[bksvol-discuss] Re: mysteries galore!
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Tony,
I have chopped and scanned the new Christie and Queen books, but I didn't have
time to start an OCR of them, so they're waiting for that before being
submitted. I'll send you an email when I do submit them, probably next
Thursday.
If you're interested in Maugham, there's a biography and a list of his many
novels, short story collections, plays, travel books, essays and memoirs at
http://www.caxtonclub.org/reading/smaugham.html
He's one of the great literary masters, and I'll be looking for more of his
books during next month's foray for classics. We need to bump up our classics
collection in order to entice more colleges and universities to use the
website, which of course will help Bookshare. So many books, so little time!
Carrie
Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all. I would like to request something. Please leave the Agatha
Christie and Ellery Queen books for me. I would really, really appreciate
it! I promise that I'll release some of those I'm holding in exchange. I
have been having email problems, so I literally just got this email even
though it was dated Thursday morning. I have looked daily at the step 1
page but haven't found any of the Christie books. I didn't look for Ngaio
Marsh but I couldn't find any of the Ellery books either. Again, I would
be greatful if someone would release these if they're holding them! I
promise I'll let some books go off my step 2 page in trade.
The second note is on classic literature. I'm sure you all are tired of me
extoling the virtues of Project Gutenberg, but they really are the best
source for classics pre-1922. There is nothing wrong with Carrie
submitting book scans, and I'm all for it, but the quality from Pg is 99.9%
free of scanning errors since it has undergone many rounds of proofreading,
while the book scans often have OCR errors. So, if you're interested in
classic literature in high quality, take a look at PG first. One
additional note. I have been in contact with the webmaster there to get
books available in Braille. If anyone wants to help me with this, please
contact me on or off list. Here's their site, just in case you don't have it.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Just a few days ago, I was interested in Somerset Maugham. I had seen the
name before, and I think Carrie had submitted books by him or her. I
looked through the index, just to see what I could find, and found the
following:
The Magician, by Somerset Maugham 14257
Oct 1995 Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham [humbnxxx.xxx] 351
Feb 1995 Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham [Maugham #1][moonaxxx.xxx] 222
To access the above ebooks, just go to an url like this in your browser,
but replacing the number with the book you want.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/222
Anyway, I'm sure you're tired of hearing about them as I said, so I won't
say any more for awhile about them, but I would like to kindly suggest that
Marissa and the other bookshare staff and engineers consider adding the
latest books to the bookshare collection. They have just released book
16,000 yesterday!
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