On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
In more recent times such suggestions have appeared online and offline among the member of "The Book People," "The eBook List," "The PDA-eBook List" and I'm sure there were even more.
You spoke of "PG volunteers". These sound to me as people external to PG.
We have volunteers that converse about PG eBooks on other lists I am on, not to mention there are probably plenty of such conversations on lists I am not on.
In addition, there are often such discussions immediately before during and after the release of various items. We are currently discussing how to present the Mahabharata, which as long as the Bible and Shakespeare combined into one book. Some want to present it as a single huge file, while I, having written a paper on it in college, see a great value in presenting it both in a book by book format, as well as one huge file, for a wider range of useful searches.
I don't think presenting the Mahabharata as single file qualifies as "Orwellian Rewriting of History".
I don't think anyone else does, either.
I also believe, the proposed deleting of PG files should be re-classified under "Arsons of Alexandria".
Cute! I love it! However, I have an even more important use for references to modern day book burning. . .re: all those copyright extensions. . . .
-- Marcello Perathoner Member of the 12 Outspoken
Also very cute! Thanks! me