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[Fwd: Re: [webgroup] ibib's downtime/server resore]
by Marcello Perathoner 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [webgroup] ibib's downtime/server resore Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:49:42 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Jones <pjones(a)metalab.unc.edu> CC: webgroup(a)lists.ibiblio.org this morning we lost the fileserver for the first time in 2 years of continuous uptime. it took until nearly 4 o'clock EST USA to get us back, but we're back now and the response time is fine for pages and even for my mysql driven blog. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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[Fwd: Folio files]
by Marcello Perathoner 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Folio files Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:45:42 -0000 From: Charles Crosby <charlesjcrosby(a)btinternet.com> To: <webmaster(a)gutenberg.org> I have downloaded a folio version of Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall...' What program do I need to read it? Hoping you can be of assistance, Charles Crosby. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Re: [gutvol-d] Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries
by Greg Newby 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Here's an extract from http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3447411 '"In-copyright" books that are in these collections will have basic bibliographic information available but the full text will not be accessible. Smith told us that out-of copyright material will be available in full text, though printing will be disabled when viewing this content.' This doesn't sound like competition to PG, to me, and in fact the second sentence above means they won't even meet my definition of an eBook. Not to say that these things aren't worthwhile. After all, *we* could generate eBooks from scans etc. made available for public domain content. This could be very helpful. As to "why," when a few PG'ers met with Google last year, they stressed that from their point of view, any growth in online content is good for them. More stuff "out there" means there's more for them to find. So, this is partially altruistic, but also partially for the public good. It was interesting to see that UC Berkeley, UIUC and Yale were not among the libraries chosen (those are the 2-4th largest academic collections in the US, after Harvard). -- Greg

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[Fwd: [ibiblio-announce] ibiblio and all sites offline]
by Marcello Perathoner 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ibiblio-announce] ibiblio and all sites offline Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:47:00 -0500 From: John Reuning <john(a)metalab.unc.edu> Reply-To: help(a)ibiblio.org To: ibiblio-announce(a)lists.ibiblio.org One of the core file servers crashed this morning. All web and ftp services will be offline until this system has been restored. -jrr _______________________________________________ ibiblio-announce mailing list ibiblio-announce(a)lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ibiblio-announce -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Google On-Line Library
by Dennis McCarthy 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

FYI, Here is an article about Google on-line library project: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141433,00.html "The ambitious initiative announced late Monday gives Mountain View, Calif.-based Google the right to index material from the New York Public Library as well as libraries at four universities--Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford in England." Not sure what their profit angle is. Supposedly public domain works will be free to access. Maybe they get a cut of copyrighted books viewed via this service. --------------------------- Dennis McCarthy nihil_obstat(a)mindspring.com

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Re: Induce law
by bill jenness 12 Dec '04

12 Dec '04

Wouldn't that also include guns, fast cars and money? The idea is patently ridiculous.

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Induce law
by Norm Wolcott 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

The people who brought you Sonny Bono now are giving you the Induce Law. Prohibitting the manufacture or sale of any device which might be "reasonably" assumed to "induce" anyone into violating any law or regulation. A VCR is a good example. nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood Forrest

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Re: [gutvol-d] Induce law
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

In a message dated 12/11/2004 8:27:09 AM Mountain Standard Time, nwolcott2(a)kreative.net writes: >>Prohibitting the manufacture or sale of any device >>which might be "reasonably" assumed to "induce" >>anyone into violating any law or regulation. A VCR is a >>good example. Passed or proposed? In what legislative body? It seems to me that would hit photocopiers, scanners, tape recorders, large and/or external hard drives, and . . . the list could go on quite a while longer. This is absurd. Anne Anne

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PG books used by visually impaired
by Andrew Sly 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Dear fellow PG volunteers, Here's a recent newsgroup posting that I came across showing more of the use that people do get out of the texts that we are creating. Andrew Newsgroups: alt.disability.blind.social Date: 2004-12-07 11:15:06 PST I often listen to books from the Gutenberg Project on my laptop. Most of those books are available from the US Library of Congress on audio cassette tape. So mainly, when I listen to a book on my laptop, it's because I forgot to order another book and am having a "book emergency". You know, when you finish one book and have nothig else to read and it's cold and rainy outside and there's nothing on TV? But I've listened to a lot of books on my laptop and after a while you don't notice the voice -- if it's a good book.

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Re: [gutvol-d] NYT upbeat on e-books; so am I.
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

In a message dated 12/4/2004 4:09:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, alex(a)awstudios.net writes: "Sunday's NYT Book Review will carry an upbeat article on e-books, complete with mention of the New York Public Library's impressive 3,000-title efforts...." Good news. But, as has been pointed out often, nobody really wants to sit at the computer or take the computer to bed in order to read a book. Nobody is going to provide book-size ebook readers for very long unless doing so becomes financially feasible. So if you don't want to read on a computer or on a PDA, I would appreciate it if anybody who can afford it would go to either eBookWise.com or FictionWise.com and spend at least $20 a month. If you don't have an ebook reader you can download Microsoft Reader to your desktop free; however, if you purchase th e 1150 you will have a highly acceptable tool you can use for many years. By buying all the remaining 1150s and making them available dirt cheap; transforming over 7500 ebooks, mostly proprietary, into the right format for the 1150; hiring software engineers to fix perceived problems; and hiring hardware engineers to make improved readers, FictionWise has stuck its neck so far out it looks like a giraffe. Now we need to feed that giraffe. As to my complaints about the 1150, I was mistaken on most of them. Some of the changes from Rocket are definitely an improvement. For example, so far I have zorched TWO Rocket powercords because the location of the cord port is such that the cord is often bent at a right angle. The 1150's cord port is at the top, which obviates that problem. It is possible to insert bookmarks (I was just plain wrong on that earlier). It is also possible to handwrite your notes to yourself as you're reading. I have only two remaining objections: First, of course, is the limited ability to use personal material; that is being worked on right now, and will be fixed as soon as possible by allowing direct USB downloading from your computer. The other, which I hadn't noticed earlier, is that there is no dictionary capability. I use that extensively in the Rocket, both English dictionary and language-to-language dictionaries. I do not know whether there is any intention of adding that. I won't update again until the USB problem is remedied. But on second thought, if you have it to spare, spend $50 a month at Fictionwise and/or eBookwise. Unfortunately, $20 is my limit and I don't always have that. But I think that the combination of free ebooks from us and many other sources, and commercial ebooks, is going to be a long-range win for all of us. Anne PS--Yes, you can read at the beach if you keep your 1150 inside a ziplock plastic bag, though I wouldn't do it because the possibility of somebody stealing it or walking on it is too high. As for underwater . . . If you're underwater watch the fishies instead of reading a book. I still wouldn't read it in the bathtub, but then I never read in the bathtub anyway since I dropped a rather expensive library book into the water. AW

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