On 13 October 2011 23:03, Dan Weber <danweber@mindspring.com> wrote:
Jim
At the risk of starting a war, I disagree. The foreign language books will never be read by most people who visit Gutenberg.org. Almost all people from the USA will be reading English language books. I do not download and will never have time in my lifetime to read these other books. I think the other language books should be on another site. I do think that the books should be digitized, but not listed with the main site's inventory. There could easily be a Gutenberg-spanish.org, Gutenberg-dutch.org, etc.to handle these books.
I'm not sure if this was a troll or not - if it was, nice job - but to quote the man himself (http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb46.html): "I LOVE it when I get an email from someone reading a PG eBook in Urdu on a cell phone in the Serengeti Plain in Africa! THAT is what PG is all about!!!" -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you