[SEL] RE: Opinions wanted and brain fart!!

[Jeff Allen]

Hi all,

This looked like a good spot to jump in. First thanks to all for the 
opinions, and offers of help. I was not too clear on what I am planning, 
so here it is.

I have a 1906 book entitled Gas, Gasoline, and Oil-Engines including 
Producer-Gas Plants. The sample page was from one chapter that lists 
patents. The entire book is not about patents. It pretty much  covers 
old engines completely for the time period. Mixers, ingition, governors, 
etc. Lots of great pictures also.

The real beauty is this book is in bad shape externally. Most of the 
pages are barely held in, so no loss in taking it apart to scan. I think 
I got a real gem here, and got it cheap because of the condition. $16 on 
e-bay, and most of these books are way out of line there.

My plan is to scan the book and put it online. Last night I just wanted 
to know if the scan looked good and if the size looked right. I don't 
want to go to big, but do want enough detail for all to see. Trade off 
between bandwidth and quality is what I'm looking for. 99% of the work 
will amout to scanned pages. I will have to type the index and TOC, or 
try OCR for those pages. That way I can hyperlink to the other pages. 
Hope this clears things up. Again thanks for all the opinions.

Jeff Allen

PS.I'll have the next page in your mailbox tonight Peter.
PPS. Bill-Contact me off list if you could help with OCR for the index.

Ken Christison wrote:

>Jeff,
>
>You could make things easier by allowing others on the lists to take
>perhaps 10 pages and transcribe them.  I don't know how many people 
>would be willing, but I certainly would.
>
>Some of us on genealogy lists have done that with census reports and
>it works pretty well.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>Ken
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>>Subject: Opinions wanted
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>>Hi all,
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>>I want your opinions before I get too deep into this. Big project and 
>>will take many months. I think I have a good balance of speed and 
>>quality here. Let me know before I get into it for real. This will be 
>>over 400 pages with hyperlinks from the index and the table of contents.
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>>Take a look here at one page.
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>>http://frapa.us/P401.html
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>>Jeff Allen
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