Note about the files in this directory...

These files are of a scanned in English Translation of the Japanese edition of "Time Capsule". The Time Capsule has become notorious for a large number of typos in it's English print edition. As I don't read Japanese, I have no idea if the errors are in the original Japanese text, or were introduced in the "professional" translation for the English print copy or not.

I purchased a Japanese copy from an Asian chap in California off of eBay about 5 years ago and he included a stapled loose leaf laser printed English Language translation of the Book. I do not know the source for his Translation, if he simply typed up the text from the English Translation (typos and all), if he OCRed the text in with a Scanner, or did his own translation... In any case, I Scanned/OCRed the loose-leaf sheets back into an electronically readable form, and ran a spelling checker through it to get rid of as many OCR errors with as little effort as possible. I would not assume that I corrected any possible/percieved errors in the text, I have only corrected known spelling/OCR-reading mistakes IDed by MS-Word 2004 for Macintosh.

I do not know about the legality of posting this information -- If it is in violation of copyright or not. However, since the Japanese edition of this book is readily available via Amazon.co.jp, even to people outside of Japan, I would tend to believe that the availability of this translation would boost sales of that edition of the book among non-Kanji readers. I would doubt that the publishers would mind that happening.

So I'll leave these files up here until I get a Cease and Desist letter from someone. The files in this folder will have the date of their last editing by me. As time goes by, I may try to clean up the text in these files as my other committments permit.

Here are the first two versions (in both MS-Word .doc and Adobe Acrobat .pdf formats):

http://chronomaddox.com/omega/archives/jpn_time_capsule_translations/20050508.doc

http://chronomaddox.com/omega/archives/jpn_time_capsule_translations/20050508.pdf

-- Chuck