07-09-2010, 03:52 PM | #16 |
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thanks, cbell ... more information arrives by mail
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07-09-2010, 05:36 PM | #17 |
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thanks for this info, marc, your site looks like a very worthwhile project and already a great ressource. i have bookmarked it and will come back to it in the future, definitely. welcome to the forum !
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07-09-2010, 07:44 PM | #18 |
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Mail received, thanks, Marc.
I don't know where other posters got the idea the end format will be PDF and I suggest they take another look at the site. I'm not affiliated with freeliterature.org in any way, except for volunteering to help proof-read (yesterday). The plan is to work with original OCR'd text files to produce proof-read plain txt and htm books for Project Gutenberg. Last edited by cbell; 08-25-2010 at 04:44 AM. |
07-09-2010, 08:05 PM | #19 |
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Yes, there was a mix-up. My first post was about my own site (freeliterature.org) - which I let follow with one to announce the existence of the World eBook Fair (and they seem to propagate pdf). Caused a bit of confusion
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My own site: http://www.freeliterature.org links to 600+ sites that publish a lot of different formats - including some specialised in mobiles. The Project Gutenberg texts are picked up and made suitable by them ... also some people within PG are busy with that. |
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07-17-2010, 03:18 AM | #21 |
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thank you Marc. I visited your site and it looks both an important resource and a worthwhile project. I have bookmarked it and posted its reference in the Italian Thread. (It is in black in my signature).
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Thanks for the interest, Beppe. You're very welcome.
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I quite often "talk" with Michael Hart (who invented the e-book and started Project Gutenberg) - He included FreeLiterature in his press releases for the World eBook Fair. Besides DP there are a lot of volunteers who produce e-text from books on their very own. I myself teamed up with a friend for three years. The same text should be viewed by different eyes to become a good e-text. With FreeLiterature I want to give people the opportunity to work on a complete book. They do a first or second round proofreading. I do a third (and some automated checks) and the formatting and posting to PG. People wanting to do more than proofreading, will get from me all the help they need to produce a good e-text from scratch (scanning, ocr,...) Hope this gives a bit of background? - Please ask if you want more information. Thanks for the interest. Last edited by marcdh; 07-17-2010 at 08:45 PM. Reason: add info |
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07-18-2010, 02:53 AM | #26 |
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Why re-invent the wheel? Why not just work for DP if you want to do something to support PG?
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Best way to find out: register at DP, and see if you fit in the (at times rather tight) system. |
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I have been a DP member for many years, hence my question. With your system of one person doing an entire book, what happens if the person loses interest? What about the really boring books that probably nobody would want to do the whole of?
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