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Originally Posted by theducks
92K+ Authors  |
This is my "Ongoing" library, the final one has a lot more.
I have 3 main libraries:
Incoming, for new books, after a brief metadata cleanup books are moved to
Ongoing library, this one with 92K+ authors at the moment, usually a lot less, then they they are moved to the Final Digital library, that should have no metadata mistakes, but of course, it does
In my country, there are many public libraries that scan old documents into single massive PDF files, for example, a recent one I have been working on, is a single PDF with 2 centuries of a diary newspaper, since January first 1800 till December 31th 1999.
I have split it per day, then used ABBYY FineReader to get every issue it into readable form.
Then I noticed there was regular publications inside the newspaper, news from both WW wars, official royal decrees, local news, etc etc etc.
I have made EPUBs by year with all those "publications" separately.
Some of them like "letters from battlefront to family", have over hundreds authors.
During night, main database is not touched by Calibre, instead it is available for sync with any library who wants it, no matter who asks. All this publications belongs to us, to our common history and culture. I am just helping to organize it :-)
I don't do this because I am an historian, I do this because I love one, because I can do it, and if i don't do this, I am afraid nobody else will for a very long time.
Again, thank you for your help!