On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Michael Dyck wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Michael Dyck wrote:
Michael Hart wrote:
there are at least a dozen or two very outspoken volunteers at Project Gutenberg among a dozen or two thousand of such volunteers, who would prefer to delete many of the original Project Gutenberg eBooks
... the removing refers to suggestions ... including eBook #100, the Complete Works of Shakespeare.
... the dozen comes from various discussions we've had over time.
Some of us try to remember the past as we plan for the future.
I'm trying to remember the past, but so far I'm not remembering it as you do. Could you be a bit more specific, to help jog my memory, and provide a basis for searching the archive? Could you name two or three other ebooks whose deletion was sought/recommended/suggested?
These conversations have appeared on various listservers, and over a long period of time, dating all the way back to the Bible #10, Roget's #22, the Bible #30, Sophocles #31, Jekyll and Hyde #42-43, The Gift of the Magi [no # at the time], Frankenstein #84 and 84a, and, of couse, the Complete Shakespeare #100.
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In addition, there are often such discussions immediately before during and after the release of various items. We are currently discussing how to present the Mahabharata, which as long as the Bible and Shakespeare combined into one book. Some want to present it as a single huge file, while I, having written a paper on it in college, see a great value in presenting it both in a book by book format, as well as one huge file, for a wider range of useful searches. I certainly prefer to have both options available with Shakespeare and the Bible, and we have received many thank you notes for the works David Widger has so kindly prepared in a similar manner.
It sounds like this is talking about cases where there's discussion about whether to post a submission as a single ebook or as multiple parts (or both). Whereas I thought we were talking about cases where someone advocates the removal of a submission (or the replacement of one with another). Do you see these as the same issue? They seem quite different to me.
Sorry, I should have been more specific about these examples. In many case people wanted to delete files we were offering or preparing to offer, or to move all of a certain class of work into one single file, and delete the individual files. This sort of discussion happens more often than you might think. Here are a more examples I came up with overnight: The US Bill Of Rights Peter Pan The Night Before Christmas Far From The Madding Crowd President Clinton's First Inaugural Speech The Little Prince The 11th Britannica The Oxford Book Of English Verse The Voyages Of Dr. Dolittle Siddhartha Gone With The Wind The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Not to mention JRR Tolkien.