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Subject: Re: [Ma-Bay-Colony] Winthrop Book
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:10:15 EDT
In a message dated 8/1/2005 7:35:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:
It is hard to read - could you transcribe the book?
> It is on http://www.usigs.org/library/books/me/pejebscot/ but it is hard to
> read.
>
> When I first began transcribing online 11 years ago, I began by being a
volunteer
for David Blackwell's wonderful books online with usigs. He had this
terrible OCR
scanner which messed up texts especially dates. Folks would volunteer to
edit
the scanned text and I was one of them. Interestingly enough - David
Blackwell
was happy as a clam in mud when I bought a copy of the Winthrop Fleet and
transcribed it. He put it online with usigs. There was never a question of
problems
with the copyright. No one ever raised the issue. The Winthrop Society gave
a
special page at their site to thank me for the transcription and David
Blackwell for
putting it online. That recognition meant a good deal to me and David was
delighted as well.
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