On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:44:51 -0400, John W Kennedy wrote
(in article <9484D038-4D2C-4761-9284-3ABE501E0E65@attglobal.net>):

> On 2012-07-13 11:14:12 +0000, Wayne Dernoncourt said:
>> I have all of the B5 books so far (not the trilogies, but the script/What 
>> the 
>> hell happened/etc. books, at least I think I have), what I would love to 
>> have 
>> but doubt I ever will are electronic versions of these books.  I have all 
>> of 
>> the books, but I've stopped reading them.  Why?  I've damaged some of the 
>> books (and they've been replaced by the scripts team), but if I go back and 
>> re-read them, replacements won't be available.  Also those things end up 
>> being heavy.  I'd love to be able to carry three or four of those books 
>> around when I go on vacation.  A Kindle or an iPad version would be lots 
>> more 
>> portable than the printed copy.
>> 
>> I'm sure that my dream will remain unfulfilled, but I can still have it.
>> 
> Apart from the other problems, most of the material is in the form of 
> original scans; you're talking a megabyte or two per page (assuming they've 
> been converted in to optimized PNGs -- otherwise you could be looking at
over 

> 100MB each). In principle, they could be OCRed, but I've just been doing
that 

> with a single 80-page typescript, which reduced it from about 500MB to about 
> 125kB, but destroyed all the formatting while introducing several OCR errors 
> per page, both of which I had to fix by hand (and I'd still be working on it 
> if I hadn't decided that I could ignore the original line breaks and page 
> breaks, and that's not acceptable for the scripts).
> 
> Unless you can find a few dozen volunteers to work for several weeks without 
> pay, I don't think it's feasible.

I'm willing to bet the text didn't start out as pen on paper, maybe it did.  
But someone somewhere put it into a computer for production on a printer.  
I'm looking to capture that to an electronic version.  As someone else 
pointed out the "Limited time only" is a sticky issue.  I'm sure there are 
other issues.
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