Call your friends, call yourfamily, The Tunnel has made its appearance on the interwebs.
I read this book a couple of months back and I was taken completely aback by it. It's got more text gimmics than you could count (and was published 5 years before Mark Meme Danielewski's House of Leaves), an almost infinite amount of limericks about a promiscuous nun, and a plot which is as gripping as it is hard to follow.
I borrowed it from the local library and scanned it because 1. more people should read it and 2. I know all of you fags are too lazy to do it.
DL: https://mega.nz/#!QRcWXAqL!kWChg_EOaJdM4bFnxg-z9GmP0dIu0f_MMI-IZgfs12g
It's a 70MB pdf file, already compressed from a 400MB original. If anyone complains about the size, I'll have to make crude yo momma jokes and tell them
>Year of our Lord 2016
>Complaining about file size
Happy reading, /lit/.
>>7584623
i've got an epub that's like 1kb
>>7584629
>epub
>getting the text and fonts right
>>7584635
>text and fonts right
secondary concerns for lit, no?
thanks senpai
>>7584629
Care to share?
I prefer epubs by far
>>7584623
>https://mega.nz/#!QRcWXAqL!kWChg_EOaJdM4bFnxg-z9GmP0dIu0f_MMI-IZgfs12g
thanks bro.
Is Middle C in epub yet?
>>7584623
Saving for future generations. Thank you, anon.
>>7584644
Not for The Tunnel. Gass deliberately changes fonts and structure all the time.
30 pdf pages per anon and epub would be ready in no time. anyone care to participate
>>7584690
OCR software does the bulk of that, proofing it afterwards and checking the formatting where needed is the real work.
Mods pls sticky
Downloaded this and opened it, and now my computer is asking me for money...
DO NOT DL THIS
>>7584748
just give a few
>>7584748
That's normal behavior, computers ask for money nowadays.
>>7584748
Maybe it's time you start taking care of your computer, your computer has done a lot for you
>>7584623
thanks anon, never new this book had such crazy fonts/layouts/etc, seems interesting!
>>7584623
Pls upload the original file, too many artifacts
Thanks, OP. DLing now.
>>7584748
>I'm 12 and what are adobe digital editions?
Just load it into acrobat portable or a tablet you retard. The reddit is too intense.
>>7584629
i'd like a share too, i can trade you bertrand russel's history of western philosophy for it
>>7584748
You must be 18 years of age or older to post on a Futaba imageboard.
>>7584893
That's not a bad idea actually, in case someone wants to OCR it
>>7584893
>>7585031
OP here. I don't know what artifacts are, but I feel bad they're there (I guess). Uploading the original version now but it's going to take a while.
>mfw when 100Kb/s
>should be averaging 2Mb/s, like it did for the version in OP
OCR is going to have a hard time with it, I'm afraid. The copy I scanned was a hardcover, which means the middle of the page was always a bit bended. I tried to OCR a page to see what would happen, and the word(s) closest to the middle were always garbled.
I'd contriboot to making an epub version, but I have no idea how that shit works, plus you'd have to have a pretty extensive knowledge of fonts and shit. It could be done, but it'd be a massive undertaking.
>>7584748
Have you accidentally tried to open it with Winrar?
>>7585252
You'rw doing God's work.
>>7585252
I made an epub from a scanned pdf of Joseph and His Brothers and can confirm that it's troublesome. In your case even more because the quality of scanned book is shifty so the OCR won't work well.
>>7585278
>Joseph and His Brothers
Mein Neger, Mann is awesome.
34%, come on Mega, you can do this.
>>7584669
There is torrent with some books by Gass, I think epub of Middle C is there.
UNCOMPRESSED: https://mega.nz/#!MN8RSAiL!LmJfp_tW9WxeDsQzuHBXO3JzDIsQUmbzyl4D0_Y9IiQ
Have a field day, m80s.
>>7585564
Thank you, anon. You're helping /lit/ be great again.
>>7584669
yeah it's on #bookz
>>7585564
so anyone working on an OCR?
I'm genuinely curious, why should I read it? I know it took 30 years to make, but that's not a good enough reason.
>>7585893
Not me but here's how:
1-Split and crop, with a tool such as Briss
2-Export to a series of tiff files, then clean and and apply a threshold filter in a program such as photoshop or imagemagick
3-Reassemble using Acrobat, then run OCR to make the fonts smooth and enable searching.
Can this be uploaded to Libgen? So it's available to everyone who searches there?
>>7586036
forget it, I'm already doing it.
>>7585933
His prose is better than Joyce's, for one. Here's one of his more tame sentences:
My mother put her hand on my head/neck/back--tip, tip, tap--lightly like a benediction, sanding my skin with glass.
>>7586076
Wow, can't wait to read the raunchy stuff.
>>7586044
>ABBYY
Don't know. Only bother to pirate adobe, rest is free software
>>7586088
Good. They're in abundance.
>>7585564
stuck at 99% :I
>>7586076
>better than Joyce's
Well, JJ was a veritable master of the English language. I have never read a better stylist. However you've piqued my interest, so I'll check it out...
Ok, I uploaded this to Libgen. Question: how do I find out all those stuff?
>>7586168
You won't be disappointed.
>>7586282
Do the HQ version instead, and use worldcat
>>7586168
god stop being fag
if u suck dead man dick , ded man doesn't smile
>>7585564
still stuck at 99% :I
>>7584623
>2016 years since our lord and saviour was born
>Reading Gass
>>7586360
Apparently some error popped up when I clicked 'Register' and now I'll have to upload it again.
JUST
>>7586383
You can't pass the Gass.
>>7586448
I'm uploading the 70mb version on OP.
>>7586448
Yes.
>>7584698
seconding this
Anyone else stuck on 78%?
>>7584623
Ethicsfag here: why don't you just buy the book ? Are /lit/ readers so poor? Or just contrary that you refuse to support an author by paying?
>>7587018
It's cheaper not to buy it, de su honest.
Also cheaper not to pay three times the price in foreign shipping.
>>7585893
Looks like the middle section would be some trouble indeed, and also the typography would be a nightmare. Won't be doing it, but good luck to anyone.
>>7587018
why don't you just buy the book ?
Buy me one then
I live in Mexico and have to pay like 5 times the price to import it
>>7587018
Every book must be digitalized at some point. Ethics is worthless btw.
>>7587018
more people reading it doesn't hurt, word of mouth and all that. you also can't really prove lost sales and i very much doubt people on /lit/ would have bought it anyway.
>>7587100
>paying for shipping
>>7587018
I do own a paper copy. I've never actually downloaded a novel before but I might at some point just to have a more portable version since I move a lot and might be storing my books. I frequently download textbooks in addition to purchasing physical copies so I can digitally search them as well as ensuring that I can always access it in my office and at home without carrying it around.
>>7587018
>support the author
more like support his estate, which I'm not inclined to do
>>7587290
But he's alive still?
He's holding out until he wins the Nobel. They'll never give it to him, though, so he can never die.
>>7587018
>support an author by paying
>people actually believe that they are supporting anything but the store, the publishing house and the government by buying a book
>>7587320
One "best-selling author of trade paperbacks -- per Google Answers -- receives 12.5% of net sales on the first 10,000 books, 15% thereafter. Net refers to publishers net income, slightly < 1/2 of the cover price. On $25 book, author on average receives $1.50/copy."
Very hard work and low pay especially if ppl pirate your books.
>>7587018
I'll read the first 100 pages, and if I like it I'll buy it. Might as well give Gass some money before he croaks anyway.
thanks for the upload brother!
why is "a fugue" so fucking good
discuss
EVERY
FUCKING
TIME
>>7588132
John D. Rockefeller wasn't a Jew...
>>7587018
I could just get it from the library.
>>7585564
still stuck at 99% :I
>>7588159
Listen to this schlomo.
>>7587018
>he hasn't deconstructed morality
???
>>7585564
OK I'm just gonna assume the one from the OP is good enough to read because this has been stuck at 99% forever :I
>>7588260
Usually a browser issue with mega, restarting the download has solved it for me before
What's this book about?
>>7587018
OP here. I actually own a copy of the book, but mine is covered in notes (many of which are embarassingly misguided, in retrospect) so I didn't want to scan in that one.
I believe sales for this obscure book (released in 1995, after all) have more or less petered out. The few readers that will download this book will probably not make enough of an impact anyway.
You're right though. Filthy pirates, each and every one of them. >>7587790 is an upstanding human being.
>>7588667
Ah, if only the Wikipedia were still around.
Out of interest, is there a way for me to check how many people have downloaded this?
>>7588667
Well, the plot revolves around a history professor who is trying to write an introduction to his magnum opus, but he finds himself incapable of writing in a structured and objective fashion; so, instead, he writes about his life, his wife, his coworkers, and other personal things. It is important when you read it to understand that the main character is Gass in most ways: just like Gass, he grew up in a small town with an angry father and an alcoholic mother; just like Gass, he is angry about almost everything.
just read the psychical book you nerds
>>7588810
Getting a copy can be difficult.
>>7588810
I live Brazil, there is no way either I could find one here, or pay for one had I find it.
>>7588812
Has Gass been known to evade brainscans?
>>7587790
No, Gass will never die.
>>7588908
>91 years old
>still writing stories and articles
hell be fine
>>7588914
NO.
>>7588914
Delet this
Now if you could scan Primary and Secondary Colors by Alexander Theroux...
>>7589253
>responding to trolls responding to a troll
I am disappoint in you.
>>7589219
I've done my part for the internetz, anon. That will be your contribution. Godspeed, I will look forward to seeing it uploaded.
>>7584623
>actually on topic thread
>breaks rules by 3rd word
>>7588793
So, is there any point in reading it if you don't know anything about Gass?
Also, I seem to recall he's trying to write a book about Hitler's germany. Seems similar to the protagonist in DeLillo's White Noise, no?
the text is so fuzzy, trying to read this hurts my eyes
>>7590987
Nothing wrong with having a couple friends.
>>7592417
>being willfully obtuse
>he doesn't read from top to bottom
>>7592768
"here"? Nothing wrong in referring to this place. What are you on about, you brown-nosed kike?
>>7592181
To get a good scan of the book you have to take it apart. Unless you are going to upload the pages to get it transcribed.
>>7592858
It's is one word faggot, it's an abbreviation.
Try harder, and I now see u know what i am takking bout
