[sdiy] re-publishing typewritten material

[Gordonjcp]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 10:56:34PM -0800, Barry Klein wrote:
> 
> As many of you know, similar to Electronotes, my book, Electronic Music
> Circuits, was typewritten without any Word doc ever created.
> I obtained full rights to the material and then utilized my employer's
> printing center to print in 8.5"x 11" spiral bound format.  I have tried to
> utilize Kindle Creator, Lulu, and Ingram Spark's book creation tools and
> just get frustrated each time.  I am not trying to OCR the book, just clean
> up the pages free of residual black marks from copies of copies etc. and try
> and correct what errors I know about.  If I were to try OCR it would get
> maybe 80% of the print content correct but totally choke on the schematics.
> No way am I about to redraw the schematics.  As it stands, I have the book

How many schematics are we talking about?  I don't have a lot of time on my hands these days what with the ongoing development of V2.0 - three months old next week! - but I can probably rattle them into Kicad for you

> in PDF form with a file size of about 40MB (334 pages).  Not something you
> can email.  I am sure there are those out there that would take on the job

I've got a practically limitless amount of server space (well, many TB free, which is a lot for webby things) if you want to upload it.

> of doing all this for hundreds of dollars, but I don't believe the cost
> would be justified.  Books are just getting too expensive to print and ship.
> I am frustrated I can't just edit and see where boundaries are being
> exceeded etc.  It looks good on the screen but gets trashed in the creation
> app.  I don't want to take on the job of managing packaging and shipping - I
> was hoping for one of these 3 companies to take care of it.  Electronotes
> will be the same deal: you can't just give one of these companies the "big
> PDF" (or the physical master copy) and sit back waiting for monthly
> royalties.

Sounds like an ideal prototype for one of those crowdsourced cleaned-up PDF attempts :-)

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Gordonjcp