[First Project] Tragedy at Ravensthorpe by JJ Connington

[mauka218lani]

Greetings,

For my first project I'd like to try Tragedy at Ravensthorpe by JJ Connington, pseudonym for AW Stewart.

Searching extensively for the scans with none found, now I see why this one has not yet been picked up. I've sent a request for scan access to Brian Raiter, credited producer of the Project Gutenberg version, using his email shown on Github, but no response yet. He appears to have sourced the first edition, Grosset & Dunlap 1927.

Meanwhile, I'll start on the book. If I am ultimately unable to obtain access to scans and you decide not to use my results I'm ok with that. This is a learning experience. Same if it turns out Mr Raiter prefers producing his own version for Standard Ebooks.

The book is pg75407 released last February on Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75407

My repository:
https://github.com/mauka218lani/j-j-connington_tragedy-at-ravensthorpe

Request to use cropped image of the first edition dust jacket as cover. 

Nice image on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_at_Ravensthorpe
Which they credit to:
https://grandestgame.wordpress.com/list-of-authors/j-j-connington/tragedy-at-ravensthorpe-j-j-connington/
Which they in turn credit to:
https://www.dustjackets.com/pages/books/890/j-j-connington/tragedy-at-ravensthorpe
and they have the full dust jacket as an image for sale for $25.

The wikipedia details for the image suggest that reuse of a cropped version for Standard Ebooks would be allowed. Are you ok with that?

As it is my first time posting, I'd like to take a moment to express my compliments to those who have created/maintained the extensive documentation for this process on your website and in Github as well as the tools you have made available. I have reviewed and consulted the documents under "Get Involved" plus made use of the technical directions for installing your tools on my doddering mac running High Sierra (no homebrew supports macos that old, had to rely on python).

Thank you for considering my request.

PS, apologizes if the anonymous approach is too creepy. I have been notified that my identity is for sale on the dark web and I now operate at maximum paranoia. Thanks for understanding.

[Ron Stewart]

@mauka218lani: I had done some digging last year around Connington's books and found scans of "Tragedy at Ravensthorpe" on Google Books (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tragedy_at_Ravensthorpe/AsNHAAAAYAAJ) but my digging was before the PG transcription was available. Perhaps those might help?

Ron

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

I see some verse in there, see the manual for how to structure that.

You can use the first edition dust jacket cover. I don't think the one
on Wikipedia is large enough to work since we have to scale it up
significantly, but you can try. Maybe an AI tool would do a good job on
scaling it up.

The one hosted on PG could also work.

In any case, use Gimp/Photoshop to remove the title/author (should be
very easy since it's a uniform black background).

If you're using the one from PG, fill in or crop out the damaged edges,
and if possible fix the water stains on the blue field near the top.

Weijia will manage this with Vince reviewing.

Re. paranoia, note that you must use a real-sounding name for the
producer credit within the ebook. It doesn't have to be your real name
but it can't be a handle like mauka218lani. You can also choose to be
anonymous if you prefer.

Make sure to read the Standard Ebooks Manual of Style before starting,
as you won't know what to fix if you haven't read the standards. In
particular, please closely review the semantics, high level patterns,
and typography sections:

https://standardebooks.org/manual

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography

The step by step guide will take you from start to finish:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step

This page on common issues in older books may be useful:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/how-tos/common-issues-when-working-on-public-domain-ebooks

Please email often if you have any questions at all. Our standards are
well-established so there is probably already a standard for formatting
whatever problem you've encountered.

Have fun! :)

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