On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:52 PM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
I find it too hard to keep proof-re-reading a book that I am really not that interested in. This is what DP is good at: getting people to casually attack in little bits books that no one is really very interested in anyway. The problem is, is that eventually *someone* needs to take "ownership" of the book to push it out the door. Often that doesn't happen, and 100+ hours of volunteer work get flushed -- or at least stuck indefinitely on the throne for several years.
The problem is, I don't see what people are willing to PP as having much connection to importance. Right now, I've got a work by Dostovesky sitting in PP Available for over a year. A number of other works I PMed sitting in PP Available for a long time I did because they're Important Works. Had they been the Campfire Girls, they'd already be in PG. And looking at the list, I find the restriction to Google Books or the Internet Archive to be silly. Most of what DP does is already from them. You want to exclude the ever-popular SF serials? Why? You want to prevent someone from chasing down a particular work that's not on Google Books? What have you gained? -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.