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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
In my group of book I got on ebay, I got a gorg first edition of Paul Leicester Ford's "Wanted- A Chaperon." I'm going to make it my first upload to Mobile Read (but first I have to type the whole thing! How does everyone do this?)
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wow, that's great ! and very nice of you to share ! i know that some people occasionally do type in the whole book, but you're right, it's a lot of work. as an alternative, have you checked to see if the text is available on Project gutenberg ? if not, and you have access to a scanner, you could scan the text, then use an OCR program to turn the scans into text (there are some threads around the forum on how to do this, also i believe slayda has a lot of experience). then, since you have the paper book, you can use it to compare to the result and correct any ocr errors. and if there are any illustrations you can include them.
of course, if you prefer to type in the whole thing, that will work as well.
