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Candidate books for PG?
by Al Haines (shaw) 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

A thrift store near me has a 24-volume set of "Modern Business" books, written by various authors, published by the Alexander Hamilton Institute, all copyright dates pre-1923. According to a Google search, the Institute appears to still exist. The books don't seem to be in PG. Are such books suitable candidates for PG, or are they too out of date? Al

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Sponsors
by Marcello Perathoner 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

From a different thread: >> they're looking for "sponsors", suggesting "an annual fee of $1000", >> or even all the way up to $350,000, which buys you a "thank you" from >> within the browser of the one million of their clients you've >> sponsored... I don't know about their millions of clients but the PG website is now ranked top 3000 at alexa.com and serving ~250K pages to ~50K hosts a day. We have a Google page-rank of 8. To get that spammers would feed their mothers to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. We could put an ad space at the top of every page. I'm thinking of text-only ads, no distracting images. We could cycle ads like this: Did you know that you can help producing ebooks investing just ten minutes a day? www.pgdp.net Sponsor PG and get your web site mentioned here. See: www.gutenberg.org/fundraising/sponsoring We thank the Curl Up and Dye hair parlor for their kind gift of $1000. www.curl-up-and-dye.com Do we want to do this? And what rules should we put in place? Is selling ads compatible with the non-for-profit status? Anybody out there with an internet marketing background to figure out what we could "charge" for this ad space? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Errors when uploading submissions
by D Garcia 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Anyone else getting this message when trying to submit an ebook? I did have a report of one other DP volunteer also getting this, it smells of a possible disk space issue. ZIP_TESTS=unzip -t output: File /home/spool/XXXXXX.zip does not exist! (where XXX is the filename of the attempted upload) David

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Re: [gweekly] PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Dave Fawthrop 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT), Michael Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> wrote: | |General Catalog of Old Books and Authors | |http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm | |which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all |PG(US) & PG(Aus)'s books, along with some basic date information |about them and their authors where you can find more. | |For information please contact Philip Harper |<webmaster AT kingkong.demon.co.uk> Plus many books not available on line, a good place to search for books by specific authors who you are interested in. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain

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Another use of PG texts
by Tony Baechler 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

I don't know anything other than what it says below. I looked at nbp.org and it doesn't say that PG texts are being used. It also doesn't give titles. I don't think there is a trademark violation since they are reformatting the files but it's interesting that they are producing their own DVD. I never personally had a problem with reading PG plain text books and I'm blind. I don't really see the point in the DVD, especially not for $39 US. They also have two CD sets, one for kids and one of British literature. I didn't look at them. National Braille press http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/publications/index.html will carry Super Dvd #1, a dvd containing 3,626 books, 646 plays, 496 magazines and 2,753 stories. All this material is available in the public domain on the Internet, but Richard Seltzer http://www.samizdat.com/ has in many cases reformatted it for clear and simple text access. The dvd costs $39, and a listing of its contents is at http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/DVD1.html

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monday morning quarterback
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

somebody just asked me about my monday morning quarterback series on book-digitization best practices... the series is on hold because my girlfriend got one of those printer/scanner/copier machines, and i wanted to test it out a bit before writing up new issues, so as to include some examples with what i write from now on, but i haven't gotten around to it yet... -bowerbird

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origami cut into shreds
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

here's an article on the origami in the korea times (in english): > http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200604/kt2006041317503911780.htm seems that in a press conference touting their new origami machines, three executive officials (one each from samsung, intel, _and_ microsoft) _each_ had embarrassing problems getting the machine to work properly. and then even when it did work ok, its battery ran out mere minutes into one presentation. (maybe the machine was turned on too soon, or maybe battery life in these new machines just ain't very good yet; they're running xp, which is good from the standpoint of widespread usability with existing applications, but it _is_ a very cycle-hungry o.s.) the embarrassment should send their workers back to the drawing board. -bowerbird

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Problems with image download links?
by John Hagerson 15 Apr '06

15 Apr '06

I have noted a number of comments with incoming requests for copies of the CD and DVD that state that people have had problems following the links. One comment today specifically mentioned that no one is seeding our BitTorrent link. I doubt that this is the case, but the comments occur too often to ignore. Would it be appropriate to augment the CD/DVD download page with a link to some "newbie friendly" instructions? Thank you.

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re: [gutvol-d] Catalog Subjects
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

bruce said: > support search by subject. subject-based systems have utility, there's no doubt about it, especially ones that drop the physicalistic notion that items can only be placed in one place. and as i said, it's orders-of-magnitude easier to leverage an existing system than inventing one. but if you _are_ going to invent _any_ kind of system, it should be a collaborative-filtering one, not any type of category-based one, no matter how flexible it might be. tomorrow's people won't just want to "find" a book, they will want to be pointed at the exact book they'd most like to read... any system that isn't able to account for their individual preferences will eventually end up being ignored by them, and thus wasted effort... -bowerbird

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Catalog Subjects
by Dave Doty 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

While we're on the subject of catalog issues... I noticed a while back that many of the books I was interested in were not always listed in the catalog subjects where they would be appropriate, or not put in appropriate subcategories. (For example, I'm a history buff, and many history texts are either not listed under history, or not listed under a subcategory of time, place, or event that would be useful to searchers.) Is there a way that we can add subjects to works and/or create new subject subcategories, or at least submit them for approval? Obviously, an attempt at a comprehensive subject system would be formidable if not impossible, but at least if volunteers/users can update individually, it can get more fleshed out. I dug around the website, but if there's a discussion for this, I missed it. Dave Doty

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