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Now we have a "book uploads" section, I thought it might be of use to have a thread in which people can say which books they are working on, to avoid duplicated effort.
To start the ball rolling, I'm continuing my "Illustrated Dickens" books by creating fully illustrated versions of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale of Two Cities". Should have those done in the next few days. |
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Maybe it's a good idea to move this topic to the "Book Uploads" forum and make it a sticky?
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Thanks Alex.
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what are the rules for uploading a book? I have several books I have put together in rtf format, but they arent as elegant as BookDesigner books with TOC's and the like. Can I still upload them? -lint
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Perhaps Alex could advise us on this. I don't know whether or not he intends this to be a forum specifically for LRF-format files. The forum description suggests that this was the aim.
Converting your RTF files into LRF is very easy. Just download "Book Designer", load your RTF file into it, and click the "Make Sony Reader e-Book" button. My personal view (and I must stress that this is purely a personal opinion) is that we should perhaps reserve this uploads forum for books that people have added some significant "value" to over the original Project Gutenberg (or whatever) originals. There seems little point in uploading something here that someone can download from PG and have on their Reader a minute later. By "added value" I mean things like cleaning up the formatting, adding a nice TOC or index to a complicated book, adding pictures, hyperlinks, stuff like that. Again though, I don't make the rules, and all this is nothing more than my personal opinion. Alex is "the man" and he can give you a definitive answer. Last edited by HarryT; 03-31-2007 at 03:17 AM. |
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I agree we should focus on uploading books that have some added value, more than just auto-converted content. I intend to write a friendly sticky guideline to clarify this matter.
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I'm currently working on Don Quixote and The Three Musketeers in LRF. (Actually, I've got them done already but I want to give them a onceover before uploading them even in a version 1 format.)
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I don't know who came up with the idea to upload ebooks here. Anyway, I think it is brilliant that idea.
I agree with Harry and with Alexander and I don’t agree. Yes, it’s a nice idea to just collect all the perfectly formatted books here, but I think there are much more rtf-files out there which would be quite nice for many of us. I don’t know if this suggestion would cause too much trouble, but why not open another page where all those files are uploaded which are quite nice and completely satisfying for many readers? So there could be this page for “perfect” books and the other one for “okay” or “nice” books and here I come back to the beginning, I really think there are much more “nice” books ready to be uploaded than “perfect” books. Somewhere in the forum someone made “Shakespeare” available. I think it should be uploaded here. I have got the files, but I as I didn’t do the work I don’t want to “snatch” the credit. Ah, I just found the thread and the link: http://www.falstaffshouse.com And Harry I think you know about it, so you should be able to upload "Shakespeare" and maybe these: "War of the Worlds" and "Fortyone Thieves" To be found here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8532 Thanks a lot. Friedhelm Last edited by friendly; 04-01-2007 at 02:28 PM. |
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Definitely should be a separate forum, and as there would likely be more books, perhaps one thread per author? Or is this likely to be too many files and too unmanageable a situation? Anyway, just wanted to chime in with my 1.5 cents. |
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If there is a need for well formed RTF books I feel it would be best served by its own forum area and keep this one for LRF books alone. This may spawn multiple forums where each is dedicated to one specific book type -- one for PDF, one for IMP, etc. This would save people having to sort through a large number of posts to find the ones for their format.
I have been absent from these forums lately as I have been involved with two projects. First, I have been savoring the reading of the TE Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom and, second, I have finally started work on the Wiki expansion for Best Practices in Book Designer. I have almost finished the first and expect to finish the latter this week. |
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You see, RWood? That's exactly the sort of thing that makes your karma so high.
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Could you explain to me what would be a point of uploading RTFs?
There are planty of websites(such as blackmask, manybooks, baen etc.) that are professionals in this particular subject. I think that uploading only books for device-specific books would be useful. Maybe I don't understand something? |
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