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Originally Posted by gmw
(...) hence my earlier suggestion that you try to hook up with other small libraries. You are all, if you'll pardon the oxymoron, doing the same different thing. You are all producing editions of public domain works that you think offer something not commonly found elsewhere. By forming a network of such resources you must surely have a better chance of coming to the attention of people interested in such specialisation. At the moment a person may be lucky to stumble over one or two such sites, but if those sites were linked then finding one would find them all. (...)
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It's good advice, but, seriously, I am not aware of a single one of them. I have links to Gutenberg, Gutenberg Australia, Wikisource and Librivox on my site, but I have not found one site that is built around a small collection of books, and makes their own editions. I would very much like to know about such sites, exchange links, talk with the people who run them, think of ways to cooperate. Maybe a few of them exist, maybe many of them, but so far they have eluded me (and yes, I've searched).
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
That is the best reason I have heard for starting a website. The for you and a friend. (...)
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Thank you! She was blind, I scanned printed books for her, I proofread and formatted Gutenberg texts for her (OCR errors are much harder on the speech synth and the ear than they are on the eye), and then we thought, why not make the work available to others, as far as copyright allowed? I added my typesetting fetish to this project ... Several things need to be updated, things have changed within the past 8 years and I haven't always paid attention. I had only wanted to hear about websites that might offer links, but I am grateful for this discussion now, and all your comments.