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The Memotech User Group
- Genpat
Compendia
Just an idea . . . . . .
Idea abandoned due to lack of interest
In my opinion, the
memopad magazines have some really good technical
content in them but it is spread through issues from the 4 years
or so that it was produced and the indexing is either very poor
or non-existent. Quite often, I have found myself wading through
the magazines to find an article that I know I have seen, but
can't recall in which issue. Although the issues listed on the
main memopad page have a very brief
indication of the contents, it is not comprehensive and I still
need to open up the individual articles - this is particularly
painful when articles spread over more than one issue.
Unfortunately, due to the poor quality of the originals, though
they are fully legible, they won't be OCR'ed so the compendia
will not be searchable.
I have had the idea
of creating a number of compendia from the content in particular
areas, perhaps :-
If I do this, it will
be a painful and hence a "one off" exercise, so I need to decide
up front what subjects to collate and then go back through all
of the magazines, creating the different compendia. As I said,
the process will be painful and very time consuming so I won't
bother even starting this unless there is also interest from
others and a bit of incentive for me, so here is the idea . . .
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I go back through the
issues, creating the new PDFs as I go.
The compendia will
probably be released in stages, say, after the first six and
then after every 12 issues - the next volume would build on the
previous one.
The PDFs will be
protected and opening restricted by password for issues posted
on the site.
Should you
"subscribe", you would personally receive by (e-mail) an
unprotected copy.
The PDFs will be
available for purchase, prices based on the number of issues of
the original magazine that they encompass - note, this will not
necessarily be related to the number of pages in the compendium,
it would depend on the subject matter in the magazines but if
the number of pages is below the minimum for that price point,
the previous price would apply, e.g., if you "subscribed" at the
24 Issue level, but the number of pages in the compendium was
only 18, the price would be £6.00.
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Potential prices are per
compendium, with a minimum page count |
| Original Memopad Issues |
Price |
Min # Pages |
| Up to 12 |
£6.00 |
0 |
| Up to 24 |
£10.00 |
20 |
| Up to 36 |
£12.50 |
30 |
| All remaining Issues (If I can find
the rest) |
£15.00 |
30 |
| Notes :- |
| Once you had "subscribed", future
issues would be free, so getting in at the start
would be cheaper, i.e., pay £6.00 now and get all
subsequent releases of that compendium. Once the 24
Issue version was available, the cost would go up to
£10.00 and so on. |
| Buy the full set for £25.00, pay
this price at any time and get all issues of all of
the available compendia - the number of compendia
would be finalised before the process starts. |
| I am not "selling" the original
content, rather, making a small charge for my time
in doing this. The individual magazine issues will
continue to be freely available for download - what
you would be getting is a more convenient packaging
of related information. |
| Significant contributors to the
site, the MTX software library, the Memotech
community in general or others on an ad-hoc basis
(you probably know who you are, but if in doubt,
please ask) would get complementary issues, subject
of course, to me deciding to progress this idea.
That would depend on the level of interest shown.
Whilst I do not expect a binding commitment to be
made at this stage, I would like to see if this is
something that people might find useful. So, I am
looking for, say 10, people to confirm that this is
something that they would pay for, as I said, not a
binding commitment, but more than just a vague idea
that you might, i.e., that you are pretty confident
that you would "subscribe" when the material became
available.
On the basis of 10 "notes of interest", even
allowing for a 50% attrition rate, if even 5 people
eventually "subscribed", I think it is probably
worthwhile.
If you are interested, please drop me an email
indicating which of the potential subject areas you
are interested in or any others that you can
suggest. I would also appreciate general comments on
the idea - even if you think it is a bad one! |
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Idea abandoned due to lack of interest
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