Sorry, I have been out and had email problems etc... I strongly urge you to follow up this line of thought. There are several sites on the internet doing fine work by making valuable material available, much of which is either full of scanning errors or even in scanned form. Is it satisfactory? Certainly not. Is it worth making available against the time that someone else improves it, if ever? MOST certainly. Is it consonant with our dignity to prefer making perfection available? Certainly. Is it consonant with our dignity to sit on material in case bairns and fools think that the job should do itself? Think about it. Make it available first, and let anyone dissatisfied get busy and make it satisfactory. Cheers, Jon
Let's just forget the whole idea of error free texts. . . .
Ever since I started Project Gutenberg I've never seen even one book I read, even most articles and essays, without big bluders you would think could never be published.
I would prefer just to get these materials in circulation-- then worry about approaching perfection along with Xeno.
Does anybody have a serious objection to putting the 8,000, or so, books that were listed earlier as being in limbo, in something like our "PrePrints" section, where we put eBooks that are admittedly not ready for prime time???
Please. . . .