Teckningar av författaren.

Andra upplagan

Kooperativa förbundets bokförlag

Tryckt hos Nordisk Rotogravyr

Stockholm 1938

Vide cor tuum!

(Dante: Vita Nuova)

Preface to the Electronic Edition

by Lars Aronsson

The author of this work died in 1942, making the copyright situation complicated. Currently (1998) the work is protected by copyright and will be so until the end of year 2012. Project Runeberg's right to publish it is sustained by the fact that we published it before the end of 1995. This work is not in the public domain.

The title Lort-Sverige translates to "dirt-Sweden" and was the name of a series of reports in Swedish national public radio in the fall of 1938, documenting the very low standards of living and housing in the Swedish countryside. This radio series was produced by journalist and writer Ludvig (Lubbe) Nordström, who also wrote the book presented here, containing his text, transcripts from some of the radio interviews, and 78 illustrations of his own hand.

The preface is dated 9 Nov 1938. The book was published by Kooperativa förbundets förlag and appeared in four editions in 1938 followed by the 5th in 1939. This electronic edition is based on the 2nd printed edition. The price 6 kr (Swedish crowns) is printed on the back of the hard cover.

The text was scanned using a handheld Logitech scanner and the bundled Omnipage Light OCR software. Manual inspection and corrections after OCR were made by Lars Aronsson (chapters 1-5, 12-13) and Kerstin Rydén (chapters 6-11). HTML markup by Lars Aronsson. Separate proofreading (by other persons) has not been performed. Scan images of text pages are not available.

Images of the 78 illustrations were scanned on a flatbed scanner in 200 dpi grayscale GIF, applying a 1.8 gamma correction factor and sharpening. Image file sizes average 580 kilobytes. Some interference between the scan resolution and the print raster resolution can be observed, but does not ruin the result. The purpose has not been to document the print raster (this requires 600 dpi or more), or to reproduce the original artwork (this requires research on a whole different scale), but to reproduce the printed illustrations, and this purpose has been met. In the book, most illustrations are 4 inches wide, corresponding to the printed text column, resulting in approximately 800 pixels here.



Innehåll / Table of Contents

URN:NBN:se-d1998220