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> One of my leisure time pursuits is to find interesting old books on cavalry, making them into high-quality reflowable e-books. ... Why not crowdfund this wor
by zozbot123 8y ago
> One of my leisure time pursuits is to find interesting old books on cavalry, making them into high-quality reflowable e-books. ...
Why not crowdfund this work, with a commitment to submitting it DRM-free to Project Gutenberg (or perhaps DP-EU, for works that PG cannot accept)? This pure 'sweat of the brow' work seems to be especially appropriate for crowdfunding, as opposed to plain old content protection.
- Anthony-G 8y agoI gather from their wonderful pseudonym that he/she has a different attitude to “sweat of the brow”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov
- stakhanov 8y agohaha, yeah, that's right about stakhanov. wikisource actually does crowdsource this type of work. regarding crowdfunding: it's not actually all that capital intensive and i prefer no capital and no responsibilities. otherwise i could get in trouble balancing responsibilities toward crowdfunding investors versus responsibilities toward the employer who i actually work for to pay my bills.
- zozbot123 8y agoCrowdsourcing is also done by the 'distributed proofreaders' subproject of Project Gutenberg. It is an uncomfortable fact though that many 'DP' projects run aground without actually seeing a Project Gutenberg release, due to the lack of people who are willing to push the projects through and especially to 'post-process' them, i.e. take the proof-read and marked-up pages and actually create a final HTML e-book from them. (This shows up on the site as a sizeable 'post-processing backlog' which is unlikely to be even partially addressed in the foreseeable future.) But as long as someone is willing to do the hard part of the job, 'DP' can also work quite well!