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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
For years, I dreamt of a nice big room given over to the storage of books. These days, considering my career and foreseeable living conditions, a really nice chair and my PRS-500 is fine for me.
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I knew a chap some years ago who was a book dealer. He built a two story extension to his house to hold his stock. It was about what I wanted to have in a library, but didn't expect to be able to do it. (I live midtown in a large city -- no place to build such an extension...)
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@ Dennis:
Proofreading is important, and I can see it being very important to the company that distributes the work. Last night, finished reading The Call of Cthulhu on my Reader that I either got hear or was a Gutenberg text that I converted with LIBPRS. There were typos and bizarre spacings, but I know what ol' Phil was on about, so they did not matter.
However, I fear the mangling of original texts due to neglectful copy/scanning, the same way I lament the death of homonyms and correct use of grammar & cliches thanks to the internet and poor education.
"To be or not too br" We all get the notion, but it really lacks some of Shakespeare's original punch. ;-
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Agreed. One thing that pleases me is the efforts of folks like HarryT to go back and make corrected editions of some of this stuff that was poorly proofed when first created. Of course, it requires someone like HarryT with a love for that particular content who wants to see it as perfect as possible and is willing to contribute the time and effort. I'm afraid some poorly proofed stuff will languish because there won't be anyone who wants to take on the task of fixing it.
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Dennis