Re: Anyone interested in hosting Burton's Unexplored Syria?
- From: "David Starner" <prosfilaes@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Anyone interested in hosting Burton's Unexplored Syria?
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:12:13 -0500
On 8/28/06, Klaus Graf <klausgraf@[redacted]> wrote:
> Project Gutenberg is a very bad solution. Let's remember:
>
> * Nearly all PG texts doesn't have appropriate metadata.
A significant, and growing, number of PG texts have all appropriate
metadata, and this volume is quite likely to be one of them.
> * PG is not hosting scans of books but dubious e-texts.
That's what this is, an e-text, not scans. I, and a lot of other
people, find scans to be hard to read on the computer, and they are no
help in storage size or linguistic analysis.
Some of the books I am proudest of that I worked on for PG is the
one's where PG's is probably the only legible copy in the world.
There's the original 17th century work, which may be readable if you
can get access to a copy, there's a couple b&w photographic reprints,
and there's PG's copy that has actually had a few people go over it
with a fine toothed comb trying to figure out what all the words are,
so you don't have to.