
Bowerbird> greg said: >> We're planning to include the scanned page images along with >> eBooks. In fact, this is part of the intent with the new >> directory structure for the PG servers (the /1/0/8/0/... >> structure). >> >> We haven't done any (or many, anyway) because we're still >> trying to figure out how to best name the page files, and how >> to link them on a page-by-page basis into the (marked up?) >> eBooks. Jim Tinsley drafted some general guidelines for the >> image files themselves, but linking them to the eBooks is >> something we need to figure out still. >> Bowerbird> greg, i can give you this capability _right_now_, with Bowerbird> your plain-text files (i.e., the whole library), if you Bowerbird> would only make it your policy to: (1) include Bowerbird> page-break information in the files, How do you include the information in the files if it has been removed? This can at best be valid for future production. And moreover, how do you find the correct page when some material (e.g. the footnotes) has been moved, and the page contents are no longer consecutive? I have a solution of both problems for DP-produced books using the files output by DP before the post-processing stage; these files correspond to individual pages of the original book, and you can find the image corresponding to a fragment of text through a grep on the DP-file. The concept has been implemented recently by a student, and a test of 300 recently posted PG ebooks should be publicly available before the end of this week. This is a part of a system for ebook maintenance (an user can submit a proposal of correction of a text through a web page, after consulting the original images, and an administrator later can accept - or reject - the proposals and obtain automatically a corrected version). Carlo

I don't often enter this discussion, though I have put a number of items by James Fenimore Cooper and Susan Fenimore Cooper on gutenberg. Today I generally put them on the James Fenimore Cooper Society website, in html, in part because of my frustration with italics and foreign accidents. However, on page breaks, I have for some time (I'm my own webmaster) adopted the practice, in putting books (not short articles) on our website, of inserting the page numbers of the original in {curly brackets} which I generally don't use for other purposes. This not only identifies the page from the original one is reading (helpful both for checking and for bibliographic reference) and, because it is surrounded by {curly brackets} is easy to search for without finding other materials. Anyhow, it's a thought. Hugh MacDougall, Secretary/Treasurer James Fenimore Cooper Society 8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 http://www.oneonta.edu/external/cooper
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