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Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/23/2005 2:36:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, krooger(a)debian.org writes: I seem to recall that Pepys diaries were written in a special shorthand. The current editions may claim copyright on their "transcriptions" of the shorthand. Anyone game for scanning in the original shorthand, and transcribing it? I don't know how you could get a copy of the diaries OR the shorthand. I'm sure the recent edition would claim copyright, but I still don't think the older edition is likely to be a problem. It's been up for a while and so far as I know, nobody's complained. Considering how long it took to transliterate them the two times they were transliterated, I expect most of us have more to do with the next fifteen years of our lives. I think we should stay with what we have. If anybody needs something more thorough, that person will probably need to go to the closest major university library. Anne

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

24 Feb '05

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Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

In a message dated 2/23/2005 8:50:44 AM Mountain Standard Time, nwolcott(a)dsdial.net writes: Pepys gave his memoirs to Cambridge University, but the full text was not published until 1970. That being the case would not the text (minus editorial comment and added footnotes) be now public domain as it is now more than 75 years since the author's death? Oh horrors! I forgot Pepys's birthday! Oh well, there's still time to bake a cake. (We celebrate the birthdays of Shakespeare, Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling already.) As to the diaries, they're already posted. I gave them on CD to a very dear neighbor for Christmas two or three years ago. She never got around to reading them, mainly because despite an IQ somewhat stratospheric, she never did figure out her computer. But she was grateful that I had thought of giving them to her. Anne

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Pepys' birthday
by N Wolcott 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Being his birthday maybe this is appropriate. Pepys gave his memoirs to Cambridge University, but the full text was not published until 1970. That being the case would not the text (minus editorial comment and added footnotes) be now public domain as it is now more than 75 years since the author's death? N Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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Gutenbergprosjektet (PG mentioned in Norwegian web site)
by Marcello Perathoner 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

http://www.dinside.no/php/art.php?id=117187 -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Understatment of the day
by Andrew Sly 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Here's a little mention of PG from usenet... Newsgroups: alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance Date: 2005-02-19 12:22:54 PST Files for books? Text files are available for books all over. Project Gutenberg has hundreds of public domain text files.

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pgdvd access index file error
by bill jenness 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

I have just downloaded the dvd from ibiblio and there seems to be a problem with the index.htm in the access directory. Here is an excerpt to illustrate the problem: <A HREF="gtnletC.htm#cooperja">James Fenimore Cooper</A> The file refered to on the dvd is actually gtnletc.htm and this error is propagated throughout the index. The gtnanon.htm file is correctly linked but the links for the others are not. This may not be a problem on a windows machine but it is on a case sensitive filesystem. The download file was 10802.iso, the file date is Nov 22, 2003. It should be fairly trivial to fix. Two ways to correct this are change the hotlinks in access/index.htm or change the filenames in that directory to agree. Either way it would mean opening the iso for editing to make the repair then correcting the md5sum to match. Is this something that has already been looked at?

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Canceling Clearances
by Joshua Hutchinson 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Well, if pigs flew ... fried pork wings would be a perfectly good idea, too. The point is, we don't have a dynamic system. We have what we have (until someone makes something better). That means, currently, creating book clearances you don't intend to use shortly is a "bad idea." I'm not trying to be rude; I'm just trying to point out a behavior that doesn't work well in the currently implemented clearance system. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737(a)freenet.carleton.ca> > > It would be a perfectly good idea, if the clearance system and IP list > was dynamic and allowed for contact between volunteers. > > I'm shocked that the system is still the way it is. I'm half surprised > it's not on the back of envelopes and napkins. > > > > That's probably not a good idea. The only "list" we have of things > people are > > supposedly working on is the clearance list. I know a lot of people > will skip a > > book if they see someone else has cleared it recently. You should > probably only > > clear something if you plan on working on it... and probably only if > you plan on > > working on it soon. DP churns through a lot of books and if you > clear something but > > don't work on it for a year, you're blocking that content from DP. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> > To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Subject: Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks > thisweek(and other stories)) > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:02 -0500 > > > > > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if > only so > > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing. > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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Re: Canceling Clearances
by Wallace J.McLean 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

It would be a perfectly good idea, if the clearance system and IP list was dynamic and allowed for contact between volunteers. I'm shocked that the system is still the way it is. I'm half surprised it's not on the back of envelopes and napkins. > That's probably not a good idea. The only "list" we have of things people are > supposedly working on is the clearance list. I know a lot of people will skip a > book if they see someone else has cleared it recently. You should probably only > clear something if you plan on working on it... and probably only if you plan on > working on it soon. DP churns through a lot of books and if you clear something but > don't work on it for a year, you're blocking that content from DP. ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks thisweek(and other stories)) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:02 -0500 > > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if only so > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing.

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Tamil eBooks site
by Andrew Sly 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Doing a little bit of browsing of ebooks in other languages, I found a project working on Tamil texts that appears to be using the DP software to process their texts. See: http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/dppm.html It's nice to see more efforts out there digitizing old literature, but as usual, they are not as free about having their texts redistributed as PG is. Andrew

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