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Selling/Promoting The Gutenberg Project.
by rvijay07 09 May '05

09 May '05

I agree with Holden in regards to the search page. Here are other ways of Selling/Promoting the GP: 1. The Gutenberg CD/DVD makes a great FRUGAL GIFT for several occassions. 2. Discuss/mention online whenever there are significant developments at the Gutenberg Project or whenever a exciting title is added that may interest someone or a group of people. 3. Discuss this project in all the sites that discuss Freebies etc., Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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ISO CD Problem.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

I got the ISO ZIP image CD from the Gutenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11220 It consists of several data files but all as an ISO image. I burned it using k3b as a data CD. However, the burned image on the CD still remains as one large ISO. I am unable to see the individual files. I checked the md5sum for both the zipped and unzipped ISO. They are OK. Please assist. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Selling/Promoting The Gutenberg Project.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Hi everyone: I am a new commer to this group. Please share any thoughts/comments in regards to selling/promoting the Gutenberg Project. Thanks in advance. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Special ISO CD Collections Suggestion.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

I got the CD Best of Gutenberg. It is good. However, I also got another idea from the same. How about creating other similar ISO images on different subject, languages and the the entire collection ? For eg., Subjectwise ISO: A CD ISO Image with just Fairy Tales etc., for Children Language Wise ISO: A CD ISO with all the French E-Books Other: A DVD ISO with all the Audio Books ENTIRE COLLECTION: E-Books 1 to 600 as one ISO image and the next 60o books as anotehr ISO image and so on. (That way those with CD Burners can also take the full advantage of the collection.) Thanks. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Thanks from a Newbie.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

This is truly a wonderful and noble project. Thanks to Prof. Hart and all the other volunteers here who contribute (or have contributed) to this project. Warm Regards, Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

This is certainly good policy. I was just sharing general suggestions/ideas. I am a newbie to this project. Heard of it over two years ago or so, started using it a few weeks ago. Then joined the mailing list. Now I really like the idea behind this project. For now I made 10 extra CDs of the Best E-Books ISO and intend to share with those close to me who will enjoy/surely use it. I also intend to promote this product by word of mouth (for eg., what did you do over the weekend ? I read a great novel for free, (then provide the link etc.,) and also on the net on message discussions. There are still so many who are not aware of this project, including some students that I have met. If each of us encourage one person every week or every month(I plan to do this) to use the Gutenberg Project and he/she in turn encourages others the same way, then I feel automatically there will be more volunteers/resources for this project. Down the road, if I have the time and resources I will certainly do my best to contribute more in other areas. Vijay --- On Sun 05/08, Geoff Horton < geoff.horton(a)gmail.com > wrote: From: Geoff Horton [mailto: geoff.horton(a)gmail.com] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:23:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India <ago but out of touch). However, this project is directly financed by the Govt. of India, with several persons of repute contributing their time/expertise. Hence, I expect this project to grow quite significantly. Even a few volunteers can't keep up with this project.>> Perhaps not. But Project Gutenberg is, as far as I can tell, pretty much of the "if you want it done, you'd better do it yourself" mindset (which is fine by me). In other words, don't expect someone else to do it if you don't want to. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

vijay said: > I just came across this great site/idea: > http://gutenberg.cc/Public.htm > Perhaps http://dli.ernet.in can be just added there as a link ? i would think that's precisely what michael hart had in mind with that new project of his... and yes, it is a great idea... the logical extension of his earlier invention of the e-book, collecting them as a library... except the extension had to endure a mere 20 months (or so) of flack, not 20 years, like his earlier one... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

I just came across this great site/idea: http://gutenberg.cc/Public.htm Perhaps http://dli.ernet.in can be just added there as a link ? I do know Tamil and a little bit of Hindi(used to read a long time ago but out of touch). However, this project is directly financed by the Govt. of India, with several persons of repute contributing their time/expertise. Hence, I expect this project to grow quite significantly. Even a few volunteers can't keep up with this project. Vijay --- On Sun 05/08, Dave Fawthrop < hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk > wrote: From: Dave Fawthrop [mailto: hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 20:31:15 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India On Sun, 8 May 2005 13:24:47 -0400 (EDT), "rvijay07" <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: | | Here is another online Library. | | http://dli.ernet.in/ | | Can e-books from this or another similar online project directly be transferred to the Gutenberg Project ? Have we got a volunteer who reads the languages, and can display the alphabets? <nudge nudge Wink Wink> Are you volunteering? -- Dave F _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by Jonathan Ingram 08 May '05

08 May '05

--- rvijay07 <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: > > Here is another online Library. > > http://dli.ernet.in/ > > Can e-books from this or another similar online project directly be > transferred to the Gutenberg Project ? It looks like it's another consumer of texts from the Million Book Project. >From a brief glance, it seems quite hard to get material from that site, so we'll probably carry on harvesting the Internet Archive's collection, available here -- http://http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks -- Jon Ingram Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/

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re: [gutvol-d] Special ISO CD Collections Suggestion.
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

vijay said: > I also got another idea from the same. > How about creating other similar ISO images > on different subject, languages and the the entire collection great idea! and one that's been suggested before, many times. the people here don't seem capable of implementing it, though. you'll find it has been put into play over at www.samizdat.com with the caveat that discs are for sale, not free for the taking. -bowerbird

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