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Thanks from a Newbie.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

This is truly a wonderful and noble project. Thanks to Prof. Hart and all the other volunteers here who contribute (or have contributed) to this project. Warm 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] Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

This is certainly good policy. I was just sharing general suggestions/ideas. I am a newbie to this project. Heard of it over two years ago or so, started using it a few weeks ago. Then joined the mailing list. Now I really like the idea behind this project. For now I made 10 extra CDs of the Best E-Books ISO and intend to share with those close to me who will enjoy/surely use it. I also intend to promote this product by word of mouth (for eg., what did you do over the weekend ? I read a great novel for free, (then provide the link etc.,) and also on the net on message discussions. There are still so many who are not aware of this project, including some students that I have met. If each of us encourage one person every week or every month(I plan to do this) to use the Gutenberg Project and he/she in turn encourages others the same way, then I feel automatically there will be more volunteers/resources for this project. Down the road, if I have the time and resources I will certainly do my best to contribute more in other areas. Vijay --- On Sun 05/08, Geoff Horton < geoff.horton(a)gmail.com > wrote: From: Geoff Horton [mailto: geoff.horton(a)gmail.com] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 17:23:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India <ago but out of touch). However, this project is directly financed by the Govt. of India, with several persons of repute contributing their time/expertise. Hence, I expect this project to grow quite significantly. Even a few volunteers can't keep up with this project.>> Perhaps not. But Project Gutenberg is, as far as I can tell, pretty much of the "if you want it done, you'd better do it yourself" mindset (which is fine by me). In other words, don't expect someone else to do it if you don't want to. _______________________________________________ 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] Digital Library of India
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

vijay said: > I just came across this great site/idea: > http://gutenberg.cc/Public.htm > Perhaps http://dli.ernet.in can be just added there as a link ? i would think that's precisely what michael hart had in mind with that new project of his... and yes, it is a great idea... the logical extension of his earlier invention of the e-book, collecting them as a library... except the extension had to endure a mere 20 months (or so) of flack, not 20 years, like his earlier one... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

I just came across this great site/idea: http://gutenberg.cc/Public.htm Perhaps http://dli.ernet.in can be just added there as a link ? I do know Tamil and a little bit of Hindi(used to read a long time ago but out of touch). However, this project is directly financed by the Govt. of India, with several persons of repute contributing their time/expertise. Hence, I expect this project to grow quite significantly. Even a few volunteers can't keep up with this project. Vijay --- On Sun 05/08, Dave Fawthrop < hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk > wrote: From: Dave Fawthrop [mailto: hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 20:31:15 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Digital Library of India On Sun, 8 May 2005 13:24:47 -0400 (EDT), "rvijay07" <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: | | Here is another online Library. | | http://dli.ernet.in/ | | Can e-books from this or another similar online project directly be transferred to the Gutenberg Project ? Have we got a volunteer who reads the languages, and can display the alphabets? <nudge nudge Wink Wink> Are you volunteering? -- Dave F _______________________________________________ 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] Digital Library of India
by Jonathan Ingram 08 May '05

08 May '05

--- rvijay07 <rvijay07(a)myway.com> wrote: > > Here is another online Library. > > http://dli.ernet.in/ > > Can e-books from this or another similar online project directly be > transferred to the Gutenberg Project ? It looks like it's another consumer of texts from the Million Book Project. >From a brief glance, it seems quite hard to get material from that site, so we'll probably carry on harvesting the Internet Archive's collection, available here -- http://http://www.archive.org/details/millionbooks -- Jon Ingram Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/

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re: [gutvol-d] Special ISO CD Collections Suggestion.
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 08 May '05

08 May '05

vijay said: > I also got another idea from the same. > How about creating other similar ISO images > on different subject, languages and the the entire collection great idea! and one that's been suggested before, many times. the people here don't seem capable of implementing it, though. you'll find it has been put into play over at www.samizdat.com with the caveat that discs are for sale, not free for the taking. -bowerbird

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Inactive Download Mirrors.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Here are the mirrors that didn't work for me: 1. ftp://gutenberg.mirror.cyngal.ca 2. http://gutenberg.mirror.cyngal.ca 3. ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca 4. ftp://ftp.samurai.com _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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Digital Library of India
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Here is another online Library. http://dli.ernet.in/ Can e-books from this or another similar online project directly be transferred to the Gutenberg Project ? 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] ISO CD Problem.
by rvijay07 08 May '05

08 May '05

Thanks. This solved the problem. Vijay :) --- On Sun 05/08, Andrew Rendle < andrew(a)andrewr.co.uk > wrote: From: Andrew Rendle [mailto: andrew(a)andrewr.co.uk] To: rvijay07(a)myway.com, gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 18:15:14 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] ISO CD Problem. rvijay07 wrote: > > I got the ISO ZIP image CD from the Gutenberg Project: > http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11220 > > It consists of several data files but all as an ISO image. > > I burned it using k3b as a data CD. However, the burned image on the CD still remains as one large ISO. I am unable to see the individual files. > > I checked the md5sum for both the zipped and unzipped ISO. They are OK. > > Please assist. > > Vijay > What you need to do is tell it to use the iso file to create a CD, not write the iso file to a CD as a file. (Who hasn't wasted a few CD-Rs doing that? :-/ ) An iso contains an image of an entire disc i.e. many files, directory structure, etc. A CD with the .iso file on it is a very different beast to a CD with the contents of that file. I think what you need to do in k3b is go Tools->CD->Burn CD Image. Andrew _______________________________________________ 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 08 May '05

08 May '05

Every idea has to be sold. For eg., for a child to get a pen from his/her Father, he/she has to sell/promote the idea first. Promoting/Selling the Gutenberg project is a great idea, as with more interest there are more chances for volunteers etc., etc., Here is how I sold the Gutenberg Project to a coworker. He has kids but was unaware of the Gutenberg Project. I sent him an E-Mail saying that the Gutenberg project(GP) offers a HUGE COLLECTION of fairy tales and bed time stories for children all for FREE. This got him to explore the project. Next day at work we was smiling and was very happy with my suggestion. There is so much info./free stuff on the net. Everyone gets bombarded all the time. So being specific helps in promoting anything. For eg., to a History student I will E-Mail him a link with a Gutenberg Project History Book and also ask him to check out the project home page and other books that may interest him. Here are my ideas to promote the project: (1) While discussing specific topics on the net and in E-Mails, include the GP Free E-Books Links (2) Suggest the Project to atleast one new person a weekly or monthly. (There are still several who are unaware of this project). (3) Giving FREE Gutenberg CDs locally to people who will actually use them. I am also looking forward to suggestions from others 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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