Wolfe ebooks & stories

Son of Witz · 22 Mar 2010, 21:17 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:17:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Wolfe ebooks & stories
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I found a motherload of Wolfe pdfs online. (Fenopy I think it was). Tons
of short stories in there, but I'm hesitant to read any of them as a first
read because of the massive amount of OCR errors found in the New Sun ones
that were included. They are great for reference, for searching and for
having the text at your fingertips while arguing about minor plot points
on the internet, but I don't think their usefulness extends to cozy
reading, even on an eReader. I find them very useful when I'm looking up
details for illustrations. (yes, still chugging on that as much as I can.
it's getting in the way of my less interesting for hire jobs actually...)


On Mon, March 22, 2010 3:19 pm, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> 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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