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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Now, if I could understand what that letter was saying....
My French is horrible, but I do get the impression that you're asking for an omnibus of the collected works of that writer, in an electronic format so you can read it on your Sony...
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sorry, i can post a translation of it if you like, since it was to a french publisher i wrote it in french. but you understood what i said. in fact i got a reply today from the publisher, which is nice ! and best yet, here is what he says :
- they have been working already over one year on questions of digitising their catalogue.
- there are two parts to the problem which must be addressed distinctly :
1. the digitisation if the catalogue, which is long and costly which they are currently working on. the Collection Bouquins, including the books by Léo Malet, is at the heart of this work. (yay !!!!!!! i am overjoyed to hear this)
2. the sale of a digital catalogue is much more complexe because of legal and commercial questions (authors' rights, price of an ebook, partners...)
He says they will soon begin to sell their first ebooks (yay !) but the Collection Bouquins (so, Léo Malet...) will not be among them yet (aw.
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so, overall it's good news ! but i must be patient for a while longer... arg, that is so hard !
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward;366284[B
]Scanning/proofing is a pain,[/B] voice of experience. If your p-books are small enough to fit on a standard printer scanner, you might scan as TIFF files and convert them with separate scanning software. I find that this way is somewhat slower, but gives paperback the same OCR rate 99%+ as Optiscan. I forget the name of the software, and I'd have to swap packs to get it, but you have a higher DPI on these cheap printer/scanner combos than Optiscan has (300 DPI vs 100 DPI for Optiscan)
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yep, i don't even need to try it to know this is true. i don't have the patience to scan them, honestly. it would be a herculean task. i'd rather just replace the ones i cherish the most and give away the paper ones.
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Originally Posted by RWood
I noticed a large amount of books behind our local library, if they don't like your book donation they trash it and not all of my books are "correct" to their way of thinking. They also want me to sign a form stating that the book has never been in a smoking environment. Heck, some of the books are so old that they smoked in the bookstore when they were bought.
Local used book stores only give credit for used books and all I need is more books.
Local thrift shops/charity shops have signs up saying that they will not take any books.
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you know, it's kind of sad when you can't even *give* books away. luckily i've not run into that problem yet, there are still plenty of places which will take them from me (for free, anyway), and nobody is making judgements about the quality of the litterature or whether or not they have been exposed to cigarette smoke... that just seems insane to me. and it's a bit worrisome if a library is practising that kind of censorship !
unless you only mean the physical state of the book ?