In the 1980s, my father wrote a book that an analysis and annotation of another well-known book which is now in the public domain. My family owns the rights to this annotation (we checked with the press that put it out). I think it would make a really good eBook if someone wanted to scan it all in, digitize it, and turn all the annotations into hyperlinks. I know that theoretically I could do that all myself, but I feel like that's something bigger than I can tackle alone. He was a scholar, so he did a huge amount of research on the book which is basically unavailable now to anyone who is interested in it.

So could anyone recommend a good service to do this? I don't know that I could necessarily raise the funds to do it, but I think it would be worth a try with a kickstarter or something.

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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think archive.org had something where you could donate a material to get it put into the archive as an ebook. I don't know what happened to that program.

I might have found it: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/

If this was me, I would give them an email on what the process entails and if you can get the material back.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Awesome! I will check that out, thanks!