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 [...]
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 [...]
If you are curious about how I spend my time, as I know handfuls of people on earth are, here is today’s answer: Bkrpr Blog – Paperback testing begins in earnest.
The longer answer is that it is a device I’ve been working on since the summer to more easily convert my paper books into a [...]
I’ve done a lot of writing in word processors over the years, but now that I work in an office full time, I no longer have much use for them. The passing of this once essential program into the category of “sometimes comes in handy” seems worth a moment of reflection, so I offer here [...]