UK Paper Circuit Library - by file folder - File Folder 01

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Waaaaay back in May last year, I posted about the UK Paper Circuit Library rather unexpectedly ending up in my care. Unfortunately it was just on the cusp of my maddest part of the year, and I never did catch up with it. I delayed replying to comments while I thought about what to do - and then Jobs 2 and 3 were upon me, and all was lost. Very sorry to everyone who replied - I really appreciate the input, and hope you won't let my dreadful manners put you off. I've finally replied, and I will keep trying to do better...

It's finally time to get on with it again, and see what can be done. My thoughts in general, and considering people's comments:
- I want people to have access to the stories
- But I don't want to disrespect author wishes (known or not) about posting their stories to the internet.
- I'm not keen on the idea of locking the stories up in an academic institution, even though I know they'd intend to archive them safely. I definitely don't want to ship them out of the UK to do this. Trouble is, only academics could access them, and with the best will and the state of university funding these days, I'm not sure how much of a guarantee there'd be for their safety anyway. Look at the way big archives are scanning paper docs like crazy to get rid of them - if it can happen to the whole Windrush generation, then I don't fancy the chances of our Pros fic...
- So I think distribution among fans and Pros archives as much as possible is the way to go

- the question then is the same as for major archives: keep the paper copies as well as having them online? Is it worth it if they're copies of copies and hard to read to start with?
- but what happens if the internet blows up (or the nasty powers that be steal our access)? Don't we need a back-up? Is there a way of ensuring that there are lots of back-ups throughout fandom?

While we're thinking about that, I've started going through the files, because it looks like alot of stories are either online anyway, or in ProsLib. Here's the results for File Folder 1. Brackets around initials means that they're not specifically the author's pseud, but initials of the author name given, which is either not supposed to be on the internet, or isn't yet on the internet so I don't want to expose it. The difference between "Unknown" and "Anonymous" is that the latter is a chosen pseudonym, whereas the former means there was no name on the story.

Stories in Folder 1 of UK Paper Circuit Library
All Done By Numbers by (Unknown)
Another Night at the Disco by ET
Bear With Me by Doylebaby
Bearding the Cow by Terrence
Beginnings by (LS)
Better to Forget by Jane
Bittersweet by SN
Bittersweet 2 by SN
Brass in Pocket by (LS)
Brother's Keeper by Frankie (FJ)
Brown Study by (LS)
A Different Beginning by Rob
Doyle's Dream by (LS)
Forget Me Never (listed as Never To Forget) by Anon
Gruff 'n' Grim by HG
Lirion by (Unknown)
Lost in the Shadows by Betina Sheets
No Turning Back by LH
Old Longings by Jane
On Paper by Rob
Practical Demonstrations by Jane
Question of Trust by Rob
Remember Angola by (AL)
Rules of the Game by Anne Carr
Russian Roulette by Jane
Scoring a Try by ET
Tiger by the Tail by Lilian Sheperd (EPS)
X Ray Ted by HG

Only three of these stories aren't already archived on the ProsLib disc:
All Done By Numbers by (Unknown)
Lirion by (Unknown)
Remember Angola by (AL)

1. Does anyone have digital copies of any of these stories in either .doc format of some kind, or as pdfs that aren't images (i.e. that can be converted to .doc format of some kind)?

2. hagsrus - Are any of these stories on your waiting-to-be-archived list, or do you need/would like copies?

3. All new thoughts welcome!

Comments

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

It's worth trying image pdf - tried the Lily one here, would need careful editing, but probably usable (haven't gone over It in detail yet, RL et al)
www.onlineocr.net

I have a vague memory that someone said AL didn't want to be included, but a long time ago. Anyone know anything? Or the other two?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I've tried a few OCRs for images, but they only seem to work on smaller files or a few pages at a time. Thanks for the link - I had a go, and the file was too big. Maybe I could re-scan them a few pages at a time and do it that way...

And ah - thanks for the info about AL. Maybe I should ask on Safehouse, which might have more fans on (without mentioning her name, obviously). Though it's so hard to know - Sara always said that Rhiannon refused to ever allow her stories to be put on line, and was vehemently against it, and she's presumably given permission for HG to archive them to AO3 now.

I don't have authors at all for the other two fics - I was hoping someone might recognise the titles if they knew, but it's been very quiet at this post so far...

Are there any other authors that you know for sure don't want their stories online (as opposed to their names online)? Maybe drop me an email? Thanks!

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Yes, will do.

OT: And I really enjoyed Never Valentine's Day!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And thank you for posting it - it was so fun to see it pop up! In fact I should have added that as a Happy Thing on Friday, because it made me smile to see it! *g*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I don't have digital copies but I have a new scanner which can make good pdfs and I have a programm to convert into doc without to much editing needed.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - well now you're just boasting... *vbg*

What programme to do you use to convert the pdfs into .doc? Does it work with image pdfs as well?

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't want to boast, I only wanted to offer time and help. :-)

I have a full version of adobe with which you can convert. I tried it with Family Affair and it wasn't so much work to edit.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Sorry - my turn to be sorry, I was joking! (You knew that, right?!)

You have the full version of Adobe?! So lucky! I guess maybe I could send you a pdf file, you could convert it and send it back, and then I could go through and check the English to get it into final shape? If you didn't mind doing the converting?

Maybe we could experiment - I could send you one of the scanned files to try?

PS - that reminds me - I need to look out last summer's stories again, after siskiou's emails last week! Delayed again... *headdesk*

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, I knew. ;-)

And it's a good idea to try. Send me one of the scanned files and I'll do my best. :-)