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The Map of the Known World - Free e-book offer!

 
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Steven S



Joined: 19 Aug 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:30 pm    Post subject: The Map of the Known World - Free e-book offer! Reply with quote

Hello all,

This is my very first post here so a big hello to one and all! Look forward to seeing you around on the forum.

Hope this might interest some of you: for a limited time only, my fantasy adventure 'The Map of the Known World' has been made available again as a FREE e-book. To download the e-book click go to http://www.lulu.com/content/294457. Please note that this offer ends on the 1st October 2007! Don't miss it!

Some reviews of 'The Map of the Known World':

Suffolk Libraries direct:

"An exciting epic fantasy adventure and a real page turner, if you like Phillip Pullman and C S Lewis you will definitely enjoy this!"

POD People website:

'Having stayed up until one in the morning to finish reading it, 'The Map of the Known World...is an exciting novel...fascinating characters...an intricate story...'
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herbelly



Joined: 11 Jan 2012
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is the most efficient way to convert several hundred pages of printed text to an ebook? I have a book only available in book form or as a standard manuscript that I would like to republish. I need to convert the text into some kind of computer saved document so I can publish an ebook or make the manuscript re printable. I'm looking for the most efficient way to do that. I do have a scanner.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi herbelly,

Welcome to the forums.

Well, there are a couple of ways. Obviousoly you can retype the manuscript and although that's time consuming, if you consider it as a way to revise and edit, it's almost certainly time well spent.

Alternatively some scanners (or their software) have OCR - optical character recognition and these scanners will make editable documents from printed pages. I've not used such technology for ages and when I did, it was inaccurate so any scan had to be read through extremely closely to check for errors. Again, very time consuming.

Personally, I'd re-input from scratch and edit, revise and improve as I went along. Do a few pages a day and you'll soon have it done...

Anyone else out there with other idea?
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