Another ebook eventually arriving will be Midnight, by Rutherford Montgomery. It turns out, the copyright for this 1940 title was never renewed. Gutenberg.org has had an ebook available since 2019, digitized from the paperback version I used to own as a child! But that edition only had a single illustration, a frontispiece by Pers Crowell. I will be doing the first edition, 1940 Henry Holt and Company hardcover, fully illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott.
Midnight by Rutherford Montgomery, frontispiece by Jacob Bates Abbott
I found the problem that was creating missing text on Nook devices and apps! The Top Horse of Crescent Ranch file is fixed! Works on Nook and in the Nook Android app as it should. This is a huge load off my mind!
I will upload the new version (1.3) to the Internet Archive over the weekend. But not today. I don’t want to push my luck! No one likes a bite on the butt!
Foxhunting Formalities (1930), by J. Stanley Reeve, illustration by Paul Desmond Brown.
I work on more than one ebook at a time, so I can’t say which will be done next. Switching around allows me to make progress while not having my mind go stale on a particular title.
The 1930 title, Red Horse Hill, by Stephen W. Meader, is a possibility, as the images have been fairly easy to process so far. The text is done, but for author and artist bio pages, and a final proofread. I’m a quarter of the way through the images. One, however, has a printing GOOBER smack in the middle of a horse’s leg! I’m going to try my hand at artistic editing. If I can’t fix it, then I need to find another cheap copy of the book, ugh!
Sadly, almost no book seller gives you photos of every image in an illustrated book. Acquiring an illustrated title to digitize is always a gamble! Print quality can be excellent in one book, and poor in another copy. Like that proverbial box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get!
When your image scan reveals a big printing GOOBER!
How do I know that every copy doesn’t have this exact same printing goober on the frontispiece image? A Google search turned up a brief book review on Todd’s Blog with exactly this image shown! It gives me a hint for possible editing.
I also found a few things I wanted to improve in the first two books. The main thing I’m revamping is the form of bio attributions. The new form is clearer as to which documents were used. Game-Legs has already been updated.
I’m still scratching my head over the “NOOK quirk” in Top Horse of Crescent Ranch. I checked the template that I use for all ebooks, and it does not have a problem! This will take some serious detective work. Thankfully, Game-Legs is free of the issue, so it’s probably some tiny little thing that Nook devices don’t like.
