Re: notes, thoughts, and two polls, because we're all so chatty

On Thu, November 29, 2012 2:57 pm, [email protected] wrote:

[snip]

> and yes, after some brief checks, #84 definitely seems _not_
> to be based on the 1818 edition, meaning that it _probably_
> used the _1831_ printing, as that is the other major one for
> this particular book.

The first 7 chapters were based on the 1985 Penquin Classics edition which
modernized some spelling and punctuation. It looked like the remainder was
based on the 1831 edition (probably in a modern reprint).

I may have scans around of a photo reprint of the 1818 edition, if anyone is
interested....

[snip]

> so here's the question:
>
>>    in general, is it worthwhile to do any further cleaning on
>>    a book which just came out of distributed proofreaders?

No, not as to the text. The formatting/markup will obviously have to be
improved in a different environment.

[snip]

> and heck, if i'm gonna do one poll, might as well do two...
>
> so here's the question for the second poll:
>
>>    for a list of "the bottom-20 p.g. digitizations",
>>    which books would you nominate for inclusion?
>>    (note: download-count acts as multiplier here;
>>    so we want bad-quality plus high-downloads.)

Dracula?

A Tale of Two Cities?

> here are a couple "honorary nominations", which
> have already been suggested _often_ in the past:
>
>>   peter pan
>>   tarzan

Yes to Tarzan of the Apes, just because we know that #78 is the bowdlerized
version, and no other versions have been produced.

>>   frankenstein

Yes, although it appears that at least one replacement Frankenstein is in the
works, so further attention may not be necessary.

>>   alice in wonderland

Which Alice? The latest ones look pretty good, and came out of the DP process,
so I would think that the basic text is pretty accurate.

>>    pride and prejudice

Again, which one? And I haven't seen much comment about failures in P&P (other
than markup).

Lets get a complaint forum up and going, then see what people complain about
most.

_______________________________________________
gutvol-d mailing list
gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected]
http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d