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RWood · 04-17-2007, 08:56 PM

I got to three repeats of "I totally agree with Title case as well" before it turned into "build better rubber baby buggy bumpers."

I moved the PG text to the back of the book (where most of it is on the more recently released texts) and gave it a chapter title of its own. There is no reason not to include the material as it does not increase the cost of production as it might if the books were printed on paper and no one should believe that I scanned all of the texts and OCRed the lot. I also added another chapter title after that for ebook production methods that has the notices about BookDesigner and the LRS to LRF conversion tool. Both of these changes/additions are in the just posted Harvard Classics Volume 14, Don Quixote.

I did change the title case to mixed and feel that it is a better read for that change.

I agree with Bob and the other posters (in other threads) that PG is a wonderful resource that we are lucky to have. When I use a text from them I want to credit it to them. Some of the texts I acquired from other sources had no PG mention in them (although I cannot say that they did not take the PG text and remove the PG information from it nor can I say that they did.) However when looking at two seemingly equal texts for the same material, I will generally tend to go with the PG version as I know it has been proofread by people who care about the material. This gives an extra measure of confidence to the reader that he or she is reading a good version of the text.

04-17-2007, 08:56 PM	#10
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Project Gutenberg Texts Are My First Choice for Source Material I got to three repeats of "I totally agree with Title case as well" before it turned into "build better rubber baby buggy bumpers." I moved the PG text to the back of the book (where most of it is on the more recently released texts) and gave it a chapter title of its own. There is no reason not to include the material as it does not increase the cost of production as it might if the books were printed on paper and no one should believe that I scanned all of the texts and OCRed the lot. I also added another chapter title after that for ebook production methods that has the notices about BookDesigner and the LRS to LRF conversion tool. Both of these changes/additions are in the just posted Harvard Classics Volume 14, Don Quixote. I did change the title case to mixed and feel that it is a better read for that change. I agree with Bob and the other posters (in other threads) that PG is a wonderful resource that we are lucky to have. When I use a text from them I want to credit it to them. Some of the texts I acquired from other sources had no PG mention in them (although I cannot say that they did not take the PG text and remove the PG information from it nor can I say that they did.) However when looking at two seemingly equal texts for the same material, I will generally tend to go with the PG version as I know it has been proofread by people who care about the material. This gives an extra measure of confidence to the reader that he or she is reading a good version of the text.