all_the_year_round

Text and epub versions of All The Year Round's Christmas Editions:

• A Haunted House (1859) - complete
• A Message From The Sea (1860) - complete
• Tom Tiddler's Ground (1861) - complete
• Somebody's Luggage (1862) - corrected
• Mrs Lirriper's Lodgings (1863) - complete
• Mrs Lirriper's Legacy (1864) - complete
• Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (1865) - complete
• Mugby Junction (1866) - corrected
• No Thoroughfare (1867) - corrected

And also Household Words 1851 - 1858

• What Christmas Is As We Get Older (1851) - complete
• A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1852) - corrected
• Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire (1853) - complete
• The Seven Poor Travellers (1854) - corrected
• The Holly Tree Inn (1855) - corrected
• The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856) - corrected
• The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) - corrected
• A House to Let (1858) - corrected

("draft" generally means that i've done an initial conversion to epub but haven't read it to check. "corrected" means i've read it and done all the corrections but haven't checked the paragraphs or italics)

I was trying recently to find a ebook copy of the Mrs Lirriper stories by Charles Dickens i found that the versions on Project Gutenberg contained ONLY the Dicken's bits and not the other 80%.

The same is true of a lot of the other Christmas editions of All The Year Round so i thought i'd do something about it. I used mainly Dickens Journals Online's scanned, OCRed, corrected text (http://www.djo.org.uk/)(i transcribed some of these myself back in the day), but they aren't perfect, so it's a lot of work. (One of them was even missing a couple of pages so i had to find them on some Indian government website. These were scans, which i OCRed myself using Tesseract.)

Everything got converted to lowest common denomiator .txt format, then marked up as xml and then converted to simple epubs using my own acdepub2 code. Finally i generated generic covers using svg templates and Gimp.

andy