On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Rod Butcher wrote:
Greetings from Sydney Australia, my first post here. As a literature student who has made use of free online gutenberg texts, I thought I'd like to put something back. I couldn't find George Eliot's Felix Holt and thought maybe I could scan and proof-correct it as my contribution. Then I wondered why has it not already been done , as it is a standard text... is there a copyright problem ?
Felix Holt is available at <http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/holt/>, but as a folder of individual HTML files, one for each chapter. Bastards. It's impossible to download the HTML and convert to a PDA-friendly format without a LOT of work. They're protecting their precious little digitization project. The problem with using a modern edition of a dead-tree book is that you can't be SURE that you won't be hit with copyright complaints. The only safe thing is to get a pre-1923 copy of the book and scan it. That's why I have spent WAY too much money at ABEbooks to get safe PD versions of the stuff I scan. -- Karen Lofstrom