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[โ€“] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've spent a good chunk of the year making ebooks from out-of-print dead tree books. Proofing and formatting takes a ton of time. Nobody reads them but me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

You'll be that guy that records old shows on VHS and when he died the only record of old shows was donated to an archive/museum. A priceless contribution to humanity.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

If you don't mind, archive.org has a place where you can upload them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

you should upload them to archive.org!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Do you have these online somewhere?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your process? What tools do you use??

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mobile app called vFlat to do the scans and OCR. Cleanup in Google Docs. EPUB creation in Calibre. Then for proofing, I read the whole thing on an Onyx Boox, which lets me mark it up with a stylus. Then back to Calibre.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Doing priceless work. Where are they online?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A noble endeavour. Unless we do something about it, we're going to have a huge copyright-shaped hole in our cultural history.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

put them on libgen

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bought an out of print book for Kindle that was typed and formatted as a father-son project. So glad they took the time.