In a message dated 11/22/2005 4:42:07 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
hart@pglaf.org writes:
I can
only hope there is something WE can do to keep these ideals--
such as they
are--alive and thriving so WE can have our own eBooks,
or own eLibraries,
the way WE want them.
Everybody's "gonna" do powerful things but they don't. Meanwhile we could
run PGLAF for a hundred years with what they're frittering away.
After checking out the Open Library site, I sent it a
"nastygram."Their plan is unworkable. Their security is nonexistent. It would
take them about a thousand years to save five thousand books the way they
save now, and I don't know anybody that can spare six gb for ONE book.
Forget the pretty. Most people want the words.
Gaaahhh.
Anne