I just put in a preliminary bid on a partial set (missing 2 volumes) at
eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3575193499&categ…
There's an unspecified reserve on this.
Ec
Fred Bauder wrote:
Cheapest set I can find is
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=214483227
There are odd volumes availble, such as this 1885 Volume 1
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=224154342
Fred
>From: Imran Ghory <imran(a)bits.bris.ac.uk>
>
>On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>>Imran Ghory wrote:
>>
>>>Something else we could do is use the money to obtain public domain books
>>>(e.g. biographical encyclopedias) that can be scanned/ocred and used for
>>>creating basic articles in areas which wikipedia currently lacks coverage.
>>>
>>What would something like that cost, anyway? My guess is that if
>>someone wanted to do this, the cost would be close to zero anyway, am
>>I wrong?
>>
>The cost is primarily in buying the books, we could work with Project
>Gutenberg to get them scanned (they have several high-speed
>destructive scanners - you just remove the covering and spine of the book
>and put the pages into a feeder system), ocred and proofread.
>
What a terrible way to mistreet a book!!!
>If we wanted to get something major like the full
1st edition of the
>"Dictionary of National Biography" (20 volumes) we'd be lucky to find
it
>for under a couple of hundred dollars. Although if we're just looking for
>any works that we could use we might be get lucky just by looking in
>second-hand bookstores. There are many books such as Joseph
>Thomas' "Universal pronouncing dictionary of biography and
>mythology" which have articles which we could import into Wikipedia with
>minimal changes to form useful stubs.
>