Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
i've talked to a lot of people about project gutenberg, and discussed it on a lot of listserves over the years.
Dissed and cussed, yes, but not discussed.
the most frequent one revolved on how to read the e-texts. in other words, these people didn't even know how to open and read a text-file, or an .html file. and when greg had to try and explain a "zip" file, their eyes started to glaze over.
So its better to give them a reader that freezes on them the first time they use it and takes their whole machine down if they press ctrl-alt-del.
the reason _books_ -- paper ones -- have been so successful is because they are utterly and completely _simple_ to use.
Thats what you think: take a look here if your decrepit Macintrash can handle videos: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~mz34/helpdesk.WMV -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org