jon said:
That is the most practical response to the situation that I have seen. The rest of the excahnges have been 90% self-indulgent inbox clutter.
this list never ceases to amuse me. when i suggest that p.g. should beat the harvesters to the punch by selling p.g. e-books at amazon, it's "self-indulgent inbox clutter". when linda suggests the same thing, it's "the most practical response". bless your little heart, jon... :+) it's all moot anyway, because google is about ready to blow the doors off the joint... they've just announced that google editions will go live "before christmas", and they have well over 30,000 e-texts, my friends. yeah, yeah, your accuracy is better. and betamax was better than vhs. -bowerbird
when i suggest that p.g. should beat the harvesters to the punch by selling p.g. e-books at amazon, it's "self-indulgent inbox clutter". You have produced plenty of that stuff among all the rest in this exchange. A lot of the other guys have indulged you. The topic was chewed to rags in earlier exchanges, without achieving anything that I noticed (if anyone noticed any achievement more impressive than to convince you that everyone was out to GET you, I missed it, but please don't bother to bring it to my ever-aghast attention. ) By mingling
Oh come ON bb, mind your antecedents unless you are posing as a troll or paranoid!! No matter how solipsistically you think, you know damwell not everyone in this forum is the same person saying the same things to the same proddings. pointlessly with the husks you have qualified for the title along with the worst of them.
when linda suggests the same thing, it's "the most practical response".
Linda got to the point; she stuck to the point till she had made the point. Then she stopped. She was was logical, trenchant and might yet prove effective. Notice any distinctions between that and various of her correspondents' contributions?
bless your little heart, jon... :+)
And your little bb... <siiigh>
it's all moot anyway, because google is about ready to blow the doors off the joint... they've just announced that google editions will go live "before christmas", and they have well over 30,000 e-texts, my friends. yeah, yeah, your accuracy is better. and betamax was better than vhs.
Yeah, yeah...! Now what next, if anything? Go well, Jon
http://books.google.com/ebooks They are using Adobe's DRM so their efforts should be compatible with most epub dedicated readers. They are also offering their free line of classic books through this forum as well as Google Books, via PDF "photocopies" if you read online, or via their computer-generated OCR epubs if you want it for your dedicated ebook reader. Their computerized OCR seems much better nowadays than it used to be, but, in terms of making a pleasantly-usable epub product from that OCR they still have a long ways to go, IMHO. They attempt to put a happy face on their "free" offerings by hand-crafting a "top 100" classics list, roughly speaking. Now news media is talking about how they're keeping your ebooks "in the cloud" is something new and different, but I don't see how that's any different than Kindle which keeps track of and allows you to download books again forever, and keeps your place synced across devices. In fact, this seems identical to me. ? However epub Adobe DRM'ed is better than Amazon's DRM'ed MOBI file format, at least in terms of number of independent ebook readers it can run on. Do I *want* Google to know everything I read so that they can help advertisers target me? Well, with the number of old books I read, presumably Google tells their advertiser-sponsors "Give Up, He's Not Going to Buy Anything!"
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