On 11/23/05, Gutenberg9443@aol.com <Gutenberg9443@aol.com> wrote:
I don't know anybody that can spare six gb for ONE book.
I could, for one book, even now. I remember one critical edition that showed a comma or period in full color blown up 10 times to show that it was actually a broken comma, not a period. I've had times when I've been looking at my own scans and had a hard time telling noise from punctuation. I want a chance to check this without having to have a hardcopy of the book in hand.
Forget the pretty. Most people want the words.
If we're here for what most people want, I think we can pretty much retire. I can think of a couple things we're missing, but not in plain text. One of the things I've been missing from PG is scans of line-art pictures in high-enough quality to make reuse possible. Instead of buying a Dover art book, I should be able to dig through the PG archives to find a suitable picture.