I agree that scanning is great. A lot depends on how well the book scans. This book is written is pretty decent type, but it definitely would have to be proofread sooooooo carefully after scanning. It's not the proofreading that is so tedious, but the correction of each tiny little letter that I swear sometimes can take as long as typing the page (depending on how fast you type, of course.) I may be able to enlist my husband for this job if it would be scanned. Thanks. Dee. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yancey, Dennis J <[email protected]> To: 'Dee Randall' <[email protected]> Sent: December 01, 1999 1:53 PM Subject: RE: [VALOUISA-L] Re: Putting the book online! > If Copyright is not an issue - just SCAN it into a computer with OCR > software. > > No use spending hours on end retyping the whole thing. > > Dennis > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dee Randall [SMTP:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:39 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [VALOUISA-L] Re: Putting the book online! > > > > I don't know much about computers. But I can type. > > I don't know anything about "organizing a 'team'" and I don't want to. > > I'm a BUSY person, but I can take instructions. > > If someone wants to tell me how to get it on the Trevillians site > > after it is typed, I will type the WHOLE thing, if someone will send > > me the book to type. I will certainly return the book. > > > > If there are people that want to buy the book after it is published, > > that's great, but hopefully after it is typed we won't find that it > > can't be put on line without problems. I would like that problem > > solved beforehand. > > I've used this invaluable book many times over the last 20 years > > through libraries and it is my hope that books like this can be made > > available without cost to any researcher. > > > > I'm offering my help. Does anyone want to help me by giving me > > instructions. > > > > Dee Randall > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Adrianne <[email protected]> > > To: Dee Randall <[email protected]> > > Sent: December 01, 1999 2:58 PM > > Subject: Putting the book online! > > > > > > > I don't know who wants to get involved in the production of putting > > the book > > > online. That is a lot of work and time. I do know that the > > Washington Co. > > > PA GENWEB group put a huge book online and it took a long time. > > > > > > I don't know if the HIGGINSON book company will claim a copyright, > > they > > > weren't with the other project I was working on with them. I'll ask > > that > > > question. > > > > > > I will report back to the group when I hear the final result. If > > you want > > > to organize a team to start putting this body of work on the Louisa > > site, > > > that would be great. > > > > > > > > > > > > Adrianne > > > > > > > > > >