OK, I've published "On Our Selection" and "Our New Selection" by Steele Rudd, which is all well and good because I got the text nice and legally from PG Australia and Freeread.
But that isn't all that Steele Rudd wrote, not by far!
I am lucky enough to have a copy of a four volume compendium of Steele Rudd books. They were published in 1992 by Queensland University Press, reprinted in 1993 and 1994.
The problem is, this compendium has been rebranded with copyright 1987 QUP and an estate. As such, it seems doubtful it would be legal to take the sections that are from the early part of this century - what Steele Rudd actually wrote - and republish it elsewhere.
The question is: how else can I get this stuff on my Sony Reader? - The only public texts I have found seem to be "On My Selection" and "Our New Selection" (which have been somewhat confusingly edited in the QUP compendium, moving half of the chapters of each to constitute "Stocking Our Selection"). Would I need to go out and find the original texts from the early 20th century myself?
The QUP compendium contains the following (for reference):
Vol 1 "On Our Selection":
- On Our Selection
- Our New Selection
- Sandy's Selection
- Back at Our Selection
Vol 2 "The Old Homestead"
- In Australia
- For Life and other stories
- The Old Homestead
- On Emu Creek
- The Romance of Runnibede
- Green Grey Homestead
Vol 3 "The Rudd Family"
- Stocking Our Selection
- From Selection to City
- The Book of Dan
- Grandpa's Selection and other stories
- The Rudd Family
- The Poor Parson
Vol 4 "A City Selection"
- Dad in Politics and other stories
- Me an' th' Son
- The Dashwoods
- We Kaytons
- The Miserable Clerk
- On an Australian Farm
- Memoirs of Corporal Keeley