Yesterday, I scanned in my First Edition, Second Printing copy of E.E. Cummings’ EIMI. I made a 220 page PDF then exported the pages to JPEG and uploaded them all to Flickr for backup. They are all private with the exception of the cover picture that is accompanying this post.
I need to determine when EIMI enters into the public domain. As soon as it does, I am going to make all this publicly available. It’s been out of print since 1958, if memory serves me, although a section was reprinted in 1998 by Liveright (the holders of the copyright) in AnOther E.E. Cummings.
Here’s the preface to the 1958 edition and according to the page, “George James Firmage and Liveright have been preparing a new edition with notes.” I wonder when that will be available. Perhaps I should write Liveright again.
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Nice idea. I mean its swell Google’s trying to sort this stuff out for us – but wouldn’t it be cooler to flick(r) through someone else’s notes (I scribble all over my paperbacks, I bet my great-grandfather did too) upload those pages / thier margins and read out-of-print novels and (personal opinions as you go) for free. The idea of posting some really, really old documents to the web is nothing new, but we have a really personal and accessable place for this (Web 2.0 gave us Flickr and Weblogs). I’m going to do it, yeah… well maybe on Sunday.