Why this website?
• Please read this document.
 
e Book?
• ASCII text for custom transformation into any format.
• HTML webpages for viewing with a browser.
• PostScript and PDF for hiqh-quality printing.
• Others? Contact us with suggestions.
 
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[ webmaster@ ] (type “leninist.Biz” after the "@").
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• Thank you for your donation of $1 or more!
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• Any number of people can donate money towards a book.
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• YOU DECIDE WHICH BOOKS TO PROCESS FIRST.
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EBay in Reverse?
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• Our donation system is somewhat like EBay in reverse.
• Less money is better,
      as long as lots of donations are received for a particular book.
• The more people donating towards a book,
      the sooner you and everyone else will “receive” it on-line.
• Once a book becomes an eBook,
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Spam?
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“So, why do some books look terrible?”
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• Beginning 2005, books started appearing online.
      In the beginning, books will go online as fast as possible,
      which means in the beginning quality will be very, very low.
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• During 2006, most books are still one step removed from raw-OCR text output.
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• Looking forward:
      2007: Planned page-object quality control/quality assurance.
      2008: Planned spell-check.
      2009: Planned quotes (dumb-to-smart).
      2010: Planned ...
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