was extremely prolific. Lots of great stuff to come!

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 always liked flopsy best

I've now posted all the currently available "Dr Thorndyke" books of R. Austin Freeman - a "complete short stories" collection, and 14 novels, split into 4 "omnibus" volumes. The sharp-eyed, looking at PG, might notice that there are a few books I've not included - these are short story collections, and all are included in the short story omnibus.

Freeman wrote many more books featuring Dr. Thorndyke - if and when more appear on PG, I'll do them for the Reader.

Dr Thorndyke is a wonderful read. Do give these a go if you enjoy detective stories!

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is my next book I am working on. I'm almost done. You might find a neat trick in this as far as the footers go.

Jon

Lilith

Only the TOC knows for sure

As soon as my virus scan is finished, I'll finish the TOC.

Intent to post John Woolman's Journal

It is a wonderful work that I started to format earlier today as part of the Harvard Classic series; but, I started to read the book, and read, and read, and finish. All I can say is "WOW"

However I must ask you indulgence as I seem to have a problem in BD that I don't know how to get around and will have to delete and reload the program. For some reason it has started to ignore all chapter titles other than the first and the last. It also ignores page breaks both automatic at chapter starts and user inserted. No entries are present in the TOC for these ignored items. This was plain to see on Franklin's Autobiography and I don't want to post another book with the same problems. Yes, I have tried all that I know about to set the options and configurations.

Thank you for your understanding.

Intent to post John Woolman's Journal

It is a wonderful work that I started to format earlier today as part of the Harvard Classic series; but, I started to read the book, and read, and read, and finish. All I can say is "WOW"

However I must ask you indulgence as I seem to have a problem in BD that I don't know how to get around and will have to delete and reload the program. For some reason it has started to ignore all chapter titles other than the first and the last. It also ignores page breaks both automatic at chapter starts and user inserted. No entries are present in the TOC for these ignored items. This was plain to see on Franklin's Autobiography and I don't want to post another book with the same problems. Yes, I have tried all that I know about to set the options and configurations.

Thank you for your understanding.
if you post the HTML0 for Ben franklin's book, I'll just load it as is and make a new LRF and post it and you can see if it's ok as you intended it to be.

The next book I am going to be working on is Doctor Dolittle's Garden with illustrations. I don't have the author's name handy at the moment. But I'll have it done before we leave for Florida on Thursday morning for 5 days.

if you post the HTML0 for Ben franklin's book, I'll just load it as is and make a new LRF and post it and you can see if it's ok as you intended it to be.Got it fixed, I will post the revised book within the hour. Thanks for the offer.

I'm going to be doing The Princess And The Goblin, and The Princess And Curdie next... By George MacDonald.

I love Illustrated books so...

I'm working on more Proust, - 'Within a Budding Grove' is the next in sequence. Also on Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette'.

even though the CONTENTS page has only two hyperlinks.

This is finished; it's a great read if you like oriental-styled tales like the Arabian Nights.

Hey!!!! What an idea, Harry, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS!!! -- I'm glad I thought of it...HAVEN'T YOU FINISHED THIS ONE YET??!!!

Anyway, VATHEK is a wonderful novel and "oriental-ness," if you know what I mean.

Don

All the goodness knows how many volumes of it? Not my idea of "fun", I'm afraid. I think I'll stick to detective stories :grin:.

I hope to get the third volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' up at the weekend or thereabouts, then will work on the others.

I am currently working on Doctor Dolittle's Garden by Hugh Lofting. It comes with illustrations that are mostly in B&W. I'm formatting it in HTML and using html2lrf to convert. As my wife and I leave for Florida on Thursday, I'm not sure I'll be able ot get this done in time. If it's not done in time, It'll have to wait till sometime next week as we get back on Tuesday. But as all I have to do is finish the table of contents (rather long) and put in the page breaks, I might get it done in time.

Best to take your time and do it "right" rather than rush it. Are you planning to do the other three DD books on PG Australia too?

....and plan to do all the Smollett I can find. (I was actually ready to do the chapter links when BD crashed and somehow reverted back to an earlier file. My computer was crazy, however, and I couldn't get back to "last file" to see if Pickle was still available. I had to start ALL OVER FROM SCRATCH! ) Argghghgghg!!!!!

Literature from this time period had lengthy chapter descriptions, so I'm going to include that. I want to do this as "right" as possible, although I'm not planning to add illustrations. This is a HUGE book, by the way. You have to like literature from the 1700s to enjoy this. Again, if you find yourself loving the artfulness of Tom Jones, then you should appreciate some of Smollett's work, although it's of a cruder nature (in my opinion) but still great fun. (You have to like LONG paragraphs!)

I also plan to do Tom Jones, by Fielding. If you like Tom Jones, then you'll like the earthiness and bawdiness of Smollett's works.

Anyway, I have hours of work as I start over again. Unfortunately, I have to go to my day job. To paraphrase someone else here: "So little time to upload, and too much time in a paying job!"

Don

(I was actually ready to do the chapter links when BD crashed and somehow reverted back to an earlier file. My computer was crazy, however, and I couldn't get back to "last file" to see if Pickle was still available. I had to start ALL OVER FROM SCRATCH! ) Argghghgghg!!!!!


Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt :). Infuriating, isn't it? I've learned now to exit BD every once in a while and make a physical copy of the "LastFile" folder, just in case...

Sorry to hear it happened to you, too. It's so infuriating.

I'm sorry to hear that Smollett crashed in BD for you -- must be all that bawdy behavior and exciting adventure!

I'll be very happy when you finally have success with this stuff -- might you be working on Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy and others), complete with illustrations?

If you want a specific book doing, the best way to get it done is to do it yourself. It's not difficult, and (at least when BD behaves itself) is great fun. Why not have a go yourself?

My next one is a major project that is not available on Project Gutenberg, it is City of God by Saint Augustine.

It runs about 700 pages in Word so it will be a fairly large LRF file when finished.

I am currently working on Doctor Dolittle's Garden by Hugh Lofting. It comes with illustrations that are mostly in B&W. I'm formatting it in HTML and using html2lrf to convert. As my wife and I leave for Florida on Thursday, I'm not sure I'll be able ot get this done in time. If it's not done in time, It'll have to wait till sometime next week as we get back on Tuesday. But as all I have to do is finish the table of contents (rather long) and put in the page breaks, I might get it done in time.
I managed to get it done. Check the forum for this book. The TOC looks so good. Have a look just for that if nothing else.

I wonder what the black page will look like. Perhaps it'll look.... :uhoh2: BLACK! :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: :happy2: :happy2:

Don

a massive tome close to 2,000 screens. I'm about 1/3 through it right now. It'll have about 12-15 illustrations, garnered from the First Edition. The work is translated my Tobias Smollett.

If you like Cervantes (my possible next project? - unless I'm pre-empted, which is ok) and are fascinated by picaresque novels in general (such as Tom Jones and the [eventual] complete Smollett I want to do), then you might enjoy Gil Blas.

Gil Blas has had an enduring influence on the development of the novel.

This is an important novel. I know these works of older literature don't have as many hits and downloads as the more "popular" stuff, but I still feel compelled to make this available for our community.

I hope you'll enjoy it when it's completed.

Don

I share your love of early novels, Don. Samuel Richardson ("Pamela", "Clarissa") and Henry Fielding ("Tom Jones"), both writing in the 1740s, are generally considered to be the originators of the English Novel. I certainly think it's important to get into this library the books which form the cornerstone of a form of literature which has been so influential.

As a Certified Macdonald fanatic I'm working on compiling all his short fairy tales into a Collection. I think I may have to search far and wide for Illustrations for it.

The thing is, I've been freely using any pics I find on the net as Illustrations in my books. (I'd never put innapropriate ones in) Since we are uploading the books here for all to use, are there any copyright issues with doing this?

If you like Cervantes (my possible next project? - unless I'm pre-empted, which is ok) and are fascinated by picaresque novels in general (such as Tom Jones and the [eventual] complete Smollett I want to do), then you might enjoy Gil Blas.DonI did post a text only version of Don Q, Part I as part of the Harvard Classics series.

The thing is, I've been freely using any pics I find on the net as Illustrations in my books. (I'd never put innapropriate ones in) Since we are uploading the books here for all to use, are there any copyright issues with doing this?

I do think we probably have to be sensitive to copyright issues regarding pics and illustrations that we use for our books (hey artists have the same rights as authors right?!).

But it's usually a lot harder to find out if the artwork is public domain. :(

I will be posting a bunch of George Orwell material. A lot from his short story collections that are on PG-Australia. I will skip 1984 as a copy of it came with the Reader and other than getting Travis to do better cover art (and that does not say a lot for Travis) I don't think I would have much to add to what is already there.

In the short story Shooting an Elephant is one of my all time favorite lines, "In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people—the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."

I did post a text only version of Don Q, Part I as part of the Harvard Classics series.


Thank you, yes, I had forgotten about that. Sorry. I'll go back and check the translator on that.

Thanks again.

Don

Sorry. See explantion in the upload file.

The thing is, I've been freely using any pics I find on the net as Illustrations in my books. (I'd never put innapropriate ones in) Since we are uploading the books here for all to use, are there any copyright issues with doing this?

If the illustrations are from out-of-copyright editions of the book, there shouldn't be any issues (eg the "Phiz" illustrations of Dickens). If the illustrations are from modern editions, then one should ideally ask permission or, at the very least, acknowledge the source!

I've just posted "The Valley of Ghosts". That, by the way, is the last of the currently available Edgar Wallace novels done. He wrote enormously more - well over 100 more - so doubtless more will appear on PG in the future. I'll post them as and when they appear.

There are a couple of short stories: "The Greek Poropulos" and "The Ghost Walker" that I've not bothered with.

Harry - I love the feel of these old creakers. They're fun and absorbing. Please post ANY as you find them. I'm currently reading "The Avenger" and I find it a great read.

Thanks.

I'm announcing to everyone here that I intend to do ALL of A. Merritt's work that is freely available.

He's a fun read and a great fantasy writer, with a touch of the mysterious and the orient thrown in.

I highly recommend him if you haven't yet read his work.

Although his work his available all over the place, it's not available at this site and especially created for our favorite Reader.

I'll work on the remaining titles when I get off work today.
Work: Argghghgghggh!!

Don

Harry - I love the feel of these old creakers. They're fun and absorbing. Please post ANY as you find them. I'm currently reading "The Avenger" and I find it a great read.

Thanks.

Yes, I agree. Nobody would call Mr Wallace's works "great literature", but they are certainly "great fun". You are the one who deserves the thanks for posting the first one; I hadn't heard of him prior to that!

I just found several Sherwood Anderson books at Project Gutenberg and will prepare post them as soon as I have finished with the George Orwell material.

After that I will be going back to the Harvard Classics as the demands of business are starting to increase and the amount of free time will be little. This also means more time on planes so I can catch up on the great stuff posted here and maybe even finish the Haggard stuff Harry posted. (I may not make it through all 14 volumes.)

An important fantasy novel. And a great read.

Don

An important fantasy novel. And a great read.

Don

Are there any other recommended fantasy novels in the public domain?

Some of Jules Verne's books would be classified as "fantasy" rather than SF these days. Eg "Off On a Comet" was never intended to be taken as a serious scientific discussion. Then you have Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard - a lot of Burroughs and virtually all of Howard are fantasy.

I forgot about Howard. :D Thanks for the pointer, Harry!

Are there any other recommended fantasy novels in the public domain?

I keep discovering new ones all the time, but off the top of my head I'm thinking of one right now - E. R. Eddison, author of "The Worm Ouroboros" - but I need to see if its' in the public domain.

I hope it is.


Don

Intent to do E. R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros."

RIGHT NOW!

OK, the Sherwood Anderson that I promised has all been posted and other than working on the Beatrix Potter titles, I plan on finishing the Harvard Classics series before I take on any other major titles.

This is a Victorian mystery - a kind of thriller.

Don

An important figure in the development of the fantasy novel.

Don

With the posting of the crime novel "Murder in the Gunroom" I've now completed the posting of all of H. Beam Piper's currently-available PD fiction. I shall not be doing the non-fiction; if anyone else wishes to tackle that, feel free!

Will upload in just a moment "The Fangs of Murder (The Phantom Detective)" -- after I get some background info.

10:19 --- give me about 10 minutes.

:book2: And then I'm going to go somewhere and read a book!


Don

I plan on working on the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet series of books. Well the ones on PG anyway. These are fun books to read. Question: since the last book is not there, should I do these as one collection or as seperate books?

I'd be tempted to do them as a collection, and note in the index that the series has an additional book which isn't present.

Excellent news - just noticed that the 5th book in the "Charlie Chan" series, "Charlie Chan Carries On" - has now been released by PG Australia. I'll add it to my "Charlie Chan Omnibus" and re-release it.

Excellent news - just noticed that the 5th book in the "Charlie Chan" series, "Charlie Chan Carries On" - has now been released by PG Australia. I'll add it to my "Charlie Chan Omnibus" and re-release it.

Now added to the omnibus and posted v2, as promised!

I would like to do them all, but first and foremost:

Jurgen
The High Place
Something About Eve
Figures of Earth

and all the rest.


Don

Sorry I've not posted much lately - I've been busy creating nice Reader versions of many favourite Baen books, which unfortunately I can't share here.

Excellent news - just noticed that the 5th book in the "Charlie Chan" series, "Charlie Chan Carries On" - has now been released by PG Australia. I'll add it to my "Charlie Chan Omnibus" and re-release it.
great, almost as good as fu man chu

Sorry I've not posted much lately - I've been busy creating nice Reader versions of many favourite Baen books, which unfortunately I can't share here.

Should not be sorry. You have contributed so much already.
Thanks.

...leaving Cincinnati Wednesday morning, so I won't be contributing anything for about 2 days.

I'll take my computer along with me. Give me a couple of days until I settle in.

It looks like I won't have time to finish the other two Thomas Wolfe titles tonight. I need to pack.
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Harry -- I agree with the previous post -- there's nothing you should be apologizing for. After all, your Editorial workload also keeps you busy.


Don

Not to worry Dr. Dib. Just have a good time with Dad.

Jon

Harry -- I agree with the previous post -- there's nothing you should be apologizing for. After all, your Editorial workload also keeps you busy.Sounds to me like somebody should heed his own advice. :smug:

Have a good time with Dad, Dr. Drib. :nice:

Sounds to me like somebody should heed his own advice. :smug:

:smash: I wanted to say just the same :D

I've just added the newly-released "The Stoneware Money" by R. Austin Freeman to my previously-issued "Dr. Thorndyke Omnibus Vol 5". Note that Jon has released both this and "The Penrose Mystery" as separate books for those for prefer that.

Apologies Jon - I'm in no way intending to put down your excellent work by doing this; I just like everything collected together neat and tidy in my omnibus editions :grin:.

So if I send you all the Star Trek books, can you do an Omnibus for that? LOL! I'd love to see the size of it.

First, I want to say thanks to all who are have uploaded books. I've had my Reader for three weeks and have already read four books from this forum.

I've read Harry's tutorial and want to try my hand at ebook creation. Does anyone have The Well at the World's End by William Morris in the works?
If not, I'll do it and post it here.

Ben

BenG, go for it and have fun converting. And when you are done, it's a nice sence of accomplishment too.

PG Australia have just released a new "Dr. Thorndyke" novel, by R. Austin Freeman - "The Cat's Eye", originally published in 1923. I've added this new release to my Dr. Thorndyke Omnibus Vol 5 (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11498).

This now concludes Vol 5, other than error corrections. The next "Dr. Thorndyke" book released (and there are still a fair number to go) will start a new "Vol 6".

Just found some Mencken stuff at PG and start to post some of it shortly.

By popular request I have rearranged all the "Dr Thorndyke" detective novels and short stories of R. Austin Freeman into 7 volumes, arranged in order of publication date. These are all available for download here (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11764). I have deleted the previous volumes in which things were arranged somewhat haphazardly.

Just found the most wonderful, illustrated, 19th century "Manual of Surgery". Full of the most gruesome pictures. Should be a winner on the Reader!

Just found the most wonderful, illustrated, 19th century "Manual of Surgery". Full of the most gruesome pictures. Should be a winner on the Reader!
with this book now i can play a doctor

What am I talking about?

Well, I'm talking about "Melmoth The Wanderer," by Charles Robert Maturin, an incredible Gothic tale that mesmerized me and had me spellbound when I first studied it in a graduate course on the Gothic in Literature course a few years ago.

Don

I've just realised, to my surprise, that nobody's posted any P.G.Wodehouse so far - one of the greatest humourists in the English language (IMHO). I've corrected this shocking oversight by posting "Right Ho, Jeeves", and shall post more in the near future.

I am actually working on a Star Trek book. Yes, you hear right, a Star Trek book. Didn;t think there were any that could be posted here. Well, guess again. This one is ok to post. If you know of the book Probe by Margaret Wander Bonnano then you'll get a real treat. This is what Probe should have been. The author has put it out there for all to read. And yes it is ok to post here.

What am I talking about?

Well, I'm talking about "Melmoth The Wanderer," by Charles Robert Maturin, an incredible Gothic tale that mesmerized me and had me spellbound when I first studied it in a graduate course on the Gothic in Literature course a few years ago.

Don

Good choice! I'd love to read it again.
Speaking of "Gothic", it looks like Le Fanu's Carmilla hasn't been done yet. I think that will be my next project.

I've just realised, to my surprise, that nobody's posted any P.G.Wodehouse so far - one of the greatest humourists in the English language (IMHO). I've corrected this shocking oversight by posting "Right Ho, Jeeves", and shall post more in the near future.

Thank you for these. :D Is there any chance of getting them all in an omnibus collection (is that a redundant phrase?)?

I can't wait to read them again. I still remember laughing so hard I cried and couldn't read the last time through.

Thank you for these. :D Is there any chance of getting them all in an omnibus collection (is that a redundant phrase?)?

I have no plans to do this for the Wodehouse.

I can't wait to read them again. I still remember laughing so hard I cried and couldn't read the last time through.

Bear in mind that much of his most popular stuff (eg virtually all the "Jeeves and Wooster" books) are still under copyright protection. It's only his early books which I can post here, which represent a small fraction of the total.

Thanks for doing the ones that are available. :) Since Mr. Wodehouse lived - and wrote, I believe - into his 90s, I'll just look upon his books slowly coming out of copyright as a gift that keeps on giving. :D

I'm off on holiday tomorrow and plan to read the Prousts that I have done earlier, and check for typos. When I ge back I shall revise them and do some more in the series.

Thanks for doing the ones that are available. :) Since Mr. Wodehouse lived - and wrote, I believe - into his 90s, I'll just look upon his books slowly coming out of copyright as a gift that keeps on giving. :D

I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed :grin:. Since Mr Wodehouse died in 1975, no more of his books will enter the public domain until 70 years after his death - ie at the start of 2046. You have quite a wait ahead of you...

HarryT,

No Dr Who books? There are (at least were) several available free from BBC. Could not resist as I saw the Dalek.

HarryT,

No Dr Who books? There are (at least were) several available free from BBC. Could not resist as I saw the Dalek.

We have to be very careful with that kind of thing. "Freely downloadable" doesn't mean "out of copyright", and we'd need the permission of the copyright holder to repost them here. With an organisation like the BBC, the bureaucracy involved in trying to get that permission doesn't bear thinking about :grin:.

Absolutely agree, especially with the Beeb

Just so everyone knows that is working on Books.. Dr. Drib take notice... (What an animal that guy is, a book makin machine!) I've gathered up what I belkieve to be all of Jack Londons Klondike tales (Not counting his Klondike Novels like White Fang and so on) and am formatting and cleaning now. I don;t think I'm going to hunt for any Great Klondike pics to go with them but who knows? I might get inspired...

So Far I've located 55 Specific Klondike Stories by him.. And searching high and low on the net for any I've missed..

So far here they are. If anyone wants to try and find some more.. This is what my TOC looks like so far... And yes. Dr.. I'm going to retype the all cap titles...

A Hyperborean Brew
A Klondike Christmas
An Odyssey of the North
Bald-Face
Brown Wolf
Flush of Gold
In a Far Country
Jack London
Love of Life
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
Pluck and Pertinacity
The King of Mazy May
The Law of Life
The League of the Old Men
The Men of Forty-Mile
The Priestly Prerogative
The Seed of McCoy
The Shadow and the Flash
The Son of the Wolf
The Story of Keesh
The Sundog Trail
The Test: A Clondyke Wooing
The Unexpected
The White Man's Way
The White Silence
The Wife of a King
The Wisdom of the Trail
To Build a Fire
To The Man On The Trail
Too Much Gold
Up The Slide
The Faith of Men
The One Thousand Dozen
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
BÂTARD
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
The God Of His Fathers
THE GREAT INTERROGATION
WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
SIWASH
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
GRIT OF WOMEN
WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
AT THE RAINBOW'S END
THE SCORN OF WOMEN
Lost Face
Trust
That Spot
The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
The Wit of Porportuk
A DAY'S LODGING
NEGORE, THE COWARD
TWO GOLD BRICKS


Anything I'm missing?

Roy, even without retyped titles I want to read them. This is a far larger list than I remember from years gone by.

Oh, by the way, I want to do The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow. The base text is from PGA.

Roy,

Thanks for providing a consolidated list. Looks like I need to get of my lazy butt and start contributing books.

Seriously, this will be an incredible read!

Don




A Hyperborean Brew
A Klondike Christmas
An Odyssey of the North
Bald-Face
Brown Wolf
Flush of Gold
In a Far Country
Jack London
Love of Life
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
Pluck and Pertinacity
The King of Mazy May
The Law of Life
The League of the Old Men
The Men of Forty-Mile
The Priestly Prerogative
The Seed of McCoy
The Shadow and the Flash
The Son of the Wolf
The Story of Keesh
The Sundog Trail
The Test: A Clondyke Wooing
The Unexpected
The White Man's Way
The White Silence
The Wife of a King
The Wisdom of the Trail
To Build a Fire
To The Man On The Trail
Too Much Gold
Up The Slide
The Faith of Men
The One Thousand Dozen
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
BÂTARD
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
The God Of His Fathers
THE GREAT INTERROGATION
WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
SIWASH
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
GRIT OF WOMEN
WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
AT THE RAINBOW'S END
THE SCORN OF WOMEN
Lost Face
Trust
That Spot
The Passing of Marcus O'Brien
The Wit of Porportuk
A DAY'S LODGING
NEGORE, THE COWARD
TWO GOLD BRICKS


Anything I'm missing?

I am working on two ebooks right now.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (about 85% done)


The Curious Republic of Gondour and other Whimsical Sketches by Mark Twain
This last one needs a lot of editing; the PG file has a table of contents that only mathches about half of what's actually in the file. ?!?

I should have that Jack London Klondike Dealie out in less than a week.. Any suggestions for a title?

Collected Klondike Tales?

Ice Cold London?

Frozen Husky puppy dog Tails?

Complete Jack London Klondike Short stories.. (Too long for reader title)

How about just "Klondike Tales"?

Ok, Harry, this one's for you and....well, OK! OK!, it's also for me, tambien.

Now, for those of you who haven't read Chaucer in Middle English, he's really quite accessible. Even though Chaucer just missed The Great Vowel Shift, his words are (as Harry mentions) easy to figure out in most cases.

One caveat, however: this version contains line numbers. The lines are NOT contiguous from beginning all the way to the end. I'm leaving the lines; however, if enough people want the lines out, then I will attempt a way to do that.

Global change, anyone?

Wonderful - thanks, Don :grin:

I'm currently working on The Philo Vance Mysteries. There are 12 books. I'm doing them as two sets of six for Omnibuses. I'm doing it the hard way so it is going to take a bit to do. I'm doing it so the ToC in the book menu does not has all the titles. I have the first book done and am into the second. I hope to have it out sometime next week. Oh yes, it has footnotes which make it take longer. I'm doing it so each footnote is its own page so you don't se any of the others.

Feel free, Jon, but you aware that I posted all these some months ago?

My next project will be Stanley Weinbaum. He is a rather interesting early SF author I found on Project Gutenberg of Australia. I've checked, and I am 99.999% certain that his work is in the public domain in the US.

....a short novella that's available here.

The rest of Weinbaum's work would a nice addition to MobileRead.

Don



My next project will be Stanley Weinbaum. He is a rather interesting early SF author I found on Project Gutenberg of Australia. I've checked, and I am 99.999% certain that his work is in the public domain in the US.

A HUGE volume - consisting of a number of novels published as separate Avon reprints and then later as Zebra reprints.

I'm almost finished with creating the annotations + Author ---- this will be a nice-looking ebook!

I'll post it this afternoon ---- but I need to go get a latte and take either my Reader or a Vargas Llosa book I want to start reading with me to Borders. Which one should I take????

Don

Have a "retro" day and take the book!

I can just see it now, Dr. Don sitting at Boarders sniffing his book as the police break in and haul him away to perform chemical analysis of the book. :D

I can just see it now, Dr. Don sitting at Boarders sniffing his book as the police break in and haul him away to perform chemical analysis of the book. :D

Very funny!!:grin2:


That's why I always bring a selection of about 300 novels with me.:D Just so long as I'm not in jail for more than 3-4 weeks -- if you get my drift!

Don

Are books from the Australian Gutenberg website permitted here if they're not on the main Gutenberg website also?

Are books from the Australian Gutenberg website permitted here if they're not on the main Gutenberg website also?

Yes - that's where many of the books posted here came from.

Great! Look for some Thorne Smith novels next week. Topper (the basis for the Cary Grant movie and the TV series) and Night Life of the Gods will be first.

I am finishing up The Adventures of Jimmie Dale and The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale. Pulp adventures of a guy who is a playboy by day, crimefighter by night. :) Working on the cover and tweaking the formatting, so it will be posted this weekend...

Actually I was wondering if it is ok to name our stuff a little differently. Sort of like when someone does a compilation, do they get to tweak the title just a bit? We are sort of our own publishers here.

For example, the title of the books I am working on, The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, deals with him becoming The Grey Seal after he puts on his crimefighting costume. Now incorporating The Grey Seal into the titles of the books sounds more exciting to me.

So is this an e-book faux pas? I sort of see ourselves as repackaging some of these lesser known works for a new generation of folks to discover and read. My teenage son would be more inclined to read the crimefighting adventures of the Grey Seal, than he would the crimefighting adventures of Jimmie Dale, even though they are the same crimefighting adventures. :)

I would alway strive to keep the original title on the cover somewhere, but was just wanting to jazz it up a bit. I know we are not supposed to judge a book by it's cover or it's name, but some people do.

I'm not talking about the big famous ones, but mostly these lesser known works. Any thoughts?

Great! Look for some Thorne Smith novels next week. Topper (the basis for the Cary Grant movie and the TV series) and Night Life of the Gods will be first.

http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_author/230

Hmm... I know that manually created books and automatically generated ones are quite different. Feedbooks is somehow in the middle though, because we need to cut the books into parts/chapters/sections.

Is there any way I could make it easier for those of you working on Book Designer to upload the same books on Feedbooks ? We're working on our support for Epub, and we'd like to support Mobipocket next: this could be an easy way for people to select between a non-reflowable format (but with hyphenation and justification) or a reflowable format.

With Epub, we can also provide custom settings like we already do for PDF. It'll be a bit different though. Epub uses CSS, which means that people could swap or create between different templates, and Epub also support embedded fonts (you just add the font in one of the directory of the Epub file).

People spend a lot of time formatting books with Book Designer, and the team and users behind Feedbooks also spend quite a lot of time uploading the exact same books.

There must be a way to a more collective effort...

Currently working on Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Reviewing first-pass generation for formatting, etc.

Currently working on Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Reviewing first-pass generation for formatting, etc.

As you may be aware, there are so many editions of Leaves of Grass, as he worked on it all his life. Are you working on what is referred to as the "Death Bed Edition"?

The very first edition was extremely slender compared to that last edition [Death Bed Edition].

Thanks,
Don

I'm working on To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.

Right now, there may be some parsing problems. I haven't read this in over 20 years and don't have copy to check for line breaks.

So.....off to the bookstore with my Reader....I'm finishing up Grotesque by a Japanese writer, a novel I bought from Connect....very interesting.

After my obligatory Latte, I'll go one block over to the used book store and see if they have a cheap copy of Lighthouse.

Once those lines are determined to be correct or not, the book is already finished.

Don

Dr. Drib,

If you don't manage to find a copy of the Lighthouse there is a djvu copy available on archive.org that you could flip through to check the breaks.

http://ia300225.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.cgi?file=1/items/ToTheLighthouse/ToTheLighthouse.djvu

Sartori

Dr. Drib,

If you don't manage to find a copy of the Lighthouse there is a djvu copy available on archive.org that you could flip through to check the breaks.

http://ia300225.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.cgi?file=1/items/ToTheLighthouse/ToTheLighthouse.djvu

Sartori

Thank you for the information.

I tried to get on but I'm getting some strange applet informatin on th top left of the screen. The rest of the screen is white.

This is what I'm getting:

java.io.IOException: Invalid DjVu File Format
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.read(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.init(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuBean.setURL(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuViewport.setURL(Unknow n Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.getDjVuBean(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.init(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)



Don

Sorry about that, I forgot that you have to install the djvu reader. From the archive.org faq:

How do I view the DJVU books?

DJVU is a open format for scanned documents. There are free readers available at:

http://www.lizardtech.com/download/?x=2&p=1&o=1&titl=Download%20DjVu%20Browser%20Plug-in

for windows, mac, linux, mac OS-X, solaris.
Try it. We like this compact, searchable, good looking, and open format.

Sartori

As you may be aware, there are so many editions of Leaves of Grass, as he worked on it all his life. Are you working on what is referred to as the "Death Bed Edition"?

The very first edition was extremely slender compared to that last edition [Death Bed Edition].

Thanks,
Don

I am aware that there are differences (thanks to Wikipedia when starting it...) but I can't really find much reference as to what I could distinguish the deathbed edition from any others. (i.e. Are there any particular wordings or added poems that could tell me what version I have....) I'm using the PG text as the base for it; they seem to have only one version.

I am aware that there are differences (thanks to Wikipedia when starting it...) but I can't really find much reference as to what I could distinguish the deathbed edition from any others. (i.e. Are there any particular wordings or added poems that could tell me what version I have....) I'm using the PG text as the base for it; they seem to have only one version.

Yes, he kept adding poems to Leaves of Grass, but I couldn't tell you what specific poems they would be. I don't know if actually edited lines from his earlier poems. I also don't know if he removed some poems.

You've probably already tried this, but if not, try a search with the combination of Whitman deathbed and see what that brings up. I will sometimes add the word download, as well.

I don't know what edition was posted on PG. Sorry.

I hope this helps.


Don

Working on Candide by Voltaire. The basis is the Modern Library edition of 1918 on PG with an Introduction by Philip Littell.

Great! Look for some Thorne Smith novels next week. Topper (the basis for the Cary Grant movie and the TV series) and Night Life of the Gods will be first.
http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_author/230

Thanks! They seem to be very nicely formatted. I may do Smith's Turnabout since you have these covered.

Is Lud-in-the-Mist by English author Hope Mirlees still under copyright? It was written in 1926.

From what I've read, when Lin Carter published it in 1970, he made a search for the author and couldn't find her. Since the copyright had expired, he published it anyway. Mirlees apparently died in 1978 and may never have known her book was back in print.
So, my question is,have changes in law renewed the copyright?

Is Lud-in-the-Mist by English author Hope Mirlees still under copyright? It was written in 1926.

From what I've read, when Lin Carter published it in 1970, he made a search for the author and couldn't find her. Since the copyright had expired, he published it anyway. Mirlees apparently died in 1978 and may never have known her book was back in print.
So, my question is,have changes in law renewed the copyright?



This is a GREAT fantasy. I have it in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, from the late 60s/70s, but it was recently re-released in a trade paper format. I can't remember the publisher, but I saw this about 6 months ago at Border's.

I don't know if it's still in copyright or not; if not, it would certainly be a great ebook to add to the library.

Don

I'll upload them indivdaully at the same time -- there are six of them - after I finish doing all of them.

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I'm almost finished with Trollope's The Claverings, considered by many scholars to be one of his strongest independent novels.


Don

I don't know if it's still in copyright or not; if not, it would certainly be a great ebook to add to the library.


Yeah, I was just wondering if once out of copyright a book would become copyrighted again if the laws change.

I saw the text online a few years ago, but there nothing on the Gutenberg sites right now.

Yeah, I was just wondering if once out of copyright a book would become copyrighted again if the laws change.

No; once a text has entered the public domain it stays there.

For example, Australia now has a "Life + 70" copyright law, but all the books which entered the public domain while it had a "Life + 50" law remain in the public domain, even those of authors who died more recently than 70 years ago.

IANAL, however - it is conceivable that this may vary from country to country.

I've now posted my tenth Balzac. There are over 90 in the whole Comedie Humaine series. Do people actually want more, or have they had enough?

I'm Working on The Galaxy Primes by Edward Elmer Smith

It was released on PG in the last 24 hours.

I'm Working on The Galaxy Primes by Edward Elmer Smith

It was released on PG in the last 24 hours.Well, the most recent revision was. I have a Plucker format file on my PDA based on the HTML text released by PG on 3/20/07.

PG releases updated and corrected versions of existing texts frequently. Unfortunately, they don't have a change log with the updates indicating the differences.
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Dennis

This is the new HTML. Meaning that it is no longer text and should be in it's final form. The plucker you got is based on the text that wasn't in it's final form.

I am enjoying the Balzac (and based on comments in other threads it seems that Patricia has her admirers out there.) I would be interested in reading more of them over time. They are not a fast read for me and I sometimes get lost in the translation.

There are two more Lester del Rey books on PG. If Don has no objection (as he posted the first one), I will do the other two.

Quiet day at work today, so I've managed to get through six crime/detective books from PG, all from authors I'd been previously unfamiliar with. The most interesting one looks like "Average Jones" - an advertising executive who solves crimes in his spare time :).

This is the new HTML. Meaning that it is no longer text and should be in it's final form. The plucker you got is based on the text that wasn't in it's final form.I'm aware of that. What I don't know is what the changes were, and whether they are significant enough to justify re-doing the conversion. (Like I said, no change log...)

I don't use PGs option of getting a Plucker file: I download the HTML and do my own conversion on my desktop (high compression, embedded images with thumbnail linking to full copy, thousands of colors, and named and categorized using my standard convention.)
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Dennis

I just worked on the new book (new to PG) The Adventures of Mya the Bee translated from German and illustrated. It's now posted.

Three Men on a Brummel by Jerome will be my next book.

I shall be doing some more Balzacs, as the mood takes me. Has anyone any particular favourites?

Patricia,

Could you possibly produce your books in MobiPocket format, too? All you have to do is click the "Palm" button on the top toolbar in BD, set the file type to "MobiPocket Reader" and the device to "Sony Clie". Only takes seconds to do once you've done the Sony Reader format.

Thanks,

There are two more Lester del Rey books on PG. If Don has no objection (as he posted the first one), I will do the other two.


No problems at all....and yours look great.

Thanks, also, for correcting his last name so all three now share a common last name. :)

Don

I use the Palm (color) as the device so that people using MobiPocket on a color screen will get color graphics if the graphics are in color.

Makes no difference - selecting "Sony Clie", "Palm (Color)", or "Pocket PC" generates an identical file. The only one that gives you a different file is "Palm (Black and White)" which presumably converts any graphics to B&W.

I did some experiments with this a while ago, doing a binary comparison of the generated file.

Patricia,

Could you possibly produce your books in MobiPocket format, too? All you have to do is click the "Palm" button on the top toolbar in BD, set the file type to "MobiPocket Reader" and the device to "Sony Clie". Only takes seconds to do once you've done the Sony Reader format.

Thanks,

I'll have a go this evening.

Haven't read the whole thread yet.

I stopped in the books section to take a look at Balzac only to find that all books featured are in English. Would it be possible to have separate selections in other languages like German French and Spanish?

PS I don't have time to prepare any.

I'll have a go this evening.

Thanks Patricia - that looks excellent!

The only (very minor) suggestion I'd make would be to rename the PRC file after it's been created - BD tends to truncate them to odd lengths.

Haven't read the whole thread yet.

I stopped in the books section to take a look at Balzac only to find that all books featured are in English. Would it be possible to have separate selections in other languages like German French and Spanish?

PS I don't have time to prepare any.

I'm prepared to do a few Balzacs (or other classic French authors) in the original French, provided that I can find a decent html source with all the italics and accents. I really don't feel up to restoring all the missing accents in an entire French novel.
I've had a quick look on Gallica and see that they have lots of Balzac and that they seem to be in html, so your luck is in.

So, Ivan, which ones would you like?

(I'm also quite tempted by Chateaubriand's Memoirs d'outre tombe because I visited Combourg recently.)

PS I'm a bit busy this weekend, so it may be Monday before I get round to it.

I'm prepared to do a few Balzacs (or other classic French authors) in the original French, provided that I can find a decent html source with all the italics and accents. I really don't feel up to restoring all the missing accents in an entire French novel.
I've had a quick look on Gallica and see that they have lots of Balzac and that they seem to be in html, so your luck is in.

So, Yvan, which ones would you like?

(I'm also quite tempted by Chateaubriand's Memoires d'outre tombe because I visited Combourg recently.)

PS I'm a bit busy this weekend, so it may be Monday before I get round to it.
You lucky person! Combourg is my favorite castle; and then Carcassone which I have visited as a kid. This is what I miss most of Europe, all the past is in your face. Here it's miles and miles of emptiness. Get's boring after a while...

I have picked up a few works on Gallica. I mentionned Balzac not because I wish to get his works, but only to find out if it was in its original French (my mother tongue) and to see if there were people interested in other languages. Don't fret on it. Thanks for the consideration!:o

Here is an other site for free French ebook (http://ebooksgratuits.com/index.php)classics.

Yvan, I expect that you have noticed this already but Hadrien's Feedbooks also has some French novels in formats useable by the sony reader.

You lucky person! Combourg is my favorite castle; and then Carcassone which I have visited as a kid.I really enjoyed both Chambourg and Carcassonne, but Chenonceaux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chenonceau) is my personal favorite. :nice:

Yvan, I expect that you have noticed this already but Hadrien's Feedbooks also has some French novels in formats useable by the sony reader.

Thank you Patricia, yes I knew about it, there are some 5 other sites too even one in Québec.

I really enjoyed both Chambourg and Carcassonne, but Chenonceaux (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chenonceau) is my personal favorite. :nice:

Hmmm! Aren't you mixing up Chambord and Combourg? Not quite the same type of castle. Chambord is about the same kind of palace as Chenonceaux; roughly the same period. I visited both of them too.
I like the medieval type of castle where they could stand years against the agressor, cut off from the rest of the world but completely sufficient. The ways they went to make traps and defenses, all the ingenuity, now that was building, not the matchstick things of today that blow way at the first storm!

All those castles that we mentionned except for Combourg were restored at the beginning of the last century by the same Viollet Leduc a fantastic architect. He drew furniture too that is why I remember his works. He was one of the inspirations that got me to make furniture. Gothic is the type I'd like to make. Any King (not the family name :unafraid:)interested in my services? :grin:

I plan to do a bit of Bret Harte. (I seem to be back to a lot of my heroes of journalism days again.) Most know him as a friend of Mark Twain; but, many never r