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Severe Resistance to EBooks.
by rvijay07 18 May '05

18 May '05

I spoke to about 10 people in the last week that I personally know. The aged are hesitant to stay long infront of the Computer due to eye strain etc., Those who go to school etc., are busy with their studies. In general society still hasn't got comfortable with the idea of EBooks. It is something that they will read if they have to or have no other choice it appears. Even I myself started liking EBooks only like a month ago. Hence, PG may have a bumpy growth as and when more people get comfortable with using EBooks. These people by the way are not familar with ebook readers as well and the advantages that they offer. Share your comments/experiences 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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re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 18 May '05

18 May '05

vijay said: > Has anyone here tried this software ? > http://www.spacejock.com/yRead.html text-to-speech is nice, but perhaps even more relevant here is his viewer-program: > http://www.spacejock.com/yBook.html i haven't tried it, because it's p.c.-only, but ybook gets fairly good reviews, and it has a 2-up facing-pages interface, which i like. it will download the p.g. catalog for display, and then let you download individual e-texts, so it's a cutting-edge illustration of how people will soon be able to relate to project gutenberg as a _library_, and not just a bunch of e-texts... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] no, the problem is
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 18 May '05

18 May '05

melissa said: > Last time he went away from the DP forums, > he threatedned to tell the world the truth about DP > --is that the one? "threatened"? to "tell the truth"? are there some desperate housewives over at d.p.? that's quite a vivid imagination you've got, melissa. there are some problems with the d.p. workflow -- some rather glaring ones, when you consider how many people are laboring under those flows, who should see where they need improvement -- and i will make independent digitizers _smarter_ about what chronology they should use instead, but that's hardly an expose on "entertainment tonight"... so you're just more noise here, intended as a smear. and speaking of gutvol-d as an "umbrella" listserve, i'm wondering how many of the subscribers here are interested in the slightest bit about the specifics of .tei markup, of the type permeating the threads today? it's another example of the techies chasing people away. -bowerbird

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Technical Collection for Consideration.
by rvijay07 18 May '05

18 May '05

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

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 18 May '05

18 May '05

Branko Collin collin at xs4all.nl wrote: >>> 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? This is in reference to my post regarding eye strain from reading EBooks. This FREE software is supposed to read aloud ebooks in text format so that one can hear them. After a hard days work in front of the PC, it would be nice to *LISTEN* to PG ebooks close my eyes and relax a little. Also, audio files take longer to download. So for those who like to listen to audio but with a slow internet connection, this software is a blessing (Provided it works). This is the first time that I came across such a software. (Such small ideas may also help in promoting PG to older people, people with eye problems etc., etc.,) So was looking for opinions from others who may have experience in this (or other similar but better software). I sincerely thank again all those who responded to my questions here so far, they have all greatly helped me learn. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!!
by rvijay07 18 May '05

18 May '05

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

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Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration.
by Jonathan Ingram 18 May '05

18 May '05

--- 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

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Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration.
by rvijay07 18 May '05

18 May '05

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

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RE: [gutvol-d] no, the problem is
by Doug Schroeder 18 May '05

18 May '05

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. Go away or actually release that software you threatened to do some 2-3 years ago. Since I don't contribute, I usually keep my mouth closed. Oh, what's your USER ID over at DP, we could ruin a forum over there and you could brag about how many pages you proof. Greg, Enough already. Just kick his arse out of here.

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re: [gutvol-d] FREE CD/DVD info. request.
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 18 May '05

18 May '05

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

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