There's nothing that PG can do with an errata email saying only that a book is of "bad quality". The phrase is meaningless--does it mean poorly proofed, poorly formatted, or what? To be useful, an errata report must be specific, ranging from a line-by-line listing of the errors found, up to sending in a corrected text that can be compared/checked against the current version of the book. Many of PG's older books, whether done by early independents or DP, would benefit from a complete re-proof, and even from a re-do from scratch, producing a new text file and adding an HTML version and illustrations. Given the existence of Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/americana), Google, etc, and the scansets they host, along with text checking utilities such as Gutcheck, Jeebies, and Gutspell (http://gutcheck.sourceforge.net/etc.html), which weren't available to PG's earliest submitters (who may have typed their submission by hand), there's nothing stopping anyone from using a downloaded scanset and modern software tools to create a new, high-quality, version of an old PG text. (Just run it through the copyright clearance process first.) This has been done a couple of times. Check out Andrew Lang's "The Lilac Fairy Book", PG# 3454 (produced by independents) and 28096 (produced by DP Canada), or Lang's "The Yellow Fairy Book", PG #640 (independent) and 28314 (DP Canada). Al Haines Project Gutenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: christine To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:55 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] Current submissions to PG all go through the DP? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:43:08 -0700 Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Current submissions to PG all go through the DP? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:09:41PM +0200, christine wrote: > If such demands were to arrived at PG, what would PG do ? If you mean, what happens when fixes are reported to the errata email address below: the answer is, that the problems are dealt with. No, I meant what would happen if PG were to receive a mail from a reader saying something like "the ebook #xxxxxx is of bad quality, could you please do something about that". Would PG just say "sorry, nothing we can do", or post in a forum of a DP asking for that book to be redone ? or .... ? > As for Errata, there have been a call made last year for volunteers, I did > volunteered, were then told I would receive a mail about how to help ... I > am still waiting. > > Christine (aka Lostpaces) Did you respond to me? Or somewhere else? Apologies if you sent me a note, and didn't get a follow-up. There is still work to be done... Greg No, it was a "call" from Charles, to which I responded, and I received an answer from him telling me I would receive a mail from someone else. My offer is still there, if you need help with Errata, you now know where to find some. Christine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d