I'm not sure I received the entire message below, since there are a number of blank lines and then not what I expected below them. On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
New experimental top 100 books and authors at:
http://www.gutenberg.net/catalog/world/top
Did you know our most read authors are Various and Anonymous?
Did you know our most downloaded eBooks are:
1. Audio: "The House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe 2. Audio: "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens 3. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 4. Ulysses by James Joyce
with 1. being downloaded 5 times as often as 2., and 9 times as often as 3. ?
Was there supposed to be more to this list? If so, I think I missed the original posting of the Top 100, and searchin for "Top 100" didn't get to any recent messages.
Yes, there is a solution to the mystery. Anybody wants to apply his/her reasoning power?
The solution is a few lines down.
It turns out I had to disqualify those as well as a few others that have mp3 files and use the word "House" in the title. (Moreover, research has shown that "Usher" is a rap artist. :-)
OK, perhaps I was just expecting something more serious here, but. . . . I would include all files, not sure why to disqualtify MP3 files, or "house" remixes. . .hee hee! I think we should measure everything, though I think sub-lists would be acceptable. . .such as the "Whole Top 100," then fiction, non-fiction, .txt files, .htm files, .mp3 files, etc., etc., etc., Michael