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03-03-2011, 02:19 PM | #1 |
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Harrison, Harry: A Harry Harrison Collection. v2. 11 Mar 2011
These are the short stories by Harry Harrison (of The Stainless Steel Rat and West of Eden fame, to mention a couple) available at Project Gutemberg, collected by date:
All are good, and most are humorous (nothing strange). Enjoy! New version: removed 'drop caps', due to Sony Readers trouble. Last edited by HarryT; 03-12-2011 at 02:48 AM. Reason: Update |
03-04-2011, 05:04 AM | #2 |
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Since Harry Harrison is still alive, I thought these shorts would only be in the PD in the USA?
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03-04-2011, 03:22 PM | #3 |
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Sorry - I know nothing about those matters.
* The PG disclaimers are at the end of each story. * Some of same stories are already in an anthology in this forum - .lrf format, though. |
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Many thanks
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03-05-2011, 06:45 PM | #5 |
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03-06-2011, 03:36 AM | #6 |
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A couple of links that may be of interest re: whether or not these stories excerpted from magazines are or are not in copyright:
http://www.publicdomaintreasurehunte...public-domain/ http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/fa....html#duration Something also to consider is whether or not Harry Harrison signed his copyright on the work over to the magazines. |
03-06-2011, 06:10 AM | #7 |
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I would also recommend a good look at this page at Baen Free Library about the general morals of the whole thing.
I am the happy possessor of the first six paper books of The Stainless Steel Rat series and, through failing eye-sight, longing for an electronic edition/planning to scan them to make my own. |
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This implies that it shouldn't be hosted on a Canadian server. |
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Moved to our US server.
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03-10-2011, 03:57 PM | #10 |
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My Sony PRS-650 seems to have a problem displaying the first line of each chapter. I see a big letter on the left and what seems to be the rest of the line pushed to the right edge of the page. Does anyone else have this problem?
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It would be important for carmenchu to know whether the same problems occur with other ebook readers. Regards, Alex |
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The problems with drop-caps, as well as the other formatting errors, are also present when the book is opened with Adobe Digital Editions on my desktop. I am sure that the 'drop caps ... trouble' will occur with any device which uses ADE - and that's most of them. The problem is not with any ebook reader, but with the formatting. Regards, Alex |
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03-13-2011, 03:28 AM | #13 |
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It's neither offensive nor inaccurate. The reported problem was indeed on a Sony Reader. Whether or not it also occurs on other reading devices does not change that.
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