Is this DVD available for download somewhere? Aaron On 1/7/10, Greg M. Johnson <pterandon@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi.
I have a current version a DVD with 3850 PG books in HTML format. It's biased towards my tastes, but I did try to use some objective "Best Of ..." lists to choose books, and with a number as high as 3850, it may beyond a bias from my personal tastes. Here is the Wordle for the titles: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pterandon/3758402023/in/photostream/
I also did a lot of culling of large MB books in favor of getting a larger selection of high quality material. For example, just about all of Mark Twain is gone, and every one of the "Quotes and Images" creations. :-P
I have them accessible by an HTML file, grouped by a genre.
One interesting thing is that I used a linux box to burn the DVD, and in so doing was able to remove the Windows thumbnails file-thing, greatly increasing the number of works again. I wanted someone to look at this with a critical eye to see how it affects the usability on a Windows box. I'm guessing that Windows only *needs* those files when you're browsing the folders with Windows Explorer-- something we don't necessarily want to prevent but don't need to encourage either. But will Windows' resources be consumed with making those thumbnail things each and every time the DVD is put in a Windows box?
-- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com