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!@!@!Kindle
by Michael S. Hart 13 May '09

13 May '09

Has anyone checked out the http://KindleLibrary.org. There are hundreds of thousand of eBooks for kindle owners there. We are interested in getting some feedback on the site.

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[PW] Cornell's new permission policy (fwd)
by Michael S. Hart 13 May '09

13 May '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:47:31 -0500 Reply-To: list(a)project-wombat.org To: list-open(a)project-wombat.org Cornell's library has announced a new policy that it will no longer require permission for patrons to use copies of public domain materials that it provides. Since some of us talk about copyright and property rights to published materials every now and then, I thought the announcement might be of some interest. The news release is available at http://news.library.cornell.edu/com/news/PressReleases/Cornell-University -Library-Removes-All-Restrictions-on-Use-of-Public-Domain-Reproductions.c fm I hope other libraries, archives, and museums will come to the same conclusion. Happy trails, David David Haynes San Antonio

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Please test phone-format eBooks
by Greg Newby 13 May '09

13 May '09

Thanks to Janina Sieslack & others at http://www.qioo.de/ , I have a new eBook format option. If you are interested and have a modern Java-capable mobile phone, please give this a try and send feedback. This is my first attempt at adding a new converter (we hope to have more, and Marcello has added several new ones lately). So, you need to use a longish temporary URL. For any given eBook nunber (as long as there is text), try a URL of this form: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/gbn?fk_books=1008 substituting your favorite eBook # for 1008. You might be prompted to type the eBook number if you're viewing an eBook not yet converted to the .jar format. I'd like to go ahead and edit this change into the main catalog page, but would appreciate hearing of success stories (or problems) from a few people first. Thanks in advance! Yes, the URL should work OK from a cell phone. I don't know of a way to get it to display on a regular computer. -- Greg

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Re: !@!@! "Kindle Library"
by Joshua Hutchinson 13 May '09

13 May '09

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Re: gutenberg.org now known for TEI samples
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 May '09

13 May '09

ralf said: > BTW www.gutenberg.org is now referenced from this page: > http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Samples_of_TEI_texts go, tei, go! ;+) -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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Re: !@!@! "Kindle Library"
by Walter H. van Holst 13 May '09

13 May '09

Jon: > *Is* it viable? I guess memory capacity couldn't be too bad if you > have > ram for photos, but what about battery capacity etc? Is it time to > jack > up my standards and look at modern equipment, or can I still represent > my anachronistic foot dragging as simple sanity? Will a new cellphone > be a better investment than a new, big Kindle with non-volatile screen > memory? (I don't have an old, small one yet!) Yes, it is. I'm using Stanza (iPhone application by Lexcycle, just acquired by Amazon) to read books from Feedbook (which does markup on Gutenberg etexts) when sitting on the metro/tram. Basically, it is useful for situations where you'd like to do some light reading, don't want to lug piles of paper around but a dedicated reader is too cumbersome. I also have the iRex iLiad, but that is more useful for longer reading sessions (15+ minutes) and when you're having more space, such as on longer train journeys. At the end of the day, it is not relevant which type of reader will prevail, as long as people do read books. I don't get why there such a flamewar about it here. Regards, Walter

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Re: !@!@! "Kindle Library"
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 May '09

13 May '09

jon said: > can someone tell me what kind of cellphone can give you say > half a page of print at a time in comfortable size, steadiness, > contrast and readable resolution for hours on end? no. only you can be the judge of that. "comfortable" and "readable" are highly subjective variables... but it's certainly the case that _some_ people judge the iphone to be acceptable on those dimensions (or the equivalent to those people)... and some smaller percentage of people judged the rocketbook to be acceptable, and some smaller percentage judged the palm acceptable. and some percentage of people judge the kindle to be acceptable, and some larger percentage of people will judge the kindle dx acceptable, although some of _them_ will then start complaining that it's "too big" to carry with them on a regular basis, so that'll be an offsetting factor. but don't focus on _books_ per se, because the number of book-readers in the population is very small. (and it's getting even smaller every day.) book-readers won't drive this revolution. the thing that will drive this revolution will be a growing desire on the part of "ordinary" people to carry a computer-communications device with them wherever they go. the top need, of course, will be the phone. but the iphone with its apps have shown that there are lots and lots of _other_ ways that an internet-connected device can be useful to people as they negotiate their route through their existences in the real world. first of all, making a voice-call is not the only way that people talk with each other these days. they also use text-messaging, twitter, and so on. second, location-based services are proving to be tremendously valuable. since your iphone knows where you are, it can look up handy information for you, like where is the nearest gas station, emergency room, and so on. it will even tell you where you are, when you don't have the foggiest notion, or when you think you're in some other place entirely. and it'll then tell you how to get from where you are to where you want to be. immensely handy. the kind of thing that, once you get used to, you don't want to live without. lastly, as more and more people start carrying around connected devices, the assumption will be that _everyone_ has one, and life will start to grow increasingly difficult for those who do not. for example, see public phones. there used to always be a public phone around. but as cell phones grew in popularity, public phones seemed to vanish. now they are exceedingly rare, to the point where you cannot count on finding one when you do need one. so many people bought a cell-phone when they otherwise might not have... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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by giacinthom plexere 12 May '09

12 May '09

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Re: !@!@! "Kindle Library"
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 12 May '09

12 May '09

walter said: > At the end of the day, it is not relevant which type of > reader will prevail, as long as people do read books. what's so important about reading books? considering that most books being published these days are garbage, there's no magic there. better to read an intelligent blog than a stupid book. > I don't get why there such a flamewar about it here. the "flamewar" is because some people refuse to be civil. if the argument doesn't go just the way that they want it to, they'd rather upset the applecart than continue in good faith. the crux of the disagreement, however, is quite simple... some people wanted a _dedicated_ book-reading device, because "that's all i need". other people argued that "dedicated" devices nearly always yield in the long-run to generalized devices that equal the dedicated device in its own arena and surpass it in others... so that was the split -- dedicated machine or generalized? and indeed, one can see this split in the current situation... the kindle is the _dedicated_ book-reading device. the iphone is the generalized machine. and this difference in the _purpose_ results in ramifications. if you're building a dedicated book-reader, you'll use e-ink. if you're building a general-purpose machine, you go l.c.d. however, with mary lou's pixel qi screen, perhaps we see the path that we can take to make everyone happy now... part of the reason for the disagreement was that the people who were arguing for the dedicated-machine had the idea that such a machine would be _less_expensive_. remember how david rothman _insisted_ for _years_ that a machine would be manufactured that cost end-users a mere $50... i always said this idea was ridiculous, because a reader has to have a screen and a chip and an operating system, and those are the most expensive parts of any computer, so if you're going to pay for those for a dedicated reader, you might as well get a full-fledged computer instead... and yes indeed, when the reader-machines _did_ come out, like the kindle, and the iliad, they were definitely not cheap. you paid about $600 for your iliad, didn't you? _not_cheap._ but, you know, when you call someone's opinion "ridiculous", they take offense -- even when it is! -- and, boom!, flamewar. -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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another overdone topic
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 12 May '09

12 May '09

here's another overdone topic. releasing free e-books stimulates sales of the paper version: > http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2009/05/more-evidence-that-oa-editions… if you're still surprised at this result, you need to get out more... -bowerbird ************** Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlc…)

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