Seven Million+ New Reader Devices activated on Xmas Day Alone
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On 12/29/2011 08:25 AM, James Adcock wrote:
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(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/pretty-pictures -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
I got a NOOK Color from Barnes and Noble for Xmas. I got plenty of ebooks from the store, and I will download some from PG in the days to come as well. Jared On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de
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I got a Nook Simple Touch from my wife as a Christmas gift. I have a Kindle too. I like both, but there are subtle things about formatting a book for them. For instance, on the Nook if an image is enclosed in paragraph tags it is indented on the left and the rightmost part of the image gets chopped off. Some images get chopped off at the bottom. The solution is to replace <p> with <div>. Another thing about the Nook is that they put EPUBs from the Internet Archive in their Store for free, rather than getting them from PG. Of course the EPUBs in IA need proofreading, badly. I replaced a couple of EPUBs in my IA donations with corrected ones and those got put into the Nook Store automatically. Other EPUBs I donated, which were not connected to PDF donations directly, have not show up in the Nook Store, although I would not mind if they did. James Simmons On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Jared Buck <jared.buck@gmail.com> wrote:
I got a NOOK Color from Barnes and Noble for Xmas. I got plenty of ebooks from the store, and I will download some from PG in the days to come as well.
Jared
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Marcello Perathoner < marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
On 12/29/2011 08:25 AM, James Adcock wrote:
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(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
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On Thu, December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project Gutenberg is in HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only 11.5% of the downloads are for impoverished text. Boy, these people are sure going to be pissed when they find out that HTML is fading into irrelevancy, and impoverished text is the future. (What's the emoticon for "tongue-in-cheek"?) Talk about the tail wagging the dog...
On 12/29/2011 05:49 PM, Lee Passey wrote:
On Thu, December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project Gutenberg is in HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only 11.5% of the downloads are for impoverished text.
And a good proportion of those is background noise from bots and users following ancient links from before there was an HTML version of that book. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Lee, I am in favor of continuing to have text editions of every title. I've done some Activities for the One Laptop Per Child project. Their first e-book Activity could only do PDFs. I made a second Activity in Python that could read plain text files and I've read a LOT of PG books with it. Now OLPC has a reader that can do PDF, DjVu, EPUB, CBZ, and plain text. I later wrote a book on how to write Activities for the Sugar platform and my sample code was based on my plain text e-book reader. HTML, EPUB, and MOBI are all great formats but making HTML that converts nicely to EPUB and MOBI for use on a Nook or Kindle is not trivial. Formatting poetry and family tree tables is problematic, for one thing. Whatever comes along in the future, we'll always have plain text. I'm cool with that. James Simmons On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
On Thu, December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project Gutenberg is in HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only 11.5% of the downloads are for impoverished text.
Boy, these people are sure going to be pissed when they find out that HTML is fading into irrelevancy, and impoverished text is the future. (What's the emoticon for "tongue-in-cheek"?)
Talk about the tail wagging the dog...
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Sounds good to me James. MH would have liked it too, I reckon. Meanwhile, sympathy condign (but no more than that! ;-S ) with all hangovers, and have a great new year. (You too, BB!) Cheers all, Jon On 2011/12/29 20:06 PM, James Simmons wrote:
Lee,
I am in favor of continuing to have text editions of every title. I've done some Activities for the One Laptop Per Child project. Their first e-book Activity could only do PDFs. I made a second Activity in Python that could read plain text files and I've read a LOT of PG books with it. Now OLPC has a reader that can do PDF, DjVu, EPUB, CBZ, and plain text.
I later wrote a book on how to write Activities for the Sugar platform and my sample code was based on my plain text e-book reader.
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI are all great formats but making HTML that converts nicely to EPUB and MOBI for use on a Nook or Kindle is not trivial. Formatting poetry and family tree tables is problematic, for one thing.
Whatever comes along in the future, we'll always have plain text. I'm cool with that.
James Simmons
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net <mailto:lee@novomail.net>> wrote:
On Thu, December 29, 2011 3:22 am, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
> (In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded > from PG on xmas day than any other file type: > > http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/pretty-pictures
Based upon these graphs, 81.65% of the interest in Project Gutenberg is in HTML files, or one of their encapsulated equivalents. Only 11.5% of the downloads are for impoverished text.
Boy, these people are sure going to be pissed when they find out that HTML is fading into irrelevancy, and impoverished text is the future. (What's the emoticon for "tongue-in-cheek"?)
Talk about the tail wagging the dog...
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(In the spirit of Amazon press releases:) More Kindle files downloaded from PG on xmas day than any other file type:
See: http://teamcoco.com/video/amazon-defends-kindle-fire (after long ad, sorry)
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