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self.gutenberg.org
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

looks like i declared my independence just in the nick of time. > http://self.gutenberg.org not that i disapprove, mind you. heck, i know nothing about it. but hey, i guess that's the point here... i know nothing about it. except that this is, to my knowledge anyway, the first appearance of "world public library" under the actual gutenberg.org domain... and, um, did i notice the ads? what, you thought i wouldn't? pssh. -bowerbird

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declaration of independence
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

let us remember, today, that project gutenberg started off with the declaration of independence, and that it itself _was_ indeed such a declaration. michael's idea was that we didn't need anybody else. no big companies... no grants... no "deep pockets"... just one copy of one book, and a keyboard to type on. hallelujah, mr. hart. thank you for opening our eyes... *** i developed my "zero markup language" _for_ p.g. i knew it had ramifications far beyond this project, but i didn't care all that much, not for a long time. alas, due to a bunch of idiots here (you know who you are, and so does everybody else), the interest in using my system here wasn't allowed to blossom. so all of my fruit just sat there, unused, on the vine. as of today, however, i hereby declare my independence. i'll be taking my work wide, and leaving p.g. far behind. we'll see if the world is smarter than your small minds... i'll monitor this list, and remind you, from time to time, how stupid you were to ignore what i had to teach you, so we are not, by any stretch of imagination, "through". but we're most definitely now _independent_, thank you. have a nice day. enjoy the fireworks. -bowerbird p.s. free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, i'm free at last.

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forty thousand
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

so, i see p.g. hit number _forty_thousand_ about 10 days back... a volume entitled "extinct birds", from 1907, cataloging species that became extinct "within the last six or seven hundred years". fitting, since the goners will likely triple in the next 6 or 7 years. anyway... i'll still call it 30,000 for a while, because of non-books and dups, but 30,000 is a good number for volunteers to have accomplished. so congratulations and thanks to all the folks who worked so hard. it's too bad that e-books never caught on with the public, so that project gutenberg could've gotten all the credit that it deserved... oh, wait... that's right... the boat _did_ sail, but p.g. _missed_it_, because everyone here was lingering at the x.m.l. dock instead... oh well, i'm sure you'll get it all sorted out, sooner or later, eh? -bowerbird

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Raymond Chandler letter
by James Simmons 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

A friend sent me this link to a Raymond Chandler letter. Anyone who loves books will want to read it. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/they-pay-brisk-money-for-this-crap.html James Simmons

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Bunch of new Kindle Fires in the pipeline
by James Adcock 17 Jun '12

17 Jun '12

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120615PD206.html Although personally I have become very discouraged re the "format wars" between EPUB, MOBI, and MOBI8 formats, where in practice what I see is the quality of ebook formatting - both free and paid books - going DOWN in end user reading quality, not up. All I can conclude is that a bunch of organizations feel it is in their best interests, for whatever reason or reasoning, to publish crap.

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How to be a (paid) Ebook Author
by James Adcock 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

For your amusement: http://andrewhy.de/amazons-markup-of-digital-delivery-to-indie-authors-is-12 9000/

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From PG to CreateSpace--Bhagavata Purana
by James Simmons 30 May '12

30 May '12

Many of you helped me get the "Bhagavata Purana" into PG and also helped me create an index for the Create Space version of the book. After three proof copies I finally have something good enough to sell: https://www.createspace.com/3859442 It should be available on Amazon sites worldwide in a few days with "Search Inside The Book" so you can see how it came out. I have also created a cleaned up e-book version which is awaiting approval by Amazon. Since Amazon already approved two other people who just slapped a quick and dirty cover on the existing PG EPUB I suppose they'll approve mine too. In my description I give the URL for downloading the PG version for free and explain why mine is worth .99 more than that. As for the Create Space version I made, it is competing with this: http://www.amazon.com/study-Bhagavata-Purana-Esoteric-Hinduism/dp/117800186… and also this: http://www.amazon.com/study-Bhagavata-Purana-Esoteric-Hinduism/dp/117764143… It's going to be tough competing with stock photos of railroad tracks and sailboats. At least mine is cheaper! It looks like my e-book made it to Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Bhagavata-Purana-Corrected-Introduction-ebook/dp/B008… James Simmons

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Article: Exercises in democracy: building a digital public library
by Greg Newby 08 May '12

08 May '12

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2012/05/exercises-in-democracy-buil… This was a recent event hosted by the Internet Archive. (I have no idea why nobody from Project Gutenberg seems to have been invited.) There were many good ideas, from the sounds of it. -- Greg

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A jQuery plugin for Project Gutenberg.
by Toshiya TSURU 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi. Let me announce the release of a little jQuery plugin for Project Gutenberg. Which enables searching items on the Project with jQuery way. * QueryBerg http://turutosiya.github.com/queryberg/ Anyone jQuery developer here? -- Toshiya TSURU <turutosiya(a)gmail.com> http://twitter.com/turutosiya

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SPAM: Re: Gutvol D, Ricky Wong left a message for you...
by Greg Newby 03 May '12

03 May '12

Sorry about that -- I'm not sure how this address became un-moderated and managed to post link spam. I've tweaked a few settings in the mailman software. -- Greg On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 02:44:50AM +0000, Badoo wrote: > Ricky Wong left a message for you... > > Its sender and content will be shown only to you and you can delete it at any time. You can instantly reply to it, using the message exchange system. To find out what's in the message, just follow this link: ...

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