On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:36:20 +0200, Popeye <thatoldfool@insiberia.net>
wrote:
>On 2015-10-25 16:17:44 +0000, Spanky The Man said:
>
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>> I tend to put little sticky-note comments indicating the box contents
>> on the front cover; this is largely to let me know that I've actually
>> done touch-up work on the file already, but it is also informs if
>> there is any missing material. I hope nobody finds it too annoying...
>
>What percentage of the found D&D material have you touched up? I find
>it stressful that I might have to replace my entire collection with
>yours ;p
>
>Do you have good scans of AD&D 1e? I have 600dpi 1dollarscan files if
>you're interested, and the Rules Cyclopedia. These will likely be the
>biggest contributions I'll be able to make to this project, unless I do
>some personal scans of some of the other books I have.
Honestly, I don't know. Pretty much all of the box-sets have seen some
work done. I recently re-did all the 2E "corebooks" (posted a few
months ago). If the volume came with a fold-out map that was chopped
into pieces, I put it back together and usually took the opportunity
to do some touch-up work. If it didn't have a cover, it definitely got
fixed.
I have to look at my Rules Cyclopedia. Last time I looked at it, the
text was okay but I wasn't so sure about the map (if I recall, it
didn't "fit together" very well... but I'm not sure it was meant to).
But finding and pulling the original volume is such a chore; it
usually means moving fifty other books just to get at the one I want
(and then putting it all back together!)
The 1E hardbooks are /acceptable/ scans; they aren't very clean (lots
of specs, reverse pages sometimes bleed through slightly, pages are
not perfectly straight in some cases) but are OCRd and legible. I'm
not sure they are worth rescanning. The exceptions are Deities and
Demigods (of which I've never seen a nice scan), and Monster Manual 2
(which I've never bothered looking for because I never saw a need for
a better version of a book that featured 'froghemoths' and 'stench
kows' ;-).
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