[Sca-cooks] sca books page

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Would you like me to forward this to the SCA-Librarians list?

> Hi. I built some webpages recently about books of interest to the
> SCA. It has 3 sections:
>
> 1) Online annotated bibliographies of paper books
> 2) Online books
> 3) Putting out-of-copyright books online.
>
> You can find these pages at: http://AandS.org/books.html
>
> The main reason I'm sending this email is to ask everyone for
> help. These projects are mostly community projects, and you can
> help make them better.
>
> As an example, most of the bibliographies are not just the work of one
> person, but were built by a bunch of people contributing information.
> So if you're interested in music or dance or brewing or whathaveyou,
> there are probably books on your bookshelf that need adding to the
> bibliographies.
>
> Another way you can contribute is by proofreading books. Project
> Gutenberg is a general project to put out-of-copyright books onto the
> Web. They have some clever software to aid proofreading of images of
> pages after they're run through OCR software. There's generally at
> least one pre-1600 book being proofread; for example, there's a huge
> series of volumes entitled _The Principal Navigations...of the English
> Nation_, which was published about 1589. At the moment they have about
> 10 people doing photocopying/scanning/ocr of books, and about 200
> volunteers a day reading about 10 pages each. So this is something you
> could work on for just a few minutes a week.
>
> So, come by and take a look!
>
> http://AandS.org/books.html
>
> -- Gregory Blount
>
>
>
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