Getting back up to speed

[eris]

@Barrius

I also found out that home copiers/scanners are worthless for this - now I understand what you mean by making a copy from a real copier first.

If the book is small, does one then photocopy both left & right side pages together or just photocopy each page on its own? After photocoping, then we scan the photocopies into adobe?

Just getting the steps down for this

[Jeff_Tirey]

here’s the process for converting a book.

Photocopy the book face down so that 2 pages of the book are captured with each photocopy.

Mail the photocopies in to me for scanning. You don’t want to scan them yourself because I have a production scanner which will scan at about 50 pages per minute. It has a paper feed tray so all I do is put in about 100 pages at a time and it’ll take care of the rest. With software I’ll break apart the book pages into seperate image files. After that I clean the images and coallate them into one multipage .tif file. Last, I convert to PDF.

Jeff

[Barrius]

@eris

If the book is small, does one then photocopy both left & right side pages together or just photocopy each page on its own? After photocoping, then we scan the photocopies into adobe?

Just getting the steps down for this

From my earlier conversations with Jeff, and from what I had read somewhere on the site, copy BOTH pages onto a single sheet of paper - Jeff will work his magic with computer to separate & put into PDF.

I think we’ll flood him

[Barrius]

@jeff

here’s the process for converting a book.

Photocopy the book face down so that 2 pages of the book are captured with each photocopy.

Mail the photocopies in to me for scanning. You don’t want to scan them yourself because I have a production scanner which will scan at about 50 pages per minute. It has a paper feed tray so all I do is put in about 100 pages at a time and it’ll take care of the rest. With software I’ll break apart the book pages into seperate image files. After that I clean the images and coallate them into one multipage .tif file. Last, I convert to PDF.

Jeff

Gee, that was FAST! I had just seen Eris’ post, and before I could reply, you had posted a complete discourse!

[Jeff_Tirey]

@Barrius

@jeff

I have already a photocopy of the school grammar of Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar - but I still can’t find the full version. Anyone see it?

What is the difference between versions?

School editions are smaller and less in-depth versions of larger reference grammars. I don’t think there are too many examples of them. It’s all marketing and economics. The more pages to a book the higher the cost. So the school edition removes much of the more advance content in order to produce a more competitive textbook that’s better suited for classroom use and more affordable for schools. It’s still a reference grammar however. There are no exercises or anything like that found in them that you would find in a first year book. It’s easy to see that it’s really best to avoid the school edition and go for the complete reference grammar, but I still like them for historical/research reasons.

Jeff

[eris]

Thank you Jeff & Barius for the response! It was QUICK, too!

I think someone has asked this before, but I’ll ask it again anyway…
Is there a master list of books that you want to have on Textkit? If so, where is the list located? I’m willing to sign-up for several books.

[Barrius]

@eris

I think someone has asked this before, but I’ll ask it again anyway… Is there a master list of books that you want to have on Textkit? If so, where is the list located? I’m willing to sign-up for several books.

At the top of the page (look under Tutorials) you’ll see “::sitemap” which sends you here: http://www.textkit.com/sitemap.php

Once there, near the bottom of the page you’ll see “View our full list of all Greek and Latin grammars, readers and classcial e-books” which takes you here: http://www.textkit.com/sitemap_direct_links.php

[eris]

Thanks for the link, Barrius, but I think you misunderstood me. I’m basically looking for a “wishlist” of books that Jeff would eventually like to have on textkit. Certainly some books are better than others, and with the high cost of hosting this site, there must be some limits set as to which get posted. Just my ramblings, though

[Barrius]

@eris

Thanks for the link, Barrius, but I think you misunderstood me. I’m basically looking for a “wishlist” of books that Jeff would eventually like to have on textkit. Certainly some books are better than others, and with the high cost of hosting this site, there must be some limits set as to which get posted. Just my ramblings, though

LOL - you wrote it correctly - I just can’t read. Want, not have. [hitting head againt wall]

I think this will answer your question to some extent, which was a reply from Jeff a few days ago:

@Jeff

We pretty much just post things as we find them, but we do have some overall goals. One of them is to post the entire “College Series of Greek Authors” and “College Series of Latin Authors” by Ginn and Co. Basically, we like all things Ginn. Other very good collections include American Book Company’s College Series which includes Smyth’s Greek Grammar. Those blue and read Macmillan readers are also very good.

[eris]

Thanks, Barrius! I knew I had read it before, I just couldn’t think of where it was!

[waraysa]

Jeff

Somewhere in this topic you asked for views on Sonnenschein. I have the sixth edition, MacMillan, 1934. It should be possible to find earlier editions that are out of copyright, the preface having been written in 1892.

E.A. Sonnenschein was a grammarian, and this book is " A Greek Grammar for Schools based on the principles and requirements of the grammatical society". Like Rutherford’s grammar, it is in two parts, Accidence and Syntax. It has 344 pages. In the preface the author acknowledges the influence of Kaegi’s school grammar, which uses a similar approach. (PS. A reprint of Adolph Kaegi’s grammar is available through www.bolchazy.com).

I think the Accidence is excellent and there are many useful tables. The Syntax appears quite comprehensive for a school grammar. My Greek is probably not advanced enough to evaluate the comments on the classic teacher website that it is their favourite greek grammar etc etc. But I do think it is clearer and set out better than Rutherford’s grammar.

Cheers

Waraysa