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Re: Ebook reading devices
by Juhana Sadeharju 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Most important property of such a reader would be that there is no need to install any upload-software to the computer. Only then I could go to public library, browse and download free ebooks to the reader. If the device has the USB cable, then the device should be seen in the computer as an usb/portable disk. The books saved to this usb/portable disk then must also be readable in the reader. Note, some mp3 players are seen as a usb/portable disk, but the music files saved to the disk are not playable. Some proprietary formats may have been reverse engineered but that is illegal in USA and Europe. In Europe, one is not even allowed to tell what unofficial software could be used to convert the text to the proprietary format. And reverse engineering would not help at all, because one cannot install anything in public libraries. Does eBookWise require a software installation? Sony devices are known for requiring a software installation. Note, the requirement for the software installation hits harder the digital camera. Most popular cameras require the software installation, and therefore one is not able, e.g., to transfer the photos to safe, to home, via a public library, an internet cafe, or a hotel. Think about travelling and a possibility that your camera gets stolen or otherwise damaged, or that you're short of the memory cards. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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re: [gutvol-d] Language free version of guiguts?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

anyway, it's a good thing command-line programs are back "in" these days... thus gutcheck was able to just "skip over" that messy graphical-user-interface period, thank heaven... -bowerbird p.s. and no, i am _not_ suggesting that it was anyone's _individual_ responsibility or failure.

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Re: [gutvol-d] Ebook reading devices
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

In a message dated 1/12/2006 12:15:48 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, robsuth(a)robsuth.plus.com writes: enquiries as far as I could, but found no product among the DVD portable readers that would deal with text, nor was any of the manufacturers interested in producing one. Apart from the French reader Cybook (which I think is too expensive for the task and market although otherwise for the most part ideal) there seems still to be no special ebook reading device available in UK or the EU generally: laptops are still too big and heavy, and PDAs still have far too small a screen My enquiries confirmed my strong impression that there are protectionist interests holding this back, presumably in the interests of proprietary issues of ebooks. I suggest you go to eBookWise and FictionWise. Although they do not deal with DVD portable readers, they are seeking input into what people need and want, and would be very glad to hear from you. My husband, two of my daughters, several of my friends, and I all use the eBookWise reader which you can find for sale for about $100 at eBookWise.com. By using extra memory cards, you can build immense libraries, or you can use only the memory built into the device and build an immense library on your computer, realizing that you'll have to download often. I have six memory cards and would like to have about sixty more, but they aren't free. Anne Wingate

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Re: [gutvol-d] Ebook reading devices
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

In a message dated 1/13/2006 10:07:27 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, imaclean(a)gmail.com writes: It directly supports PDF, XHTML and Text (Unicode?) formats. An ebook that will support PDF is a good thing, but I wouldn't want it if it will support ONLY these formats.

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Re: [gutvol-d] Language free version of guiguts?
by Joshua Hutchinson 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

> > I do not do windoze programming. > You are essentially saying that a non programmer can work for PG. :-( > Did you really mean that? > > You have agreed with me above that gutcheck is the standard which must be > passed to get. I am just trying to find a version of that standard which > will run on my machine, with the text > Well, I'll try to be nice even though you are being very confrontational... No one but you ever said any of the above. 1 - GutCheck is *not* required. Jim, who is probably the end-all on the subject since he wrote the thing, flat out said it is not required. 2 - GuiGuts and GutCheck are *not* the same thing. GuiGuts is a text editor written in PERL. GutCheck is a text checker written in C. You can run GutCheck from GuiGuts (among many, many other things). 3 - Asking for GuiGuts support here is a waste of time. The developer of GuiGuts isn't here, he is on the DP forums. Which you've flat out refused to go to. Fine, just don't expect help for a Dell laptop when you call HP tech support, either. 4 - No one said you had to work/create tools for PG. But if you want a tool for something that doesn't currently exist, you either create it yourself or do without (or wait until someone else needs it and decides to do the work you don't want to do). Personally, I've done all three over the years. 5 - *AND MOST IMPORTANT!* GutCheck is not a test that must be passed. It is better thought of as a checker that will flag things that are wrong more often than right. You should run it, because it *will* help you find mistakes that exist in your text. You, as an intelligent, thinking human being, must check each item and verify whether it is correct. Sometimes it is right. Sometimes it is wrong. If the system was 100% infalliable, we wouldn't need humans anywhere in the process. Josh

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re: [gutvol-d] Language free version of guiguts?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

seems like you should welcome new tools... anyway, when are scans going to go online? until the general public can compare e-texts to the page-scans, you simply aren't using the best "checker" at your disposal -- all of their eyeballs. "debugging is parallelizable" (a.k.a. distributable), but hey, _only_ if you actually _set_it_up_ that way... of course, if you _want_ to do all the checking yourself... -bowerbird

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Re: [gutvol-d] Language free version of guiguts?
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

dave said: > If they work on my projects ... > When I get tools which work half way OK, and can > get the submission process sorted to my satisfaction. actually, dave, my post was directed at project gutenberg. :+) but i'm glad you're thinking along similar lines... -bowerbird

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Yorkshire Dialect
by Darren Burnhill 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, > There never was and never will be grammar or dictionaries for Yorkshire > dialect, Forgive me for pointing you toward things you already know; There are a few others (A grammar of the dialect of Windhill by Joseph Wright, etc.), but Folklore and Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire by Richard Blakeborough is probably right up your street as it contains a substantial glossary. I do have a (reprint) copy that I will get round to OCRing, but i'm working my way through the 'Old Yorkshire' series first. Meanwhile there are a few copies in the Bradford system; http://www.biskit.yorks.com/ This may also be of interest: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/ IME the dialectical variants still exist to this day. >From sunny Shipley ;)

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PG Website Report for 2005
by Marcello Perathoner 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

User base and server load The PG website is ranked at position 3,842 by Alexa (Dec 31, 2005). Note that Alexa is an Amazon company and thus bookish people are overrepresented in the Alexa user base. While the absolute Alexa rank value is skewed in our favor, the trend Alexa gives is quite objective. Since Jan 1, 2005: - 2.5 times as many people are using PG and - PG is serving 2 times as many web pages. To accomodate the increased load at better response times the site was redesigned for more static pages and better caching. Rarely used features like skins were dropped in favor of better performance. Where do new users come from? Most visitors find us thru search engines. But 10% come from wikipedia. The catalog team has been active in editing appropriate wikipedia articles to point to our ebooks. If you want more people to come to PG, help us editing more wikipedia articles. Dec 2005 Visitors % Referrer URL 236011 24.20% www.google.com/ 97795 10.03% en.wikipedia.org/ 78527 8.05% search.yahoo.com/ 34796 3.57% www.promo.net/ 28997 2.97% www.google.co.uk/ 24810 2.54% www.stumbleupon.com/ 20355 2.09% www.google.ca/ 16598 1.70% search.msn.com/ 15289 1.57% www.google.de/ 13714 1.41% www.google.co.in/ Search Terms Visitors found us searching for these terms: Dec 2005 Visitors Search Term 24923 project gutenberg 18297 gutenberg 9391 gutenberg project 9176 free ebooks 6964 ebooks 4303 e books 4059 free e books 3807 free books 3489 online books 3348 project gutenburg While most of these people knew beforehand what they were looking for, some of them found us by searching for "free ebooks" or similar generic terms. I have rewritten our main page to push our ranking for the "free ebooks" search term. We are also well positioned in google for following generic search terms: Dec 2005 Pos. Search Term 2 free ebooks 2 free books 5 ebooks 15 books Some other sites rank better than PG because they have "ebook" in the domain name. This way all links to those sites must contain the target word "ebook". If you want to help pushing our rank, set links in your web pages pointing to the PG main page with the link text "free ebooks" like this: My favorite <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org">free ebooks</a> site. Pretty Pictures Snapshots of Alexa statistics on Dec 31, 2005: Pageviews: http://www.gutenberg.org/internal/reports/2005/alexa.6yp.png Reach: http://www.gutenberg.org/internal/reports/2005/alexa.6yr.png Rank: http://www.gutenberg.org/internal/reports/2005/alexa.6yt.png User: internal Pass: books -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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re: [gutvol-d] Ebook reading devices
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

michael said: > Where can I look up things like that? i think it was in the recent report on reading out of the n.e.a. which was a hatchet job, so i'm not sure how trustworthy it is, so... but i think it's no longer a major secret that americans don't really read a lot... -bowerbird

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