{"id":590,"date":"2011-06-13T07:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=590"},"modified":"2012-05-19T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:15:32","slug":"gutenberg-org-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2011\/06\/13\/gutenberg-org-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutenberg.org eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ebooks, eReading<\/p><\/div>\n

02 Feb 09 Gutenberg.org eBooks<\/p>\n

Probably about 80% of the over 1200 ebooks I have are from\u00a0Gutenberg.org<\/a>, from where I\u2019ve been collecting books since at least about the early 1990s, mostly in ascii text format.<\/p>\n

The Sony Reader handles Gutenberg files very well. Since I read a lot of poetry, I don\u2019t even have to format them in any way, just load them on. Some of the prose, fiction, etc., word wraps weirdly, as you may be familiar with. I\u2019ve never understood why all the computer people can\u2019t get that fixed\u2026. Anyway, if you copy and paste the book into a word processor and then save it as an RTF file, the generic format that all word processors have available, the Reader will handle them just fine. It\u2019s an easy fix. There are several formats too that work well on different devices.<\/p>\n

The frustration I\u2019ve had with Gutenberg.org over the years is with the quality of the text. On a scholarly, editorial level, I don\u2019t feel comfortable with their policy of sometimes using two or three sources to \u201cproduce\u201d the \u201cbest\u201d text. That leaves too much latitude, to say the least, for people with little or no literary or textual sophistication to \u201ccreate\u201d and misedit the classics and other books of essential importance. It seems to me too that it\u2019s a problem that the academic community ought to confront and help educate the public about. Unless one believes it\u2019s not important to have the book as the author wrote it, but a conflation\u2026.<\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n

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The frustration I\u2019ve had with Gutenberg.org over the years is with the quality of the text. On a scholarly, editorial level, I don\u2019t feel comfortable with their policy of sometimes using two or three sources to \u201cproduce\u201d the \u201cbest\u201d text. That leaves too much latitude, to say the least, for people with little or no literary or textual sophistication to \u201ccreate\u201d and misedit the classics and other books of essential importance. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[259,293,290,292,294,291],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ereading","tag-ebooks-2","tag-gutenberg","tag-gutenberg-org","tag-post","tag-publishing","tag-reliable-scholarly-editions-of-ebooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}