[First Project] Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

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Rich Douglas

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Aug 12, 2022, 12:55:35 PMAug 12
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I'd like to do this text as a first project:


It's not on the list of Wanted Ebooks but it's around a 100K words in length so similar to some other books on the list.

Cool if I run with this one?

Alex Cabal

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Aug 12, 2022, 8:49:03 PMAug 12
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Great, that one would be a good start.

There's some poetry and letters in there - see the manual for copy and
paste styling. Otherwise, looks fairly straightforward.

Make sure to read the Standard Ebooks Manual of Style before starting,
as you won't know what to fix if you haven't read the standards. In
particular, please closely review the semantics, high level patterns,
and typography sections:

https://standardebooks.org/manual

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography

The step by step guide will take you from start to finish:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step

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When you're ready, email back with a link to your Github repository so
that I can mark you as having started.

Have fun! :)
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Alex Cabal

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Emma, can you manage this with David reviewing?

On 8/12/22 11:55 AM, Rich Douglas wrote:

David Grigg

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Aug 12, 2022, 9:28:48 PMAug 12
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OK by me.  BTW, this and its sequel were among my father’s favourite books. He was a huge Jeffrey Farnol fan.

Rich, can you be sure to mention my name when you post that it’s ready for review, otherwise I might miss it? 

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Emma Sweeney

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Aug 12, 2022, 9:34:01 PMAug 12
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Sure.

Emma

Rich Douglas

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Aug 24, 2022, 12:18:32 PMAug 24
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(I believe) I've done the bulk of the SE process; I'm now reading the generated artefact on my Kindle as the "proofread, proofread, proofread" step.

The content could be reviewed by a second reviewer at this point; here's a link to the GitHub repo:

The lint command is (correctly) squawking about the cover image and metadata: I'll sort those in the near future once the cover image process is complete.

I expect I'll have read the book cover to cover in a couple of weeks when it'll have any fixes I find during the read through.

I'm thinking of using this image for the cover:

There's a scan of that picture in the following link;  an image from the same book was used in the SE production of Sabatini's Captain Blood so I hope it's good to go:

The SE manual of style is excellent; I expect I've made a fair few mistakes in this first project for which I beg forgiveness.


> Rich, can you be sure to mention my name when you post that it’s ready for review, otherwise I might miss it?

Tagging David.

Cheers
Rich

Alex Cabal

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Aug 24, 2022, 12:21:03 PMAug 24
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Great. Typically reviewers come in you're done proofreading and you
think the entire ebook is totally complete.

The art looks good, but can you find page scans that are published in
the PD era? It looks like the page scans you found are from a book
published in 2011 and IA is limiting access.

On 8/24/22 11:18 AM, Rich Douglas wrote:
> (I believe) I've done the bulk of the SE process; I'm now reading the
> generated artefact on my Kindle as the "proofread, proofread, proofread"
> step.
>
> The content could be reviewed by a second reviewer at this point; here's
> a link to the GitHub repo:
>
> * https://github.com/richdouglasevans/jeffery-farnol_black-bartlemys-treasure
>
>
> The lint command is (correctly) squawking about the cover image and
> metadata: I'll sort those in the near future once the cover image
> process is complete.
>
> I expect I'll have read the book cover to cover in a couple of weeks
> when it'll have any fixes I find during the read through.
>
> I'm thinking of using this image for the cover:
>
> * https://www.wikiart.org/en/howard-pyle/the-buccaneer-was-a-picturesque-fellow-1905
>
>
> There's a scan of that picture in the following link;  an image from the
> same book was used in the SE production of Sabatini's Captain Blood
> <https://github.com/standardebooks/rafael-sabatini_captain-blood> so I
> hope it's good to go:
>
> * https://archive.org/details/howardpylesbooko0000pyle/page/8/mode/2up
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Rich Douglas

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Aug 24, 2022, 12:35:24 PMAug 24
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>  Typically reviewers come in you're done proofreading and you think the entire ebook is totally complete.

Great; I'll ping back in a couple of weeks once the proofreading and corrections are committed.

>  [C]an you find page scans that are published in the PD era?

Yes, I'll do that; my next message to this topic will have such a link.

Rich Douglas

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Sep 30, 2022, 11:18:02 AM (6 days ago) Sep 30
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I've completed my proofreading of the text; so many errant apostrophes *wilt*

>  [C]an you find page scans that are published in the PD era?

Yes; here's a scan from a book published in 1921; I'll see about de-saturating it if it passes muster.


The lint command is (correctly) squawking about the cover image and metadata: I'll sort those once the cover image process is complete. 

David Grigg

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Sep 30, 2022, 7:21:36 PM (6 days ago) Sep 30
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So is this ready for my review?


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Rich Douglas

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Sep 30, 2022, 7:37:25 PM (6 days ago) Sep 30
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Yes David, thank you.
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David Grigg

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Sep 30, 2022, 7:50:15 PM (6 days ago) Sep 30
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OK, I’ll try to get to it this weekend.

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David Grigg

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Oct 1, 2022, 9:45:14 PM (5 days ago) Oct 1
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Rich: I'm seeing a lot of lint errors, as you suggest these are mostly (but not all) to do with the cover art. I'd prefer to wait on my review until you've done that process. Also, you should remove the Dockerfile and delete se-lint-ignore before I proceed. One of the lint errors relates to an out of date version of our uncopyright.xml. If you update the toolset and copy that file across from the templates it should fix that error.

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Rich: Is there a problem with finalising the cover? Can I help?
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