Wolfe ebooks & stories

Gwern Branwen · 22 Mar 2010, 19:19 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:19:13 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe ebooks & stories
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Fortunately, I suspect the
>> actual harm these ?publishers and authors is almost nil since (looking
>> them over) almost anyone who would download these stories would prefer
>> to own the books anyway. They're probably more greatly harmed by used
>> book stores.
>
> Also, out of curiosity I downloaded Nightside of the Long Sun and had
> my suspicions confirmed. The text was merely OCR'd and never cleaned
> up. So these texts are of limited value even as a reference tool. One
> would be better off using Google Books.
>
> J.

I would point out that all the entries in Google Books are either not
available or cut you off at roughly half the contents - usually around
150-200 pages, I'd guess, based on how far the downloading scripts
get.

OCR errors are annoying, but at least everything is accessible.

-- 
gwern

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