Re: gutvol-d Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11

The reasons people always will want a "standard" best of, is that it takes time to pick things. Also, that does make it a bit easier to mirror the isos. I want to do a CD first because getting a successful download is key, not how much stuff can be packed onto a DVD that can't be opened. Question--do most of the subscribers/downloaders live in the US, &/or are English speakers? While I would have thought at first to only have English content in a best of, my cousin who is overseas now is enjoying the German portions of the DVD! However, if the goal is to have something easy for the give away, at least on the CD I'll suggest we try for all English; Someone who speaks Spanish, etc. would be in a better place than I to answer the great works on the others, and would have a greater motivation to see it kept up. Greg--"I should have a program available soon (really, really soon - in time for Michael Hart's visit to Fairbanks in June) to "build your own" ISO. Seeding these with lists of eBook #s is the best possible start. I'm looking forward to you program, can you tell us a bit more about it, those of us who "just came in?" Greg-"I think that the current "Best Of" CD is probably your best starting point. While we've done many, many new eBooks since then, the best-known titles were already available for the CD. But many have been updated, and a few have had images or HTML added. Is there any way, other than manually to ID the books from the CD? DVD? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

In some ways, I think of the CD as a sampler, to try and lure them in the website; the best way to make them volunteers is to get them to actively work with the website rather than a static CD, and Gutenberg's best foot forward will always be its growing website rather than a static disk. It's nice to have non-English on the CD to show the people that we are more than just English books.
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David Starner
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Scott Clous