Re: Anyone interested in hosting Burton's Unexplored Syria?
- From: "Jon Ingram" <jon.ingram@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Anyone interested in hosting Burton's Unexplored Syria?
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:46:00 +0100
On 8/23/06, John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo@[redacted]> wrote:
> In cleaning up bad links, I'd recently discovered that Richard Burton's
> two-volume _Unexplored Syria_ had disappeared from the Web. I contacted
> the original poster, and he mentioned that the ewbspace he had for them had
> gone away, but he sent me the PDFs for the two volumes. If anyone is
> interested in hosting these, let me know. They're transcriptions, rather
> than page images, and a little under 2 MB total.
>
> (I haven't taken a close look at the two files, but
> on a quick glance they look useful. There was also a partial HTML text
> on Blackmask that's shown up on a few mirrors, but that contained a much
> smaller portion of this work.)
One good idea might be to upload it to the Internet Archive (
http://www.archive.org ) -- they've been allowing the general public
to upload e-texts to their archives for a while now, and they'll
certainly take PDFs. It will remove all worry about any new host
disappearing in a year or too -- I think they're going to be around
for a while!
--
Jon Ingram