On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:42:56PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
On 4/19/05, Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:
Any reason not to post them with a comment that these pages are missing?
Readers would thus be encouraged to help find the missing pages.
If you look at book 13921, you'll notice that it's missing pages 98 and 99 ("[Seiten 98 und 99 fehlen!]", embedded in the middle of the text). How many readers have jumped forward to offer the missing pages? If it had been kept at DP, we could have found the pages and added them. But once it's on the shelf, nobody worries about it anymore.
I've found as a general rule, once a book is posted, the odds of anything getting done on it drop vastly. It gets moved to the completed pile, and new books take its place.
I feel like I might be stepping on a hornet's nest, so please try to be gentle with me: My questions are two: 1. What is the approximate success rate & timetable for getting missing pages for books in DP? (I.e., how many books are stalled for missing pages, and how many have had their pages found/restored, and how long after proofreading was complete did this happen?) 2. I'm aware there are a sizeable number of books at DP that have completed proofreading, yet are not yet uploaded to the PG servers. What proportion is awaiting missing pages, versus other types of delays. I want to offer two things, also: a) We can run requests in the newsletters for particular items. These go out to > 6K subscribers, and we might get some positive responses. I think Branko Collins was looking to provide some regular DP content to Michael Hart for the newsletter - or, just email stuff to Michael or me. b) ditto for the gutenberg.org Web page: a "wanted" area (with lots of changing content -- drawn from a list of titles missing pages) would probably get a lotta clicks. -- Greg