02-19-2013, 07:48 AM | #826 |
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Working on "Men of Mathematics", Vol. II, by E.T. Bell.
Hopefully scans for Vol. I will appear on the Internet Archive soon... |
02-23-2013, 12:16 AM | #827 |
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I am now proofreading Le Loup des steppes (Der Steppenwolf) in a French translation by Hermann Hesse (in the public domain in Canada since last year).
My german is next to zero but it would be wonderful to have a bilingual version, integrated or not: so if anyone is interested/wenn jemand interessiert ist! Working on "La relativité" by A. Einstein and other works of H. Hesse. Last edited by Arios; 02-23-2013 at 01:47 PM. |
02-23-2013, 03:57 AM | #828 |
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Note that, for translations, you need to check the translator's date of death, as well as the author's
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02-23-2013, 01:42 PM | #829 |
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Thanks Jellby for the info,
For La relativité, things seem good, but for Le loup des steppes I have not yet found any biographical information regarding the translator. I'll do more research about her (Juliette Pary). It's a little bit sad because the epub is nearly finished. |
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A quick search revealed some translations by her in the 30's and 40's... and one in the 80's, but that could be either another person or a later edition of a work translated earlier. In any case, that's not enough information to be sure of the copyright status.
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I'm working on the French translation of "Mein Kampf". The one that is currently available on Amazon is full of errors, and the format is simply horrible.
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Interesting. Does that imply that the Germans didn't order a translation during their occupation of France? Considering Hitler's megalomania I would have imagined that he would have wanted every conquered people to read it in order to understand the righteousness of German dominance.
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I would have guessed the errors are mainly OCR errors.
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Yep, correct. However after having spent many, many hours trying to improve not only the epub itself but also the text (noting every error as I read through it), I found a PDF which contained a much cleaner version of the text. Obviously PDFs don't convert well to epubs, so I had to convert it into HTML, clean the whole thing using a lot of REGEX, then insert the cleaner text in the epub that I had already rebuilt. Last edited by HYPE; 03-05-2013 at 11:16 AM. |
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Thanks, that was interesting.
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I'm therefore wondering if there is some bona fide, mathematically inclined Australian or Canadian citizen willing to adopt it and put it on a server in their copyright-legislation-enlightened country? (Proof of citizenship required: Replies must start with "G'day mite" or end with "eh?" ) |
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Just popped by to say thanks, especially to those still uploading lrf, which I need for my trusty old Sony prs 505.
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