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HarryT · 01-23-2008, 03:25 AM

<sigh>

I suppose it was inevitable that after saying how "thoroughly" I'd proof-read Great Expectations that I should immediately spot four additional errors (two instances of missing commas, hyphens used in place of dashes, "again" spelled as "a gain". Now fixed. Uploaded v5 for Sony and Mobi. Hopefully this one will last a little longer than the last version!

HarryT · 01-28-2008, 08:59 AM

Uploaded a new v5 of "Oliver Twist" for both Sony and Mobi. This version has been proofed against a printed version. Many lines missing from the original (typed in) PG version have been restored, hundreds of paragraph endings corrected, and numerous other minor errors put right.

NB: I would now regard this as a "finished" version of this eBook. If you find any errors, please either post on the thread to which the book has been posted, or send a PM to "Harry T" to let me know about them.

HarryT · 01-29-2008, 05:05 AM

My next project (between proofing my existing books) will be an omnibus edition of Plato's dialogues.

Patricia · 01-29-2008, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

My next project (between proofing my existing books) will be an omnibus edition of Plato's dialogues.

Lovely. I'm looking forward to that.
I imagine that you will be using the Benjamin Jowett translations, Harry?
They are out of copyright and generally good.

HarryT · 01-29-2008, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

Lovely. I'm looking forward to that.
I imagine that you will be using the Benjamin Jowett translations, Harry?
They are out of copyright and generally good.

They are good but unfortunately they lack the standard section numbering which is useful when looking up references.

I've already started this, and used the Henry Cary HTML versions of the translation of "Apology", "Crito", and "Phaedo"; they are much better laid out than the Jewett text versions and have footnotes, etc. Have you any thoughts on how good or otherwise they are? Would you recommend that I use the Jewett versions instead?

The Jewett versions have nice introductions, though, so I've used those.

I'd appreciate your advice, because I know that this is your professional field of knowledge, whereas I'm strictly an "amateur".

Sparrow · 01-29-2008, 11:52 AM

I really like the way the dialogues are presented at http://socrates.clarke.edu/index.htm

I think it's a great reasource

(plus they have the text from the surviving fragment of the little-known dialogue 'Eukiddenme' http://socrates.clarke.edu/eukiddenme.htm)

Patricia · 01-29-2008, 06:54 PM

Harry, the Cary translations are also very good. And you are right: the PG version does include the Stephanus reference numbers (and these are the standard way of referencing Plato's works, so this is a great advantage).

Sparrow: I suspect that Eukennme is a spurious work. It has affinities with Aristophanes' comedy, The Clouds (which features Socrates as one of the characters) and contains anachronistic elements. But great fun though. I shall tell mystudents about it.

HarryT · 01-30-2008, 02:17 AM

Thanks Patricia - much appreciated!

HarryT · 02-02-2008, 12:25 PM

I have posted the complete works of Plato, in two rather large volumes, for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are mainly the late 19th century translations of Benjamin Jowett, and include his essays on each of the dialogues, which greatly enhance the enjoyment of the dialogues for "non experts".

These books represent the fruits of about a week's solid work, 8 hours a day, of effort, but I'm very pleased with the results.

Suggestions for improvements, or the pointing out of errors are, of course, extremely welcome.

Enjoy!

DMcCunney · 02-02-2008, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Suggestions for improvements, or the pointing out of errors are, of course, extremely welcome.

Enjoy!

One suggestion: they show up in Mobipocket's Library list as Complete Works Vol(x). Er, whose complete works?

Might want to embed Plato in there somewhere...
______
Dennis

Patricia · 02-02-2008, 05:21 PM

Brilliant work, Harry: many thanks.

HarryT · 02-03-2008, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

One suggestion: they show up in Mobipocket's Library list as Complete Works Vol(x). Er, whose complete works?

Might want to embed Plato in there somewhere...
______
Dennis

The book has (I hope!) full metadata, and all the versions of Mobi I'm using show the author as "Plato". On the Gen3, at least, the library also shows the cover image, as below. I'm rather pleased with that cover.

Are you using a version of Mobi which doesn't show you the name of the author?

DMcCunney · 02-03-2008, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

The book has (I hope!) full metadata, and all the versions of Mobi I'm using show the author as "Plato". On the Gen3, at least, the library also shows the cover image, as below. I'm rather pleased with that cover.

The cover is lovely. I'm playing a bit with Mobi Creator here, and creating cover images that have type overlaid on a graphic.

Quote:

Are you using a version of Mobi which doesn't show you the name of the author?

I'm running Mobi 5.3 beta on Palm OS.

If I tap and hold on the entry for the book in the Library listing, and select Details, the Author does show as Plato.

But the Library list entry itself just says "Complete Works Vol X".

Since it's entirely possible I'll have other "Complete Works" collections, the question becomes how I distinguish between them.

The Contents, incidentally, looks like this:

(using a converted 10pt Cambria font)

This is one reason I'm fond of Plucker: I can rename the title shown in the library list if needed to disambiguate. Mobi for PalmOS doesn't seem to include that ability.
______
Dennis

HarryT · 02-03-2008, 01:14 PM

Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I've uploaded new Mobi versions of the books with the titles changed to "Plato - Complete Works Vol 1" and "Plato - Complete Works Vol 2" to avoid the confusion.

I don't believe this is an issue for the Sony version, since the Sony library screen always displays the author's name.

DMcCunney · 02-03-2008, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I've uploaded new Mobi versions of the books with the titles changed to "Plato - Complete Works Vol 1" and "Plato - Complete Works Vol 2" to avoid the confusion.

Bless you!

Quote:

I don't believe this is an issue for the Sony version, since the Sony library screen always displays the author's name.

I assume the Cybook behaves the same way, and I suspect the Kindle does, too.

I'd be curious to know how Mobi versions for Symbian, PocketPC, and Blackberry behave. I suspect the problem is much smaller screen size, and things don't get shown to conserve space.
______
Dennis

01-29-2008, 05:05 AM	#303
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Plato My next project (between proofing my existing books) will be an omnibus edition of Plato's dialogues.

02-02-2008, 12:25 PM	#309
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Plato I have posted the complete works of Plato, in two rather large volumes, for both Sony and MobiPocket. These are mainly the late 19th century translations of Benjamin Jowett, and include his essays on each of the dialogues, which greatly enhance the enjoyment of the dialogues for "non experts". These books represent the fruits of about a week's solid work, 8 hours a day, of effort, but I'm very pleased with the results. Suggestions for improvements, or the pointing out of errors are, of course, extremely welcome. Enjoy!

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01-23-2008, 03:25 AM	#301
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	<sigh> I suppose it was inevitable that after saying how "thoroughly" I'd proof-read Great Expectations that I should immediately spot four additional errors (two instances of missing commas, hyphens used in place of dashes, "again" spelled as "a gain". Now fixed. Uploaded v5 for Sony and Mobi. Hopefully this one will last a little longer than the last version!

01-28-2008, 08:59 AM	#302
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Uploaded a new v5 of "Oliver Twist" for both Sony and Mobi. This version has been proofed against a printed version. Many lines missing from the original (typed in) PG version have been restored, hundreds of paragraph endings corrected, and numerous other minor errors put right. NB: I would now regard this as a "finished" version of this eBook. If you find any errors, please either post on the thread to which the book has been posted, or send a PM to "Harry T" to let me know about them.

01-29-2008, 11:52 AM	#306
Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	I really like the way the dialogues are presented at http://socrates.clarke.edu/index.htm I think it's a great reasource (plus they have the text from the surviving fragment of the little-known dialogue 'Eukiddenme' http://socrates.clarke.edu/eukiddenme.htm)

01-29-2008, 06:54 PM	#307
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Harry, the Cary translations are also very good. And you are right: the PG version does include the Stephanus reference numbers (and these are the standard way of referencing Plato's works, so this is a great advantage). Sparrow: I suspect that Eukennme is a spurious work. It has affinities with Aristophanes' comedy, The Clouds (which features Socrates as one of the characters) and contains anachronistic elements. But great fun though. I shall tell mystudents about it.

01-30-2008, 02:17 AM	#308
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Thanks Patricia - much appreciated!

02-02-2008, 05:21 PM	#311
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Brilliant work, Harry: many thanks.

02-03-2008, 01:14 PM	#314
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Thanks for the explanation of the problem. I've uploaded new Mobi versions of the books with the titles changed to "Plato - Complete Works Vol 1" and "Plato - Complete Works Vol 2" to avoid the confusion. I don't believe this is an issue for the Sony version, since the Sony library screen always displays the author's name.