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The ebook versions could use some editing, right now it's just a jumble of OCR'd text without much formatting or chapter headings etc... That would be a lot of
by kaffeemitsahne 9y ago
The ebook versions could use some editing, right now it's just a jumble of OCR'd text without much formatting or chapter headings etc...
That would be a lot of work obviously, it's fantastic that the scans are available in the first place.
A related project: http://www.pulpmags.org/index.htm http://www.pulpmags.org/index.htm
- WalterBright 9y agoThe text fixing could be crowdsourced by putting it on github.
- detaro 9y agoI wonder what the license situation is though...
- fernly 9y agoExactly; Gutenberg/pgdp won't accept stuff published after ~1930 because it is too hard to clear copyright. In the case of an anthology mag you have overlapping copyrights of the mag and the authors of the stories.
- _delirium 9y agoIt looks like the magazine itself didn't have the copyright renewed back when that was mandatory, so the pre-1964 issues are out of copyright as far as the magazine's own copyright goes (which is probably why archive.org feels comfortable putting them up). But yeah some subset of the individual stories are probably still copyrighted, so PG would avoid it.
- dunham 9y agoProject Gutenberg also has some tools and process for crowdsourcing text fixing that could be adapted. (If copyright issues could be dealt with.) https://www.pgdp.net
- kwhitefoot 9y agoSo who's going to volunteer to lead such an effort?