[ATM] Ellison's book and others

[Peter Abrahams]

I have a photocopy of Ellison's 1932 book, 'The Amateur's Telescope'.  The book is a poor quality print job, the type is 
not sharp, but it is legible.  I will scan it & if a site like http://www.atmsite.org/ can post it, that would be great. 
  It will probably be about 4 megs; there are some photos but they are not good & the images will probably be as good in 
B&W as in greyscale (for smaller filesize).
Certainly it would be better to scan an original copy.

During this thread, several people have mentioned finding very early ATM books.  I wish they'd send a note about the 
author & title.  I have a few other old ATM titles in photocopy form, but tonight's not the night I can dig them out.

And Julio's idea is the best proposal I've heard in a long time; noting that it can be difficult to be certain about who 
might own an old copyright.  However, one can also worry too much.

--Peter Abrahams

> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:18:29 +0000
> From: "Julio Sanchez" <jsanchez at skipanon.com>
> If anyone does find the book by Ellison (or any other ATM classic for that matter that is in the public domain) I volunteer to scan and digitize the text and re-do the illustrations so that the entire group can have access to it. I am a professor of Computer Science and have access to the technology to do this without much suffering.
> How about starting a digital database of ATM material in the public domain? 
> Regards and Merry Xmas,
> Julio