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Re: [gutvol-d] 20000 (decimal) represented in other bases -- Impact on PG
by Joshua Hutchinson 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

And below is an example of true geek humor. Us geeks are having a good chuckle. Everyone else is scratching their heads, saying, "What the *bleep* are they talking about!?" Josh PS And the Google nerds are busy searching for the meanings of the esoteric phrases... ;) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello(a)perathoner.de> > To: "Jon Noring" <jon(a)noring.name>, "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] 20000 (decimal) represented in other bases -- Impact on PG > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:15:09 +0200 > > > Jon Noring wrote: > > > Therefore, I recommend to PG that if human nature is important, and > > bigger is better, then PG should report the number of books it has in > > a lower base. > > Wasn't it Donald E. Knuth who celebrated his 1,000,000th birthday? > (base 2) > > > We should count our books in base t where t == 2^(12/18) > > That would make all those computations about our keeping up with Moore's > Law much simpler: If we have to add a new digit each new year, we are on > schedule. > > > I hope the advertising industry won't wisen up to this: everything would > start to cost $10¹ and you'll have to read the fine print to find out > the number base. > > > ¹) base the real price > > > -- > Marcello Perathoner > webmaster(a)gutenberg.org > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d >

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!@! Just TWO Books Needed for 20,000!!!
by Michael Hart 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Anyone got anything coming in the next THREE hours??? ;-) Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org

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Fwd: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland: Online 100 manuscripts (fwd)
by Greg Newby 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

This might have some materials suitable for harvesting. -- Greg ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Christoph FlÃ¼eler <christophe.flueler(a)unifr.ch> To: christophe.flueler(a)unifr.ch Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 10:10:11 AM Subject: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland: Online 100 manuscripts Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online - free access: www.cesg.unifr.ch - high resolution digital images: over 40'000 facsimile pages - regularly updated: now 100 complete manuscripts - manuscript descriptions and many search options - accessible in German, French, English and Italian Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a link to CESG on your homepage. Â© CESG - Codices Electronici Sangallenses ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [gutvol-d] Deleting Clearances
by Frank van Drogen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

>I've got a few that were posted to PG--Widger particularly seems to >directly post when PPVing. Those would be better transfered to status >Submitted, I would think; they need to stick around in some form. You can change them to the submitted state by 'previewing' any dummy file under the clearance. Frank

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Deleting Clearances
by David Starner 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Is there any way we could add a way to delete clearances from the clearance page? I have six clearances on my clearance page I'd like to kill; common reasons were I couldn't get suitable scans from my source or I ceeded it to some other volunteer with their own copy. Besides cluttering up my already cluttered clearance page, it makes some projects look more live than they are.

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http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/
by Norm Wolcott 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

The web site http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ which provided many pd french texts for PG and also had many other formats, has disappeared. Has anyone archived this site? Internet archive gets lost looking for individual books, although the home page is available until December 2005. nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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"all of them?"
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

> http://youtube.com/watch?v=veIU0Jwu54w no comment necessary... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] the newest d.p. iteration
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

meredith said: > But reading a book aloud is an extremely slow > and inefficient way to get text into electronic form. that's the point, though. people won't be doing it "to get text into electronic form". that will just be a pleasant side-effect, a tangent from their real aim, which will be "to share a book with the whole world". they'll be doing it because it's _fun_. sure it's work too. but people will do a whole lot of work if they enjoy what they're doing. you see that all the time. > I could *type* a book in faster than I could read it aloud, > much less scan it. but your typed version will be no different than anyone else's. your _recorded_ version, however, will be _uniquely_ yours, perfectly representing the one-of-a-kind snowflake you are, something that your grandchildren, and _their_ grandchildren, can listen to over and over whenever they want to think of you. don't you wish you could hear your grandmother's voice again? > Reading out loud is tiring, even when you're used to it. i agree, it is. but you also get used to it, the more you do it, until you can do it without straining yourself in the slightest. > If you have only read, say, picture books to your children, you may > not realize this. You need to rest your voice after an hour or so. i do performance poetry, so i'm sharply cognizant of voice training. i'm also acutely aware a large audience provides a lot of motivation. > And it takes hours and hours to read an ordinary book out loud, > never mind something like The Lord of the Rings the market for audiobooks has already asserted itself, quite loudly. i imagine that _free_ audiobooks will provide a _very_ large audience. and thus a lot of motivation. > (and, yes, I have read the entire The Lord of the Rings out loud. Twice.). then i guess you must have had sufficient motivation of some kind. > Twice. ya know, if you would have recorded yourself the first time you did it, you wouldn't have had to read it out loud again the second time... ;+) > Scanning is boring, yes, but it is also fast. > And it doesn't make your throat hurt at the end of a session. warm water. (for your throat, not for your scanner...) ;+) -bowerbird p.s. i see your signature-block promotes a book you've written. perhaps you heard that an author who was podcasting his novel recently got picked up by one of the major publishing houses? so lots of aspiring authors might think of becoming podcasters. voice training -- it's not just for performance poets any more! > If you ask me what I came to do in this world, > I, an artist, I will answer you: "I am here to live out loud.” > -- Emile Zola

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Re: [gutvol-d] the newest d.p. iteration
by Joshua Hutchinson 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

> If you have only > read, say, picture books to your children, you > may not realize this. That has to be one of the scariest things I've read lately... bowerbird procreating? *shudder* Other than that, I would add one more reason that OCR is more convenient than Voice Recognition ... I can work on a page of typed text at my computer without annoying the crap out of people around me. Can you imagine trying to read a book while sitting at your local Starbucks? Josh

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mark pilgrim
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

mark pilgrim, an early open-source person, recently switched from apple over to linux... in a blog entry on this, he talks about archiving, and how it gets complicated by file-formats and _especially_ by d.r.m. (which hobbles it by design), and remarks open source does not always equate to open formats (using "gimp" as an example of it). even before he mentioned project gutenberg, i was thinking i'd share a pointer, so here it is: > http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/16/juggling-oranges -bowerbird p.s. i highly recommend -- for guys -- pilgrim's blog entry before this, "howto make the perfect fruit salad and get laid."

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