On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, 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.
Then I suggest we keep some kind of notice for our own people that the book is incomplete, rather than simply ignoring books once they reach the public. It's not as if there is some "Digital Divide" that prevents us from trying to improve our eBooks from both directions. Why use this kind of reasoning to keep these books from seeing the light of day? Michael