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From: "sinclairql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] Books and manuals
Hello,
In our website, we have begun to scan our spanish books and manuals to
preserve them in PDF format.
I think it would be a good idea to do also with the original manuals of
programs and a few essential books in English or other languages.
Is there already a repository of scanned documents with QL?
There is the documents section on my website, where I have some manuals for
old disk interfaces, QL manual and so on. But no books.
www.dilwyn.uk6.net/docs/index.html
and there is a list of QL books (none scanned) at
www.dilwyn.uk6.net/gen/books/books.html
What do you think? What would have problems? Besides the poor quality of
some scans and the tedious work involved in doing so.
Plus of course copyright issues. It is possible that companies might not
object so long after most QL books went out of print, but remember that
copyright persists for many years.
It is very tedious work, even using a good modern scanner and modern OCR
software.
Quanta have started on the task of scanning the old newsletters (the old
ones, where the original documents are no longer available on disk) to
preserve them as searchable PDF documents. I think it might be a very long,
very slow, very tedious job just for 40-page newsletters, never mind whole
books!
But good luck if you decide to do this job, Javier.
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Dilwyn Jones
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