Re: Varney the Vampire (was Comments...)

PG's version (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14833) clearly states in
its Transcriber's Note that it does not include the entire 109 chapters.

As for the University of Virginia version, it appears to exist only as
an HTML version, without source page scans.  (Google "varney vampire
university virginia", without the quotes.)

Harvesting it for PG would be problematic without title page and verso
scans to establish its publication as being before 1923.  UofV seems to
have used a 1970  Arno Press reprint.

There's no source edition in Internet Archive, only the PG version.


Al



> -----Original Message-----
> From: gutvol-d-bounces-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected] 
> [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Arromdee
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 7:36 PM
> To: gutvol-d-4LCm/o+qPMZ96Xl/[email protected]
> Subject: [gutvol-d] Comments...
> 
> 
> Hi.  I originally just wanted to look in the list archives to 
> see if this has already been discussed but I had to subscribe 
> first for that.  I decided I'd post after all.  Apologies if 
> this is the wrong list but it's the best list I could find.
> 
> Anyway, my comment was that when reading books from Gutenberg 
> that have images, the images seem awfully small.
> 
> Searching the website brings up
> 
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Public_Domain_eBook_Su
> bmission_How-To
> 
>     Don't try to keep the highest resolution possible - for 
> HTML, we typically presume 96 DPI (dots per inch) with 256 
> colors, which is a "medium" resolution. 
> 
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:HTML_FAQ

    If you're an experienced HTML maker, you know this stuff; if you're
not, take it as a guideline that you should generally aim to keep your
images in the 40K to 60K size range...

    Since most people will be viewing these images in a browser on a
screen with a resolution below or around 1000 pixels wide, you should
mostly make your images not much wider than 600 pixels.

The same images that people use in HTML end up used in epub, and this
FAQ is so old that it encourages people to use images that are absurdly
small by modern standards.  On my 264 DPI tablet, 600 pixels is somewhat
over 2 inches wide. I suggest changing the suggested image size to be
less 2004.  The DPI and width should be at least doubled, if not more.
I know, they're suggestions and you're not going to reject a book for
having bigger images, but even optional suggestions have a big effect on
what people do.  You may as well suggest that people keep their file
size limited to that which fits on a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk.

(You also ought to increase the size of every image you already have,
but I can't even imagine how much work it would be to do that to
thousands of books.)

Other comments: Someone mentioned errata being a problem.  I tried
submitting two errata for a Jules Verne book.  The first was a simple
typo and was accepted, so it is possible to send in an erratum.  The
second turned out to be in the source material and was rejected because
of that....

Jules Verne is also a problem because certain translations are notorious
for poor quality and PG may not necessarily have the best public domain
translation.

I also looked for a copy of Varney the Vampire on PG.  You have one, but

it's a shortened edition that doesn't include all the chapters.  There
is a version with all the chapters online at University of Virgina
Library (though with missing images).  I have no idea how to report
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