This post summarises the guidelines for posting to this forum section. If we all follow them, it'll make life a lot easier. If you have any comments or suggestions for changes, please feel free to make them.
0. MobileRead follows the life+70 copyright rule.
1. This forum section is for book uploads
only, the only exceptions being contributions to the "Sticky" topics at the start of the forum. Any message thread that is
not an upload will be moved elsewhere or deleted, as the moderators deem appropriate.
2. When you upload, you
must use a message subject of the form:
Author_surname, Author_firstname (or initials): Book_title. Version. Posting Date
Eg:
Wells, H.G.: The War of the Worlds. v1. 11 Apr 2007
The reason for this is that the thread title is automatically "parsed" to generate the index of eBooks.
3. Please attach your book to the first message in the thread. If you subsequently revise it, edit the first message and re-attach the revised book there, adding a message to the end of the thread to note that you've done so, and saying what the changes are.
4. If you are considering creating a particular eBook, please check before you start whether or not that book has already been uploaded to MobileRead (this can be done by clicking the "E-Books" link on the blue bar near the top of the screen, selecting the "Browse Latest Uploads" option, then selecting the "Search E-Books" link and entering either the title or the author into the search box). If you find that the book has already been uploaded, you are very welcome to upload a new version provided that it "adds" something different to the version already present - this might be a better layout, a new format, significant proof-reading and correction, proper dashes or "curly quotes", for example. If this is the case, when you upload your new version, please add a link to the earlier version (or simply say who the uploader was), and state in the description of your book how it differs from the earlier version.
5. Please respect copyrights, and don't post (or request) anything that's not in the public domain (life+70) without the clear advance permission of the copyright holder. Any material that clearly infringes copyright will immediately be deleted. Please immediately report any upload if you believe that it violates copyright. (Use the [!] report button.)
6. Uploads here should add some notable "value" to a PG (or whatever) original (for example: nice reformatting, artwork, a TOC, footnotes, etc etc). There's really no point in posting here something which which a poster can get from the original source in two minutes.
7.
Helpful hints: When uploading a text, mentioning the sources and edition you have used and which edition you have uploaded is always appreciated. We also recommend that you state in the summation and in a preface within your edition any changes you have made to the text, for example:
- Have you proofread the text and corrected any obvious typos such as occur routinely in OCR scans?
- Have you changed the spelling to conform to British or U.S. norms?
- Have you updated archaic spellings?
- Have you standardized the punctuation?
- Have you made changes to make the text more appealing to modern audiences?
Readers have preferences concerning these matters, and they appreciate editors who are forthcoming about such changes.
Thanks!
Editor's Note: copied to the general Uploads Help section so that the info is available where folks will likely look first, made adjustments (without deleting anything) so that it's more suited to general uploads