-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 07:19 PM 10/3/2005, you wrote:
You know, about 2 weeks ago, I tried to find out how to join your project and start entering a number of older books that I have in my possession.
There is no PG membership. We just have a bunch of volunteers who contribute what they want.
I tried finding instructions on how to do this on the web page, but found only muddy descriptions of how to go about it. There were no firm guidelines such as USE THIS FORMAT or HERE IS THE PROGRAM THAT WE TYPCIALLY USE.
It depends on how you would like to do it. You can either scan all of the books (after you get copyright clearance), and either proof them your self, or you can send the scans to Distributed Proofreaders. You might also type them if you're especially patient. The reason that there is no definitive instructions on what programs to use or exactly how to do things is because everyone does it differently. As long as the end result complies to the general PG formatting and quality standards, it doesn't matter as much how you get there.
I tried to send scans to obtain copyright clearance only to have the message bounce. I tried resending them with the _at_ changed to @ and never got a reply from whomever was handling the clearances.
You can submit the scans here: http://copy.pglaf.org/
So, since joining as a PROOFREADER was all that I could find info on, I joined this list. I submitted a couple of elementary questions such as what format to type these books into, etc. My message has NEVER appeared on this digest.
You might check the archives. I saw your original message as well as a few replies. That particular digest may not have made it to your inbox for some reason.
All that HAS appeared is a bunch of people bickering and complaining about some arrogant twit. Can we all just GET OFF OF IT and do something constructive? How about someone clueing me in as to a very basic HOW do I reach this person who clears the books for copyright? And should the output of my text files be a TXT file? Or something else?
Yes. We want TXT. You can check the FAQ for further details. http://www.gutenberg.org/faq If anything in the FAQ raises more questions, please don't hesitate to ask on the list. You will almost always get a response.
(Then of course there are questions such as how you typically handle/format tables of contents and page breaks, how illustrations are typically treated, etc.) I know that one person is not THAT important, so I won't threaten to leave if I'm not answered, but you'd surely think that you all would welcome something else to do than to gripe about this Bowerbird person... As for me... I'm getting tired of waiting and being ignored.
There are some formatting guides on the DP site. http://www.pgdp.net/ Sorry that you haven't gotten your questions answered. I appreciate your willingness to help, and I know that I am not alone. Good luck, and please don't hesitate to ask more questions. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDQdBFI7J99hVZuJcRAoWIAJ44Wuo9ZBcLas/jSEvoKbm4XewlqACgoV/L QrsF6TyoYGNf+vbYMzCpzqs= =ZQXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----