This FAQ has recommendations WRT page scans:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Scanning_FAQ#S.21._Will_PG_store_sc…
>> up to 600 dpi, and should be stored as black-and-white TIFFs with
CCITT-4 (aka ITU-G4 or Fax Group 4) compression
On 27-Jan.-2019 13:05, Gardner Buchanan wrote:
> This guidance in the FAQ is aimed at illustrations, not raw page
> scans. I got the impression you were looking to include raw page
> scans which would generally be ~300-600dpi and could be above 3,000
> pixels on the long axis. Is there guidance about what to do with page
> scans being contributed as part of a Gutenberg project?
>
> On 27-Jan.-2019 12:04, Ken Arromdee wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Greg Newby wrote:
>>> Concerning (Ken's) your comment about Weird etc.: I don't know what
>>> scanning policy you are writing about. It's perfectly acceptable to
>>> include high resolution scans.
>>
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:HTML_FAQ#8._Recommendation:_Images
>>
>>
>> "Since most people will be viewing these images in a browser on a
>> screen with a resolution below or around 1000 pixels wide, you should
>> mostly make your images not much wider than 600 pixels. If you have a
>> 2000- or 3000-pixel-wide image derived from an original scan, you
>> need to look at resizing it."
>>
>> (Is epub generated from HTML? That could compound the problem since
>> epub is often read on tablets which have higher resolution than PC
>> screens).
>>
>> I see this is a wiki, so I could delete the text in question, but I
>> don't know what I could replace it with since I don't know what sizes
>> PG really recommends. Also, this guideline seems to reflect actual
>> practice for many books on pg, and even if those books were scanned
>> years ago, the images in them are now permanently small, since
>> nobody's going to go through the back catalog and rescan everything
>> that has images.
>>
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I hope this is not *too* off-topic, since it isn't about Gutenberg but it is hopefully a topic of interest...
I want to see a book at Google Books, The Secret Tomb (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Secret_Tomb.html?id=0NMCTgniOIsC.
This book is published in 1923 as can be seen from the first pages, so it became public domain this month. Google Books has a "Report an Issue" link which includes an option "I’d like to see the entire book, and I believe the book is in the public domain".
I reported it and got a form letter reply from someone who obviously didn't understand my request and claimed that according to the publisher, the book was produced in 2009 (maybe, but it was obviously just a scan of a book from 1923, with a generic cover tacked on by a "publisher").
The book doesn't seem to be available on archive.org or on Project Gutenberg.
Has anyone here had experience trying to escalate a request for a public domain book from Google Books?
