eBooks we're working on

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

MR user "Jellby" has done an absolutely wonderful job of proofing "Great Expectations" against a scanned 1st edition that's available online at Standford University, and has found several errors, and literally dozens of words which should have been either capitalised or in italics, and weren't. (The PG text I originally used to create the book had no italics marked). I've applied all these changes, and the book is now hugely better as a result. Many, many thanks to Jellby for doing this - it really does make a difference!

How do you decide which is the best version to use? It seems like the first edition will contain more errors than later editions.

I do not know if you already do it but you should write in the book which version of the text you are trying to replicate.

[HarryT]

PG texts (which mine are all based on) specifically state that they do not aim to reproduce any particular edition.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

PG texts (which mine are all based on) specifically state that they do not aim to reproduce any particular edition.

this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

Yes, indeed. I do include the year of publication, where I know it, in many of the books I create.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

this brings up an interesting question though, what about the case of a book that was published in one form, then re-written to a large extent and re-published, making the second edition significantly different from the first ? i imagine just try to specify the year of publication, if you know it ?

Yep, that's what happened to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' - although the versions aren't hugely different - the most common version is the revised third edition of 1831; and is probably what you get if you just see 'Frankenstein'.

The first edition, from 1818, generally has an indication of the date to make it clear it is not the common text - my Oxford University Press paperback says 'Frankenstein 1818 text' on the cover.

When I posted a version here I called it 'Shelley_ Frankenstein 1818'.

[RWood]

I plan on doing the four Lone Wolf books by Louis Joseph Vance available at Gutenberg USA. There are other Lone Wolf titles but I have not found them.

No, I will not be using Jon's avatar for the cover art.

[RWood]

PG just posted a number of Doc Smith files which I will prepare and upload.

[HarryT]

Added the two books previously missing from the omnibus edition ("The Just Men of Cordova" and "Again the Three"), which have now been released as eBooks. This makes the volume complete.

Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

[HarryT]

New version of Vol 1 uploaded containing an improved version of the short story collection, "John Thorndyke's Cases". Uploaded for Sony and MobiPocket.

[HarryT]

Now uploaded improved versions of all 7 volumes of the "Dr Thorndyke" detective novels of R. Austin Freeman for both Sony and MobiPocket.

[HarryT]

Completely recreated the book with greatly improved layout and formatting. Added an illustration. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.

[vivaldirules]

Walt Whitman: Earliest Unpublished Notebook

Uploaded version 2. I have optimized the brightness and contrast of the images for the Reader. Now, the notebook pages are about as readable on my Reader as on my PC monitor. I will post a Mobipocket version if I can figure out how to properly size the images.

[Justy]

I know that Dr. Drib has done Sony BBeB versions of these book. However since I am planning to create Mobipocket versions of the Project Gutenberg Australia versions for my own enjoyment, I thought I would share. I will be uploading them over the next few days.
From Wikipedia:

The three Emily novels are Emily of New Moon (1923), Emily Climbs (1925) and Emily's Quest (1927). The series follows Emily through her school years and her climb up the symbolic "Alpine Path" of becoming a successful author (the Alpine Path is a phrase from a poem which was inspirational to her from a young age). The later books also follow Emily through several romances. Emily is a heroine with a love for the beauty in nature and art, loyalty to her friends, a thirst for knowledge, and a passionate dedication to her writing.

[HarryT]

Recreated the book to fix an issue with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded new versions for Sony and MobiPocket.

[HarryT]

A parallel volume to the "High School Boys Omnibus". Created a new version to correct a problem with incorrect paragraph breaks. Uploaded a new version for Sony and MobiPocket.