45 Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

45 Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices Michael took a printed copy of United States Declaration...
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45 Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

45 Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

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45 Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

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Author: Newby, Gregory B.
Format: eBook
Language: English

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

Michael took a printed copy of United States Declaration of Independence to the computer laboratory, where he sat at the teletype terminal and typed this first eBook. He distributed it via email to the people he knew about via the Internets predecessor, ARPAnet, which was available at UIUC. At that moment, the first eBook had been freely distributed to the online community of the day. Digitization and production techniques, at the time of this first eBook, were ad hoc and informal. A single eBook producer would edit a single file, from a single source. The first eBooks printed source was a single sheet of paper, without hyphenation, a book cover, images, or other characteristics of book-length sources. In 1971, capitalization was not an issue, as only upper case letters were available in the character set used by the system. It took over two decades to release the first 100 eBooks, with #100 being published in 1994. Most of those first eBooks were collected through personal interaction with Hart. He would guide or participate in the digitization process, often developing procedures to deal with new characteristics. Footnotes and endnotes, italics and underscores, bold text, and different fonts all presented challenges for representation as plain text. Primitive markup techniques were developed, such as using an underscore character to surround underscored text, _like this_. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Author: Newby, Gregory B.
Release Date: Oct 18, 2019
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Language: English

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