We talk a lot about hardware here at BookLiberator, it is what we spend most of our time on after all, but it is time to shine a light on the software behind the scenes that turns our page images into beautifully produced “book” collections. That software comes in two parts, scantailor, written by Joseph [...]
This post began as a reply to John Degen’s blog post about the Book Liberator. In particular I want to respond to the idea that photographing books is somehow an attempt to steal control of a book’s soul from it’s author, that doing so is a violation of human rights as set forth in the [...]
If you spend some time in the ebook community you inevitably run into Distributed Proofreading, the collaborative proofreading group that supplies Project Gutenberg with high quality text versions of Public Domain books. They are a small community of dedicated editors doing good work. Unfortunately, they are also becoming irrelevant to most of the issues in [...]
Shortly before christmas last year I had an experience with the internet that left me speechless. The actual effects, besides possibly this blog post, aren’t exactly negative, but the implications of it, and the incredible ease with which it happened, left me a little stunned. To put it simply, my past caught up to me. [...]