On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:31:09 +0200, Popeye <popeye@mailnesia.com>
wrote:
>Spanky,
>
>Surprisingly, we have a situation where someone else is working hard on
>essentially the TSR Initiative. I've been in contact via email, because
>it would be a poor use of our time to have two groups working on the
>same project at once.
>
>Here are his files:
>
>https://mega.nz/#F!k1JyEKpQ!J45Rhcm1Hbrm1YdbBwEuVA
>
>Mega allows for a batch download without paying, so one possibility
>would be to download his 20 gb dump, do a checksum on his files vs
>ours, and see what files are different.
>
>For the first time since TSR bit the dust, it may be possible to truly
>make a definitive digital archive of TSR era D&D.
>
>Let me know what you think, I've got 10mb/s down and unlimited
>bandwith, and I'm willing to help in any way that I can.
Thanks, I'm aware of that site. He has some nice stuff. I think my
archive is more complete, but he had a few books I didn't (since
rectified :) and in a few cases he had better quality scans (ditto).
On the other hand, there's some stuff I have that he doesn't and a
number of cases where my files are more complete.
In any case, a bit-to-bit comparison would be a useless endeavor as -
if my files aren't different already - they ultimately will be. I tend
to tinker with all my files: I add bookmarks, OCR, metadata, stitch
together maps, and generally make all my PDFs match up to a unified
style (e.g., same page-numbering schema, the way I arrange the pages,
colors of the bookmarks, anal-retentive stuff like that :). Plus a
little yellow comment tag to indicate if there are any missing pages.
So my stuff ultimately will never match up with his because even if he
has the best scan I'll still modify it to make it suit my style
His is a useful archive no doubt and a great find. Alas, I've neither
the disk space nor bandwidth to download the thing in full (if I had,
I'd probably be upping my stuff to a similar web-archive :)
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