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PP: Books Post-processed

Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times
Herein is Love
The Butterfly's Funeral
Peacock and Parrot
The Guardians
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
In the Mist of the Mountains
How to Make a Shoe
How to Draw a Straight Line
Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck
A Humorous History of England
Fantazius Mallare
The Lion's Masquerade
The Mexican Twins
The Monkey's Frolic
A Hunting Alphabet
Eatmor Cranberries
The Headswoman
The Log of the Water Wagon
Grotesque Architecture
Off the Bluebush
  1. The Wolf's Long Howl by Stanley Waterloo (1899) 294pp; 10391: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • This was a BEGIN project, so I thought it would be easy…
  2. A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry (1895) 327pp; 10433: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Notable chiefly for this example of how language has changed since 1895.
  3. The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West by Harry Leon Wilson (1903) 526pp; 11534: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Mormon derring-do and skulduggery in early Utah.
  4. Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times by Amy Brooks (1908) 251pp; 13753: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Ho hum. “Gay” here has its 19th century meaning.
  5. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (1906) 630pp; 18444: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A  l o n g  book with some interesting challenges for the html version.
  6. Sword and Gown by George A. Lawrence (1859) 132pp; 19121: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An undistinguished potboiler.
  7. Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other stories by Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman (1878) 67pp; 20112: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Some innocuous if moralizing children's stories.
  8. Herein is Love by Reuel L. Howe (1961) 130pp; 20289: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • My first encounter with a Rule 6 clearance. The more modern typesetting posed new challenges for my html skillset.
  9. Deaconesses in Europe by Jane M. Bancroft (1890) 268pp; 20747: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A book with several formatting challenges, including lots of footnotes and an extensive index.
  10. The Butterfly's Funeral by J. L. B. (1808) 32pp; 22201: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • This book introduced me to the series of Butterfly's Ball sequels.
  11. The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Emilie Searchfield (1900) 165pp; 22398: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • My first book as a content provider. I picked it up at a charity shop because I liked the cover. The story itself is appalling.
  12. An Ode: pronounced before the inhabitants of Boston, September the seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City by Charles Sprague (1830) 22pp; 22626: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A short poem with a long title.
  13. Where We Live: A Home Geography (General Edition) by Emilie Van Beil Jacobs (1914) 109pp; 22911: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An illustrated geography textbook for primary school children.
  14. The Peacock "At Home"; A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball by A Lady [Catherine Ann Dorset] (1815) 42pp; 23281: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Probably the most famous of the sequels.
  15. Dame Wonder's picture alphabet (1864?) 12pp; 23483: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A piece of fluff for the 2007 Halloween Picture Book Bash.
  16. The Peacock "At Home" AND The Butterfly's Ball AND The Fancy Fair by A Lady [Catherine Ann Dorset] and William Roscoe (1848?) 42pp; 23665: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A later edition, with an extra poem tacked on.
  17. The Peacock and Parrot, on their tour to discover the author of "The Peacock At Home" by Unknown (1816) 42pp; 23847: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Investigative journalism in verse.
  18. The Elephant's Ball, and Grand Fete Champetre by W. B. (1807) 36pp; 23888: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Another sequel to the Butterfly's Ball.
  19. The Guardians by Irving Cox, Jr. (1955) 14pp; 24152: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Astounding Science Fiction, June 1955.
  20. The Untouchable by Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. (1960) 5pp; 24221: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • More old science fiction, from Analog, December 1960.
  21. Oh, well, you know how women are! AND Isn't that just like a man! by Irvin S. Cobb and Mary Roberts Rinehart (1920) 60pp; 24259: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Cleverly-written sexist stereotyping from the 1920s.
  22. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs (1900) 192pp; 24388: [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • My homage to the wonderful people who keep DP going. Lovely colour illustrations.
  23. The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks (1958) 9pp; 24418; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Amazing Science Fiction Stories, October 1958.
  24. Essays on Early Ornithology and Kindred Subjects by James R. McClymont (1920) 49pp; 24506; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A short vanity publication.
  25. In the Mist of the Mountains by Ethel Turner (1908) 288pp; 24509; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Ethel Turner is best known as a children's writer and the author of Seven Little Australians. I picked up a copy of the sequel in a charity shop, and then discovered several more of her novels available through the Internet Archive. This book is atypical, being a romance for adults. It's the first of several of Ethel Turner's works I hope to post.
  26. History of the Confederate Powder Works by George Washington Rains (1882) 29pp; 24537; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Surely of interest!
  27. The Emperor's Rout by Unknown (1831) 49pp; 24894; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Yet another sequel to the Butterfly's Ball.
  28. A Short Method of Prayer by Madame Guyon, translated by A. W. Marston (1875) 103pp; 24989; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Madame Guyon is unusual in being a Roman Catholic author whose works are appreciated by Protestants.
  29. How to Make a Shoe by Jno. P. Headley Jr (1882) 119pp; 25013; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • In verse no less!
  30. Mr. Opp by Alice Hegan Rice (1909) 331pp; 25070; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • I used to work in an office known as OPP, but I never won the Mr OPP pageant.
  31. Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes (1909) 343pp; 25099; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Lots of footnotes and a sizeable index.
  32. Spiritual Torrents by Madame Guyon, translated by A. W. Marston (1875) 158pp; 25133; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Companion to the Short Method of Prayer.
  33. How to Draw a Straight Line: a Lecture on Linkages by A. B. Kempe (1877) 62pp; 25155; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • My first LaTeX book posted (because it was least likely to crash the new WWer posting tool)
  34. An Introduction to Nonassociative Algebras by Richard D. Schafer (1961) 76pp; 25156; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • A Rule 6 LaTeX book: it was proofed from typed lecture notes, but the author also published a book expanding on the material, which was considerable help in guiding PPing decisions.
  35. American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper 1167, Expansion of Pipes by Ralph C. Taggart (1910) 36pp; 25220; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • Everything you never wanted to know about metal pipes carrying steam.
  36. American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper 1175, Ultimate Load on Pile Foundations by John H. Griffith (1910) 36pp; 25222; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • What really happens to your piles.
  37. Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck by John H. White (1961) 17pp; 25454; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An interesting paper put out by the Smithsonian Institution, with some challenging illustrations.
  38. David the Shepherd Boy by Amy Steedman (192?) 29pp; 25486; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • I clearly have a penchant for short books with plentiful illustrations.
  39. A Cathedral Courtship by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1901) 112pp; 25493; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Another book I picked up at a charity shop because I liked the cover. It's actually quite a pleasant read.
  40. The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic by F. B. C. (1840) 32pp; 25681; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • And yet another sequel to the Butterfly's Ball. This one has no illustrations though.
  41. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous (1841) 215pp; 26117; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • For a few weeks this book was listed on the PG Top 100 downloads.
  42. Mémoire sur les équations résolubles algébriquement by M. Despeyrous (1887) 84pp; 26118; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • My first attempt at PPing LaTeX—but not the first posted because I reworked it so many times.
  43. A Humorous History of England by C. Harrison (1920) 28pp; 26388; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Really an advertising blurb for Iron Jelloids. This book also made it into the PG Top 100 downloads.
  44. The Romance of Mathematics by P. Hampson (1886) 143pp; 26481; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Being the original researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion
      How could I resist?
  45. Earthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric Brown (1960) 3pp; 26521; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Galaxy magazine, June 1960.
  46. The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn (1960) 7pp; 26536; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Galaxy magazine, June 1960.
  47. Monkey on His Back by Charles V. De Vet (1960) 13pp; 26569; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Galaxy magazine, June 1960.
  48. Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W. W. Rouse Ball (1905) 420pp; 26839; [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • The second LaTeX project I took on. It contained quite a lot of formatting challenges, and I learned a lot over the three years I worked on it.
  49. Holy in Christ: Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray (1887) 301pp; 26990; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Just one of this prolific devotional author's works.
  50. U.S. Senate Resolution 6; 41st Congress, 1st Session: A Bill to provide stationery for Congress and the several departments, and for other purposes (1869) 6pp; 27078; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Why anyone would need to consult this I have no idea.
  51. Fantazius Mallare, A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht (1922) 210pp; 27261; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • This book was banned for obscenity shortly after its publication in 1922. The finely-drawn illustrations are interesting.
  52. Schedule of salaries for teachers, members of the supervising staff and others by Boston (Mass.) School Committee (1920) 10pp; 27746; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A mind-numbing yet weirdly fascinating piece of administrivia.
  53. The Magic World by E. Nesbit (1912) 334pp; 27903; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A collection of short stories, some of which are supposed to have provided inspiration for C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
  54. Sprays of Shamrock by Clinton Scollard (1914) 75pp; 28032; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A slender volume of poetry inspired by Ireland.
  55. The Weakling by Everett B. Cole (1961) 74pp; 28486; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1961.
  56. Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne (1896) 292pp; 28599; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Literary criticism of 19th century Australian authors.
  57. The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1915) 207pp; 28889; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Delightful charcoal illustrations for Children's Book Week.
  58. All Cats Are Gray by Andrew North (1953) 6pp; 29019; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Andre Norton writing under a pseudonym in Fantastic Universe magazine.
  59. A Boy I Knew, and Four Dogs by Laurence Hutton (1898) 161pp; 29020; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A whimsical autobiography for Children's Book Week.
  60. Equation of Doom by Gerald Vance (1957) 40pp; 29146; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • How could a mathematician resist a title like that?
  61. The Demi-Urge by Thomas M. Disch (1963) 5pp; 30911; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From Amazing Stories, June 1963.
  62. The Real Hard Sell by William W. Stuart (1961) 26pp; 31038; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From If: Worlds of Science Fiction, July 1961.
      Books! People are spending all their time sitting in on Tri-deo, not reading. People should read more, Ben. Gives them that healthy tired feeling.
  63. The So-Called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor (1922) 342pp; 31138; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Humorous selections from an early newspaper columnist.
  64. The Monkey's Frolic by author unknown (1825) 39pp; 31486; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Yet another from the publisher of the Butterfly's Ball.
  65. The Lion's Masquerade by A Lady (1807) 29pp; 32184; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A sequel—also by Catherine Ann Dorset—to The Peacock "At Home".
  66. Confidence Game by James McKimmey (1954) 15pp; 32243; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From If: Worlds of Science Fiction, September, 1954.
  67. The Hitch Hikers by Vernon L. McCain (1954) 11pp; 32284; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • From If: Worlds of Science Fiction, November, 1954.
  68. History of Beasts by Unknown (1860?) 20pp; 32605; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Number 11 in a series of juvenile chapter books from the publisher.
  69. Eight Stories for Isabel by Unknown (1860?) 20pp; 32662; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Number 12 in a series of juvenile chapter books from the publisher.
  70. The Soldier Turned Farmer by Unknown (1860?) 20pp; 32810; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Number 3 in a series of juvenile chapter books from the publisher.
  71. Holiday House by Catherine Sinclair (1839) 252pp; 32811; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A nauseating juvenile.
  72. A Hunting Alphabet by Grace Clarke Newton (1917) 59pp; 34159; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Pretty horses.
  73. Recipes for Eatmor Fresh Cranberries by Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation (c1953) 6pp; 34185; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Charming ephemera.
  74. The Headswoman by Kenneth Grahame (1921) 78pp; 34243; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Romantic comedy starring a female executioner. DP's 18,999th unique title and a palindromic PG number to boot!
  75. The Sex Life of the Gods by Michael Knerr (1962) 161pp; 40284; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • Trashy sci-fi.
  76. The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Mme. Celnart (1833) 232pp; 40901; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • Essential reading.
  77. Program for October 1929 The Wyoming Valley Woman's Club of Wilkes-Barre (1929) 4pp; 40944; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • More ephemera.
  78. Local Color by Irvin S. Cobb (1916) 460pp; 41297; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • Fiction from a prominent newspaper columnist of the early 20th century.
  79. Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by F.W. Boreham (1916) 268pp; 42105; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • A collection of Boreham's stories.
  80. The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance, by Marie Corelli (1895) 489pp; 42332; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text]
    • An early best-seller (our scans were from the sixty-eighth edition, and the book was still in print in the 1950s). The name "Mavis" was invented for one of the book's characters, and became popular due to the popularity of the book.
  81. Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel, by Charlotte Brontë (1833) 20pp; 53747; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Brontë juvenilia, transcribed from her handwritten notebook.
  82. The Story of a Baby, by Ethel Turner (1896) 172pp; 53864; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Another of Ethel Turner's books for adults.
  83. Cambridge Papers, by W.W. Rouse Ball (1918) 335pp; 54023; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • One of the books Laura scanned from the University of Glasgow.
  84. Love Poems and Others, by D.H. Lawrence (1913) 70pp; 54058; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Lawrence's first book of poems.
  85. Uncle George on Draw Poker, by Uncle George (1883) 54pp; 54590; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Uncle George provides sage advice to his nephew about when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em and when to walk away.
  86. The Log of the Water Wagon, by Bert Leston Taylor and W.C.Gibson (1905) 128pp; 60022; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A good book to read during “dry July”.
  87. What a Colored Man Should Do to Vote, by Unknown (1900) 9pp; 60103; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An informative pamphlet.
  88. Three Plays, by A.A. Milne (1923) 277pp; 60167; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Before Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne was a noted playwright. This volume collects three plays—The Great Broxopp (first performed in 1923), The Dover Road (first performed in 1922) and The Truth About Blayds (first performed in 1921).
  89. How to Succeed, by Rosetta Dunigan (1919) 14pp; 60200; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A tract exhorting success through adversity.
  90. The Priest and the Acolyte, by John Francis Bloxham (1907) 71pp; 60229; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Oscar Wilde was accused of being behind this notorious story, originally published anonymously in 1894. In his Introductory Protest, Stuart Mason here (in 1907) argues against that proposition.
  91. Splashing into Society, by Iris Barry (1923) 153pp; 60276; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • The Spectator of 11 August 1923 wrote "This is a very amusing satire on modern Mayfair, written by a super-civilized and sophisticated adult in the manner of The Young Visiters. It has not the extraordinary directness which made that book so famous, and the artifice of its manufacture is here and there apparent. But even that artifice is used as part of the fantastic ornament in which the rather mordant wit of the author is draped. There are again and again turns of phrasing quite Chaplinesque in their appeal—verbal side-glances and footplay, as it were, which evoke a sense of irresponsible pleasure in the reader."
  92. The Message and Mission of Quakerism, by William C. Braithwaite and Henry T. Hodgkin (1912) 115pp; 60308; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • The two addresses which compose this book were delivered at the Five Years Meeting of the Society of Friends held in Indianapolis, Indiana, from October 15th to 22nd, 1912.
  93. The Germ Growers, by Robert Potter [as Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham] (1892) 280pp; 60312; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Shape-shifter aliens establish bases in wilderness areas of Earth, including north-west Australia ... While exploring the Kimberleys, two English youths stumble upon a plot by the aliens to destroy humanity through the breeding of new forms of plague. At first the conspirators appear to be merely members of some secret society, but it is soon revealed that they are nothing less than devils from outer space—Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction.
  94. A Wheel within a Wheel, by Frances E. Willard (1895) 89pp; 60356; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An account of a temperance advocate's experience learning to ride a bicycle later in life.
  95. Steve Brown's Bunyip and other Stories, by James Arthur Barry (1905) 321pp; 60482; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Some Australian-flavoured short stories.
  96. Manual of Parliamentary Practice, by Luther S. Cushing (1887) 224pp; 60757; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Subtitled Rules of proceeding and debate in deliberative assemblies and a fascinating read for aficionados of politics.
  97. Catalogue of "Standard Recitations" Nos. 19-34, by M. J. Ivers & Co. (1887) 16pp; 60781; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A catalogue of several issues of Ivers' Standard Recitations for School, Lyceum, Parlor and other Entertainments that was bound into the back of Cushing's Manual (see above); besides the common publisher, they may also have had a common editor.
  98. The Elements of Perspective, by John Ruskin (1859) 116pp; 60816; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Subtitled Arranged for the use of schools and intended to be read in connection with the first three books of Euclid. This is a 1920 "Library Edition" of Ruskin's 1859 work explaining the formal geometric foundations of perspective in drawing, and quite a challenge to represent even simple mathematical notation in HTML.
  99. The Convent School, by William Dugdale (as Rosa Belinda Coote) (1898) 87pp; 60825; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Late Victorian smut with an instructive vocabulary.
  100. Footlights, by Rita Weiman (1923) 351pp; 60950; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A collection of inter-connected short stories based around Broadway of the 1920s.
  101. The Roman Index of Forbidden Books, by Francis S Betten SJ (1909) 75pp; 61165; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Everything you ever wanted to know about what the Catholic Church doesn't want you to read.
  102. The Last Chance: a Tale of the Golden West, by Rolf Boldrewood (1905) 476pp; 61385; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A somewhat tedious story about a West Australian gold-digger.
  103. Set Down in Malice, A Book of Reminiscences, by Gerald Cumberland (1919) 290pp; 61437; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Actually written by Charles Frederick Kenyon, this book contains chatty (and occasionally bitchy) anecdotes about literary, artistic and musical figures in the UK around the early years of the twentieth century.
  104. The Charitable Peſtmaſter or, The cure of the Plague, by Thomas Sherwood (1641) 22pp; 61537; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A ſhort but educational read. Learn how to use a Clyſter or a puppy to cure the plague. Diſcover why every medicine cupboard ſhould hold a bottle of Catharticum Catholicum.
  105. Paradoxes and Problemes, by John Donne (1633, 1652, 1923) 88pp; 61783; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A collection of early writings of John Donne. Be intrigued by paradoxes such as That a Wiſe Man is knowne by much laughing, or That Virginity is a Vertue; ponder over problems like Why is there more variety of Green then of other Colours? or Why does the Poxe ſo much affect to undermine the Noſe?; learn what is The true Character of a Dunce.
  106. Grotesque Architecture; or, Rural Amusement, by William Wrighte (1815) 66pp; 69417; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A collection of early 19th century architectural fantasies, complete with plans, elevations and sections.
  107. Off the Bluebush, by J.P. Bourke (1915) 198pp; 70030; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An anthology of poems strongly connected to Western Australia and the gold rush of the late 19th century.
  108. When we were very young, by A.A. Milne (1924) 114pp; 70271; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • In which we meet Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh for the first time
  109. The Family at Misrule, by Ethel Turner (1895) 294pp; 70506; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • The sequel to Seven Little Australians
  110. Three Little Maids, by Ethel Turner (1900) 325pp; 70641; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A story about a twice-widowed thrice-married Englishwoman, and her daughters growing up in a blended family in Australia
  111. A Guide to Modern Cookery, by A. Escoffier (1920) 909pp; 71395; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Almost 3,000 recipes from the chef who updated and popularised French cuisine, extensively indexed and cross-referenced
  112. On Horse-breaking, by Robert Moreton (1877) 146pp; 71409; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A handy reference if you have a new omnibus horse that needs training
  113. The long arm of Fantômas, by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain (1924) 320pp; 71587; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A tale of intrigue, murder, debauchery, police ineptitude and star-crossed love as a journalist attempts to bring master criminal Fantômas to justice in early twentieth-century Paris
  114. Experiments on retaining walls and pressures on tunnels, by William Cain (1911) 72pp; 71675; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF]
    • Paper 1192 from the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXXII. A first experiment in using m2svg to convert LaTeX snippets to svg images in html
  115. In the swim, by Richard Henry Savage (1898) 363pp; 71751; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • "A story of currents and under-currents in gayest New York", although "turgid" is the word that springs to mind to describe the writing
  116. A brief and remarkable narrative of the life and extreme sufferings of Barnabas Downs, Jun., by Barnabas Downs (1786) 16pp; 71758; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A ſhort account of a man who barely ſurvived a 1786 ſhipwreck
  117. A mediaeval burglary, by T. F. Tout (1915) 32pp; 71975; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • A lecture about the 1303 burgling of the Treasury of the Wardrobe
  118. Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot, by Jane Leigh Perrot (1800) 24pp; 72296; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An account of the trial of Jane Austen's aunt for shoplifting
  119. The swimming baths of London, by R. E. Dudgeon (1870) 35pp; 76117; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • An account of places in London where the public could swim, compiled by a medical practioner.

This represents 17,197pp. The list doesn't tally exactly with the post-processing stats because a couple of the books went through DP as multiple projects.

I'm not sure what this list of titles says about me. What originally drew me to DP was LaTeX; after a long period with no way to get LaTeX books posted, a WWing tool coupled with much better proofing, formatting and PPing protocols, all developed by adhere, restarted the flow.

  • Books gazumped 327pp
    Hang onto a project for too long and a non-DP producer will post it before you, a fact you won't discover until you're about to upload your project to PG


PM: Books Project Managed

The Emperor's Rout
A Cathedral Courtship
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
Macaria



PPV: Books Verified

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  1. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (1845) 24648 Quister
  2. The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (1907) 24740 Quister
  3. Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge: Forests of Maine (1843) 24831 beautysmom
  4. Girl Scouts: Their Works, Ways and Plays (1921?) 24987 Purbin_Bupkiss
  5. Über Integralinvarianten und Differentialgleichungen (1902) 25157 rwst
  6. (with rfrank) Sur quelques applications des fonctions elliptiques (1885) 25227 gauss
  7. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Vol. 1, 1889) 26147 windymilla
  8. Utility of Quaternions in Physics (1889) 26262 adhere
  9. Church work among the Negroes in the South (1907) 27649 Purbin_Bupkiss
  10. Cleek, the Master Detective (1918) 28264 lhamilton
  11. Why I believe in Scouting for girls (1920?) 28406 Warmheart
  12. A Californa Girl (1902) 28528 RuthD
  13. Space, Time and Gravitation (1920) 29782 adhere
  14. The Girl Scouts: Their History and Practice (1920?) 29810 Warmheart
  15. The Sex Side of Life: an explanation for young people (1919) 31732 mroe
  16. Tribute to a Good Man: Extract from a sermon delivered at the Bulfinch-Street Church, Boston (1853) 31734 hand
  17. Doctor Bolus and His Patients (1850?) 31909 mirlanda92 HTML version by yours truly
  18. Provocations (1918) 33855 luminotecnica
  19. A Stiptick for a Bleeding Nation (1721) 33946 eschaal
  20. The Two Goats and the Sick Monkey (1860?) 35422 monkeyclogs
  21. Diphtheria: how to recognize the disease, how to keep from catching it, how to treat those who do catch it (1919) 36006 Adair
  22. In the Desert of Waiting (1904) 53684 RuthD

Solo Productions

The Three Wishes
The Eagle's Masque
  1. Mathematical Essays and Recreations by Hermann Schubert, trans. Thomas J. McCormack (1898) 159pp; 25387: [PDF; RDF; TeX]
    • I began this when there was an impasse in PPV for LaTeX projects. Unfortunately there was also an impasse in WW, so by the time it finally got posted I was already a PPVer anyway. It makes an interesting bookend to the Rouse Ball book of similar title.
  2. Think Before You Speak, or The Three Wishes by Catherine Dorset (1810) 33pp; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • This little picture book is by the author of The Peacock "At Home", and it was less work to do the whole thing than to prep it for sending through the rounds.
  3. Ecclesiastical Curiosities edited by William Andrews (1899) 268pp; [EPUB; HTML; HTML (utf-8); Mobipocket; RDF; Text (iso-8859-1); Text (us-ascii)]
    • Definitely curious
  4. Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson (1910) 320pp; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Hard to resist a book by another David Wilson
  5. The Eagle's Masque by Tom Tit (1808) 36pp; [EPUB; HTML; Mobipocket; RDF; Text (us-ascii)]
    • Another in the The Peacock "At Home" family


PPV tool: ppvimage.pl

This little perl program is intended to make some of the work in PPV a bit easier, but can also be helpful to PPers. The code borrowed heavily from rfrank's ppvtxt and ppvhtml tools and includes various bits of code posted elsewhere on the internet.

It can be used standalone, with a simple graphical interface: just run ppvimage.pl and follow the displayed instructions. It can also be used as a command-line tool (following a suggestion of Katt83), and thanks to hanne and windymilla has been integrated into GuiGuts.

The program goes through an html file and checks all the <img> tags, reporting the dimensions coded in the html, the natural dimensions of the image (these should normally be the same), the image filesize, and the contents of the alt and title tags. 

----- checking <img> images -----

Image: images/illus-001.png
  (line 219)
  alt=""
  title="Frontispiece"
    coded width="453" height="700"
  natural width="453" height="700"
  Filesize:  52 KB

The width and height are reported with surrounding quotes so that they can be easily pasted into the <img> tag if a correction is necessary. The program can also recognise dimensions provided via inline CSS (instead of by way of the width and height attributes of the <img> tag) but you have to put up with being told continually that the <img> attributes are missing. It's not clever enough to pick up dimensions declared in header css.

Basic information on images declared using a css background-image spec is also reported. 

----- checking css background images -----

Background image: images/strip.png
  (line 142)
  natural width="600" height="55"
  Filesize:   2 KB

Basic information about images that are the destination of a link is also provided. 

---------- checking linked images ----------

Linked image: images/pl14h.jpg
  (line 803)
  natural width="1203" height="677"
  Filesize: 1247 KB (LARGE)

The tool also checks that an epub cover image has been specified, and performs a check for files in the /images folder that are not referenced in the html file.

If a project includes a large number of images, this output can be a bit daunting. Following a suggestion by Cosmas, the essential information can also be output as a CSV (comma separated values) file, to make it easier to locate differences between natural and coded dimensions by feeding the CSV file into a spreadsheet.

The tool can also be used from the command line. The syntax is 

perl -w ppvimage.pl [-csv] [-terse] [-o logfile.txt] filename.html
  • The optional -csv argument adds the CSV output.
  • The optional -terse argument suppresses some of the purely informational output.
  • The optional -o argument allows you to specify a destination for the log file. If omitted, this defaults to ppvimage.log in the same folder as the filename.html input.

LaTeX stuff: all obsolete

Smoothproofing

One of the difficulties with LaTeX projects is that proofers have to $$ various bits (mostly mathematical), and in the normal progression of rounds these bits never receive specialist proofing scrutiny. One possibility for improving this situation is to have a "smoothproofing" stage, where after formatting, the compiled text is presented for proofing. The TeXnicalities of getting the compiled text into a proofing-friendly form are discussed on a separate page.

Condensed Intertext

Older maths books sometimes run commentary inline with displays, like "Then" and "and" in this example:

Aligned-equation-dcwilson.png

This can be difficult to reproduce—the LaTeX tips page describes one slightly heavy-handed method. Here is an outline of a less intrusive (that is, more easily adapted by the PPer) way to get the same result.

Multicolumn Exercises

Mathematical textbooks sometimes set Exercises (or more commonly perhaps, the Answers to Exercises) in a multicolumn format. When this emerges from the proofing rounds, it will often have been re-arranged as a single column. The Problems environment described below is a list environment that outputs its items in a multicolumn format, albeit not always in the same order as the original (getting this right is an exercise for the PPer :-)

The document preamble needs to include 

\newcommand\Problems[1] 
  {\bgroup\ifnum#1=1\let\endProblems\endProblemsi 
     \else\let\endProblems\endProblemsii\begin{multicols}{#1}\fi 
     \begin{itemize}\parskip0pt 
     \def\makelabel##1{\hss\llap{\small\bfseries##1}}} 
\def\endProblemsi{\end{itemize}\egroup} 
\def\endProblemsii{\end{itemize}\end{multicols}\egroup}

When a Problems environment is invoked, the number of columns needs to be specified as an argument, and each Exercise/Answer marked up as an \item with an explicit tag. So for example,

Dcwilson-multicolumnproblems-074.png

might be marked up as follows 

\subsection*{Exercise 28.}

Write by inspection the quotient of:
\begin{Problems}{3}
\item[1.] $\dfrac{x^2-4}{x-2}$.
\item[2.] $\dfrac{x^2-4}{x+2}$.
...
\item[12.] $\dfrac{16x^4-25a^2}{4x^2+5a}
\end{Problems}
\begin{Problems}{2}
\item[13.] $\dfrac{9x^2-25y^2}{3x-5y}$.
...
\item[20.] $\dfrac{z^2-(x-y)^2}{z+(x-y)}$.
\end{Problems}

Although the output will not be an exact match to the scan, the markup captures the document structure and draws the PPer's attention for later fine-tuning.

&c.

My place in the scheme of things
Proofer icon.png I was an infrequent Proofer
Foofer icon.png I am a lapsed Foofer
PP icon.png I am a pernickity Post Processor
TeX I am a TeXnician
yackity yack I wasted too much time in the forums
Library 1842 detail.png I was a low-volume Content Provider
PM icon.png I was a low-volume Project Manager
PPV icon.png I was a very slow Post-Processing Verifier
TLAP day 2006
TLAP day 2007–10
Halloween 2007
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Flag-waving 2011
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