User talk:Martijn Hoekstra

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Again, welcome! Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 21:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Ah, canned welcome messages, how much we love them. Anyway, say what you will of canned messages, they do generally contain some pretty solid further reading. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:27, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Scanned version available?

Gday Martijn,

Is there a scanned volume available? My checks of archive.org are negative, and Google Books shows me snippets, but not a full version. If you know of a full scanned version, we could be looking to get it converted to a djvu version and uploaded to Commons, and then utilise the Help:Proofread system. With such a work we would be looking to do subpages, for the subsections/chapters/... of the work, though what we have as lead in text on the top level is always dependent on what are in the lead-in pages. — billinghurst sDrewth 11:11, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Gday, how's it going? I mailed the site maintainer where I got the text from to get the scans before I go any further. There might not be scans, and it's not properly proofred, which is a shame, since it's a really nice text to have, but I still have good hopes. So far I nor Doug has been able to google-fu up scans. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 11:16, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

If there are no scans this may be worth creating some. I can try to get the book. If I can find a reasonably priced copy I'll see if Matt wants to unbind it to make the scans. If not, I'll see if I can get a library copy and just do some book-on-the-glass scans to see if I can get something useful. First though, let's exhaust all other possibilities. I believe Mpaa is also looking.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 11:37, 12 April 2012 (UTC)