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Converting SBE 48 Sri Bhasya to eText: 

For some time now I've been exploring ways to get books on
Sri Vaishnavism (sv-books) wider distribution, so individuals
like myself could gain access to these books either at their
local library or online.

Placing sv-books at local libraries in the US requires
some groundwork (which will be done over time),
For now, it so happens that the Sacred Books of the East Vol. 48, 
which is G. Thibaut's translation of Sri Ramanuja's Sri Bhasya,
is beyond copyright and a good candidate to be placed
online as an eText.

Given that, I chose to make the necessary enquiries and began
the process of turning it into an eText.

The process is broadly as follows

1 Gain copyright clearance
This has been done with http://www.sacred-texts.com and is
being finalised with http://promo.net/pg
2 Scan in the book
3 OCR the scanned pages into text
2&3Being done by me
4 Proofread it, using appropriate format guidelines
Could use volunteer help here
5 Place proofread eText online
The easy part.

Item 4 is the most time consuming (and interesting), and it is here 
that I'd like to request for volunteers. The task involves looking at 
the scanned image of the page, and ensuring that the text matches the
image, keeping a few formatting rules in mind.

There are a total of 800 (400,2-up)pages, which I've broken into 
blocks each consisting of 5,2-up pages, which could be comfortably 
done in one sitting.

Do send me an email if you are interested in helping.

Thanks
Srinivasan Sriram
e ajiva_rts@xxxx


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Moderators note:

This is a very worthy effort. Please volunteer as much as possible.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
varadhan


S. Sriram

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