The Journal of Joseph Hoag
I have just completed my first experiment with lulu.com's print-on-demand service. Using the LATEX typesetting system, I reformatted and indexed The Journal of Joseph Hoag and made it available as a paperback. The cost is $12.37 before shipping, and that is just the manufacturing cost, I don't make any money off of it. I just thought it would be nice to have the journal back in print. The text comes from the 1861 edition published by Knapp & Peck.
posted by Mark Wutka @ 4:07 PM
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Hi Mark: very interesting. Where did you get the original text? Typing or open source somewhere? And the price doesn't seem bad. Maybe we could set up a Quaker classic of the month service?
Most of it came from OCR-ing a copy from Google books, then I had to find another copy because Google didn't quite get all the pages scanned. It took a while to get it all cleaned up. The indexing was a bit tedious because I indexed all the names and places.
I don't think I'll be doing this again, because I discovered Public Domain Reprints. It is a web site that can take a Google books PDF and reformat it to be printed by lulu.com. He does add a small charge to cover the cost of running his web server.
Right now I am reading the first volume of The Friends' Library(!) and it looks okay. I know there are at least two pages in there that didn't scan properly, but just to have a new paperback copy that I can carry around is great! I put volumes 2 and 3 into the queue, and volume 14 is already available. When I did volume 1, the title was so long that it didn't include the volume number. I wrote to Yakov and he had that fixed in an hour - he tested it on volume 14. I also printed The Journal of John Wilbur and it also looks good.
The full 14-volume series of the Friends' Library is on Google Books. I have updated my original posting to include the most recent additions. I think I'll start including links to the printable versions as well.
Joseph Hoag was my fifth grandfather. I have a reprint from 1909. I learned about him from my cousin Wilson Hoag.
I have been a small part of opening Prayer Groups, here, in Humboldt Co.I have not read it all, but I was amazed to read about my grandfather.
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