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Gravatar Karen Funk Blocher said:
I've discovered at least one online database of Sherlock Holmes stories; presumably they're finally out of copyright. A few times lately I've Googled some phrase from a story to check the quotation, only to end up rereading the whole story. My old Doubleday edition is musty and water-damaged (ahchoo!) but perhaps one day I'll work my way through the individual book reprints with the Paget illustrations.

Good luck with that sleep thing. It's hopeless (and a whole lot of no fun) trying to sleep when you can;t breathe!

Date: 11/5/2010 3:36:50 AM

Gravatar Julie said:
I want to say that some of the very last stories may still be in copyright, particularly in the UK. Over 20 years ago someone put together an electronic edition of the Holmes canon. Essentially, it was all the stores then in the public domain on 5.25" floppies. Included were some tools for searching along with a handful of essays and reference materials either in the public domain or included with the permission of the authors. I want to say the thing ran close to a dozen floppies, plus the documentation. Now that's obsolete in so many ways from the physical format to the tools to the fact that you can find it all online now. I think I scraped together $100 for that edition. Of course, then I was working full time. Sigh.

Date: 11/5/2010 8:28:36 AM

Gravatar Karen Funk Blocher said:
I've discovered at least one online database of Sherlock Holmes stories; presumably they're finally out of copyright. A few times lately I've Googled some phrase from a story to check the quotation, only to end up rereading the whole story. My old Doubleday edition is musty and water-damaged (ahchoo!) but perhaps one day I'll work my way through the individual book reprints with the Paget illustrations.

Good luck with that sleep thing. It's hopeless (and a whole lot of no fun) trying to sleep when you can;t breathe!

Date: 11/5/2010 3:36:50 AM

Gravatar Julie said:
I want to say that some of the very last stories may still be in copyright, particularly in the UK. Over 20 years ago someone put together an electronic edition of the Holmes canon. Essentially, it was all the stores then in the public domain on 5.25" floppies. Included were some tools for searching along with a handful of essays and reference materials either in the public domain or included with the permission of the authors. I want to say the thing ran close to a dozen floppies, plus the documentation. Now that's obsolete in so many ways from the physical format to the tools to the fact that you can find it all online now. I think I scraped together $100 for that edition. Of course, then I was working full time. Sigh.

Date: 11/5/2010 8:28:36 AM



 

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