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Its been a while since I blogged about Wired Love: A Romance in Dots and Dashes and Read the rest of this entry »

I am happy to say that I received the OCRed version of Wired Love two days ago and have started proofreading it.

Ella Thayer’s Wired Love scans have arrived and the OCRing will begin this weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like there might be a source for a print copy of Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes that can be OCRed. I’ll keep you updated, but the longer term plan is to submit an eCopy to Project Gutenberg.

Original post on Wired Love.

Seeking Wired Love — or, at least, I am looking for the full text of Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, a prophetic novel by Ella Cheever Thayer. Published in 1879, Wired Love is not SF, rather it is a novel of two telegraph operators who fall in love over the wire. I first encountered a reference to this book in the Victorian Internet by Tom Standage (which is well worth the read, particularly if you think that Internet age is completely unique) and ever since then I have been looking for copy to read. I have seen copies of it available online through used book sellers, but the price was rather dear, and as much as I would like to own a physical copy of it, I would be quite satisfied with an electronic copy. So if you know where I might find an eCopy or a cheap physical copy (reprint would be cool), I would be grateful.

Update 2007/09/25

Added a wiki page for Wired Love.