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

GREG NEWBY: Please check your e-mail!
by John Hagerson 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Sorry for the broadcast, but other methods to reach Greg have been unsuccessful. Greg: Please look for messages from Aaron Cannon and John Hagerson. Thank you.

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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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A question raised by Part 2 of this week's weekly newsletter...
by John Hagerson 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Quoth the newsletter: >And yes I said yes today is the 83rd anniversary of the first >publication of Ulysses. I'm probably missing something. Was Foghorn Leghorn involved with the publication of Ulysses?

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Re: [gutvol-d] Question.
by Season BubbleGirl 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi, I'm compiling a clean jokes book to be included in free book archives. I was just wondering if jokes are copyrighted. Not comedian-specific jokes - jokes such as, Why did the chicken cross the road? I found all jokes on different webpages. Because the ebook is free, aren't I doing the same as the webpages? Season BubbleGirl: Writer, poet, Pocket PC enthusiast bubblegirl(a)bubblegirl.net www.bubblegirl.net Did you know ROM of PC POWERPLAY moved? He's now an AUSSIE PLAYING UP at www.bubblegirl.net/playingup.php -----Original Message----- From: "Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com"<Gutenberg9443(a)aol.com> Sent: 02/01/2005 1:53:48 AM To: "gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org"<gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] date-sensitive info about ebook purchase 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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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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Top 100 EBooks this week (and other stories)
by bill jenness 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

The picture of Dorian Gray (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/174) is 47th and The picture of Dorian Gray (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4078) is 99th. I guess these are different editions but it seems a little odd nonetheless. The bibrec of the more recent edition lack two subject entries the earlier one lists. The other story I want to mention has to do with 2 books that I had cleared that I am not able to proceed with at this time. gbn0307140503: Unknown, The Reason Why--Natural History. bill jenness <cr502(a)freenet.carleton.ca>. 1860c. 7/24/2003. ok. and gbn0307140507: warren colburn, Arithmetic upon the inductive method of instruction.... bill jenness <cr502(a)freenet.carleton.ca>. 1856p1826c. 7/24/2003. ok. These books are no longer in my possesion and my scanner is toast, I am limping along with a p166 until I can afford to pickup some new equipment. I have "The Reason Why" partially scanned but that won't do anyone much good as the bulb got progressively more discolored as I went along. If there is someone in Ottawa (Canada) who could scan them in, I could probably get my hands back on them but they do not belong to me and I would need them returned.

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