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Looking for Algebraic Forms
by don kretz 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

The text of Volume I, Gutenberg Encyclopaedia, project 200, in the article on Algebra, asserts that: [The article on Algebraic Forms is typeset in TeX and is > available elsewhere.] Does anyone know where "elsewhere" is?

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PG to be featured on Philanthroper.com
by Aaron Cannon 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Hi all. Project Gutenberg will be featured on Philanthroper.com today, a site which allows donors to donate $1 to a different cause each day. Please share the link. http://www.philanthroper.com PG will be going live on the site at 10:00 A.M. Eastern, which is in less than an hour. Thanks. Aaron

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Considering the 40th Anniversary of eBooks
by Michael S. Hart 04 Jul '11

04 Jul '11

Considering the 40th Anniversary of eBooks How do I love ebooks, let me count the ways: 40 years ago there was only one eBook on the Internet that you could download, and the operators were resistant to an additional eBook being added more than once a year, and it had to be a short one, given the space and bandwidth. >From 1971 to 1976 it was an uphill struggle for permission to put The U.S. Constitution online as an eBook because it was so much larger than all the previous eBooks, but it is still standing as one of the great early Net achievements, not only because it was larger than previous ones but also because the person who made it available was anonymous and remained so in spite of all of my efforts to locate and to send my thanks. 40 years ago. . .one title available at Project Gutenberg. Today. . .one hundred thousand titles available at PG, and 2.1 million available at The World Public Library, and 2.9 million at The Internet Archive, 1.6 million at Wattpad. That's 6.7 million just off the top of my head and without adding in all of the Google eBooks, which is hard to do as Google doesn't have an index for counting eBooks. 40 years ago just one language. Today 60 languages at: http://www.gutenberg.org over 100 languages at: http://www/gutenberg.cc and also over 100 languages at: http://worldpubliclibrary.org and who knows how many at http://archive.org and google.com Moving from just one eBook on July 4, 1971 to 100,000 and that's just counting Project Gutenberg, in 40 years makes one wonder just how many ebooks 40 years from today??? And how many languages. . . . Personally, I don't think it will take nearly 40 years to make eBooks of all of the public domain books, newspapers and magazines, etc., that are easy to find, not to forget to add in music, artworks, etc. I am writing a separate piece about the 50th Anniversary, and will post it next. Meanwhile, today starts 2011 World eBook Fair, the effort to give away millions of eBooks to millions of people and to publicize the world of eBooks to the world at large. So, set your browsers to: http://www.worldebookfair.org Should be open by 12 noon CDT. Follow the links to download as many books as you want to and please tell your friends. If your friends don't surf yet, please be encouraged to make copies for them, and to let them know what is waiting for them when they do surf. Again my HUGE thanks to all of the 250,000 volunteers who have helped create and distribute these eBooks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair

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Birthday of Project Gutenberg of Canada eBooks!
by Michael S. Hart 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

For Immediate Release: Today marks the fourth anniversary of the launch of Project Gutenberg Canada on July 1st 2007. We launched PG Canada to give Canadians full access to online versions of works in our public domain that are under copyright in other countries, notably the United States and the European Union. These countries have foolishly extended their copyright durations; Canada has defended its citizens' ownership of the public domain by leaving copyright durations largely untouched. The range of our titles reflects this. But PG Canada has grown far beyond its modest beginnings. Our catalogue now includes more than 800 titles, from Canada and other countries, in French and English, but also in other languages. Many of our titles are from the twentieth century; but some of our Canadian historical titles date back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first four years have far exceeded our most optimistic projections. And our future is bright. Mark Akrigg Project Gutenberg Canada ... Please note that the 800th eBook presented by Project Gutenberg of Canada is a GREAT history of building the transcontinental railroad! Well worth a look, even if only to scan the high points. A major accomplishment! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair 6.55 MILLION FREE eBOOKS! July 4 through August 4 @ http://worldebookfair.org [Not Subtracting Duplicates]

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I have a contribution
by Bill Purvis 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Hi, I've just signed up to this list. I found Gutenberg a few years ago, but didn't have scanning or OCR facilities. I have recently bought a Kindle and down-loaded quite a few books. I have scanned and part-proof-read my copy of John Buchan's 'Castle Gay', and see that there is no copy of this in the catalog. I've been trying to work out how I can contribute this, but the volunteering pages all assume that only proof-readers for already uploaded books are needed. I have a number of other John Buchan books that I could work on, but is there any point? A secondary question: can anyone recommend a way of converting my stuff into Kindle format - I run Ubuntu Linux, but so far have found only software to read Kindle format. Many thanks Bill -- +----------------------------------+ | Bill Purvis, Book-Scanner | | gut(a)billp.org | +----------------------------------+

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Study: 12 Percent of US Households Own e-Reader
by Michael S. Hart 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

http://tinyurl.com/62eeyyr "A study finds that 12 percent of U.S. households now own a reading device for electronic books, such as Amazon's Kindle. That's three times the number of households that owned an e-reader just a year ago, pointing to rapid acceptance." However, the highest rate of eBook distribution I've heard about has only been 2.63 times as many eBooks, not to mention that the number of eBooks given away by Project Gutenberg is only up some 20% at most over last years, as far as I can tell.

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a swallow flying into capistrano
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

bill said: > I have recently bought a Kindle > and down-loaded quite a few books. > I have scanned and part-proof-read > my copy of John Buchan's 'Castle Gay', first of all, bill, welcome. i've been waiting for you -- waiting for new kindle people to begin uploading books that they converted initially for themselves -- like people in san juan capistrano await the swallows. so i am glad you've arrived... :+) > I have a number of other John Buchan books > that I could work on, but is there any point? yes. indeed, even when a book has already been done, it's great to have a second digitization, because then the two versions can be compared, a process that has been proven to be the best way to reveal any _errors_. (while it may seem, intuitively, that it could be common the same error is made in both digitizations, empirically the finding is that it's exceedingly rare to have it happen.) so if you _enjoy_ doing digitizations, go ahead! (of course, you might find it more satisfying to do a book that's never been done, rather than improve a book that somebody else has done. but there is great value in both those activities.) > A secondary question: can anyone recommend > a way of converting my stuff into Kindle format - > I run Ubuntu Linux, but so far have found > only software to read Kindle format. i see that you've received recommendations to use the project gutenberg software, as well as calibre... i encourage you to explore both of those options... i find the p.g. workflow to be unnecessarily obtuse; and the markup from calibre can be terribly opaque, meaning it's very difficult to change, when you need. so i would also encourage you to explore my option: it's called "jaguar", and it's available at this website: > http://jaguarps.com that's the initial release, and i'll be uploading a new version "any day now", but it will give you the flavor. (and i'd love to have a beta-tester for the linux app.) from a plain-text file, very similar to the one which you get from your o.c.r. app, you can create a raft of e-book output formats: pdf, html, epub, and mobi. all of 'em in just seconds, with the click of a button. my system gives you an easy way to _customize_ the output which is generated for these various formats. why shouldn't your e-books look the way you want? single-source plain-text "master" files are a smart way to manage a library and customize your output. -bowerbird

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Re: Wanted: PG Facebook Page Admins
by Norbert Langkau 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

Hm. seemingly I'm not the only one confused... What about https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gutenberg/103974322971990 as opposed to >PG now has a Facebook page: > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gutenberg/165355083528606 ? Thanx for any enlightment - Norbert ___________________________________________________________ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar

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Wanted: PG Facebook Page Admins
by Marcello Perathoner 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

PG now has a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gutenberg/165355083528606 I'm looking for people with PG and Facebook experience to help administer the page. That would be: answer questions by users, remove spam, write status updates ... I have no idea yet how much traffic this page will generate and how much time it will require to administer. How to apply: first 'like' the page and then send me an email with your Facebook name so I can make you an admin. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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National Academies Books now free to download in PDF format
by Jim Adcock 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

http://www.nap.edu/ Not to imply that they are not still under copyright!

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