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re: [gutvol-d] Googlebooks pdf downloads
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

actually, g. edward said this: > Google Books has started offering downloads > of their public domain books as PDF files. > You can search for 'free view' books to find them. but you get the picture... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Googlebooks pdf downloads
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

g. edward said: > It would seem that, as of this morning, > Google has added a "Download PDF" > link to their public domain texts fantastic. i was beginning to wonder, since they had never replied to the open letter i sent them. it would still be nice if we could just _buy_ a hard-drive from 'em with all the books on it. imagine how many libraries and schools and universities would leap to make that purchase. and the good will -- and proof of the value of their project -- would benefit google greatly... anyway, now we can get to work on doing o.c.r., and developing some automatic clean-up apps, in order to create a cyberlibrary in z.m.l. format... unless google wants to do _that_ for us too! ;+) -bowerbird

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Googlebooks pdf downloads
by G. Edward Johnson 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

I just saw this: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/29/google_books_offers_.html Google Books has started offering downloads of their public domain books as PDF files. You can search for 'free view' books to find them. Example: http://books.google.com/books?id=HKackp-vG-YC

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Re: Search by Subject
by Christa & Jay Toser 30 Aug '06

30 Aug '06

Hi, Mr. McLean does have a good point. And there is enough activity on this thread to indicate great interest. Great interest usually results in people doing something (like volunteering to help). It's just, no one wants to start the cataloging by subject, it seems mostly, because we lack consensus on which system to use, or whether to start our own. To decide on that, apparently will take a meeting of minds. Dare I use the "C" word? Committee? On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org wrote: > 1. Re: Re: Search by subject for ebooks? (Wallace J.McLean) > > The proofreading is distributed... the reorganization of the file > system was done on a piecework basis... why not the cataloguing?

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some more public-domain heroes
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 29 Aug '06

29 Aug '06

looks like we have some more public-domain heroes. jared benedict bought a copy of all the topological maps from the u.s.g.s -- which are in the public domain, but were _not_ all conveniently located in one single place -- and "held them for ransom" until he raised the $1600 he'd spent to purchase 'em, from volunteer contributions. "pay up or the map gets it", read the cute ransom note. (as far as i can tell, it looks like it took him just one day.) now he's sending the maps off to the internet archive, where they can be housed under a common interface, which might well prompt a flurry of derivative uses... so here's a big cheer for each of the people who donated some ransom money to free the maps, and three cheers to jared for spearheading this collaborative venture! :+) > http://redjar.org = jared's home site > http://libre.redjar.org/maps/ = one page on the project > http://ransom.redjar.org/original_page.html = f.a.q. > http://ransom.redjar.org/ = the list of contributors -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Search by subject for ebooks?
by Wallace J.McLean 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

> Wallace's suggestion below, applied to subject headings, would not > really be workable, as different libraries do not use the > same set of subject headings. (For instance the National > Library of Canada defines "Canadian Subject Headings", which > are similar to LCSH but more focused on Canadian topics. Aha! A good reason to perhaps use NLC codes for works of CanCon (Canadian Content for those not in on the reference.) The proofreading is distributed... the reorganization of the file system was done on a piecework basis... why not the cataloguing? Bit by bit, there aren't THAT many titles in the overall scheme of things. We'd need rules and volunteers. In the little dictatorship that is my own library, I catalogued nearly a thousand books and several hundred discs in a fairly brief time, and have added to it on a piecemeal go-forward basis ever since.

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Re: Search by subject for ebooks?
by grendelkhan 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

> From: "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737(a)freenet.carleton.ca> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:04:55 -0400 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Search by subject for ebooks? > > Which any decent library already takes into account when cataloguing, > which is why it would be easiest to catalogue under any and all pre- > existing catalogue headings as given in major national library > catalogues like LOC, AMICUS, British libraries, etc., etc., etc., > unless, of course, there is a patently wrong catalogue entry. (That > happens.) If I recall (Andrew, please correct me if I'm wrong), there's was previously a cataloguer who was putting in that sort of thing, see (random example) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2852 which is filed under "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction" as well as "Private investigators -- England -- Fiction", and its LCC class (PR, English literature). Andrew said that this hasn't been done in a while, but if there's interest, I'm going to be entering a Library Science program this fall, which I reckon would make me an incipient professional librarian--I'd be quite interested in applying cataloguing standards to the PG catalog.

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Re: [gutvol-d] Librivox and PG
by Joshua Hutchinson 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

Yep, we even mention them in some of our FAQ pages. :) And I'll start posting lots of them to the catalog if *GREG NEWBY* ever catches up on his backlog of 142 clearances waiting for his approval! Josh PS Do you think that was enough emphasis to get Greg to notice? ;) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Onorio Catenacci" <Catenacci(a)Ieee.Org> > To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)pglaf.org> > Subject: [gutvol-d] Librivox and PG > Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:37:08 -0400 > > > Hi all, > > I thought this article in the NY Times might be of some interest to > the folks who subscribe to this mailing list: > > <http://tinyurl.com/j9nwo> > > It's discussing Librivox--which is a volunteer effort to make > audiobooks of public domain works. Project Gutenberg is mentioned in > passing. > > -- Onorio Catenacci > > We're all just doves, > Trying to find our way home. > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d >

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Librivox and PG
by Onorio Catenacci 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Hi all, I thought this article in the NY Times might be of some interest to the folks who subscribe to this mailing list: <http://tinyurl.com/j9nwo> It's discussing Librivox--which is a volunteer effort to make audiobooks of public domain works. Project Gutenberg is mentioned in passing. -- Onorio Catenacci We're all just doves, Trying to find our way home.

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PG Wiki is online
by Marcello Perathoner 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

I switched the site to use the wiki software. Please check your favorite section of the site (esp. Sub-Projects) and report everything that is broken to me. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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