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oh geez
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

boy, it's a good thing branko provoked a confrontation with me by _editing_ my comments over on the teleblog a while back, which led me to abandon that hell-hole. because he's doing a series about how to transform p.g. e-texts into e-books. his tack is to create an .html version (if necessary) which then gets imported into office, which then creates a .pdf... man, you do all that work, and then you end up with a _pdf_? oh geez. oh please. if i was still over there on the teleblah-blah blog, i would be raking this series over the coals, that's for sure. i'm sure glad that i have much better things to do with my time these days... -bowerbird

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stealth scannos
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

i'll be addressing the issue of stealth scannos soon, and would like to give p.g./d.p. full credit for the work you've done on it, if someone would write up a summary this week... thank you. -bowerbird

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Re: [PG-EU] INTERNET FOUNDER SAYS eBOOKS NEXT BIG THING
by Karl Eichwalder 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Michael Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> writes: > Vint Cerf, known as the creator of the Internet said, [...] > The result is that Project Gutenberg and its fellow supporters > of The World eBook Fair have added more books for The Second > World eBook Fair in the just about two months since the first of > the World eBook Fairs than Google has been able to add in the > just about two years since it announced The Google Print Library > in the Fall of 2004. Do you believe your own or his statements? With every new day I find new books in PDF format with Google Book Search, books not available somewhere else. > The Second World eBook Fair will open October 1, 2006, > in honor of World Book Fair Month at > > http://worldebookfair.com How is this site meant to work? I do not find a single book there. I directs me a searchportal with "sponsored links" and "top sites". If I search for, say, "Goethe", no single Goethe item seems to be available. > 100,000+ Free eBooks Available from Project Gutenberg Approx. 20,000 books are available from PG, that's very good--it will take several years until we can offer 100,000 books. -- http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o | _-\_<, | (*)/'(*) Key fingerprint = F138 B28F B7ED E0AC 1AB4 AA7F C90A 35C3 E9D0 5D1C

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Reusing PG texts
by Andrew Sly 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

I've tried creating a list of examples of some of the ways that PG texts have been used (other than simply being read). If you are interested, take a look at: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Reusing_Project_Gutenberg_texts More examples and more ideas would be welcome. Let me know what you have run across, and add to the list if you feel like it... Andrew

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re: [gutvol-d] Re: [PG-EU] INTERNET FOUNDER SAYS eBOOKS NEXT BIG THING
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

bruce said: > On the plus side, Google now makes PDFs of > most of the full view books with high resolution images that is a good thing. but what makes it even better is that michigan has started making the digital text available too. so instead of just settling for looking at pictures of pages, we can now begin to create honest-to-goodness e-books -- with text that can reflow, and be searched and copied... this week i'll be making posts to the bookpeople listserve that walk people there through the process of doing that. my goal is to digitize a book in _one_ hour. will i succeed? i suppose it depends on how good my automatic tools are. the proof, as you all should know by now, is in the pudding. *** as to the tempest in this teapot here, it's all good... i do appreciate michael's efforts with the world book-fairs. i also appreciate google's massive book-scanning project, which provides us plenty of lemons to make our lemonade, and i appreciate the library at the university of michigan for giving us a powerful lemon-press to make that lemonade... a million e-books might be as little as a million hours away, which puts them _much_ closer than they were 5 years ago. -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Fwd: [webgroup] ibiblio.org server migration
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

ibiblio said: > We needed to move to the new facility due to > the rising cost of bandwidth among other reasons it's probably good for us to know that ibiblio does indeed care about the cost of bandwidth, at some level and in a kind of fashion anyway... i think many of us assumed that's a blank check. it's always appropriate to be sufficiently grateful when someone extends to you a continuous gift. -bowerbird

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Fwd: [webgroup] ibiblio.org server migration
by Greg Newby 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

FYI....please report any continuing anomalies to webmaster(a)gutenberg.org with cc to me. -- Greg ----- Forwarded message from Ken Chestnutt <ken(a)metalab.unc.edu> ----- From: Ken Chestnutt <ken(a)metalab.unc.edu> To: webgroup(a)lists.ibiblio.org Cc: ibiblio-announce(a)ibiblio.org Subject: [webgroup] ibiblio.org server migration Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:07:17 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Delivered-To: webgroup(a)lists.ibiblio.org Precedence: list Errors-To: webgroup-bounces(a)lists.ibiblio.org Hi Folks, By now I'm sure you are aware that ibiblio.org has migrated to a new set of servers in a new facility. Some of you are painfully aware of the migration and for that we are sorry. We needed to move to the new facility due to the rising cost of bandwidth among other reasons, and we needed to move to the new servers because the old servers were exactly that, old. Additionally, we moved to the most recent stable build of Red Hat Linux, which will enable us to run more of our standard services *out of the box*. This will allow us to administer our server farm more efficiently. In the past, most of our applications were hand-built which can make maintenance unwieldly. We have already seen payoff in the fact that the web pages load faster, we have more free disk space, and the servers themselves are not as taxed. As of today, Wednesday morning, we think we have fixed most of the major issues surrounding our collections. We believe we have resolved the issue regarding HTTP authentication. Some of our sites are still seeing issues with database connectivity, and we are still working on that. To ensure that no issue has dropped through the cracks, please test your collection to make sure it's working the way it should. If it is not working correctly, and it was working correctly before the move, please send email to help(a)ibiblio.org with the subject line SERVER MIGRATION. Then, of course, please describe the problem you are having with any helpful, pertinent information you can include. Thank you for your patience during this migration! ken Ken Chestnutt System Administrator ibiblio.org _______________________________________________ webgroup mailing list webgroup(a)lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/webgroup ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: 32 Million (C) Books/2 Million In Print
by Juhana Sadeharju 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

>From: Michael Hart <hart(a)pglaf.org> > >I received this statistic a while back, >that only 2 million of 32 million books >under copyright are actually in print. What is the year distribution of the 30 million books? What their authors think about the situation? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Re: [gutvol-d] Copyright to 1909
by Wallace J.McLean 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Brett Paul Dunbar writeth: > How when reading the SI did you miss this? > 17. In the following provisions of this Part— "extended copyright" means any copyright which subsists by virtue of the new provisions after the date on which it would have expired under the 1988 provisions; and "revived copyright" means any copyright which subsists by virtue of the new provisions after having expired under the 1988 provisions or any earlier enactment relating to copyright. What I was quoting was Sched I. to the 1988 Act: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_22.htm The 1995 (curse you EU!) reg is a separate piece of legislation, and is not the one I quoted from.

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Re: [gutvol-d] Copyright to 1909
by Wallace J.McLean 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Jon Ingram writeth: > The rule of the lesser or shorter term is from the Berne Convension, > not from the EU harmonization directive, and I would therefore expect > it to be followed by most countries in the world. Another quote from > the article I refer to above: > "However, under the Berne Convention, the Berne rule of the shorter > term may apply to works of foreign origin. This rule allows a Berne > country to cut off protection of a foreign Berne work at the end of > the shorter of two so-called measuring terms: either that applicable > in the country where protection is claimed ... or that applicable in > the country of origin." The Berne "rule of the lesser term" was permissive, not mandatory. The EU "rule of the lesser term" is mandatory. And it seems that the UK enacted it in a separate statute in 1995, rather than doing the sensible thing and amending and consolidating the Copyright Act itself. Grrr..

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