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Apr 21, 2010 Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Apr. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 The 40th Year of PG eBooks Starts on July 4, 2010!!!!!! 300th Spanish eBook is coming up!!! Please send in your suggestions for title #300!!! 700th Project Gutenberg of Europe eBook Is Posted!!! PGUE just served over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Giving over 100,000 eBooks per day. . . . 3 million per month, 30+ million per year just from http://www.gutenberg org Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. 32 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 2 years 8 months, 10 2/3 seasons, or 32 months. [Leaving 1 year 6 months, 6 seasons, or 18 months.] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. Help! In Spanish! I need a Spanish speaking PG volunteer, as an interview is not going well because I can't tell what they want. I now have the interview if you would like to read it. Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. 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Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com We posted our 400th Portuguese eBook. And our 500th eBook from PG of Canada. Details were posted in an Extra Newsletter 10 days ago. PG of Europe should be posting their 700th eBook today! OLDER NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension? or If not stop them, at least publicize them a little? Suggestions are more than welcome. I should add that this is probably a losing battle even if it looks as if we are winning. Here's why: When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. 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The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~31,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 == 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 == 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 == 73 Previous Month day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 200 or more eBooks. Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] Apr 21st !!!!!Grand total for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,845 -- 1,845 -- 0 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,048 up from 36,672 up 381 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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Re: Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

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Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> wrote: > > The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Mar. 21, 2010 > eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 > > > The 40th Year of PG eBooks Starts on July 4, 2010!!!!!! > > > Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- > new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and > make comments, suggestions, etc. > > > > 33 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring > on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] > > Leaving 2 years 9 months, 11 seasons, or 33 months. > [Leaving 1 year 7 months, 6 1/3 seasons, or 19 months.] > [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] > > Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, > such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], > and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the > same time. Current long range prediction for drives: > 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along > with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= > enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion > books of 1 million characters each. > > > Help! In Spanish! > > I need a Spanish speaking PG volunteer, as an interview > is not going well because I can't tell what they want. > > > > Portuguese and Chinese Battling for Top Five List > > Yesteday Portuguese finally managed to catch Chinese to > enter our Top Five List of non-Enlish eBooks, with just > over 400 PG eBooks now available in each. Given bigger > Internet access in China these days, I should think out > Chinese collection would be taking off, but it appears, > stongly appears, that we need some real help there. > > In addition, given that relative Spanish and Portuguese > population difference, that Spanish would catch up, and > then surpass Portuguese, but at this rate it will be on > the order of months before Spanish reaches 300 eBooks. > > > Request: > > 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: > The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. > Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a > couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars > each for for volumes 2 & 6. > > > > Come See Project Gutenberg's CEO and Founder Together > > > PGLAF CEO Greg Newby will join PG founder Michael Hart > at a symposium on the U. Illinois campus. Registration > is free but limited. 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The > innovative > founders of these projects, as well as prominent scholars in the > field and > early users, will discuss Illinois' special place in the history of > public > computing, reflect on current and future projects such as the > Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) proposal, and discuss how to > extend > this culture of innovation into the future. > > > These Projects Include > > * PLATO (1960) > * Project Gutenberg (1971) > * Urbana Free Library on the Internet (1984)) > * CCNet (1993) > * Mosaic (1993) > * PrairieNet (1994) > * U-C Indymedia Center (1999) > * C-U Wireless Network (2001) > * eToysIllinois (2004) and other recent K-12 teaching projects) > > > The Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the > Department > of Computer Science are working in open collaboration to coordinate > this > event. Participation and support are welcome! > > http://50years.lis.illinois.edu/ > > > GENERATION CHANGE > > I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that > lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, > and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some > suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: > > PROJECT GUTNBERG!!!!!!! > > "Generation Change" is available from: > > http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com > > > > > HEADLINE NEWS > > > APPLE SEEMS READY TO RELEASE iPAD EREADER/TABLET > > Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! > > We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do > their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA > devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. > > Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, > or would like to optimize for any other devices. > > There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus > only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, > in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, > and everything else on such mobile devices. > > More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites > such as "m.gutenberg.org" > > > > In Our Own News Bin > > > New Project Gutenberg Web Pages > > > We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. > > I think you will find some interesting additional searching > and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: > > http://gutenberg.trulymail.comi > > > and another new effort at: > > > http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ > > Details: > > The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. > > I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible > about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. > > And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, > producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first > round of proofreading on texts I deliver. > > People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help > in going through the process from start to finish. > > Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book > are also very welcome. > > Marc D'Hooge > marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com > > > > > We posted our 400th Portuguese eBook. > > > And our 500th eBook from PG of Canada. > > > Details were posted in an Extra Newsletter 10 days ago. > > > > PG of Europe should be posting their 700th eBook today! > > > > OLDER NEWS. . . . > > > ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS > > U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, > DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! > > THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! > > > > Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various > copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. > > In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced > in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite > literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. > > > Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension? > > or > > If not stop them, at least publicize them a little? > > > Suggestions are more than welcome. > > > I should add that this is probably a losing battle even > if it looks as if we are winning. > > Here's why: > > When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in > Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would > NOT extend copyrights. > > Really. > > However, just three years later, under economic warfare > from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled > to the pressure and gave in. > > > The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- > and while some tell me they have enough signatures from > those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that > they, too, crumble before it is over. > > I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! > > > > Further Information > > > As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the > characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], > start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will > be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills > that are designed to go into effect before anything can > happen to those two copyrights. > > As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, > successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid > as a result an additional $200 million for the right to > another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the > fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the > effective date of 1978. > > As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, > Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted > to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. > > Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what > must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last > few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this > means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite > soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. > > Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a > session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a > snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out > starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. > > Why? > > Even during the election just before the last extension > I went to ask televised press conference questions on a > new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate > responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." > > I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask > the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. > > Or non-answer. > > >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement > to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make > all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of > making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first > viewing premise [except public stations]. > > We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- > cable products showing up on network television and the > opposite direction as well. > > What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the > allowed buyer of NBC? > > If you think programming won't leak over: > > Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. > > Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed > output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. > > Anyone remember Reboot? > > > I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and > I fear that all of them underestimate the power working > to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words > "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. > > However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is > really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." > > > > Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! > > Continent: Africa > Nation: Namibia > Location: Windhoek > Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia > Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na > Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg > > The mirror is updated thrice daily. > > > > > PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD > > We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and > search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com > > This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. > > > iPHONE SOUGHT > > Project Gutenberg is seeking donation of an iPhone, and perhaps > other modern cell phones and eBook readers. We are working on some > new versions of content at www.gutenberg.org > > These need to work, including in Europe , but without having a paid > cell phone plan. In other words, they need to be unlocked or > unlockable. 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> > > /// > > > Here are the current language totals > for languages with 200 or more eBooks. > > Mar 21st > > > Grand total for today: 31616 > > 26540 English en > 1568 French fr > 662 German de > 524 Finnish fi > 472 Dutch nl > 410 Portuguese pt > 405 Chinese zh > 283 Spanish es > 235 Italian it > > > Feb. 21st > > > Grand total for today: 31234 > > 26241 English en > 1557 French fr > 647 German de > 521 Finnish fi > 470 Dutch nl > 405 Chinese zh > 395 Portuguese pt > 275 Spanish es > 234 Italian it > > > Jan. 21st > > Grand total for today: 30935 > > 25995 English en > 1547 French fr > 628 German de > 518 Finnish fi > 459 Dutch nl > 405 Chinese zh > 391 Portuguese pt > 274 Spanish es > 230 Italian it > > > Compared to last month: > > > Grand total > > 25757 English en > 1520 French fr > 618 German de > 515 Finnish fi > 453 Dutch nl > 405 Chinese zh > 376 Portuguese pt > 270 Spanish es > 220 Italian it > > > > Compared to previous month's: > > > Grand total for today: 30399 > > 25587 English en > 1498 French fr > 614 German de > 515 Finnish fi > 451 Dutch nl > 404 Chinese zh > 371 Portuguese pt > 268 Spanish es > 218 Italian it > > > > Previous increases: > > +214 > +205 > +254 > +281 > +294 > +287 > > > All Reported Languges > > > Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe > > > Thanks to Greg Newby! 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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Mar. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 The 40th Year of PG eBooks Starts on July 4, 2010!!!!!! Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. 33 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 2 years 9 months, 11 seasons, or 33 months. [Leaving 1 year 7 months, 6 1/3 seasons, or 19 months.] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. Help! In Spanish! I need a Spanish speaking PG volunteer, as an interview is not going well because I can't tell what they want. Portuguese and Chinese Battling for Top Five List Yesteday Portuguese finally managed to catch Chinese to enter our Top Five List of non-Enlish eBooks, with just over 400 PG eBooks now available in each. Given bigger Internet access in China these days, I should think out Chinese collection would be taking off, but it appears, stongly appears, that we need some real help there. In addition, given that relative Spanish and Portuguese population difference, that Spanish would catch up, and then surpass Portuguese, but at this rate it will be on the order of months before Spanish reaches 300 eBooks. Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. Come See Project Gutenberg's CEO and Founder Together PGLAF CEO Greg Newby will join PG founder Michael Hart at a symposium on the U. Illinois campus. Registration is free but limited. The panel with Michael & Greg is: Thursday April 15 from 1:30-3pm Alice Campbell Alumni Center 601 S Lincoln Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 In or near Illinois: Please save the date for the upcoming symposium: "Fifty Years of Public Computing at the University of Illinois." Participants will discuss the meaning and legacy of ten Illinois projects that shaped public computing, beginning with PLATO in 1960. The innovative founders of these projects, as well as prominent scholars in the field and early users, will discuss Illinois' special place in the history of public computing, reflect on current and future projects such as the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) proposal, and discuss how to extend this culture of innovation into the future. These Projects Include * PLATO (1960) * Project Gutenberg (1971) * Urbana Free Library on the Internet (1984)) * CCNet (1993) * Mosaic (1993) * PrairieNet (1994) * U-C Indymedia Center (1999) * C-U Wireless Network (2001) * eToysIllinois (2004) and other recent K-12 teaching projects) The Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Department of Computer Science are working in open collaboration to coordinate this event. Participation and support are welcome! http://50years.lis.illinois.edu/ GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTNBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com HEADLINE NEWS APPLE SEEMS READY TO RELEASE iPAD EREADER/TABLET Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.comi and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com We posted our 400th Portuguese eBook. And our 500th eBook from PG of Canada. Details were posted in an Extra Newsletter 10 days ago. PG of Europe should be posting their 700th eBook today! OLDER NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension? or If not stop them, at least publicize them a little? Suggestions are more than welcome. I should add that this is probably a losing battle even if it looks as if we are winning. Here's why: When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. iPHONE SOUGHT Project Gutenberg is seeking donation of an iPhone, and perhaps other modern cell phones and eBook readers. We are working on some new versions of content at www.gutenberg.org These need to work, including in Europe , but without having a paid cell phone plan. In other words, they need to be unlocked or unlockable. We are particularly interested in devices that have built-in WiFi, so they can access content at www.gutenberg.org without using the cellular network at all. Project Gutenberg is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization in the US. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. The ideal piece around which to center this collection is one of the 8 megabyte USBs. The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~31,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 == 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 == 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 == 73 Previous Month day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 200 or more eBooks. Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] Mar 21st 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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EXTRA! New Books & Site: PG Canada's 500th, 400th PG in Portuguese
by Michael S. Hart 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Project Gutenberg of Canada Releases 500th eBook!!! Project Gutenberg Releases 400th Portuguese eBook!! and Please test our experimental new web page at: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com/ [The last two menu entries don't work yet, and "normal" search isn't in yet.] Project Gutenberg of Canada Releases 500th eBook!!! It is: "Forty Years of Song" by Emma Albani, first published in 1911. Emma Albani (1847-1930) was the first Canadian singer to gain a worldwide reputation, which is rather something considering the combination of Canada's low population and remoteness for the time period. Think of how much "easier" it was for Piaf. "Easier" quotes because Edith Piaf did not have an easy time, but it was certainly easier for the world to find HER. Here's some information about Albani: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Albani [en.wikipedia.org] http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7930 In addition Project Gutenberg just released our 400th eBook in Portuguese: Novo Dicionario da Lingua Portuguesa, by Candido Figueiredo eBook # 31552 [Language: Portuguese] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/5/5/31552 ] [Files: ; 31552-0.txt] Thanks to Rita Farinha, Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by National Library of Portugal (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal).)

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[gutvol-d] Our 400th Portuguese eBook
by Michael S. Hart 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

We are up to #398 and I have not received any suggestions for #400. Should we reserve one? Just go with whatever comes along? Other suggestions? Thanks!!! Michael

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter REMINDER: We still need a probate lawyer!!! A famous author wants to will us his entire works!!! However, he has moved to France from the United States, so there might be international implications. The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Feb. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 34 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 2 years 10 months, 11 1/3 seasons or 34 months. Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. HEADLINE NEWS APPLE SEEMS READY TO ANNOUNCE EREADER/TABLET We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, etc. Let us know if you have one of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. BIG TROUBLE IN TERABYTEVILLE! BIG PORTABLE POCKET USB DRIVE RECALL! The listings for my pocket USB drive did reappear and I received one less than 48 hours after ordering it. The drive looks great, works fine, a shiny black lozenge as if out of Neal Stephenson's Neuromancer [read it!!!]. For those who had heard somewhere you could only get to 3/4 of the terabyte, no, it appears I have it all, with about 999.5+ gigabytes after their software partition. In Our Own News Bin We are about to do our 400th Portuguese eBook. Suggestions??? OLDER NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension? or If not stop them, at least publicize them a little? Suggestions are more than welcome. I should add that this is probably a losing battle even if it looks as if we are winning. Here's why: When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. iPHONE SOUGHT Project Gutenberg is seeking donation of an iPhone, and perhaps other modern cell phones and eBook readers. We are working on some new versions of content at www.gutenberg.org These need to work, including in Europe , but without having a paid cell phone plan. In other words, they need to be unlocked or unlockable. We are particularly interested in devices that have built-in WiFi, so they can access content at www.gutenberg.org without using the cellular network at all. Project Gutenberg is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization in the US. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. The ideal piece around which to center this collection is one of the 8 megabyte USBs. The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~31,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Previous Month day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 200 or more eBooks. Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide Feb 21st 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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Re: Fw: Powerpoint Help Needed
by Michael S. Hart 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

I have a rather ugly way of inserting pictures right now, which is to make a blank page and then use the insert menu with pictures and then I have to browse to the pictures and double click on them. Dragging and dropping just gives the filename, but not the pictures themselves. Many thanks for the suggestions so far. Michael

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Powerpoint Help Needed
by Michael S. Hart 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

I've only got two weeks left and need some help doing the tweaking. Please advise if you can give me a few pointers for inserting new pics. Thanks!!! Michael

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Western Digital 1T Pocket Drive
by Michael S. Hart 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Possible correction: I received a note directly from Western Digital saying the brand new 1 terabyte portable drive I wanted was no longer available. However, they did not mention it by name or model number. In at least one reference article I read that the two drives I asked about in my research are actually the same drive repackaged into the different internal and external form factors. Perhaps for some reason only due to form factor it appears one drive is still available and one is not. I am sending in more inquiries to check before I buy anything. At least one ad page still says the "My Passport" 1T is available. The same page says it is the same drive in different form factor. This is at the end of the article located at: http://gizmodo.com/5323594/wd-scorpio-blue-drive-is-first-one-terabyte-mobi… Hopefully between us we can find out enough of the details. Thanks!!! Michael

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter REMINDER: We still need a probate lawyer!!! A famous author wants to will us his entire works!!! The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Jan. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 35 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 2 years 11 months, 11 1/3 seasons or 35 months. Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. HEADLINE NEWS BIG TROUBLE IN TERABYTEVILLE! BIG PORTABLE POCKET USB DRIVE RECALL! As I mentioned last month, the new pocket USB terabytes came out last month, but apparently there has been some huge problem with this, and I not only have not managed to BUY one of these, I haven't even managed to SEE one! I did get in touch with the Western Digital techies and they did admit, after a little delay, that the drive is no longer for sale, and I'm hardly sure it ever ways on more than a very few days. This would explain why ALL of the 89 hits I got just in the week before had vanished when I wrote about this. The results: Not only is the $200 terabyte pocket USB drive not out, but apparently this has also driven up the price of the other larger pocket drives, though apparently not quite all of them, as I have seen the smaller ones at the old prices still on the shelf. I'm not going to name names on places to buy, but the more upscale places are quick to push their prices up and slow to bring them down and the cheaper places seem to be more consistent on these. APPLE SEEMS READY TO ANNOUNCE EREADER/TABLET If you are an Apple watcher you know that they are very secretive about their announcements, yet this time they have made it pretty obvious that something is coming in the next week and should be on the market in March. Invitations have gone out for a major press conference, and Apple seems to have ordered massive quanties of the parts required to build such a gizmo. However, unless it really has outrageous bells/whistles on the order of iPods and iPhones it probably won't see the same kind of reception, as Apple does not sell what we call "computers" for under $999, and I'm betting the price will be a factor. However, the iPhone trendiness overcame this hurdle when they were $600 and required a contract commitment, to boot, so you never know. In Our Own News Bin Project Gutenberg should be releasing the 26,00th eBook in English about the time you are reading this: http://www.gutenberg.org FARTHER INTO THE FUTURE As predicted: a year from now, in 2011, New York Times will start charging a flat fee to anyone who reads more than a minimum number of articles at nytimes.com Watch out as the entire "Information Age" becomes quite literally "The New Digital Divide" as everything costs, as much as the market will bear. As always with such things, no details were available-- not the price, not the minimal free number, or and kind of guarantee that either number will not change sooner, rather than later, after it all begins. U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension? or If not stop them, at least publicize them a little? Suggestions are more than welcome. I should add that this is probably a losing battle even if it looks as if we are winning. Here's why: When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Older News Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. iPHONE SOUGHT Project Gutenberg is seeking donation of an iPhone, and perhaps other modern cell phones and eBook readers. We are working on some new versions of content at www.gutenberg.org These need to work, including in Europe , but without having a paid cell phone plan. In other words, they need to be unlocked or unlockable. We are particularly interested in devices that have built-in WiFi, so they can access content at www.gutenberg.org without using the cellular network at all. Project Gutenberg is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization in the US. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. The ideal piece around which to center this collection is one of the 8 megabyte USBs. The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~30,000 at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to the 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Previous Month day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 200 or more eBooks. Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?] 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) November: 9 [up to November 21] December: 19[up to December 21] ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Last month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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