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Re: [gutvol-d] re: you guys crack me up
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/16/2005 12:42:08 AM Mountain Daylight Time, Bowerbird(a)aol.com writes: it is more difficult to be invisible than to be found, so _try_ to relegate my free speech to your "protest zone". I would recognize your writing style as easily as I do Mark Twain's, and a lot less happily. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Dear Jon and Bowerbird
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/15/2005 3:39:45 PM Mountain Daylight Time, gbnewby(a)pglaf.org writes: If we take this direction, next step is to basic form moderation guidelines and find at least two volunteer moderators (not me), who will provide rapid turnaroud time. Greg, I'll do this as part of my job, if you like, but I don't have time to do it as volunteer work. Just tell me what to do. Obviously I have a pretty good idea whom to do it to. I'd want to set up a different screen name to do it under, though, having gotten into a few flame wars myself under my own screen name. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] re: eye strain
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/14/2005 2:24:05 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Bowerbird(a)aol.com writes: don't worry about it. it's one of those old-people things... ;+) Does it ever cross your mind that some of us ARE old people? Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: HandHeld & E-Books
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/14/2005 6:33:11 AM Mountain Daylight Time, mattsen(a)arvig.net writes: Haven't tried it myself (frankly, I've not had much luck with running Windows apps under Wine). Go to eBookWise.com. There is a long list of FAQs there. It should answer all the questions everybody was asking. I don't know anything about Wine but it probably wouldn't work. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: HandHeld & E-Books
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/14/2005 4:33:25 AM Mountain Daylight Time, mattsen(a)arvig.net writes: The transferability of any of the e-Books depends upon their licensing, of course ... I don't profess to be up on the legalities of resale in any venue It also depends on whether the ebook is encrypted. I don't think you got an actual Rocket; I think you got one of the 1500s. Rocket originally could do encrypted books, but . . . forget the sad story. Anyway anything you can read on Rocket now is unencrypted. I suppose you COULD put it on EBay, but it would be silly, because the purchaser could go get his the same place, and at the same price, that you got yours, so you wouldn't make any moneh. You can get encrypted books for the 1500. You cannot sell or give away an encrypted book unless you sold or gaveaway the reader at the same time, unless you know some really smart hacker. But it's cheaper and far less timeconsuming to just buy the book. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] HandHeld & E-Books
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/13/2005 9:31:16 PM Mountain Daylight Time, mattsen(a)arvig.net writes: (I added a $20 256MB SmartCard and I can't imagine wanting/needing more storage, really.) I can't either, but people who do can add more SmartCards and switch cards when they want to. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Severe Resistance to EBooks.
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

In a message dated 5/18/2005 5:58:35 AM Mountain Daylight Time, rvijay07(a)myway.com writes: >stay away from ebooks as they are not good for eyes. So as a NEWBIE, I just >wanted to know more in this regard from those with more experience. I bought a Rocket ebook reader about seven years ago. I bought it because we were trying to set up an epublishing company, and I had to have the Rocket to check how everything looked. As it happened, that particular company fell through. But I fell in love with the Rocket about 3 seconds after I took it out of the book. For years one of my major fears has been that it would expire before I do. Last winter EBookWise, a branch of FictionWise, came out with the FictionWise 1500. It is totally compatable with Rocket and with several other formats, including plain text and Word. So now I have two ebook readers and feel safer. I NEVER read treebooks in bed anymore. With a dedicated ebook reader you can read with the room light off. You can turn around however you want to and you can turn pages by pushing a button; you can set the machine so that you can push the button with your right hand or with your left hand. I'm to the point now that I'd really rather read an old ebook than a new treebook, unless the treebook is one that I particularly want to read or it has a lot of illustrations, as both Rocket and 1500 are bad with illustrations. But with the 1500 you can buy even bestsellers and read them. If you pay a little more money you can join the FictionWise library and check out books. You can't keep them overdue because they quit working when they're due. I love ebooks. I REALLY REALLY REALLY love ebooks. Once upon a time we were out travelling and my husband suddenly decided he absolutely had to stop and write a poem. Now, my husband is one of those really strange guys who are REAL poets, so his stopping to write a poem didn't mean fifteen minutes. It meant about four hours--and I HADN'T TAKEN A BOOK WITH ME! I spent all that time wandering around the truckstop and reading a small road atlas which was the only thing I could buy at the truckstop to read. Now I do not leave the house without 50 books in my purse (Rocket) or 250 books in my purse (1500)--and I have a very small purse. I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY love ebooks. As for eyes, mine are bad because I'm 61 and have spent a large portion of my life outdoors in the South or in the Rocky Mountains without sunglasses (cataracts) and because I have bad genes (corneal dystrophy). But the only way ebooks could hurt your eyes would be if you forget to blink. In that case, use some eyedrops and then return to the book. Oh yes--I now have that epublishing company. I had thought I could do four books a month and am averaging two, but that's okay. IT'S MINE! Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 20 May '05

20 May '05

Dave, I looked, and a lot of these are in English. My question would be about copyright. How can we find out whether it's clear? Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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unsubscribe
by Scott Clous 20 May '05

20 May '05

--- gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org wrote: > Send gutvol-d mailing list submissions to > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, > visit > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d > or, via email, send a message with subject or body > 'help' to > gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gutvol-d-owner(a)lists.pglaf.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it > is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gutvol-d digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: PGTEI and prposed future-tech-developments > group/forum > (was "Dear Jon") (Marcello Perathoner) > 2. re: FREE CD/DVD info. request. > (Bowerbird(a)aol.com) > 3. Technical Collection for Consideration. > (rvijay07) > 4. RE: no, the problem is (Jonathan Ingram) > 5. Re: Technical Collection for Consideration. > (Jonathan Ingram) > 6. Re: Technical Collection for Consideration. > (rvijay07) > 7. Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! > (rvijay07) > 8. Re: Severe Resistance to EBooks. (Branko > Collin) > 9. Bye Bye (Tom Harris) > 10. Re: Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! > (Branko Collin) > 11. Re: Technical Collection for Consideration. > (Branko Collin) > 12. Re: Technical Collection for Consideration. > (Marcello Perathoner) > 13. Re: PG Forums (Jim Tinsley) > > From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello(a)perathoner.de> > To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:32:49 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] PGTEI and prposed > future-tech-developments group/forum > (was "Dear Jon") > > Branko Collin wrote: > > >>>Where again is the site hosting the latest PGTEI > documents (and DTD > >>>if one has been put together)? (This request is > not only for me, but > >>>for others interested in PGTEI.) > >> > >>Start at: > >> > >> http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/ > > > > The other day there was a flurry of PGTEIization > at Distributed > > Proofreaders. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to > host the results at > > http://www.gutenberg.org/tei/ too. > > I'd prefer to host only milestone documents and not > ongoing discussions > on the web site. > > That said, where are the results of that > digiTEIzation, so I can take a > look? > > > > -- > Marcello Perathoner > webmaster(a)gutenberg.org > > > > From: Bowerbird(a)aol.com > CC: > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird(a)aol.com > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:17:43 EDT > Subject: re: [gutvol-d] FREE CD/DVD info. request. > > > on the d.v.d. i got, the links to the e-texts > from the author/title .html indexes fail... > > i didn't even try to figure out why, because > i can manage, but if this is a problem that > everyone has, it probably should be fixed... > > -bowerbird > > > From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07(a)myway.com> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:29:53 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > > One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is considered > mainly a fiction/literature type collection. In this > regard it is good to add some Technical Books. The > easiest way to do this would be to > (a) Harvest Technical Books that are already hosted > on other sites and then add them here. Proofreading > them based on user feedback is suggested. > (b) Provide a link to such a Project on PG. > > In this regard here is one site for consideration: > http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com > > Lots of EBooks and other materials for programmers. > Created/Maintained by a very enthusiastic person. > > Vijay > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - > http://www.myway.com > > > > > From: Jonathan Ingram <jonathan_ingram(a)yahoo.com> > To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:33:01 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: RE: [gutvol-d] no, the problem is > > --- Doug Schroeder <ds(a)dougschroeder.com> wrote: > > bowerturkey: > > > > > there are some problems with the d.p. workflow > > > -- some rather glaring ones, when you consider > > > how many people are laboring under those flows, > > > > Key issue, people are working. You (and I) are > not. > > Aside from the mudslinging, I thought I'd mention > that the workflow at DP will > be changing soon. Until now, books have done through > two general proofing > rounds. This is now being split into 2 pure > proofreading rounds, and 2 > formatting-and-final-overview rounds. This is > because we're now processing > books which require a lot of formatting, and we find > that people find it > difficult to concentrate both on proofreading and > formatting. After this > transition has been successfully completed, we will > introduce further > mini-rounds for specific content (Greek, tables, > music, etc.) which requires > specific talents to proofread. > > -- > Jon Ingram > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Make Yahoo! your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > From: Jonathan Ingram <jonathan_ingram(a)yahoo.com> > CC: > To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, > Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:41:04 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > --- rvijay07 <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: > > > > One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is > considered mainly a > > fiction/literature type collection. In this regard > it is good to add some > > Technical Books. > > While the site you link to has some interesting > content, I'd prefer to see PG > remain primarily a repository of public domain > material -- and this in no way > stops us from increasing the amount of non-fiction > texts. Indeed, there are > many non-fiction texts going through DP at the > moment, in many subject areas, > from dictionaries to bell-ringing, cookery to > history. > > Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright > terms mean that we won't see a > large influx of public domain computer programming > material for a while. > > -- > Jon Ingram > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07(a)myway.com> > CC: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > To: jonathan_ingram(a)yahoo.com > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:30:08 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > > There are Linux Books that are sold as HardCopy but > the EBooks are free to distribute I believe. > > Also, since the other site is distributing these > books without trouble, wouldn't it be safe to assume > that these IT EBooks are also > Public Domain ? If they can be verified to be Public > Domain, then can't they be hosted here ? > > Thanks. > > Vijay > > > > --- On Wed 05/18, Jonathan Ingram < > jonathan_ingram(a)yahoo.com > wrote: > From: Jonathan Ingram [mailto: > jonathan_ingram(a)yahoo.com] > To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:41:04 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > --- rvijay07 <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: > > > One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is considered > mainly a > fiction/literature type collection. In > this regard it is good to add some > Technical > Books. While the site you link to has some > interesting content, I'd prefer to see PG remain > primarily a repository of public domain material -- > and this in no way stops us from increasing the > amount of non-fiction texts. Indeed, there > are many non-fiction texts going through DP at > the moment, in many subject areas, from > dictionaries to bell-ringing, cookery to > history. Sadly the overly long length of > modern copyright terms mean that we won't see > a large influx of public domain computer > programming material for a while. -- Jon > Ingram __________________________________________________ Do > You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the > best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - > http://www.myway.com > > > > > From: "rvijay07" <rvijay07(a)myway.com> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:31:16 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text > Format !!! > > > Has anyone here tried this software ? > http://www.spacejock.com/yRead.html > > Please share your experience/comments. > > Vijay :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - > http://www.myway.com > > > > > From: "Branko Collin" <collin(a)xs4all.nl> > To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:14:10 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Severe Resistance to EBooks. > > On 17 May 2005, at 22:40, Greg Newby wrote: > > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 06:00:41PM -0400, rvijay07 > wrote: > > > > > I spoke to about 10 people in the last week that > I personally know. > [snip] > > I question whether this is resistance to eBooks, > or just > > a combination of (a) not liking to read much, or > to read > > older literature; and (b) lack of technical > facility or > > equipment. > > I think annecdotal evidence is no evidence at all. > It is useless to > discuss the growing or lessening popularity of > ebooks in general > based on a few of Vijay's personal observations. > > Those personal observations can be fun to talk about > in their own > right, but they are not evidence of a trend. > > -- > branko collin > collin(a)xs4all.nl > > > From: "Tom Harris" <beacybooks(a)bigpond.com> > To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:06:09 +1000 > Subject: [gutvol-d] Bye Bye > > Bye Bye, > > This list could be so good, but the pricks have > spoiled it again. I'll give > it a try in another year I suppose. > > I must have proofed 10 books at least for Gutenberg, > why not a list for > proven contributors only? > > Regards > > Tom Harris BeacyBooks beacybooks(a)bigpond.com > > > > From: "Branko Collin" <collin(a)xs4all.nl> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:22:07 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text > Format !!! > > > On 18 May 2005, at 6:31, rvijay07 wrote: > > > Has anyone here tried this software ? > > http://www.spacejock.com/yRead.html > > Please don't post unqualified links, that's rude. > What does the > software you refer to do? What is it called? Why are > you interested > in it? > > -- > branko collin > collin(a)xs4all.nl > > > From: "Branko Collin" <collin(a)xs4all.nl> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:22:07 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > > On 18 May 2005, at 4:29, rvijay07 wrote: > > > One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is > considered mainly a > > fiction/literature type collection. > > By whom? Why is that a drawback? > > > In this regard it is good to add some Technical > Books. > > Why? > > > The easiest way to do this would be to (a) > > Harvest Technical Books that are already hosted on > other sites and > > then add them here. Proofreading them based on > user feedback is > > suggested. (b) Provide a link to such a Project on > PG. > > I think people should add whatever they want to add. > If you feel like > adding technical books, please go ahead. > > -- > branko collin > collin(a)xs4all.nl > > > From: Marcello Perathoner <marcello(a)perathoner.de> > To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:11:28 +0200 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for > Consideration. > > Jonathan Ingram wrote: > > > Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright > terms mean that we won't see a > > large influx of public domain computer programming > material for a while. > > Many FSF books are copylefted. One I should > definitely like to see in > the collection is: > > Free Software Free Society > > selected essays of > > Richard M. Stallman > > > My paper copy says: > > "Permission is granted to make and distribute > verbatim copies of this > book provided the copyright notice and this notice > are preserved on all > copies." > > > -- > Marcello Perathoner > webmaster(a)gutenberg.org > > > > From: Jim Tinsley <jtinsley(a)pobox.com> > CC: > To: traverso(a)dm.unipi.it, > Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion > <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:33:20 -0400 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] PG Forums > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:40:31AM +0200, Carlo > Traverso wrote: > > > >PG had a forum-like Volunteers' Board at > >http://promo.net/pg/vol/wwwboard/ but it has become > inactive and was > >officially discontinued on November 28, 2003 > > > >The archives are still available at the same > address. > > I can't recommend emulating it; at least, not > _simply_ > emulating it. The rules of the board were that "This > > Board is for posting any question or information > about > how to create Project Gutenberg E-Texts." and > "Off-topic > subjects include anything that is NOT about creating > > PG e-texts,". I moderated it ruthlessly; personal > insults, > opinion, advocacy, posts from clueless newbies who > thought > they were gurus, and indeed anything that did not > fit the > moderation parameters comfortably just went to the > Big > Bit-Bucket In The Sky without a second thought. It > was > a place where newcomers could browse or ask > questions and > make contact -- with me, if no-one else -- and try > to get > their heads around what PG was. Remember, PG was > very opaque > before that: the _only_ two-way communication was > private > mail. > > Then the Board and gutvol-d started up, and quickly > settled > into a pattern: the Board was the shopfront-window > for > passers-by who might be interested in walking in; > gutvol-d > was the back-room for the regulars. And please note, > by > "regulars" I mean people who were actually > contributing to > PG, who knew what they were talking about from > experience, > and who had a stake in the outcome. Monday-morning > Quarterbacks > weren't really in evidence. > > The Board had value in hooking people up with useful > work, and > with answering newbie questions, and it did good. > Nowadays, however, > people can find useful work to do all the time at > DP, and all > the newbie questions are answered in the FAQ, which > was largely > comprised of questions that had been asked on the > Board. Its > functions had become obsolete, and an attempt to > revive it would, > I think, be futile. > > jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 20 May '05

20 May '05

"Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control." http://freshmeat.net/projects/festival/ Debian users can just go: # apt-get install festival also related package festival-doc Disclaimer: There is a lot of technology out there already. It is for the user to explore, try and customize the software for individual needs. I created a small 4G partition for my Debian OS which is almost full and perhaps this could be one of the reasons that most ebook readers didn't work for me. Also, my PC is over 6 years old and lacks internal/external speakers. So, I can't try this software immediately, but hope to try it down the road. Sharing this info. here for general interest./info./discussion. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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