
don said:
I don't understand.
c'mon, don. i know you have the chops for good thought. so why don't you demonstrate the capability? p.g. has the scans for the books that d.p. did. but those books do not need to be corrected. for the most part, they are all "good enough". and because p.g. has the scans, those books can point to those scans as their provenance. so there's almost no need to work with them. p.g. does not have scans for the early books, many of 'em classics, which _do_ need fixing. indeed, even those which are "relatively clean" cannot mount credible proof of that accuracy. and because they cannot point to a scan-set, they're completely lacking in any provenance. so these are the books which need attention... specifically, they need to (1) find a scan-set to be their parent, and (2) get in step with it. for (2), their lines will need to be rewrapped. now, don, what is it, about all of that, which you couldn't have figured out all by yourself? *** carlo said:
Do nothing.
that's your best advice? seriously? while you're sitting on your hands, someone will be eating your lunch. -bowerbird

What puzzles me most is which part of what I have posted you haven't figured out yet. (First, for the vast majority of DP books PG does *not *have the images and if they did they aren't correlated to any page numbers that may or may not be in the text, but that's a detail.) For many of those early texts, Google, TIA, etc. images are available and can be used as comparison sources. You can see that demonstrated at eb.tbicl.org, where most pages have a page number on the right, which when clicked displays the TIA image for that page. On the readingroo.ms wordpress installation I'm currently building the ability to compare the text of one of those oldies, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1013 using images from here http://www.archive.org/stream/firstmeninmoon00wellgoog#page/n13/mode/1up You apparently wouldn't find that useful?

On Fri, February 17, 2012 1:01 am, don kretz wrote:
What puzzles me most is which part of what I have posted you haven't figured out yet.
BB has certain goals, which are at best unclear. In his world, every project is explicitly designed to satisfy his goals; if one does not, then it (and its proponents) are subject to verbal abuse. What you are trying to accomplish does not satisfy BB's goals, so it is a logical impossibility. You would be well advised to pursue your own goals as you see fit, and don't try to engage BowerBird in discussion.
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