Dear Dave, Alan and ?
I emailed James Stewart, who volunteered to put the book on the anthroposophy archive. This is his reply: "Thank you, Teresa. I believe someone in the US is mailing a xerox copy of the book -- I do not know how well it will scan, though. If you have access to a scanner and could scan the book -- cover, cover sheet, contents, etc. -- that would really help. That way, you can keep the book, save mailing costs, and use email to send the scanned output. If you do not have text-recognition software, just send the scanned *.tiff images of the cover, pages, etc. Send them 1 page per email message (they will be big files) as an attachment. The email address to send them to is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The person that posted the message on your mailing list used the wrong address for communications. I have all of the necessary software to break the images you send apart into text and graphics, if any!? Actually, the *.tiff images would be best, as I would have a copy of the book to proof the text. Proofing is the most time-consuming part of what I do, and there are always mistakes. Even after having 3 or 4 people go over the text, a user will find something we missed. And then, I will find something the user missed, in the same sentence! That has happened many times." I agree that the job is a lot of work and it would be good to split it up. Is there anyone else out there with a copy who'd do some? Provisionally, I'll agree to do Part I and up to Ch. V of Part II - that's 100 pages of a 424 page book. By the way, my edition is dated 1946 - at least that's the latest date in it, at the end of Concluding Note, before the index. There's no published date at the beginning. Don't know if later editions differ much. Are your copies the same edition? Anyway, I'll see how quickly it goes when I get started - probably in a few days. Teresa >This is a nice offer but the book is large, with many graphics, including >some chromas in color. So scanning would be a major task. I think it would >be great if someone wants to undertake the task, but it will be a lot of >work. >I have the book too, maybe we could share some of the scanning or proofing >tasks. Anyone else interested in piecing out the work? _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
