06-23-2008, 12:08 AM | #16 |
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Kierkegaard is largely unavailable because the translations are too recent. Sartre didn't die till 1980, so is still in copyright (with a couple of creative commons exceptions). Bertrand Russell survived until 1970, so all his work is in copyright, except for the pre-1923 works, which are available in the USA only.
Solzhenitsyn is also in copyright everywhere. And his translators also hold copyright in their translations. Ditto Maritain. I don't see the point of listing things that are not in the public domain. And a moment's googling, or a wikipedia search, will usually establish the author or translator's death date quite easily. The Baudelaire poems are available in French. But most of the Fleurs du Mal translations are in copyright, or bad, or both. The Zola is readily available in French (try the Gallica site). The English translations that are in the public domain are mainly the Victorian ones by Vizetelly. They are awful: very stilted and dull. Les Liaisons Dangereuses only has recent translations, still in copyright. The Euclid would be very difficult to format, because of the diagrams. Plays are also often troublesome. |
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06-23-2008, 12:28 AM | #18 |
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There is a sticky thread to request books. For the last year or longer this has worked well.
Ted, you have demonstrated that you are adept at extracting data from Gutenberg and making lists and indexes. There is a lot of effort to creating an ebook unless you follow the mechanical approach employed by manybooks. In fact almost all of the files at Gutenberg are currently available in LRF format at manybooks. |
06-23-2008, 12:30 AM | #19 |
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Count me in Nate. It sounds like a great project and we have so much source material here in the DC area.
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06-23-2008, 12:35 AM | #20 |
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There are several Kindle books on the subject but no "Idiots Guide" Or "Dummies" versions that I can see.
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06-23-2008, 02:37 AM | #21 |
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If something is at PG and not here, then the best way to get it here is to "do it yourself". It's really NOT difficult - I've written tutorials explaining one way of doing it (there are many others) here and here.
Most of the books here have been uploaded by a small number of people - it would be great to expand the number of contributors to our book collection. Please do "have a go"! |
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06-23-2008, 10:34 AM | #24 |
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That's one of the frustrating things about living in the U.S. It has the longest copyright length for existing works of anywhere in the world (life + 95 years). There are works recently gone into the public domain in (life + 50) countries that I would be willing to do the work on, but I'm legally bound to do nothing on them for the rest of my life...
Coming soon to public domain in life + 50 countries. James Branch Cabell (Jan 1, 2009) Henry Kuttner (Jan 1, 2009) Raymond Chandler (Jan 1, 2010) Lester Dent (80% of the Doc Savages written) (Jan 1, 2010) Ernest Hemmingway (Jan 1, 2012) |
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Bye the bye, the Laurence Donovan (Died 1950) Doc Savages are available at P.G. Australia, should someone in the life + 50 world like to convert them to MobileRead formats...(I can't...)
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There are several schools of thought here. One favors doing a majority of the editing in BD while I am in the other school that does the majority of editing outside of BD. I will add graphics to the ebook in BD. I currently create the Mobi and IMP files from BD although I am starting to learn the other approach. |
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Sorry if I don't have the time or capability to do a complete and thorough job. But I posted the "work in progress" that I had done - hoping it might shed SOME light on things. I thought Elsi's response was helpful and in the spirit of what I was trying to do. And for all I know, some of these may be in ill-repute or otherwise not wanted by anybody. I was hoping the rest of you could provide your various perspectives and expertise and whittle this down into an actual "want list". |
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