aaron said:
You did not fully understand the announcement, nor do you understand what Archive.org is doing.
yes, i do fully understand it. i didn't care to talk too much about the in-copyright stuff, because i believed that the less said about that, the better. i can talk about that if you want to delve into it deeper, but remember i do support the overall mission of archive.org... so, do you want me to talk about that? first, though, answer me this: do you believe archive.org's o.c.r. of in-copyright material will be significantly better? i'm using the public-domain material to show the problem, simply because it's all i can see, and conveniently point to. but do you believe in-copyright o.c.r. will be problem-free? there's a chance that newer books will o.c.r. more cleanly, but if not, do you think archive.org will make corrections? will they bring their e-books up to a standard of _quality?_ i don't think so. so i, too, stand behind the point which i have been making. -bowerbird