My email isn't getting through to bugs or errors(a)pglaf.org
So I'm forwarding this here.
Michael
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:17:09 -0400
From: Whitney Landon <swlandon(a)prexar.com>
To: Michael S. Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org>
Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos
Happenstantial more-than-a-few-weeks-later find of this -- there's been no
contact from bugs(a)pglaf.org . Thanks again.
WL
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart(a)pglaf.org>
To: "Whitney Landon" <swlandon(a)prexar.com>
Cc: <hart(a)pobox.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: A Gutenberg text.A few poss. typos
>
> I forwarded to bugs(a)pglaf.org for you.
>
> Let me know if you don't hear from them in a few weeks,
> which is entirely possible, and I may take of it for you.
>
> Many thanks!!!
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Whitney Landon wrote:
>
> > A few probable/possible typos [in brackets, below] and a possible
> > omission from:Title: The Great God Success
> >
> > Author: John Graham (David Graham Phillips)
> >
> > Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7989]
> > [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]
> > [This file was first posted on June 10, 2003]
> >
> > Edition: 10
> >
> > 8gtgd10.txtOriginally published in 1901, per Wikipedia. No text date in
> > Gutenberg download."Precisely. I think I will put you next [to]
> > him."Washington Square, South, about--three years [that double-dash
> > punctuation is weird; looking at it now it could well be the way it was
> > published, having seen it a lot, but it's still weird]I do not want your
> > friends[.] I do not want to be
> > respectable. Howard held her away from him and studied her face, surprise
> > in his eyes.
> > "Isn't it strange?" he said.[paragraph break? Howard continues ...]
> > "Here I've been seeing youopen window and she W[w]as propped with
> > pillowsHoward took his rooms in the Royalton. ... his club where he was
> > living for a few days [two don't mesh; hard to imagine how it's a typo,
> > tho]_do_ [many such constructions: translate to italic if possible; can
> > "search" for the _ (underline) to find them; maybe impossible with
> > font/face]his power of concentration[.] Hea S[s]ense of relief and of
> > calmness [probably]Provost and her niece, Miss Marion[typo? jab at
> > newspapers' proclivities for typos? "Marian" with two "a"s, everywhere
> > else]At a[ ]bound it had becomeHe drew a[ ]long breath
> > and-------------------Thanks for the book. I learned about the author for
> > the first time in the Times to/yesterday
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/us/politics/11senate.html?_r=1followed
> > that with some Wikipedia, then came (only 2nd or 3rd time, but with
> > confidence) to PG .... Finished in a sitting. Quite an experience. Thanks
> > again.Whitney LandonBrooksville, Maine
> >
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07:14:00
David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> If you're looking at it at that level, why not just offer some
> streaming audio of the books as well?
What's the advantage of streaming audio vs. getting the whole file at once?
I may be ignorant on this, but
I cannot find a complete English copy of the Koran (or however they
spell it) anywhere on Project Gutenberg.
So also, HOW do they spell it in English?
Jay Toser
