[projectaon] Re: Review of New Books Page Scheme

  • From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:01:53 +0000

Jonathan Blake wrote:

I like it. It makes the site look even more professional. I also like Iain's
idea of having cover scans for each book and eash issue of the book, though for
the Kai and Magnakai books that's quite a few for each title!

I'm OK with the idea as long as the images are small, only slightly better than a thumbnail. This in order to avoid copyright issues.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking of full-sized images. ;-)

No luck with the publication date on the British Library website, I'm afraid. 
:-\

What other info should we include? I was thinking of cover artists, for example.

Title Author (duh) Interior artist Publisher (and date) Language ISBN Cover Artist

I think that about covers everything.

I thought we could also include non-English editions in order to
become an comprehensive repository of bibliographic info. Other
websites have done some work in this area, but haven't sought to be
comprehensive - at least the last time I took a stroll through the
Lone Wolf community I didn't see any.

The only thought I had about that is that we're only (currently) making the English versions available on the site, so the foreign language covers might confuse, but I'm not against it.


You might want to check out Demian Katz's rather spiffy gamebook website ( www.gamebooks.org ), specifically http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=228 and follow the links from there. If we ask Demian nicely, he might even donate the thumbnail cover scans. :-)

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Simon Osborne


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