If you want to specifically do a conversion for a device you happen to have as a service to others using that device, fine. I see the point as getting the material out there so others can get it. I can't agree with the folks who won't post HTML because they are afraid of moochers. They put in substantial work in cleanup, proofreading and editing, even if the material is in the public domain to begin with, and willingly donate their time and effort. After learning of his uncle's adventures on the red planet, he. Burroughs inherited the wealth and estate of John Carter after he seemingly died, but what Burroughs didn't know was that John Carter's consciousness had returned to Mars. They put in the work, so whatever restrictions they want are ok.But following that logic, the folks in Distributed Proofreaders and at Project Gutenberg shouldn't do it, because moochers will grab their work, issue it in a different form, and attempt to sell it. Burroughs) is the young nephew of John Carter back on his homeworld of Earth. Some of the posters of e-books avoid HTML because it is easy for moochers to take the cleaned-up HTML, convert it to a DRMed format and charge for the result. It's astonishing to think that Burroughs wrote the first of these highly imaginative tales in 1911.
#Burroughs barsoom series#
Most people use BookDesigner here, so I guess that they're not biased against HTML at all, they use something that is almost exactly the same for BookDesigner (HTML0).Īs you say, HTML is one of the best formats if you want to avoid vendor lock-in. A series of rip-roaring, thigh-slapping, red-blooded (and sometimes green-blooded) pulp adventure yarns within Burrough's vividly imagined Martian setting of Barsoom. Please refer to my photos and message me if you would like more photos. Perhaps I shouldn't bother sharing any more HTML ebooks here, as it seems they aren't wanted.Well plain text is usable but lacks information, HTML is much better, and HTML with an extended set of tags for semantic information is even better. Comment: INCLUDES: All 1-11 volumes of Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books. It seems that the MobileRead groupies are biased toward the proprietary Sony and Mobipocket formats, instead of something like text or HTML, which is useabe on a wide variety of devices.
When I originally inquired as to whether anyone would want these in HTML in another thread, you were the first to point out that they were available in other formats, as did others. I posted these, as I thought others would prefer them in HTML, as I do. We already knew that you had them available in those other formats. Uploaded v4.Thank you for hijacking this thread to point to your books in non-HTML formats (again). I would now regard this as a finished product if you find any errors, no matter how small, please let me know so that they can be corrected. Goodness knows how many thousand errors corrected, and a considerable amount of text added which was previously missing. Uploaded v3.Ĭompletely reformatted and thoroughly proofed against printed versions of all 11 of the books that comprise the omnibus. Changed the name from "Barsoom Collection" to "Barsoom Omnibus" to be consistent with my other omnibus editions. Replaced books 2-4 in the series with improved versions from PG. Now a proper MobiPocket book with full-sized pictures, library information, etc. Many of the PG sources (especially for the later books in the series) are extremely poorly formatted, and needed a great deal of work to make them look reasonable.Ĭompletely recreated the book with improved formatting. I naively thought this would be quick to produce, but I've just finished it after a 12h "marathon". I've done this along the same lines as my previous "Complete Sherlock Holmes" book there's a book index at the start, and selecting a book takes you to a contents page for that book. It's true to say that "Star Wars" would never have existed without "Barsoom". Just in case anyone isn't familiar with it, the "Barsoom" series is the architypal "boys' own adventure" type stories, set on (a fantasic) planet Mars, with muscle-bound heroes, princesses to be rescued from fates worse than death, wierd monsters, etc etc. A bit of light-hearted relief from the serious stuff, here's Edgar Rice Burroughs' complete "Barsoom" series, in one (very long!) book:
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