On 12/09/2011 08:58 PM, James Adcock wrote:
And, later on aesthetic form for the texts/books.
Writing, formatting, and publishing books is an art form. When people "transcribe" books leaving out that artistry, and transgressing the rules of the last 500+ years of formatting books then they have in fact failed in their transcription.
Every art form depends on the medium. When the medium changes, the rules also change. When people "transcribe" from an unflexible and uncustomizable paper substrate to a flexible and customizable electron substrate, and do not adapt the rules, they have failed.
Bottom line truth: Much of what PG publishes looks like crap -- even when that which the volunteer transcriber submits was a reasonable effort in the first place.
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