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How to make a book (courtesy of Eiseldora Reisman, slightly modified by JJ)

A) WORKING FROM A PDF: If you are working from a pdf, this is your friend: <p></p>

1. Make sure that the book isn't already available in SL

2. Open a Text document (Notepad or such) Put the <p>Title</p> <p>author</p>

3. Select the text of the PDF, copy, then paste in Text document

4. Go through and add</p> <p> at the begining of every paragraph Take out any extra text such as page numbers and headings. Also put <p>Chapter X</p> to break up chapters

5. Save document with .html at the end of the file name

6. Tell the computer yes you want to save as html file

7. Open the file in a web browser

B) IF YOU ARE WORKING FROM GUTENBERG (or other sources of html text) START HERE 8. Copy all the text and paste in notecards in SL

9. Rename notecard the title of book - this is the Title Page notecard

One card per chapter...unless the chapter is too long to fit!

This makes the book considerably easier to handle, so we do it for the Standard Caledon Library Editions

Each chapter notecard needs, at the top, the book title, author name, and chapter number or title. (Easiest to make a "dummy notecard" with the basic info, and then copy & paste it muliple times in inventory.)

Create new Notecard called Chapter 1

Copy all of Chapter 1 text into notecard

Save Chapter 1 notecard

Drag Chapter 1 notecard into title page notecard and drop

Repeat for rest of title's chapters

Add a Colophon notcard that says "This Caledon Library Edition created by [your name]" and also includes all the permissions (etc) text from Gutenberg or whatever site you take the text from, including the URL for the text. If you want to make a freestanding book object...

10. Using a image editor make a cover for the book

11. Upload image as a texture

12. Make a prim qnd shape and size it fir a book

13. Add Cover image to one side of the prim

14. Put notecard and a Notecard giver script into book

15. Drop a copy in JJ Drinkwater's profile

You can copy the giver script from any Caledon Library Standard Edition (CLE)

 

And now...the list!

Plain text from Gutenberg to make into notecard books Feel free to start anywhere!

Collections without which no 19th century library would be complete:

1) Works of Sir Walter Scott http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a59

2) The Spectator in 3 volumes http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12030

3)The Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/l#a761

4) Etiquette Collection (Links courtesy of Abbey Underall of Caledon

The Laws of Etiquette http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/letiq10.txt

The Book of Good Manners http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/tbkgm10.txt

Manners and Social Usages http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7msus10.txt

 

5) Havelock Ellis

 

 

Books that also looked worthwhile or fun to JJ, alphabetically "A"

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=187114

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a2136

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a1056

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a311

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a1452

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a1874

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5668

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a1874

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/mbng10h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16273/16273-h/16273-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nblng10.txt

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a2269

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a1401

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a6905

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a68

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10945/10945-h/10945-h.htm

(to be continued)

 

A list of links from Abbey Underall of Caledon

(All these are HTML text, but on the website you can also get the illustrated versions).

Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/mnvct10.txt

Victorian Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, et al. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15252/15252-8.txt (Mica currently working on)

Victorian Short Stories, by Various http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15381/15381.txt

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages, by Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Arthur Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, and George Gissing http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15466/15466-8.txt

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2040/2040-h/2040-h.htm

A CATECHISM OF THE STEAM ENGINE (we may already have this in the Steam collection) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10998/10998-h/10998-h.htm

The Laws of Etiquette http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/letiq10.txt

Marvels of Modern Science (Mica currently working on)
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/mrvms10.txt

The Laws of Etiquette http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/letiq10.txt

The Book of Good Manners http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/tbkgm10.txt

Manners and Social Usages http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7msus10.txt

The Opium Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8opim10.txt

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/frlaw10.txt

Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10345/10345.txt

An Englishman's Travels in America, by John Benwell http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10619/10619.txt

Science in the Kitchen., by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12238/12238.txt

Routledge's Manual of Etiquette, by George Routledge http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12426/12426.tx

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, by Swami Panchadasi http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12480/12480.txt

The Ancient Life History of the Earth by Henry Alleyne Nicholson http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14279/14279-8.txt

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery, by Benziger Brothers http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16728/16728-8.txt

Studies in Occultism; A Series of Reprints from the Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, by H. P. Blavatsky http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17009/17009-8.txt

Our Deportment, by John H. Young http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17609/17609-8.txt

The Code of Honor, by John Lyde Wilson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/cduel10.txt

London's Underworld, by Thomas Holmes http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/lndwd10.txt

The Child Under Eight by E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10042/10042.txt

The Young Mother, by William A. Alcott http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10482/10482-8.txt

Toaster's Handbook by Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12444/12444-8.txt

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6), by Havelock Ellis 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13614/13614-8.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13916/13916-8.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14916/14916.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15883/15883.txt

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16686/16686.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18300/18300-8.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18533/18533.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7rnsn11.txt

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/dprof10.txt

 

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/flymc10.txt

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13161/13161-8.txt

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17774/17774.txt

 

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18504/18504-8.txt

 

 

Project to keep an eye on....

Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900 http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html

 

DONE -- but would make a nice THiNC book

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning Text on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18343/18343-8.txt Text with images http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18343/18343-h/18343-h.htm Cover image http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/binding/images/greenaway.jpg

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