[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Sep 7 20:47:51 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:34 +0200, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> Thank you everyone for the information and links.
> 
> Open Library has a very sleek interface indeed, but I want to point out 
> that it displays *scans of pages* - which we cannot do because of 
> copyright issues. 

Are you looking at the new beta site: http://demo.openlibrary.org

> On the other hand Project Gutenberg has a very slow, 
> it seems - though effective - process of transforming text into other 
> formats (mainly HTML... I don't think they do PDF, which requires more 
> serious formatting and typesetting of text to make it well readable). 
> But they still display it in a quite basic way.
> 
> I've looked at the Open Library page and I've read that they have a 
> different viewer in the works....

The url above.

> I also think that the issue that we have here in Poland might apply in 
> other countries to and be another thing that needs to be solved when 
> dealing with orphan works. The thing is, digitalization of public domain 
> content has developed a well working workflow based on the production of 
> scans of pages, which might not be suited for displaying works still in 
> copyright. For those we need better mechanisms for displaying plain text 
> / HTML than what Project Gutenberg does, in my opinion.
> 
> Best,
> Alek Tarkowski

Ok, imo, uniting behind openlibrary.org is the best foot forward right
now...I'll bend over backwards to convince :) I'm pushing my resources
that way :)

Jon

> 
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