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some gizmo that kids carry around in their back pocket
by bowerbird 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Michael Hart Builds A Digital Athenaeum by Mark Frauenfelder wired magazine -- November 1998 Michael Hart says he really doesn't have time to talk today, or any day before 2000, for that matter: "I'm doing two books right now. I'm really busy." "Doing" doesn't mean "writing," however: Hart is formatting the scanned text of William Osler's The Evolution of Modern Medicine and The Last Days of Pompeii, by Charles Bulwer Lytton, to add to Project Gutenberg's existing library of 1,600 volumes. Every week, Hart's working overtime to meet his quota of 36 books per month and 2,000 by Y2K. The result will be something of a digital Library of Alexandria, with Hart its Demetrius. Since 1971, when he was given extensive time on a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois's Materials Research Lab, Hart (with volunteer help) has been scanning the pages of copyright-expired books and uploading them for free distribution. Why? So people can burn up toner cartridges printing them? "No. Nobody's going to print these books out," says Hart. "Twenty or 30 years from now, there's going to be some gizmo that kids carry around in their back pocket that has everything in it -- including our books, if they want." Actually, some of these gizmos already exist. So it's really no wonder Hart feels pressed for time.

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error message on PG pages
by traverso＠dp.dm.unipi.it 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

I have a computer with an old firefox (20.0) and I cannot connect with it to PG, I receive an error page: ------------------------------------------------- Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to www.gutenberg.org. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap) The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site. ------------------------------------------------- Not a problem for me (I use another browser) but might be a problem for other users. I don't have the same problem on other https sites. Carlo

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Is ibiblio still doing maint?
by Jared Buck 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

I'm trying to access the ftp.ibiblio.org ftp server and nothing is showing on the server. no directories at all and rsync isn't working, either. I know on the main PG page it says ibiblio is doing maint work from the 23rd to the 26th but it's the 29th now and nothing seems to be working. Jsred ᐧ

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Offering technology to power better typography for Project Gutenberg
by Florian Rivoal 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Hi, Not sure I'm writing to the right place, but previous attempts at different addresses didn't work out. My name is Florian, and I work at http://www.vivliostyle.com I think the incredible collection of books the Gutenberg project has collected over the years is a great treasure, and would like to make a little contribution to the project, not in the form of additional books, but in terms of software improve the online reading experience, making the Gutenberg project more accessible to readers. My company is building a javascript engine that can augment what browsers can do in terms of layout and typography, with a focus on paged media and other typographical features usually more associated with print and PDFs than with the web. It can be used to power an in-browser paginated (but still responsive) view of the document, or to generate PDFs with rich typography. I've made a basic demo to showcase the in-browser paginated experience. http://florian.rivoal.net/demos/gutenberg/ We would be happy to provide this to the Gutenberg Project royalty free and to work with you to set it up. Is this the right place to discuss this idea? Best regards, -- Florian RIVOAL 取締役、Chief Commercial Officer Vivliostyle

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Book Search page on the website not functional
by Jared Buck 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

Tested with a couple of different browsers. The link to book search doesn't lead to anything apparently - it causes the web page to freeze. The search bar at the top of the gutenberg website also doesn't work - you can't type anything into it. Someone get this fixed soon, hopefully? :) Jared

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Is the ibiblio.org ftp down?
by Jared Buck 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I can't reach the official PG FTP at ibiblio.org - accessing both via the web and via FileZilla says the connection is unreachable. If it's down, perhaps someone can contact someone at ibiblio.org and let them know our server is down? Jared

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50000, a message from greg newby
by bowerbird 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

a message from greg newby: ================== John Gutenberg First Master Printer, His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death by Franz von Dingelstedt http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/0/0/50000 Project Gutenberg is thrilled to achieve the milestone of eBook #50,000. In honor of Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael S. Hart, a special title was selected. "John Gutenberg, First Master Printer, His Acts, and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death" is now available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50000 J. Gutenberg is best known for introducing mechanical movable type printing to Europe. This brought about a revolution in printing, which was a key event in shaping today's information and knowlege-based society. Michael Hart pioneered the e-book in 1971 and his cyber-library became his life's major calling. He named it "Project Gutenberg," to recognize the impact of J. Gutenberg, and in anticipation of electronic books helping to transform societies by bringing cost-free literature to people everywhere. Free literature, and the freedom of thought and freedom of expression which it fosters, is key to growth of literacy, opportunity, and enlightenment. You can read more about Michael Hart at: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart or in this Wikipedia article: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart To join in celebrating the great gift of free literature, please read a book. Or share a book. Or a collection of books. Michael was proud of all efforts to give books. On behalf of Michael Hart, and of Project Gutenberg, my huge thanks and appreciation to all the volunteers who have helped to achieve this milestone. I invite you to join Distributed Proofreaders at http://www.pgdp.net, to assist in digitizing future Project Gutenberg eBooks. This message is granted to the public domain by its author, Dr. Gregory B. Newby.

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50000
by bowerbird 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

so it looks like today will be the day. unless it's delayed until tomorrow... congratulations to all the volunteers. thank you for making the world better. -bowerbird

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150 to 50,000
by bowerbird 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

roughly 150 items before the library reaches 50,000. can't you feel the excitement from the bristling activity here! your project misses you, michael... -bowerbird p.s. thanks to the volunteers who brought us to this point at this time.

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Problems with rsyncing with the project gutenberg main server
by Jared Buck 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi all. I am having some problems using rsync with the main PG rsync server. I keep getting timed out or disconnected with the following errors: rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at io.c(785) [receiver=3.1.1] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (483943 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [generator=3.1.1] I've been using this rsync command right now with the advice of the ibiblio.org people who maintain the server for us: rsync -av --delete --delete-during --progress ftp.ibiblio.org::gutenberg/ /cygdrive/e/gutenberg/ I am not sure what is causing these errors. I know the commands mean the connection closed on my end for some strange reason. I did not have any issues using rsync on my old windows 7 computer (I got a new machine for my birthday last month that has UEFI firmware installed on it, making dual booting into Linux for a faster rsync experience nearly impossible). So I am stick using cygwin's rsync distribution here on windows 10. I have been talking with the ibiblio folks via their forums, but it would be a lot easier if someone who is actually with PG who knows rsync well could help me. Jared --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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