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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
Ralph Sir Edward, i salute you. in fact i'm going to give you some karma as soon as i finish this. i don't think i would have the patience for all that, but i deeply admire those who do it. just one question, if you're preparing texts for PG, why take on the proofreading yourself, rather than allow DP to help you with it ? in any case it's admirable work. maybe you could upload your work in html format to the "other format" ebooks here, someone might take pity on your and convert it to standard ebook formats...
so what books have you contributed, for the next time i stroll around PG australia ?
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P.G. (US) uses a completely different method nowadays. You scan the pages as TIFF image files, and upload them (zipped) to P.G. (US). P.G. US does the OCR and the hands it to DP for proofing. The the resulting proofed file is sent to HTML specialists to make the actual book... Turnaround time, about 1 year. After putting 3 books into the assembly line, I got fed up waiting (after 6 months). So I talked to P.G. (AUS), who said I could do it myself, and they would upload. So I took 2 books on their want list (that were PD in both countries) that were in my library, and put them on the scanner and did them myself, from the ground up. I think I'll do the last one that I have on their list next week.
As to the books themselves, most people (even me) would find them rather dull (although I have a soft spot for The Crystal Button). (But as Cooch told Wal, "Somebody has to look after the scrag ends.") They are various forms of 19th century utopian fiction. Here's the list.
PG US - Mizora - 19th century feminist Utopian "lost world" fiction.
Pharoah's Broker - 19th century pure science fiction.
The Doomsman (Illustrated) - still in process - 1907 SF adventure
PG AUS - The Crystal Button. - 19th century Utopian SF story (similar, but not political, to Bellamy's Looking Backward). If you can put yourself in a 19th century mindset, it's not a bad read.
Man Abroad - 1870 Political Satire done as SF.
I would do Psi Casseopia (French 1838), but the translation is still under copyright.