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
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Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:55
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Subject: [gutvol-d] Current submissions
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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
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