eBooks we're working on

[tsgreer]

I am finishing up The Adventures of Jimmie Dale and The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale. Pulp adventures of a guy who is a playboy by day, crimefighter by night. Working on the cover and tweaking the formatting, so it will be posted this weekend...

[tsgreer]

Actually I was wondering if it is ok to name our stuff a little differently. Sort of like when someone does a compilation, do they get to tweak the title just a bit? We are sort of our own publishers here.

For example, the title of the books I am working on, The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, deals with him becoming The Grey Seal after he puts on his crimefighting costume. Now incorporating The Grey Seal into the titles of the books sounds more exciting to me.

So is this an e-book faux pas? I sort of see ourselves as repackaging some of these lesser known works for a new generation of folks to discover and read. My teenage son would be more inclined to read the crimefighting adventures of the Grey Seal, than he would the crimefighting adventures of Jimmie Dale, even though they are the same crimefighting adventures.

I would alway strive to keep the original title on the cover somewhere, but was just wanting to jazz it up a bit. I know we are not supposed to judge a book by it's cover or it's name, but some people do.

I'm not talking about the big famous ones, but mostly these lesser known works. Any thoughts?

[Hadrien]

Originally Posted by BenG

Great! Look for some Thorne Smith novels next week. Topper (the basis for the Cary Grant movie and the TV series) and Night Life of the Gods will be first.

http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_author/230

Hmm... I know that manually created books and automatically generated ones are quite different. Feedbooks is somehow in the middle though, because we need to cut the books into parts/chapters/sections.

Is there any way I could make it easier for those of you working on Book Designer to upload the same books on Feedbooks ? We're working on our support for Epub, and we'd like to support Mobipocket next: this could be an easy way for people to select between a non-reflowable format (but with hyphenation and justification) or a reflowable format.

With Epub, we can also provide custom settings like we already do for PDF. It'll be a bit different though. Epub uses CSS, which means that people could swap or create between different templates, and Epub also support embedded fonts (you just add the font in one of the directory of the Epub file).

People spend a lot of time formatting books with Book Designer, and the team and users behind Feedbooks also spend quite a lot of time uploading the exact same books.

There must be a way to a more collective effort...

[LaughingVulcan]

Currently working on Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Reviewing first-pass generation for formatting, etc.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan

Currently working on Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Reviewing first-pass generation for formatting, etc.

As you may be aware, there are so many editions of Leaves of Grass, as he worked on it all his life. Are you working on what is referred to as the "Death Bed Edition"?

The very first edition was extremely slender compared to that last edition [Death Bed Edition].

Thanks,
Don

[Dr. Drib]

I'm working on To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.

Right now, there may be some parsing problems. I haven't read this in over 20 years and don't have copy to check for line breaks.

So.....off to the bookstore with my Reader....I'm finishing up Grotesque by a Japanese writer, a novel I bought from Connect....very interesting.

After my obligatory Latte, I'll go one block over to the used book store and see if they have a cheap copy of Lighthouse.

Once those lines are determined to be correct or not, the book is already finished.

Don

[sartori]

Dr. Drib,

If you don't manage to find a copy of the Lighthouse there is a djvu copy available on archive.org that you could flip through to check the breaks.

http://ia300225.us.archive.org//load...ighthouse.djvu

Sartori

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by sartori

Dr. Drib,

If you don't manage to find a copy of the Lighthouse there is a djvu copy available on archive.org that you could flip through to check the breaks.

http://ia300225.us.archive.org//load...ighthouse.djvu

Sartori

Thank you for the information.

I tried to get on but I'm getting some strange applet informatin on th top left of the screen. The rest of the screen is white.

This is what I'm getting:

java.io.IOException: Invalid DjVu File Format
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.read(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvu.Document.init(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuBean.setURL(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djvubean.DjVuViewport.setURL(Unknow n Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.getDjVuBean(Unknown Source)
at com.lizardtech.djview.Applet.init(Unknown Source)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)



Don

[sartori]

Sorry about that, I forgot that you have to install the djvu reader. From the archive.org faq:

How do I view the DJVU books?

DJVU is a open format for scanned documents. There are free readers available at:

http://www.lizardtech.com/download/?...wser%20Plug-in

for windows, mac, linux, mac OS-X, solaris.
Try it. We like this compact, searchable, good looking, and open format.

Sartori

[LaughingVulcan]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

As you may be aware, there are so many editions of Leaves of Grass, as he worked on it all his life. Are you working on what is referred to as the "Death Bed Edition"?

The very first edition was extremely slender compared to that last edition [Death Bed Edition].

Thanks,
Don

I am aware that there are differences (thanks to Wikipedia when starting it...) but I can't really find much reference as to what I could distinguish the deathbed edition from any others. (i.e. Are there any particular wordings or added poems that could tell me what version I have....) I'm using the PG text as the base for it; they seem to have only one version.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by LaughingVulcan

I am aware that there are differences (thanks to Wikipedia when starting it...) but I can't really find much reference as to what I could distinguish the deathbed edition from any others. (i.e. Are there any particular wordings or added poems that could tell me what version I have....) I'm using the PG text as the base for it; they seem to have only one version.

Yes, he kept adding poems to Leaves of Grass, but I couldn't tell you what specific poems they would be. I don't know if actually edited lines from his earlier poems. I also don't know if he removed some poems.

You've probably already tried this, but if not, try a search with the combination of Whitman deathbed and see what that brings up. I will sometimes add the word download, as well.

I don't know what edition was posted on PG. Sorry.

I hope this helps.


Don

[RWood]

Working on Candide by Voltaire. The basis is the Modern Library edition of 1918 on PG with an Introduction by Philip Littell.

[BenG]

http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_author/230

Thanks! They seem to be very nicely formatted. I may do Smith's Turnabout since you have these covered.

[BenG]

Is Lud-in-the-Mist by English author Hope Mirlees still under copyright? It was written in 1926.

From what I've read, when Lin Carter published it in 1970, he made a search for the author and couldn't find her. Since the copyright had expired, he published it anyway. Mirlees apparently died in 1978 and may never have known her book was back in print.
So, my question is,have changes in law renewed the copyright?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by BenG

Is Lud-in-the-Mist by English author Hope Mirlees still under copyright? It was written in 1926.

From what I've read, when Lin Carter published it in 1970, he made a search for the author and couldn't find her. Since the copyright had expired, he published it anyway. Mirlees apparently died in 1978 and may never have known her book was back in print.
So, my question is,have changes in law renewed the copyright?

This is a GREAT fantasy. I have it in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, from the late 60s/70s, but it was recently re-released in a trade paper format. I can't remember the publisher, but I saw this about 6 months ago at Border's.

I don't know if it's still in copyright or not; if not, it would certainly be a great ebook to add to the library.

Don