On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Personally I would rather work on a book that is towards the 2,500,000 download end of the spectrum than on the 10 downloads end of the spectrum!
Not something I really see from what you've uploaded to PG, but okay. I'm not sure I agree though; getting something unique online or something higher-quality then can be found elsewhere, is more important to me then something there's a dozen copies of on the web.
"First come first serve" I suggest is a horrible way to make this choice because it encourages the most greedy and inconsiderate submitters to get there first rather than to take a thoughtful approach to picking which books to save and then doing a really really good job of digitizing and OCR'ing them.
I'm sure we could have told all the Slashdotters to hold on while we were preparing material for them. We might have actually done 40 or 50 books by now that way. I'm sure it also would have helped to criticize our submitters as "greedy and inconsiderate". I'm sure most people who scanned books for DP never thought about the value of the book they were scanning. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.