In a message dated 10/20/2004 12:43:31 PM Mountain Standard Time, shalesller@writeme.com writes:
we should be doing a lot more Spanish and French and Arabic and a bunch of other languages that we generally totally ignore.
In reply, Anne, Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
We don't ignore them. We beg, plead, and implore for them. But we don't get them.
More in the same vein... Perhaps for a little reminder, check out this faq: http://gutenberg.net/faq/G-15 I've been contributing a few French-Canadian books to PG myself, by reformatting some already online elsewhere. I've also done the same with German texts in the past. I find it goes a good deal slower when I'm not too familiar with the language in question, because I'm afraid of letting obvious mistakes get through... Also, the numbers below (taken from the catalog) show that, although PG's non-english content can certainly be expanded, it is not insignificant: French (367) German (307) Finnish (85) Chinese (69) Spanish (59) Italian (36) I just scanned through a list of the titles posted in the last seven days, and a quick count gave me 23 in languages other than English. That doesn't seem to me to be "totally ignoring" Andrew