Branko wrote:
Jon wrote:
Definitely! There's only two communities really interested in scanning old books: PG and DP. (There's also some academic communities, but by and large they are either interested only in a very small subset, or take a closed and proprietary position to the availability of the scans to the public.)
There's archive.org, the Million Books project, the Canadian Libraries, several PG-like projects (Runeberg, Project Madura), CCEL, Blackmask, Sacred Texts, and I am sure there are dozens others (only think of all the author-related associations that scan books!). PG is just one of the biggest (and certainly oldest) fishes in the pond, but by no means the only one.
Yes, you are right. When I mentioned "community", I was thinking of discussion communities/forums. And though a couple of the above I'm not that familiar with, I would assume the most active public discussion forums with regards to digitizing texts is gutvol-d and a couple of the DP forums. (Well, there is some discussion on Ockerbloom's "Book People" forum.) Do any of the above mentioned projects have public discussion forums that match gutvol-d and the DP forums for volume and diversity of topics? I know that IA's public discussion forum ('archivists-talk') is pretty much dead (I know this because I moderate it for Brewster -- I haven't yet started to promote it, but awaiting some decisions at IA's end.) Jon