Re: What I'd like to see

Richard.L.Klappal@att.com
Mon, 1 May 95 14:44:50 CDT

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>> > I'd like to see a bound collection of all the Gleanings articles. If Sky
>> > publishing were to do this, I don't think they'd have a hard time
>>selling it.
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>> > Mike_Crawford@QuickMail.Apple.Com
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>> I don't think they would ever do this even in a highly edited form. It
>> would rival War & Peace!! Figure, two to four pages each article...say
>> three...once a month for 50 years and you get 1800 pages!!-Rik
>>

Which is about equal to 1 volume of Burnham's Celestial Handbook, and would probably fit on 1 CD-ROM. All they have to do is get a clerk to feed the scanner <gd&r..> But seriously, on-line proof reading & clean-up seems to be the biggest production cost. Most of the indexing and Adobe Acrobat style display engine stuff is automated, as is CD production.