Current submissions to PG all go through the DP?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:43:08 -0700 Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Current submissions to PG all go through the DP? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:09:41PM +0200, christine wrote:
If such demands were to arrived at PG, what would PG do ?
If you mean, what happens when fixes are reported to the errata email address below: the answer is, that the problems are dealt with.
No, I meant what would happen if PG were to receive a mail from a reader saying something like "the ebook #xxxxxx is of bad quality, could you please do something about that". Would PG just say "sorry, nothing we can do", or post in a forum of a DP asking for that book to be redone ? or .... ?
As for Errata, there have been a call made last year for volunteers, I did
volunteered, were then told I would receive a mail about how to help ... I am still waiting.
Christine (aka Lostpaces)
Did you respond to me? Or somewhere else? Apologies if you sent me a note, and didn't get a follow-up.
There is still work to be done... Greg
No, it was a "call" from Charles, to which I responded, and I received an answer from him telling me I would receive a mail from someone else. My offer is still there, if you need help with Errata, you now know where to find some. Christine
There's nothing that PG can do with an errata email saying only that a book is of "bad quality". The phrase is meaningless--does it mean poorly proofed, poorly formatted, or what? To be useful, an errata report must be specific, ranging from a line-by-line listing of the errors found, up to sending in a corrected text that can be compared/checked against the current version of the book. Many of PG's older books, whether done by early independents or DP, would benefit from a complete re-proof, and even from a re-do from scratch, producing a new text file and adding an HTML version and illustrations. Given the existence of Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/americana), Google, etc, and the scansets they host, along with text checking utilities such as Gutcheck, Jeebies, and Gutspell (http://gutcheck.sourceforge.net/etc.html), which weren't available to PG's earliest submitters (who may have typed their submission by hand), there's nothing stopping anyone from using a downloaded scanset and modern software tools to create a new, high-quality, version of an old PG text. (Just run it through the copyright clearance process first.) This has been done a couple of times. Check out Andrew Lang's "The Lilac Fairy Book", PG# 3454 (produced by independents) and 28096 (produced by DP Canada), or Lang's "The Yellow Fairy Book", PG #640 (independent) and 28314 (DP Canada). Al Haines Project Gutenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: christine To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:55 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] Current submissions to PG all go through the DP? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:43:08 -0700 Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Current submissions to PG all go through the DP? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:09:41PM +0200, christine wrote: > If such demands were to arrived at PG, what would PG do ? If you mean, what happens when fixes are reported to the errata email address below: the answer is, that the problems are dealt with. No, I meant what would happen if PG were to receive a mail from a reader saying something like "the ebook #xxxxxx is of bad quality, could you please do something about that". Would PG just say "sorry, nothing we can do", or post in a forum of a DP asking for that book to be redone ? or .... ? > As for Errata, there have been a call made last year for volunteers, I did > volunteered, were then told I would receive a mail about how to help ... I > am still waiting. > > Christine (aka Lostpaces) Did you respond to me? Or somewhere else? Apologies if you sent me a note, and didn't get a follow-up. There is still work to be done... Greg No, it was a "call" from Charles, to which I responded, and I received an answer from him telling me I would receive a mail from someone else. My offer is still there, if you need help with Errata, you now know where to find some. Christine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d
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