On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
michael said:
In this case, it was specified they had a browser, thus presuming an "agent" that could be worked with.
yes, but one doesn't read books using that browser.
_I_ do, and I do it as part of my demonstrations all the time, from large screens, to laptops, to netbooks, to cellphones, to Palms and other PDA's. People love it!!!
you can _download_ book-files using that browser. (which are then read using the non-browser part.)
You can also do a "save page" and stay in browsers.
but the project gutenberg landing-pages are not in a good form to do that, as currently constructed.
One of the things I am pushing for.
jim is asking for a new construction, to make it easy for those reader-machines to download your books.
I'm not pushing as hard for those, yet, simply because there aren't enough of them. With Kindle recently yak up a storm of numbers up to nearly 2 million, when not saying one word about sales up until then, I suspect a little manipulation of sales figures ensued. However, even if Kindle and Sony each had 2 million it would be only one per thousand cellphones. When/if these devices reach 10% of other options, then it may be time to give them more attention, but not as in more attention than any other device people used to read our eBooks. I don't know if anyone here is really aware of it, but there are already places that have more cellphones per person than 1.00. . .and not just certain cities but a matter of entire countries, not just most developed. This is why I have been pushing so hard for cellphones to be used to read our eBooks, because more have eBook access through cellphones than just plain computers or ereaders or PDAs. . .COMBINED!!!
the easiest way -- which is what i just suggested -- is to link to some "deep" pages on the site, but that has been "officially discouraged" by your webmaster, at least in the past, and sometimes it gets enforced.
We have put up some experimental pages where you should be able to try anything you want. . .GO FOR IT!!!
-bowerbird