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Aaron Swartz's blog posts in Markdown, PDF, ePub, and Mobi
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On my first read-through, I found some errors. #4

Open poppingtonic opened 10 years ago

poppingtonic commented 10 years ago

Hi, this is such an amazing collection. Thank you for compiling these articles. Since I had some downtime, I've been reading through some of them these past few days, and these are the errors I've found so far.

joshleitzel commented 10 years ago

Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to check this out and read through some of Aaron's stuff! I'm not really sure how I feel about editing grammar/spelling mistakes quite yet. I'd like to keep the content as faithful to the originals as possible, but I do understand the benefits of corrections for future readers. I think perhaps I'd like a way to have the corrections included along with the originals, so that both can be included. I'll have to think about this some more.

I'm planning on going through all these posts with a fine-tooth comb (and including some pre-2005 posts I missed) and preparing a manually-edited final version for the anniversary of Aaron's death in a few weeks, so I hope to come up with a solution by then. If you're interested, I'd love any help! For now, I'm going to leave this open.

poppingtonic commented 10 years ago

On 12/27/2013 09:30 AM, Josh Leitzel wrote:

Hi there,

Thanks for taking the time to check this out and read through some of Aaron's stuff! I'm not really sure how I feel about editing grammar/spelling mistakes quite yet. I'd like to keep the content as faithful to the originals as possible, but I do understand the benefits of corrections for future readers. I think perhaps I'd like a way to have the corrections included along with the originals, so that both can be included. I'll have to think about this some more.

I'm planning on going through all these posts with a fine-tooth comb (and including some pre-2005 posts I missed) and preparing a manually-edited final version for the anniversary of Aaron's death in a few weeks, so I hope to come up with a solution by then. If you're interested, I'd love any help! For now, I'm going to leave this open.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought/pull/4#issuecomment-31249020.

Hi, You're quite right about keeping the content faithful to the originals, but what about clarity? Hey, I'll be very glad to help for the manually-edited final version. Edits are just a push away, and I'm reading (roughly) a post a day. :) If you don't mind, I'll keep adding pull requests as I come across new issues, for you to merge at your discretion. Thus, we can keep discussing any changes as-needed. What do you think?

P.S: Aaron inspired me when I was just leaving high-school. I first heard of him in when I saw a post, on /. about Reddit's sale, in a Ugandan Internet cafe. This is an interesting (long) story I'll write about on my github pages blog soon. This was before I even knew how to code. I've been reading his blog intermittently ever since, but more and more through the end of last year. I secretly hoped to meet him someday, and was really devastated by his death.