Re: "The Inheritance" by Susan Edmondstone Ferrier
al said:
Hmmm... maybe bowerbird is up for them?
what's my motivation, al? the one edition i looked at -- in english, i speak no german -- is a simple book, quite straightforward, so wouldn't prove anything. i mean, i'm totally willing to run through the exercise-wheel, but what do i get when i come out the other side? how about this, a win-win-win-win situation for everyone... for a while, the p.g. website has been directing newbies over to distributed proofreaders if they want to help out with the cause. and sure enough, d.p. gets a ton of volunteers as a result of that. unfortunately, d.p. doesn't appreciate the newbies, because they just contribute more stuff to the plethora of p1-proofed backlog. so how about, if i were to do this book for you, p.g. would start sending all the new volunteers to rfrank's roundless site instead? d.p. happy, rfrank happy, the bird happy, al happy, and p.g. happy. so, do we have a deal? -bowerbird
I'm not aware of any general PG practice to send newcomers to DP. Your motivation? What do I care? Be altruistic, and do a book. If you want something challenging, PG's Preprints page (http://preprints.readingroo.ms/) has lots of candidates. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bowerbird@aol.com To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org ; bowerbird@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:41 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: "The Inheritance" by Susan Edmondstone Ferrier al said:
Hmmm... maybe bowerbird is up for them?
what's my motivation, al? the one edition i looked at -- in english, i speak no german -- is a simple book, quite straightforward, so wouldn't prove anything. i mean, i'm totally willing to run through the exercise-wheel, but what do i get when i come out the other side? how about this, a win-win-win-win situation for everyone... for a while, the p.g. website has been directing newbies over to distributed proofreaders if they want to help out with the cause. and sure enough, d.p. gets a ton of volunteers as a result of that. unfortunately, d.p. doesn't appreciate the newbies, because they just contribute more stuff to the plethora of p1-proofed backlog. so how about, if i were to do this book for you, p.g. would start sending all the new volunteers to rfrank's roundless site instead? d.p. happy, rfrank happy, the bird happy, al happy, and p.g. happy. so, do we have a deal? -bowerbird ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d
On 2/17/2010 3:50 PM, Al Haines (shaw) wrote:
Your motivation? What do I care? Be altruistic, and do a book.
But at the end of the day, if BB produces a book and gives it to PG (after, of course, posting a copy to the Internet Archive before it is degraded by the whitewashers) you have a book. But if he participates in Mr. Frank's "roundless" experiment, and you both encourage others to do so, at the end of the day you still have your book, probably faster than you would have gotten it otherwise (because I know quantity is important to PG), and perhaps even less error-prone than if a single individual had produced it (even though quality really isn't that important to PG), and BB and Mr. Frank have valuable data that perhaps can be used to develop a more efficient production system. Either way, you still get your book, but in the latter scenario valuable data is produced as well. Be altruistic, Mr. Haines, and support the experiment.
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Lee Passey