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Re: Off Topic Discussion List Suggestion.
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

Karl Eichwalder ke at gnu.franken.de >>> Just post here--gutvol-d is an umbrella list. Normally members of a list prefer to stay on Topic, specially where Volunteers are participating. Very off-topic posts may start complaints etc., Hence, having another site/group for off topic discussions in preferable. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Did this happen to you ?
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

Recently, searches are taking longer at the PG site at times. A few days ago, in the evening when I tried a search, it said something like server overloaded and request to try again. This is a good sign that more people are using PG. Vijay :) _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Share your PG reading Wish List.
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

Since, there are several ebooks at PG, I think sharing these lists will be a great learning experience for all. Here is my PG reading wish list: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11555 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12021 * Daily Strengths for daily * The art of money getting * Grimm's Fairy tales The World for sale Lessons in Life * Philosophy of Misery Making both ends meet Living alone * True Riches University of Hard Knocks We can't have everything * From Wealth to Poverty The Price of Things The Healing of Nations Towards the Goal * Problems of Poverty On Compromise The key to peace Masters of Space Top of the World The Cost of Shelter Quit your worrying. My book of Indoor Games Common Sense, How to Exercise It Lives of the most remarkable Criminals Self-Development and the way to power An Iron Will. Fifteen years in Hell. The Vainty of Human Wishes * The Bed-Book of Happiness The Pleasures of Ignorance. A Book of Nonsense * Beautiful Thoughts The Pleasures of a Single Life Unhappy far-off things The Tree of Heaven Homestead on the Hillside Homes And How To Make Them Principles of Home Decoration, by Candace Wheeler The Consolation of Philosophy * Certain Success Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery [Subtitle: A Manual Of Cheap And Wholesome Diet] Things to Make * The Art of Soul-Winning The House in Good Taste Half Portions The Fun of Getting Thin * Outwitting our nerves Diet and Health Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made In Time Of Emergency The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition Success Mastery of Self for Wealth power Success. What Peace means Disease and its causes A Course in Wood Turning The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/3/15237/15237-h/15237-h.htm Vegetarian Cookery Book http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13887 Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14594 Why Worry http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8554 _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Selling/Promoting The Gutenberg Project.
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

Here is another suggestion that came to my mind. An ebook reader with the best of PG CD can be a great gift for a sick relative or someone who likes to travel etc., Ebook readers, handhelds along with PG CD/DVD, can be made available on a loan basis to sick patients and in hospital libraries etc., Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Off Topic Discussion List Suggestion.
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

I suggest an Off Topic Discussion list for PG. Both volunteers and non-volunteers can become members. This will help everyone to know each other a little bit more and discuss some things of common interest. Topics such as what was the last book you red on PG etc., can be discussed. This will create a more friendly atmosphere, generate more interest in PG and benefit everyone overall in the longer run. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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What is the last good NON PG E-book(s) you came across ?
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

This thread may offer more book ideas for PG while being a learning experience for all. Here is one for starters: The Complete Horse Tamer: http://www.rarey.com/sites/jsrarey/jsrbook.html and a related site: http://www.rarey.com/sites/jsrarey/ Vijay :) _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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HandHeld & E-Books
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

How convenient are handhelds to read E-books ? Specially in terms of eye strain and power lasting etc., ? Reading E-Books from a desktop is strainful, specially if one is at the PC at work all day. Any other related info. welcome. Thanks in advance. 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] An Error, eye strain, solution.
by rvijay07 15 May '05

15 May '05

I am using Mozilla. Pressing Ctrl + did help change the fonts. However, making the background a less brighter color may also help in reducing the strain I feel. Is there a way to do this in the browser ? I am unable to find any options for this in my Mozilla 1.7.2. This Mozilla is a Debian Package. Also are there E-book readers for the desktop for Linux users ? What advantages do they offer ? I would also appreciate their web-sites. Thanks. Vijay --- On Sat 05/14, Jared Buck < JBuck814366460(a)aol.com > wrote: From: Jared Buck [mailto: JBuck814366460(a)aol.com] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com Cc: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 17:47:19 -0700 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] An Error, eye strain, solution. You can change the font your browser displays such things in. The setting to do so depends on the browser you use. I'm a Firefox user, but other people use IE, Netscape, Mozilla, or even Opera. Which one do you use? rvijay07 wrote on 5/14/2005, 5:31 PM: > > I have beenr eading the E-Books as such in my browser last week. The > fonts were a little extra small. Hence, after three days I endedup > with red, watery and irritated eyes. Maybe I must read the E-Books by > opening them in Open Office with larger fonts. > > Vijay > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. > Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d > _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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re: rare, which drives the price up
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 14 May '05

14 May '05

jon noring said: > Anyway, the proofers did find a couple errors > (and as I noted the text has not been sufficiently proofed yet), and when will "sufficiency" be reached? :+) (sorry, folks, this post of jon's is so juicy, i have to respond twice!) > Anyway, the proofers did find a couple errors > (and as I noted the text has not been sufficiently proofed yet), > which have been corrected in the current online text. > I don't know if they corrected the errors you found as i told you before, no, you still haven't gotten all the errors. you might have found 2. great! but there are still 2 more. :+) > I don't know if they corrected the errors you found > but I don't really care. oh, i think you care _very_much_ about finding every last one. that's why you are still soliciting for even more proofreaders... > And of course, I won't tell you here > exactly what errors the proofers found it's trivial to find the changes you made. > but for $100 I'll be happy to tell you and for $100, i will spell "trivial" for you. :+) > (but I'll be nice and give you a clue: "didn't" and "liked".) > Otherwise you can download the XHTML document again > and run a 'diff' on it -- happy hunting! "hunting"? there's no need to go "hunting". just drop two files on the comparison app. and "diff"? please. what a clumsy-ass tool. in a case like this, with only a couple changes, that will not matter much. but as a programmer, i've written several apps that present the output in a way that's much friendlier than that of "diff" -- not to mention a whole heckuva lot smarter -- absolutely necessary if the comparison gets sticky. (e.g., ok, already, i don't need to see the differences that were created by the change to british spellings.) > You can say what you want, but unless you "show the pudding", > no one's going to believe you. Your credibility is zero. and the flack you're desperately throwing up is trivial to defeat. aside from the two changes that you so generously "hinted" about, i see you also added the character entity for the trademark symbol. gotta get that trademark on "trusted edition", don't you? after all, you want people to be sure which e-texts are "trustworthy", right? as for one correction made, from "liked" to "like", well, that error occurred on page 363, did it not? indeed, it is the very top line on page 363, right? now if you look at the scan i used for my proofing demo, at > http://users.aol.com/bowerbird/proof_wiki.html which i put up a few months back, you'll see i used page 363! what a surprise! but maybe that was just, like, a very rare coincidence, eh?, that the very page on which there is one of the few errors remaining would be the same page -- deep into the book -- that i would use in my public demo of a proofing interface? yeah, maybe it was, jon, maybe it was. or maybe i was merely toying with you. you won't know unless you "call my bluff" on those 2 errors that i say are still in your text, will you? there's a $300 payoff in it for you if i am bluffing, as opposed to a mere $75 payoff for me if i'm not... it's pretty hard to resist a 4-to-1 differential, isn't it? (and for your $75, you'll finally have error-free text, which -- despite your serious efforts -- has eluded you for months. of course, project gutenberg will have the exact same text.) but act fast! this is a limited-time offer! or before you know it, the price of the next-to-last error might jump to $40, and the price of the last one up to $60, for a grand total for the pair of $100. you just never know. after all, these errors are _rare_. that drives the price up... -bowerbird p.s. by the way, a u.r.l. for that d.p. forum i said you should see is: > http://www.pgdp.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=128023#128023 (this forum is for d.p. members only, which jon is, but anybody else can visit as well, just by registering as a member first; that's free. heck, stick around and proof a couple pages, and see if you like it...)

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bowerturkey
by Doug Schroeder 14 May '05

14 May '05

bowerturkey, Please just go away on you own this time. How many more cycles of you getting booted and returning should I be expecting? Alternatively, you could just grow up a little. One made-up word for you: vaporware. I'd have no problem with you if you actually DID SOMETHING. I think I know many other people (some coders) with your personality set. They back it up, however, and thus I like their attitudes. (And yes, I have enough to figure you out, every other post is your opinion on something.)

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