@Simon
 
Re Peachmonk - Robert Cicconetti's post of several days ago mentioned that he's prepping it for DP-US.
 
Re Blankenberghe - what about a text version (for the words), and an HTML version rendering the text as well as possible, with each page having a link to its page scan? 
 
As for Uber-projects - no thanks! <g>  My living-room is an out-of-control uber-project--I've probably got a couple of thousand pre-1923 books, and dozens of post-1922's that are public domain in Canada, more than enough to keep me (and DPC) busy for many years to come. 
 
Al
 
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@Al

 

“Peachmonk, a serio-comic detective tale in which no firearms are used and no one is killed” (1917) is by John Eyerman (1867).

 

Aside from a few very serious books about genealogy and paleontology, the only other offering Eyerman published is not a “Peachmonk” book, but closely allied.

 

“Blankenberghe, a serio-comic detective tale in which no firearms are used and no one is killed” (1910).

 

Neither book is in PG-INT.

 

I would consider mounting both of them as projects at DPC, but neither would make much sense in ASCII text version, and Blankenberghe would only work in HTML, as a series of illos of the pages, due to the extensive use of fancy fonts in the original.

 

As to considering them a “catalog” of titles to be produced by the DP community (and possibly linking them to the Eyerman books), the author has used many of the books of fame as elements in telling his story—many will already be in PG-INT. The balance would constitute a considerable backlog for DP production for years to come). There are 543 titles mentioned in Blankenberghe, for example.

 

Interested in tracking them all down—a sort of Eyerman UberProject?

 

Cheers

 

Simple Simon