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2nd Circuit overturns Google/ASA agreement
by James Adcock 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Decision of the 2nd Circuit drop-kicking the Google/ASA agreement that would have permitted Google to digitize and sell books still in copyright unless the author opts-out of the agreement. Court says this must be an affirmative opt-in agreement instead. IE authors have to give prior agreement before Google or anyone else can copy books still in copyright. Decision doesn't affect Google's ability -- like everyone else -- to copy books whose copyright has expired (usually due to old age) http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&id=115

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Kindle passwords
by Michael S. Hart 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Is there any way to surf on a Kindle without setting up an Amazon account and making up a password. . .???

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API available?
by Toshiya TSURU 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hello. This is my first post. My name is Toshiya TSURU, A software developer in Tokyo. I'm looking for API of Project Gutenberg. Is API available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ ? -- Toshiya TSURU <turutosiya(a)gmail.com> http://twitter.com/turutosiya

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Duplicated books
by Dan Weber 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Are #35335 and #35574 the same book? The title page of both is the same but the files don't match with my duplicate file utility. Dan Weber

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Service outage
by Marcello Perathoner 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

ibiblio said: > What: www.ibiblio.org and all hosted domains will be offline during an > infrastructure migration > > When: Tuesday, March 15, 9:00 am EST until whenever we finish (est. is > 12-24 hours) As we are moving to all new hardware (web servers, application server, database server, filer) it may take longer than 24 h to get everything up and running again. Of course the publicly visible services will get first attention. The posting and cataloguing services will come next. Then logging and statistics. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Reading e-books on a large device
by Mjit RaindancerStahl 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

With all the chatter about the best way to produce e-books for one format or the other, I thought this might be the best place to ask: What's the best way to read epub books on a Win XP laptop? I know someone mentioned a Kindle simulator. I am hoping there's a more common general-purpose word processor that can render the e-book in a readable fashion. I ask because a couple of author friends have put out kindle versions of their books. I want to support them, but I don't have the extra $300 for a Kindle... -- Mjit RaindancerStahl answerwitch(a)gmail.com

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Minor error in ePUBMaker toolchain?
by Robert Gibbins 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

I wonder if there isn't a minor error somewhere in the tool chain used to produce PG epub files from HTML sources. An example: - in the HTML of PG105, Persuasion by Jane Austen, at the head of the file is the line: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> - in the xhtml constituent files of the epub of PG105 is the line: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/htmlcharset=utf-8"/> (This xhtml was presumably derived from the HTML above, but presumably modified to declare that it is now in UTF-8 as required for xhtml not ISO-8859-1 as in the HTML.) BUT should it not say instead say: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> ? epubcheck V1.1 from google code doesn't raise an error at "text/htmlcharset=utf-8", and of course one can argue that the fact that the epub's xhtml files already have an overriding declaration: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> means that the above problem doesn't really matter even if it exists, but I am wondering if I should correct it in my remastered epubs. Bob Gibbins

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Wake Up!!!
by Michael S. Hart 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Just a reminder, for those who partake of Daylight Savings Time. If you are wondering why you seem to be an hour behind today??? We all lost an hour at 2AM last night, I actually watched it happen! For the rest of you. . .sorry. . .go back to sleep. . . . No!!! Don't throw things!!! I didn't mean to wake YOU up!!! Aaahhhh!!!!

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Wake Up!!!
by Michael S. Hart 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Just a reminder, for those who partake of Daylight Savings Time. If you are wondering why you seem to be an hour behind today??? We all lost an hour at 2AM last night, I actually watched it happen! For the rest of you. . .sorry. . .go back to sleep. . . . No!!! Don't throw things!!! I didn't mean to wake YOU up!!! Aaahhhh!!!!

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!@! More Kindle Qs
by Michael S. Hart 09 Mar '11

09 Mar '11

Once I got to a "settings" menu that allowed me to clear the cache, which temp got rid of the "device full" error message. . . . How do I get back to that "settings" menu. . .I never get the part that says "clear cache" again. . .hee hee. When I attached to my computer the Kindle did show up as a drive, and I could delete things, but it said it has 3.33G free. . . . These are all problems on the DX, not on the G3. . . . More thanks!!! Michael

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