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Understatment of the day
by Andrew Sly 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Here's a little mention of PG from usenet... Newsgroups: alt.games.video.nintendo.gameboy.advance Date: 2005-02-19 12:22:54 PST Files for books? Text files are available for books all over. Project Gutenberg has hundreds of public domain text files.

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pgdvd access index file error
by bill jenness 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

I have just downloaded the dvd from ibiblio and there seems to be a problem with the index.htm in the access directory. Here is an excerpt to illustrate the problem: <A HREF="gtnletC.htm#cooperja">James Fenimore Cooper</A> The file refered to on the dvd is actually gtnletc.htm and this error is propagated throughout the index. The gtnanon.htm file is correctly linked but the links for the others are not. This may not be a problem on a windows machine but it is on a case sensitive filesystem. The download file was 10802.iso, the file date is Nov 22, 2003. It should be fairly trivial to fix. Two ways to correct this are change the hotlinks in access/index.htm or change the filenames in that directory to agree. Either way it would mean opening the iso for editing to make the repair then correcting the md5sum to match. Is this something that has already been looked at?

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Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Canceling Clearances
by Joshua Hutchinson 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Well, if pigs flew ... fried pork wings would be a perfectly good idea, too. The point is, we don't have a dynamic system. We have what we have (until someone makes something better). That means, currently, creating book clearances you don't intend to use shortly is a "bad idea." I'm not trying to be rude; I'm just trying to point out a behavior that doesn't work well in the currently implemented clearance system. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737(a)freenet.carleton.ca> > > It would be a perfectly good idea, if the clearance system and IP list > was dynamic and allowed for contact between volunteers. > > I'm shocked that the system is still the way it is. I'm half surprised > it's not on the back of envelopes and napkins. > > > > That's probably not a good idea. The only "list" we have of things > people are > > supposedly working on is the clearance list. I know a lot of people > will skip a > > book if they see someone else has cleared it recently. You should > probably only > > clear something if you plan on working on it... and probably only if > you plan on > > working on it soon. DP churns through a lot of books and if you > clear something but > > don't work on it for a year, you're blocking that content from DP. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> > To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Subject: Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks > thisweek(and other stories)) > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:02 -0500 > > > > > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if > only so > > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing. > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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Re: Canceling Clearances
by Wallace J.McLean 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

It would be a perfectly good idea, if the clearance system and IP list was dynamic and allowed for contact between volunteers. I'm shocked that the system is still the way it is. I'm half surprised it's not on the back of envelopes and napkins. > That's probably not a good idea. The only "list" we have of things people are > supposedly working on is the clearance list. I know a lot of people will skip a > book if they see someone else has cleared it recently. You should probably only > clear something if you plan on working on it... and probably only if you plan on > working on it soon. DP churns through a lot of books and if you clear something but > don't work on it for a year, you're blocking that content from DP. ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks thisweek(and other stories)) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:02 -0500 > > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if only so > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing.

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Tamil eBooks site
by Andrew Sly 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Doing a little bit of browsing of ebooks in other languages, I found a project working on Tamil texts that appears to be using the DP software to process their texts. See: http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/dppm.html It's nice to see more efforts out there digitizing old literature, but as usual, they are not as free about having their texts redistributed as PG is. Andrew

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Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks thisweek(and other stories))
by D. Starner 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

"N Wolcott" writes: > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if only so > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing. Except in the rare case of renewal notices, if someone cares if they are PD, it's trivial to check. I can't make use of the clearance, as I've to clear my own copy of the book, but your clearance will tell me that I shouldn't bother, since other people are working on it. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks thisweek(and other stor
by Joshua Hutchinson 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

That's probably not a good idea. The only "list" we have of things people are supposedly working on is the clearance list. I know a lot of people will skip a book if they see someone else has cleared it recently. You should probably only clear something if you plan on working on it... and probably only if you plan on working on it soon. DP churns through a lot of books and if you clear something but don't work on it for a year, you're blocking that content from DP. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "N Wolcott" <nwolcott(a)dsdial.net> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks thisweek(and other stories)) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:02 -0500 > > I often submit clearances for books I think I might get around to if only so > that PG knows they are available PD and others can make use of the > clearance. Not a dog in the manger thing.

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Canceling Clearances (Was: [gutvol-d] Top 100 EBooks this week (and other stories))
by D. Starner 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

> The other story I want to mention has to do with 2 books that I had > cleared that I am not able to proceed with at this time. > > gbn0307140503: Unknown, The Reason Why--Natural History. bill jenness > <cr502(a)freenet.carleton.ca>. 1860c. 7/24/2003. ok. > > and > > gbn0307140507: warren colburn, Arithmetic upon the inductive method of > instruction.... bill jenness <cr502(a)freenet.carleton.ca>. 1856p1826c. > 7/24/2003. > ok. > > These books are no longer in my possesion and my scanner is toast, I am > limping along with a p166 until I can afford to pickup some new equipment. There ought to be a standard way of canceling clearances, at least for the new system. I've got clearances that turned out to be done already, and ones that should be done, but the copy I have isn't in a condition I can get usable scans out of, which sometimes turns up only when I start scanning. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Issues with links from posted notices failing in Firefox 1.0
by Pauline 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi All, I don't think I am the only one with this problem, but I have yet to see this being discussed here... In Firefox 1.0 links to recently posted extexts from the posted mailing list such as: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980 fail. I see an error: Files Lookup I see no such file here! (1/4/9/8/14980) The links work perfectly well in IE6. The links start to work in Firefox a few days after a project is posted, but it's very frustrating to not be able to send links to others without knowing whether they will fail or not. There is a discussion at DP on this issue here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109131#109131 Some users say if they change the skin back to the default, links work OK again. No such luck for me. Thanks in advance, P -- Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net "Preserving history one page at a time."

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Re: Can project use legally encumbered scans?
by Juhana Sadeharju 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

>From: Jonathan Walther <krooger(a)debian.org> > >I know of a situation. Let's say that it's hypothetical. Someone got >access to some extremely old and rare books, and photographed them. The >photos were scanned and distributed on CDROM by a company. The owners >of the photos say the scans constitute stolen property, and after years >of legal action, stopped the company from distributing the scans. We can and should process the scans privately. Please make them (if the scans were not entirely hypothetical) available privately, only to people who are willing to help. Remember, Hershey fonts were in public domain but the file format was not. The solution was to convert the data to another file format. How that info could be exploited here? I would like to have a copy of every scan. If I develop a solution, the scans may not be available when the solution is ready. That would only waste our time and give false hopes. Best regards, Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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