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New PG search engine alpha test
by Marcello Perathoner 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

Please test the new search engine at: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/search It provides a 'mobileOK' view, to use on mobile phones. It also provides an OPDS catalog view for Stanza. "In Stanza 1.5, you can add a new catalog by going to the "Online Catalog" section and tapping the "+" button, where you can enter the name and URL of you catalog to add." -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Transferring PG files from PC to iPod
by Al Haines (shaw) 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

A request arrived at PG Errata system for help/advice on transferring PG's book files from PC to iPod. Here's the body of the message: I am having trouble downloading certain books to my itunes though others work fine. The ones I'm having trouble with download directly to my computer and I have not figured out how to move them to my ipod. Is this an error or my stupidity. I love gutenberg and was thrilled to find it but am now frustrated with certain author choices. A Google search on "transferring files from pc to ipod" finds all kinds of utilities purporting to do such transfers--any recommendations that I can pass to the requestor? Al

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Epub vs. Android
by Greg M. Johnson 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

This may be a device discussion, but it could tie in to an issue of varying "features" (if "quality" were too pejorative a term) of epub items in the PG collection. I've on occasion downloaded one or two epub books from PG directly from the web page, using the phone. I then use Astro to move the file around to the appropriate directory, and had success with Aldiko or FBreader seeing the files. That is, seeing the full file info, complete with the author showing up under author list, and having access to all of the tags. {Let me make an aside that this is one of the joys of the electronic age: I was once stuck with my family at a drive-in restaurant, and five minutes after I had the idea, I was reading them Jules Verne off my phone!} Then I got greedy. I downloaded a large handful of epub's on a PC, and moved them over to the appropriate directory. Now for most of them, Neither see the tags, Aldiko only sees the author, and FBreader doesn't even see the title! It's just "pgxxx.epub". Are there "individual design decisions" that influence how much information gets embedded in any particular epub file that gets produced? I think if someone were to want only one ebook, tags don't matter, but if someone is going to have more than five, it is a problem. Granted, one had too many redundant tags, but the title and author should be locatable. Or is it the software's fault? Maybe we need someone to be a curator of some of the best epub books in the collection. -- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com

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Re: The REAL Question About the iPad. . . .
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

michael said: > I am considering getting one > if the new announcement > includes iPhones for Verizon if you don't have one by this summer, and you'd settle for a first-gen iphone, i will have one i can give you for free... -bowerbird

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Re: iPad Complaints received so far:
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

anything said about sync capability between the ipad and your computer and your iphone? -bowerbird

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iPad Complaints received so far:
by Michael S. Hart 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

No Adobe Flash No Camera No VOIP [Skype, Vonage, etc] No battery swapping!!! No outboard memory!!! No comment on bundling data plans No mention of resolution levels

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New "iPad" From Apple
by Michael S. Hart 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

It looks and acts a lot like a huge iPhone, most apps work ok, but some tweaking is required to optimal results. In case you aren't keeping up with this live: 9.7" screen 1.5 pounds .5" thick 10 hour battery 1Ghz processor up to 64G RAM "n" wifi bluetooth no 3G or 4G In addition the 250 millionth iPod was sold around New Year's. No mention of how many iPhones.

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Re: iPad Complaints received so far:
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

david said: > Nothing revolutionary to see here.. see? what a pile of crap! apple is reinventing the computer experience, right under his nose, and david insists there is "nothing revolutionary to see here"... david must be blind. -bowerbird

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on your planet
by bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

david said: > it's just going to be a smaller version of > a keyboardless Macbook Air > with ebooks available through iTunes. man, wouldn't that be something, even all by itself! the very first thing i wanted to do when i lifted up a macbook air was to rip off that stupid keyboard. (but i didn't think the employees there in the apple store would fully appreciate my marvelous gesture.) > Nothing really revolutionary to see here, unless it > out-does what the Nook, Que, Alex or similar devices > are doing. Judging from what we've seen from Apple lately, > I wouldn't put much faith in it changing the industry hey dude, i don't know where you're from, but here on planet earth the ipod revolutionized how the masses listened to (and bought) music, and the iphone revolutionized so-called "smart" phones (which had been quite retarded before) and put the web (the _real_ web) in our pockets, which was the biggest revolution of all of these. and now they've set the table to do it all _again_, not just changing "the industry", but _the_world_. but again, this is here on planet earth, so please, mr. alien man, tell us what it's like on your planet. -bowerbird

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Re: iPad Details
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 28 Jan '10

28 Jan '10

michael said: > Supposedly NOT plain text file!!! don't forget that the thing runs iphone apps. so the eucalyptus app -- which pulls down plain-text files from project gutenberg and formats them, quite nicely, on the fly -- will run on the ipad just fine, along with all the other e-reader apps, like stanza... don't get too wrapped up in what "native" apple-supplied apps will (or will not) do... > What's the split between iPod and iPhone? don't get tripped up in all the terminology. there are 250 million ipods out in the world. those are just music-players. they don't count. there are 75 million iphone/itouch machines... the "itouch" is also called "an ipod touch", and it's basically an iphone without the phone part. (and yes, every iphone has an ipod in it as well.) i think the basic split is 50 million _iphones_ and 25 million _itouch_ machines, but the itouch trend line is even steeper than iphone. *** michael said: > From Ohio: > > > No camera was a killer non-app > > No outboard flash was a killer non-app > > No outboard drives was a killer non-app > > No DRM free options was a killer. . . . > > Lots of reasons this person won't buy one. as usual, the people who do not buy a product do not matter. it's the people who _do_ buy it -- especially the _number_ of people who buy it, and what they think after using it -- that matters... -bowerbird

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