January 2005 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

www.gutenberg.org
by Marcello Perathoner 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

As of my request ibiblio has changed our apache virtual host ServerName from gutenberg.net to www.gutenberg.org. What? Nothing changes in web site operation except one little particular (if you hit a non-existing url you get redirected to www.gutenberg.org instead of gutenberg.net) Why? The .org top-level domain is meant for non-profit organizations while the .net domain is meant for network infrastructure such as providers, backbones etc. We own both gutenberg.net and gutenberg.org, but using the latter one is just more standard-compliant. Although both urls www.gutenberg.net and www.gutenberg.org give exactly the same results, you should start using www.gutenberg.org in all publications, papers etc. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Fwd: Project Googleberg
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

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how long to distribute dp project management?
by Jonathan Walther 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Joshua mentioned that the final stage of preparing a book, after the scanning, OCR, and proofing are done, will also be distributed. This is fantastic news. Is there any timeframe for that? I have high quality scans of some extremely RARE books, which have been out of print for more than 100 years, and would like to see them in Project Gutenberg. I plan to upload them soon. Many of the scans are from copies that are more than 300 years old, with all that entails in regard to fonts and typography. Hope PG doesn't choke on them. Jonathan -- Puritan: Purity of faith, Purity of doctrine. Sola Scriptura! Eukleia: Jonathan Walther Address: 12706 99 Ave, Surrey, BC V3V2P8 (Canada) Contact: 604-582-9308 (between 7am and 11pm, PST) Website: http://reactor-core.org/ Patriarchy, Polygamy, Slavery === Fatherhood, Husbandry, Mastery Matriarchy, Monogamy, Prisons === Wickedness, Stupidity, Buggery It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

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Fwd: Proposed CD Navigation Files now available for review
by Aaron Cannon 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

>From: "John Hagerson" <j.hagerson(a)comcast.net> >To: "'Aaron Cannon'" <cannona(a)fireantproductions.com> >Subject: Proposed CD Navigation Files now available for review >Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:04:16 -0600 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 > >Four navigation files built for a new Project Gutenberg CD-ROM which >contains primarily non-English electronic books are now available for review >at http://www.aaronandgabby.com/pgcd/ The files allow one to browse the CD >by Author, Language and Author, Language and Title, or Title. > >The files were developed from the Project Gutenberg production prior to book >14700. The Distributed Proofreaders have been especially prolific in >non-English books recently, so it seems that a number of books of recent >production will be omitted regardless of where we draw the line. > >I believe I have included every non-English book produced prior to 14700 >with the exception of three books (7216, 7337, and 12407) where the title >and author were both in Unicode characters that most fonts do not support. >Each of the omitted works is in Chinese. If someone could help me obtain >more information on these works, there is ample space to include them. > >Please respond to the list or directly to mailto:j.hagerson@comcast.net with >your comments regarding the files. > >Thank you. > >Aaron: Before you forward this to the list, please make sure that the http >download works. My attempts to view the directory were met with a 403 error. >Thank you. -- E-mail: cannona(a)fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona(a)hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)

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Error Correction Data Needed
by Michael Hart 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

[Please excuse cross-posting.] I have been doing some additional research on error correction, particularly as it might apply to Project Gutenberg eBooks, but also in more general terms. In my previous thoughts on this subject I came to the conclusions that perhaps 1/2 of the errors present would/could/should be found via each additional proofreading pass, provided it was done by an external source to the previous proofreadings. [Proofreaders do tend to miss the same errors more often the second time around.] However, my most recent research, in conjunctions with the head of error correction at a major publisher, leads me to think 1/3 of errors might be found per pass, instead of the previous 1/2. If any of you have any suggestions as to what these figures are, please let me know. Thanks So Much!!! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg

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Re: [gutvol-d] date-sensitive info about ebook purchase
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

In a message dated 1/30/2005 4:46:21 PM Mountain Standard Time, gbnewby(a)pglaf.org writes: Evidently, the mainstream publishers are not putting their mainstream works onto the Fictionwise site - maybe they're elsewhere. My strong suspicion is that many the works on the Fictionwise site are those that are owned by authors, not publishers. So, right now, this device doesn't replace bn.com or whatever for my reading of contemporary works. There is a lot of new stuff at FictionWise. It's in RB format and can be dumped straight into the ebook. Probably most of the stuff on the sites is older and the author has gotten copyright revision, but more and more publishers are getting the idea and putting new works up. For example, THE DA VINCI CODE went up on FictionWise about the same time it was released in hardback. Its success in eformat has certainly caught the eyes of other mainstream publishers. It's a good beginning, but it IS a beginning. Anne

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possible publicity?
by Aaron Cannon 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

I believe that Gutenberg received some sort of major press coverage in the U.K. today. I say this because we received over a hundred DVD requests, most from there. Does anyone have any further details on this? Thanks. Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- E-mail: cannona(a)fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona(a)hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)

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date-sensitive info about ebook purchase
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi-- Just so you'll know--JAN 31 is THE LAST day that the eBookWise 1500 will be priced at $99. I don't know what it will go to after that, but the original price, when the device had a different name, was about $300. With the sincerest apologies to my Rocket, which has been close to my heart for the last five years, I now like the 1500 better. It's a very fine machine, and with the expenditure of another $60 for peripherals, which I got a couple of weeks ago but have not yet installed, it will hold over 300 books. It also allows editing in my normal handwriting, allowing me to insert extra blank pages to write on if necessary. We are still recovering from my husband's having fried his computer last Monday. This has involved the expenditure of about $600 (would have been a lot more if we hadn't found a complete desktop system for $299 with a one-year commitment to AOL, which is what we use anyway) and the moving of a total of about 40 gigabytes of programs and data, all of which I have been doing. I hope to be through sometime next week. But I'm not going to complain too much, because since my desktop expired last year I've been using my laptop as my main computer. Now I get to keep the brand new desktop and my laptop goes to my husband, who greatly prefers laptops. As I greatly prefer a desktop, we're both happy. I'll be glad to be able to get back to doing real work, though. Anyway, if you go February 1 to get an ebook reader and go into acute sticker shock, don't say I didn't warn you. If you don't want a ebook reader it doesn't matter anyway. My husband is one of those people who has given an ebook reader a real try-out and doesn't like it, so I know such people exist. Anne

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New canonical URL for etext directories
by Marcello Perathoner 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

The new canonical url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12345 will redirect to: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/2/3/4/12345/ Of course, this works for all ebooks that are stored in the new filesystem. Old ebooks that have not yet been moved to the new filesystem will NOT work. Note: the redirect takes one extra round trip to the server, so the second url is faster. If response time is important, use the second url. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Re: [gutvol-d] Free Translations (fwd)
by D. Starner 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

A translation of Flatland to Italian has been on the request list for a long, long time. I'm sure the person who made the request has made do, but it's still something to remember. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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