@ScioAgapeOmnis I do have a book I'd like translated. Its in German and searching for an English translation was unfruitful.
Here it is attached
Georgy Sidorov: Traces of an ancient civilization in Russia, and who are the Illuminati
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@ScioAgapeOmnis I do have a book I'd like translated. Its in German and searching for an English translation was unfruitful.
Here it is attached
I'd be happy to! Give me a week or so. Maybe 2 weeks if Western civilization collapses post-election. I'll keep you updated on my progress after a week regardless.
The book has this warning at the beginning:
The German National Library registers this publication in the German National Bibliography; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
The work is protected by copyright in all its parts. Any use without the publisher's permission is unlawful. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing by electronic systems.
6th, completely revised and updated edition 2017
© 2017 by WBG (Scientific Book Society), Darmstadt
1st edition 1990
The publication of the work was made possible by the members of the WBG.
Book design: Peter Lohse, Heppenheim
Typesetting: SatzWeise GmbH, Trier
Printed on acid-free and age-resistant paper
Printed in Germany
Visit us on the Internet: www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de
ISBN: 978-3-534-26724-8
The following electronic editions are available:
eBook (PDF): 978-3-534-74000-0
eBook (epub): 978-3-534-74001-7
I don't want to be in trouble or get the forum in trouble - could a mod/admin let me know how they think it's best to proceed with something like this? Do you think it's fine to do for personal use if I share the translation with Navigator privately or something? I didn't come across the same warning in the previous book so I figured I'd ask!
@Keit - just pinging you Keit cuz you're an Ambassador and may be able to answer the above! Thank you :)
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So apparently WBG, the original publisher/copyright holder, filed for bankruptcy and doesn't exist anymore.
Here's the translated article:
Now these guys took over and most likely hold the copyright.
I sent them an email asking for permission to do a machine translation for personal use.
Very likely a personal translation falls under "fair use", I just wouldn't publish a link on the forum and could just offer it to anyone that asks. I'll see what they say first just in case. It never hurts to ask!
@Navigator
The new publisher who took over for WBG replied that they don't have the rights to this book - they went back to the original author. Given that there's 3 authors and it's a curation of data made from the notes of someone else who has since passed away, it looks like we're good to go (I'm not going to hunt down the emails of the 3 authors and try to get their take on this). Given that the warning was made by the no longer existing publisher and not the author, I don't think it applies anymore. Worst case scenario, if anyone really ends up caring, they will ask that it be taken down, and that's fine. But it sounds like the authors themselves would have to actually be the ones to do that.
I'll work on it and put the link here for the English version just like before. This one will take longer unfortunately for several reasons - mostly due to the nature/complexity of the formatting. It's not simple prose like the previous book. The formatting includes tons of footnotes which also have to be separately and carefully translated to preserve the formatting of the layout of each page. The footnotes are associated with the page they're on, so each paragraph has to be translated individually to make sure the translated info fits on the same page as the footnotes. Also, after that section of the book is done, the book becomes detailed and often tabular data about the activities of the Roman leaders, and given that it's a scanned PDF rather than a pure text one, copying stuff out of it can be incredibly messy - it often copies certain correlated columns separately (instead of side by side like they're supposed to be) which necessitates manually aligning them so that it can be translated properly, and then manually pasting pieces of the information into the Word document into the proper sections. Finally, I have to use a larger/smarter LLM (running locally on my laptop) because of the complexity of the info to make sure the translation is good, which is unfortunately slower as well.
But the book looks really interesting and I'm happy to go through the process.
So just give me time on this one - I'll work on it in my free time and give you weekly updates on my progress.
So far I've translated through page 5.
The new publisher who took over for WBG replied that they don't have the rights to this book - they went back to the original author. Given that there's 3 authors and it's a curation of data made from the notes of someone else who has since passed away, it looks like we're good to go (I'm not going to hunt down the emails of the 3 authors and try to get their take on this). Given that the warning was made by the no longer existing publisher and not the author, I don't think it applies anymore. Worst case scenario, if anyone really ends up caring, they will ask that it be taken down, and that's fine. But it sounds like the authors themselves would have to actually be the ones to do that.
I'll work on it and put the link here for the English version just like before. This one will take longer unfortunately for several reasons - mostly due to the nature/complexity of the formatting. It's not simple prose like the previous book. The formatting includes tons of footnotes which also have to be separately and carefully translated to preserve the formatting of the layout of each page. The footnotes are associated with the page they're on, so each paragraph has to be translated individually to make sure the translated info fits on the same page as the footnotes. Also, after that section of the book is done, the book becomes detailed and often tabular data about the activities of the Roman leaders, and given that it's a scanned PDF rather than a pure text one, copying stuff out of it can be incredibly messy - it often copies certain correlated columns separately (instead of side by side like they're supposed to be) which necessitates manually aligning them so that it can be translated properly, and then manually pasting pieces of the information into the Word document into the proper sections. Finally, I have to use a larger/smarter LLM (running locally on my laptop) because of the complexity of the info to make sure the translation is good, which is unfortunately slower as well.
But the book looks really interesting and I'm happy to go through the process.
So just give me time on this one - I'll work on it in my free time and give you weekly updates on my progress.
So far I've translated through page 5.
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