On 12/16/2010 11:45 PM, David Starner wrote:
You're one person; The *your* there covers dozens of people. I'd be a lot happier if there wasn't so much weight on your concerns.
The *my* covers the concerns of 200+ K users a day.
We don't want to end at PG like you ended at DP: with a backlog of several thousand books stuck in the queue that are proofread but cannot be posted because your PPing takes so long.
Then we can take our books elsewhere.
Before taking your books elsewhere you have to get them out of the PP queue. Good luck with that!
There's a bunch of places willing to host books, and if PG isn't willing to put enough weight on the needs of the largest ebook transcribers on the net, then I'm sure someone else will.
I suggest you do your own site. And I suggest you try to use the books that come out of DP for anything else besides viewing on a big desktop screen. You would be alerted to their many shortcomings then.
It doesn't work; it comes up in German most of the time.
If that happens, go here: http://www.gutenberg.org/error403 and send me a copy of the page along and tell me what langiage you are seeing.
It's probably connected to the reasons the most famous ebook distributor in the world is down near 6000th in the world, instead of being in the top 1000 websites.
It was ranked 20.000th when I started and there was no Amazon, Google books, manybooks, feedbooks, etc. then. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org