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

Inactive Download Mirrors.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Here are the mirrors that didn't work for me: 1. ftp://gutenberg.mirror.cyngal.ca 2. http://gutenberg.mirror.cyngal.ca 3. ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca 4. ftp://ftp.samurai.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

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 ? 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] ISO CD Problem.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Thanks. This solved the problem. Vijay :) --- On Sun 05/08, Andrew Rendle < andrew(a)andrewr.co.uk > wrote: From: Andrew Rendle [mailto: andrew(a)andrewr.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 18:15:14 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] ISO CD Problem. rvijay07 wrote: > > 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 > What you need to do is tell it to use the iso file to create a CD, not write the iso file to a CD as a file. (Who hasn't wasted a few CD-Rs doing that? :-/ ) An iso contains an image of an entire disc i.e. many files, directory structure, etc. A CD with the .iso file on it is a very different beast to a CD with the contents of that file. I think what you need to do in k3b is go Tools->CD->Burn CD Image. Andrew _______________________________________________ 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

Every idea has to be sold. For eg., for a child to get a pen from his/her Father, he/she has to sell/promote the idea first. Promoting/Selling the Gutenberg project is a great idea, as with more interest there are more chances for volunteers etc., etc., Here is how I sold the Gutenberg Project to a coworker. He has kids but was unaware of the Gutenberg Project. I sent him an E-Mail saying that the Gutenberg project(GP) offers a HUGE COLLECTION of fairy tales and bed time stories for children all for FREE. This got him to explore the project. Next day at work we was smiling and was very happy with my suggestion. There is so much info./free stuff on the net. Everyone gets bombarded all the time. So being specific helps in promoting anything. For eg., to a History student I will E-Mail him a link with a Gutenberg Project History Book and also ask him to check out the project home page and other books that may interest him. Here are my ideas to promote the project: (1) While discussing specific topics on the net and in E-Mails, include the GP Free E-Books Links (2) Suggest the Project to atleast one new person a weekly or monthly. (There are still several who are unaware of this project). (3) Giving FREE Gutenberg CDs locally to people who will actually use them. I am also looking forward to suggestions from others in this regard. 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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Inactive Download Mirrors.
by rvijay07 07 May '05

07 May '05

I am trying to Download the entire Gutenberg Project ZIP-ISO. All the Canadian Mirrors I tried failed. Perhaps others can also try them and if it confirms my experience then maybe this situation can be corrected or the nonfunctional mirrors be removed from the list. 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] Format for corrections to etexts
by Jon Niehof 07 May '05

07 May '05

--- Tom Harris <beacybooks(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > Can someone point me to documentation for the format for > submitting corrections to an existing etext? There isn't a prescribed format as such, but see the FAQ for suggestions: http://www.gutenberg.org/faq/R-26.php If there's an email address in the header for the producer, send it there, else to errata_AT_pglaf.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Fwd: virus laden spam going around
by Mjit Raindancer-Stahl 05 May '05

05 May '05

This is a form letter that I am sending to everyone in my address book. --M --- Mjit Raindancer-Stahl <realmjit(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I have been receiving virus-laden spam to my yahoo account with > mildly disturbing "from" and "subject" fields. The size of these is around 72K > > from today: > postmaster@ houston.rr.com -- FwD: Your Password > register@ merit-lilin.de -- mailing error > hostmaster@ dataactivity.com -- Your email was blocked > webmaster@ cybercoders.com -- Your email was blocked > webmaster@ fetishalliance.net -- Re: [blank] > stephierocks39@ hotmail.com -- Re: [blank] > register@ ntlworld.com -- Your email was blocked > MidnightAuction@ aol.com -- Re: [blank] > SlicRick64@ aol.com -- Re: [blank] > > I find it disturbing that my mail is being blocked even though > I am not the source of these e-mails. I have run virus-checkers > on both machines that I use to check my mail, and the virus is > not present. I don't send mail from this account more than once > every couple of weeks, and I only send an attachment about > once a month, to people who are expecting it from me. > > I'm sure most of you know this, but I will say it anyway: if > you don't have a virus scanner, get one. If you have one, use > it. If some one sends and attachment with 2 file extensions > (example: filename.txt.zip), it's probably a virus. > > Thank you for for not branding me a flaming idiot. M'jit AIM/Yahoo!IM/Ebay: Realmjit realmjit(a)yahoo.com | answerwitch(a)gundo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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OpenReader announcement: Open-standards eBook Format and Reading System Development Discussion Groups
by Jon Noring 04 May '05

04 May '05

Quick Summary (including how to subscribe): ------------------------------------------- You are invited to subscribe and participate in one or both of the following discussion groups (hosted at YahooGroups) supporting the ongoing activities of the OpenReader Consortium: 1) "openreader-format": OpenReader Format Specification (an open-standards ebook and digital publication/document distribution format), and 2) "openreader-devel": Development of an open-source, license-free, multi-platform reference implementation of an OpenReader reading system ("user agent"). (Both projects will be summarized in the next section. For more detailed information, refer to http://www.openreader.org/ .) If you have a supportive interest in either topic, we invite you to subscribe to the group of interest. (Those who subscribe to the "user agent development" group are strongly urged to also subscribe to the Format group.) By joining either of these groups, there is no implied commitment to become an active participant in either of the associated Working Groups, although we certainly hope you will. We welcome your thoughts and insights, even if you choose not to actively participate in formal Working Group activities. The home pages to the two groups are found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openreader-format/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openreader-devel/ There is a link to subscribe to each group at the group's home page. Or, you can subscribe to either using the following email addresses: openreader-format-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com openreader-devel-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com If you prefer not to go through the process of subscribing yourself to either group, I'll be more than happy to subscribe you. Just email me (jon(a)openreader.org or jon(a)noring.name) your request to join -- be sure to specify which group(s) -- along with the email address you want to use to receive group messages. More Detailed Information about OpenReader: ------------------------------------------- As noted in the prior section, the best online resource explaining OpenReader is the current OpenReader web site (planned to soon undergo a much-needed major update and upgrade): http://www.openreader.org/ OpenReader is a cooperative project to create an open, standards-based digital publication distribution format to facilitate current, continuing, and long-term access to ebooks and other types of digital publications and documents. The OpenReader distribution format will be based on well-established XML vocabularies, publication frameworks, and W3C technologies. This includes OEBPS (the Open eBook Publication Structure framework), XHTML, CSS, MathML, SVG and XLink, to name the more important ones. Our current plans also include eventual native support for TEI, NewsML, and possibly other advanced and specialized document markup vocabularies and publication frameworks. The OpenReader Consortium will also support the development of reference implementations of programs to render OpenReader-compliant documents on a number of devices, and to convert OpenReader-compliant documents to other publication formats, such as PDF/A. There is a clear need for such a distribution format, given the present anarchy of multiple, incompatible, inflexible, and proprietary publication formats which do not provide the reading experience consumers want and publishers strive for. David Rothman, in his TeleRead blog covering the ebook, digital library, and related industries (http://www.teleread.org/blog/) aptly describes this situation as the "Tower of eBabel". While the initial focus of the OpenReader Consortium is primarily on ebooks, we intend to make the distribution format flexible enough to be applicable to a wide variety of digital publications and documents, such as periodicals, newspapers, document collections, white papers, many types of business documents, etc. We even envision the OpenReader format to be quite useful for encapsulating and archiving standards- conformant Web sites. When the HTML format and HTTP protocol were developed more than a decade ago, NCSA developed a "web browser", Mosaic, to support the format and protocol. The success of the World Wide Web was due as much to the wide-spread availability of the NCSA Mosaic browser, as it was to the openness and availability of the HTML and HTTP specifications. Similarly, we believe that it is important to develop, in conjunction with the OpenReader Format, a cross-platform, open-source, license-free reference implementation of an OpenReader rendering program, which will make the OpenReader Format Specification truly useful, to establish uniform rendering behavior, and to spur others to build their own conforming OpenReader user agents. ***** We look forward to your joining either or both groups, even if to lurk. If you know of others who may be interested in OpenReader, feel free to forward this announcement to them. We are also building a Consortium of interested companies and organizations in the digital publication and document universe who see the open-standards OpenReader as furthering their business and institutional objectives. Of course, we are looking for dedicated individuals, who agree with the OpenReader philosophy, to become leaders and help to make OpenReader a success. Thanks. Jon Noring OpenReader Consortium jon(a)openreader.org jon(a)noring.name

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Format for corrections to etexts
by Tom Harris 02 May '05

02 May '05

Can someone point me to documentation for the format for submitting corrections to an existing etext? Regards Tom Harris BeacyBooks beacybooks(a)bigpond.com

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