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Adding Pages or Covers to a Scan already posted?
Yoc:
I agree some books could use some extra attention but the scans hosted on DCM do not belong to us. It's not our place to 'correct' them no matter how much one might want to do so.
I know it might be a very small minority but there are some that would not want/welcome a re-edit their work.
The last thing we'd want is to offend a scanner who has spent their time and money to produce an original scan.
Trust me, I've wrestled with the same idea many times over the years and keep any of my 'fixed' scans to myself for the above reason.
narfstar:
And as always I welcome fixes to my scans. I have put up a lot of raw scans and they NEED fixin'
Yoc:
Well there you go Bminor. Fire away.
If you upload please add 'bminor edit' at the end of any file name.
GL!
John C:
Keep in mind that there's another issue that, while we'd all be happy with "improvements," we might all disagree on what improves the scan for various reasons.
My recommendation, though, would be to just take it up with the individual scanner. Not only does this let you find out if the scanner is amenable to the help (rather than having created exactly the file they want distributed), you're almost always better off working from the raw scan files than the processed and compressed files you download. They may also have the experience with trying whatever you want to do and can make suggestions or explain why they didn't.
larrytalbot:
Fair enough, Yoc & John.
What I had in mind was not so much a 'cosmetic' improvement (that may or may not actually be considered an improvement by some), but correction of glaring defects that most readers would consider desireable (i.e. increasing contrast on a washed-out, hard-to-read page; correcting blurred images & text, if possible)
I agree that original scanners should be consulted before tampering with their work. But, looking to the future when original scanners may no longer be around, it will be up to the 'Keepers of the Flame' on this & other such sites to determine if a submitted 'improved' file is worth keeping on the site.
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