User:Dave morgan
Dave's list of DP stuff
Xmas 2010: New PC delivered
If you need to PM or email me, my contact details are on the DP site, my home website is here but all the DP info has been moved to the page you are currently reading.
Here is a list of the stuff I am currently project managing at DP, and the projects that are finished and posted to PG. I treat all books as equal, and am just as happy to send 'crap' Victorian fiction through as more intectual stuff :-) (I leave it to our eventual future readers in PG to sort out what they like).
I used to post-process as well, but have not done so in last 12 months. I might eventually get round to listing my old PP projects so you can see how poorly they were done, and how standards as DP have improved over the last couple of years.
My main current activities are helping others with OCR (via the OCRpool), PMing, and occasional proofing (in rounds P1 and F1).
Outside DP my other main interest is time. I am a small part of the NTP pool and have a GPS receiver on the roof of the house so I always know where I am, it also enables me to run a public NTP time server.
Work-wise I spend my days peering at a CAM-station generating artwork for PCBs, which ends up being fed to a rather nice 10,000 LPI laser plotter with 24 real laser beams, and programming CNC machine tools to drill holes in boards, and mill their profiles.
Update Jan 2008: Currently experimenting with Finereader ver 9 - it looks pretty, but is slower the V8 and needs lots of RAM and CPU :-( I also have a new printer/scanner (HP C7280) - the Auto Feeder can't handle the thick stiff paper on the book I cut up, so will most likely stick to the Epson 3170 I was using as it is faster and more controlable.
Update Oct 2008: My server died a while back. Hardware failure casing corrupt filesystem (even though I was using mirrored disks). Everything I have done in last 5 years is gone :-( The WWW link above won't work until I build a new machine next year, and then try to recover what I can from the old disks.
Update Nov 2009: now have a new server, I might be able to scan (using x-sane), but still no OCR until I have a sutiable machine, and have re-purchased FineReader (lost all my copies of FR when my XP box went down in June)
update Jan 2010: Abbyy offered me a copy of Finereader 10 at a very good price, now I just need a computer to run it on - will have to save up for this ...
update Dec 2010: I have bought a new custom-built PC, it should be delivered by Xmas ...
update Xmas 2010: new PC delivered, FR10 installed - 1st impression of FR10: horrible :-(
In Progress Stuff
- Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century, 13th edition, by Robert Routledge, B.Sc., F.C.S.
- is now in proj_submit_pgposted, PPer=okrick, 0 of 879 pages left. 800 pages to scan at 600dpi in greyscale + 450 illustrations to split out - might be another year or two before it is ready.
- That little beggar, by E. King Hall
- is now in proj_submit_pgposted, PPer=rituagg77, 0 of 122 pages left.
(The 5 books by John Burgon I was PMing for the CCEL Project list are now being handled by Colin Bell)
Finished Stuff
- William Harrison Ainsworth, Old Saint Pauls
- Caroline Austin, Unlucky
- William E. Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers
- Leonard Bacon, A History of American Christianity
- Robert Ballantyne, The World of Ice, The Dog Crusoe
- Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick
- Thomas Charles Bridges, On land and sea at the Dardanelles
- Herbert Cook, M.A., F.S.A., Giorgione
- Florence Coombe, Jack of Both Sides: The Story of a School War
- Russell Doubleday, Stories of Inventors
- M. Duckitt and H. Wragg, Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
- E.S. Ellis, Cowmen and Rustlers
- M.E. Francis, North, South and Over the Sea
- Hildegard G. Frey, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin
- J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village
- Jackson Gregory, The Everlasting Whisper
- Thornton Hall, Love Affairs of the Courts of Europe, Love Romances of the Aristocracy
- Edric Holmes, Wanderings in Wessex
- Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, The expedition of the Donner Party and its tragic fate
- Annie E. Keeling, Andrew Golding
- J. W. Keyworth, The Golden Shoemaker
- W.H. Koebel, The Making of the Nations - South America
- W.J. Marx, For The Admiral
- R.N & J.N. From John O'Groats to Land's End
- Lady Rosalind Northcote, Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
- Pansy [Author AKA: Isabella M. Alden], Four Girls at Chautauqua
- Alfred Pink, Gardening for the Million
- Arthur L. Salmon, The Cornwall Coast
- Hesba Stretton, Alone in London
- George Woosung Wade, Somerset
- O.F. Walton, Saved at Sea
- Joseph Laing Waugh, Betty Grier
- Stanley Weyman, The Long Night
