<div dir="ltr"><div>I hate to say it, but when Bernard passes, somebody is going to make digital copies and start selling them. They're going to be low-quality, even if they're high-quality scans. A scanned-to-PDF document is never as nice as a designed-for-PDF document. Without somebody like Bernard being emotionally involved enough to be doing the QC, the product isn't going to be very good. It likely won't be searchable, maybe there's a TOC, but it won't link to the sections/pages. The graphics will be sub-par.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Will people buy it? It sounds like it. Personally, I have no need or desire for it, even if it were a 600MB collection of files. I'm not the target audience though.</div><div><br></div><div>My point is this: Somebody who already has a complete copy also has access to a high-quality, hopper-fed scanner. When they decide to scan it, they'll have the entire thing scanned into PDFs in less than a week. The files then get uploaded to a for-pay file sharing site and it's done. Bernard gets nothing out of it, and everybody who wants a new copy gets one that will never degrade, never get torn or water damaged (assuming proper backups). It will be an inferior product, but they at least get the product.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not advocating for this to happen in any way (like I said, I don't even want a copy). I'm just being as realistic about the world as Bernard appears to be.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 4:57 AM Gordonjcp <<a href="mailto:gordonjcp@gjcp.net">gordonjcp@gjcp.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:32:30AM +0000, Bernard Arthur Hutchins, Jr wrote:<br>
> Gordonjcp said:<br>
> <br>
> "There are literally people right here saying, "Say we can go ahead with this and we will do it". Right here."<br>
> <br>
> I must have missed the part where you explain who (NOT ME!!!) and how a team of 100 is managed. Herding Cats! Back in 2017 I couldn’t get even one person here to proof read a 2-page scan as a test.<br>
> <br>
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Why would you need as many as 100 people?<br>
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> Proposed group efforts have a warm-and-fuzzy “Kumbaya” aura to them. In general, it is folks standing around waiting for Mr. Somebody Should and for a cue to take a bow.<br>
> <br>
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You've heard of this "Linux" thing, right?<br>
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> Old saying on farms: “A boy can do a man’s work, two boys working together will do half a man’s job, and three boys working together aren’t worth a damn.<br>
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Okay, so what do you actually want?<br>
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Are you happy enough with the status quo where people sell on the only existing copies of Electronotes?<br>
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Do you want more people to read it? Do you want it gone forever? What exactly are you shooting for here?<br>
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Given that it seems to be one of the most jealously hoarded collections of documentation going, and I've never even seen what's in it, why would I bother to fork out hard cash for a tatty old second- or third- or fourth-hand copy?<br>
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Seriously, do you want help or not?<br>
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-- <br>
Gordonjcp<br>
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