Would a website like this be of interest to anyone?This is just a proof of concept, but I think you get the idea. I'm seriously considering the idea of continuing my work on it.

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Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 15:53:24 No.6368

Would a website like this be of interest to anyone?

This is just a proof of concept, but I think you get the idea. I'm seriously considering the idea of continuing my work on it.

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 16:32:49 No.6370

>but I think you get the idea.

You are going to host the Loeb classical library series on-line? Or something. Or what?

Sorry for being such a brick but I'm on my forth cup and this fucking coffee ain't doing shit for my morning fog dispelling blast off routine today.

What are you trying to do here exactly?

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 16:52:23 No.6371

>>6370

Essentially, I will try to curate an amount of literary works in a relatively uniform way, with the objective of having a web interface to access public-domain works and their translations in a reasonable way.

Read it online with any translation side-by-side, download a nicely type-setted PDF document (generated with LaTeX), and so on and so forth.

For example, take the Illiad, show Pope's version on one side, and some modern one on the other. Take Balzac's Human Comedy, show the original French on one side, and some translation to English on the other. Or a short story by Chekhov, same idea.

Anonymous 08/30/15 (Sun) 17:01:27 No.6372

>>6370

>>6371

My sources will be the Gutenberg project, Wikisource, Wikilivres, Liberty Fund, collecting poetry here and there (I already have an almost-finished collection of poetry by Arseni Tarkovsky), and anything that I can find that has a reasonable quality.

Anonymous 09/04/15 (Fri) 01:01:03 No.6423

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i want to see this completed

Anonymous 09/04/15 (Fri) 08:20:36 No.6424

>>6423

>i didn't thought he would actually rise.

Anonymous 09/15/15 (Tue) 18:56:29 No.6566

>>6368

Sounds interesting.

>>6372

I discourage use of wikis. That shit gets corrections and alterations snuck in here and there. Keep your book sources authoritative if possible.

Anonymous 09/15/15 (Tue) 19:44:55 No.6567

It could be very useful for people learning ancient greek. I don't personnally do, but I know people who used to.

Anonymous 09/15/15 (Tue) 21:20:21 No.6568

>>6368

If it has texts other than Greek ones, then yes. It would be very useful to be able to compare a translation with the original for texts that are written in a language that I can't read fluently.

Anonymous 09/16/15 (Wed) 08:59:37 No.6578

Yes. But I think Perseus already does a similar thing.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 15:58:35 No.7165

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I'm not dead, still working on this.

(1): a proof of concept of what would it be like to read Shakespeare side-by-side. Lots of decisions to be made about formatting the plays in plain-text (extended Markdown for now).

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:00:15 No.7166

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>>7165

(btw i half-assed the english dramatic personae, do not actually read that)

(2): more Shakespeare side by side. Quickly copied that, may have typos, but not the point.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:01:07 No.7168

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>>7166

(3): Borges is good for you.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:02:13 No.7169

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>>7168

(4): a rudimentary author table. Only five authors have content on the database, so it's just for showing off.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:04:56 No.7170

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>>7169

(5): non-original content (translations, mostly) refer back to the original content. In this case, a poem by Sappho.

That's all for now, i guess. What would you like to see different? Any ideas?

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:22:59 No.7171

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>>7170

(6): this is the last one, really. You can select the part of the work you want to look at, and switch between different editions (translations and versions).

Of course this is all ideal, because the content isn't there.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 16:40:56 No.7172

I'd be more interested in 20th century works. The old stuff is nice to see except that it's been done to death by other sites, Perseus at Tufts U. et. al.

Keep at it.

Anonymous 10/23/15 (Fri) 17:49:19 No.7173

>>7172

The problem with modern stuff is copyright, though I agree with your point.

Anonymous 10/24/15 (Sat) 20:37:42 No.7209

YES

YeS

Really though this would be great, and I would use it on a daily bases.

Anonymous 10/25/15 (Sun) 17:33:30 No.7239

>>7209

Good to know, thanks. Is there something you'd particularly like to be able to do on the website? Something you already see that is not of your liking?