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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--July 21, 2009
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
41 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
Leaving 3 years 5 months, 13 2/3 seasons or 41 months.
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions.
I am adding the emergency Newsletter I wrote early, to make a
total copy of the July Newsletter[s] that are easier on those
who look them up in our archives, it will be at the end.
Headline News
More eBooks To More People Via More Hardware and Software
The 39th year of Project Gutenberg has started July 4th, 2009
and we are once again be one of largest sponsors of The World
eBook Fair at http://www.worldebookfair.org, which will reach
the neighborhood of ~2.5 million eBooks from July 4 to August
4, endin in about two weeks.
One of the major developments this year is the advance in the
variety of hardware and software methods of reading eBooks in
more circumstances, more locations, and, of course, with more
eBooks in wider and wider circulation.
We will be sending out a special edition of this Newsletter a
few weeks from now reporting on these events.
Our 25,000th eBook In English Will Be Coming Up Shortly
If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc., about how
we might commemorate this event, please let us know.
Our 30,000th eBook created under U.S. copyright law will come
out a month or two after that, please advise on suggestions.
We Recently Published Our:
200th eBook in Italian
400th eBook in Chinese
500th eBook in Finnish
We are coming up on our 250th in Spanish. . .suggestions???
iPhone Acquisition
As you know, we try to get one of each of the popular reading
devices to test how our eBooks work on them and demonstrate a
wide variety of reading options.
A friend is updating his iPhone today and I am buying his old
one, so we would appreciate any suggestions of which programs
we should load to demonstrate the widest variety of readers.
Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!!
FLASH RAM
I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.
The ideal piece around which to center this collection is
one of the 8 megabyte USBs.
The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the
Poqet computer, etc.
The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems
and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular
in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors
resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.
We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash,"
for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample
of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under.
Thank you, Mate!
POWERPOINT
We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.
One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.
Additional Newsletter Services
In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and
totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.
These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at
httpwww.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report
[As of about noon Central Daylight Time]
Various totals from the ~30,000 at
httpwww.gutenberg.org
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
This week:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Tue 2009-07-14 | 7
Wed 2009-07-15 | 8
Thu 2009-07-16 | 8
Fri 2009-07-17 | 7
Sat 2009-07-18 | 17
Sun 2009-07-19 | 9
Mon 2009-07-20 | 10
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with 200 or more eBooks.
Grand total for today: 29368
24762 English en
1442 French fr
590 German de
509 Finnish fi
433 Dutch nl
402 Chinese zh
339 Portuguese pt
242 Spanish es
202 Italian it
Total increase +286 All Reported Languges
Last month:
Total increase +287 All Reported Languges
Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe....
Thanks to Greg Newby!
//////
And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide
29,368 up 286 PG General Automated Count
1,774 up 7 PG of Australia
641 up 4 PG of Europe
2,021 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42],etc.
375 up 50 PG of Canada [Est. since End of June]
======
34,179 up 347 Grand Total
from last month's
33,832 up 320 Grand Total
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
///
Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us
almost to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calcuating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
///
Here is the July emergency Newsletter in toto for archiving.
Extra Edition of the PG Newsletter
I'm sending this out now because I have serious doubts as
to whether I will be able to do this very easily when the
Newsletter is actually due. This may be the last time on
this hard drive that I actually get booted up, and it was
pretty much just luck that got me this far.
I'll be buying some new computers this week, I hope, with
the hopes that I will be more or less back to normal, but
right now the thing won't even let me make backups as the
USB ports have power, but don't recognize any drives.
I'm actually dialed up on the modem right now.
If any of you have any suggestions as to the best deals I
should be looking at for laptops and netbooks, please let
me know, and please cc: gbnewby(a)pglaf.org
The Brief News
We are rapidly coming up to our 25,000th eBook in English
and all suggestions for what title to use are welcome.
This should take place next month.
In addition, we are coming up on our 30,000th PG eBook of
all languages perhaps a month or so after that, so we are
also looking for a great eBook in another language to put
up as #30,000.
We are giving away about 75,000 books per day through the
http://www.gutenberg org server, for ~2 million per month
and the monthly total was often over 3 million per month,
all told over the past 4 years or so.
This means we have given away over 100 million books over
the past 4 years, just through that one site alone.
The World eBook Fair
In addition, over these same four years we have sponsored
The World eBook Fair along with The Internet Archive, The
World Public Library, ebooksabouteverything.org, etc.
http://www.worldebookfair.org handed out a million files,
just on one day alone, July 4, to start up this 39th year
of presenting eBooks on the Internet.
Please note: this is less than a million eBooks, as some
entries are multi-file in nature.
Traffic has since dropped to about half that, with a very
healthy 50,000 downloads per day of our "best sellers."
In its first year The World eBook Fair gave away nearly a
total of 30 million eBooks, and if the averages have been
at 25 million over the 4 years, that's a 200 million book
total over those two URLs over a 4 year period, or totals
somewhere in that range.
This does not count all the other sites such as Australia
or Canada or PG of Europe, etc.
The Current PG Totals
I'm not sure I have time right now to fill in everything,
with monthly comparisons as I usually do, as I am running
mostly on adrenaline right now and will have to stop soon
to eat, sleep, shower, etc.
Here are the brief reports you can compare to last month:
I will also try to get back online after the fact and try
to redo a real Newsletter with all info as of July 21st.
Here are today's numbers for languages with 200+ eBooks:
Grand total for today: 29326
24725 English en
1442 French fr
587 German de
508 Finnish fi
433 Dutch nl
402 Chinese zh
338 Portuguese pt
242 Spanish es
202 Italian it
Courtesy of Greg Newby.
Here are the weekly totals:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Fri 2009-07-10 | 9
Sat 2009-07-11 | 11
Sun 2009-07-12 | 11
Mon 2009-07-13 | 11
Tue 2009-07-14 | 7
Wed 2009-07-15 | 8
Thu 2009-07-16 | 8
Courtesy of Marcello Perathoner
We have recently been averaging just under 10 books per day
with some very good days that are much better.
If we are lucky, we may do 3,500 to 4,000 books for 2009.
Not to mention the hundreds of books that have been updated
and improved, corrected, etc.
Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year!
Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, May. 21, 2009
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
43 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
Leaving 3 years 8 months, 14 2/3 seasons or 43 months.
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions.
Hottest Predictions
Terabyte USB Flash Drives and Petabyte Hard Drives
[by 2015 and 2020, respectively]
Most public domain books will be eBooks by 2020.
Our apologies for no Newsletter on Apr. 21, due to some
major hardware difficulties.
However, hopefully you will find more than enough here,
to make up for lost time.
Headline News
Project Gutenberg is now referenced by TEI:
http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Samples_of_TEI_texts
PG Listed in 100 Best Websites for Free Adult Education
http://www.onlinedegreeworld.com/blog/2009/
100-best-websites-for-free-adult-education/
As you may know, the world is approaching totals of 4.5 billon
cell phones so Project Gutenberg is making multiple efforts to
to reach more readers via this popular medium.
While most of those reporting in about seeing Kindles or Sonys
in the wild say they have seen none, I am sure most of us have
seen people text messaging on their phones, and that means the
idea of reading quotations already exists, and reading a whole
chapter or a whole book is the very next step.
To encourage this we are working with a number of services for
the preparation of Project Gutenberg eBooks for cell phones.
Please give these a try and let me know how they work for you.
http://mobilelibrary.qioo.de
or
http://www.gioo.de
and
http://tequilacat.org/dev/br/index-en.html
and
mobilebooks.org
or
mobilebooks.net
[these should work on any Java enabled phone]
I, myself, have just purchased a "new" cell phone that should
do both cell and wifi and also includes an SD RAM slot with a
larger than average screen, in the hopes of creating a pocket
eBook reader doing most of what Kindle and Sony do but with a
greater memory capacity and a much lower price and no fees if
I use the wifi rather than the cell service to get the books.
It is hopefully arriving today and you will hear more later.
We have two articles about eBooks for cell phones, etc. and a
message from one of our readers on how to read eBooks on Palm
and related devices.
New Goal Set for Project Gutenberg; ONE BILLION READERS
The first goal of Project Gutenberg was simply to reach totals
of estimated audiences of 1.5% of the world population, or the
total of 100 million people.
With the advent of cell phone [mobile phone] access we are now
setting our goal at 15% of the world population or 1 billion.
Given that there are approximately 4.5 billion cell phones now
in service around the world, that means we would have to reach
just over 1/5 of all cell phone users to accomplish this.
Possible. . .but not likely unless we make it extremely easy!
To this end we will be emphasizing eBook reader programs for a
wide range of cell phones.
Given the estimated 4.5 billion cell phones that we could make
eBooks for today, presuming they can all display plain eBooks,
and the extremely slow rise in Kindle sales as compared to the
iPod, iPhone, Blackberry Curve, and all the others, we should
be able to reach more readers than Kindle and Sony combined if
we just reach one cell phone user out of a thousand. This has
to include many more languages than English, of course, so our
effort also has to be multi-lingual, if we are to reach anyone
beyond the number of people comfortable enough with English to
read our eBooks on their cell phones.
As many of you know, we already have well over a thousand book
titles in French, followed by lesser numbers in German and the
other more popular languages, but not nearly enough to really,
sincerely, say we are offering a library in these languages.
Once we complete a survey of our Top Ten languages we are down
to under 50 books per language. . .it's a start, only a start.
Second Article
The current rage in the eBook world is mobile readers--
portable devices carrying a hundred or a thousand books
for people to read whenever and wherever they like.
Such devices range from the smallest MP3 player screen,
to the entire range of cell phones, PDA's, etc., to the
new larger Kindle 2.
The iPod has had eBook reading available since the very
first week it was introduced, not to mention the reader
applications for the iPhone, for generic MP3 players or
any number of cell phones.
We are approaching, if we have not already passed, some
4.5 billion active cell phones, United Nations reported
early this year [4.2 billion at that time].
If just one cell phone out of a thousand is used for an
eBook reader, that is 4.5 million, far exceeding totals
for all eBook readers such as Kindle, Sony, Rocketbook,
Jetbook, and all the other similar products.
Thus, the programs to provide eBook reading services on
these various cell phones represents a larger audience,
by far, than even the billion plus owners of computers.
However, we have to make it EASY for them to read!!!
This means making the books easy to get, and easy to do
any required reformatting for their screens, if we will
not be offering preformatted eBooks for various phones,
PDA's, and other devices.
From: David Cantrell <david(a)cantrell.org.uk>
I like to use eReader to read on my PalmOS phone:
http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm
To convert Project Gutenberg texts into a suitable format, including
re-formatting the text so it flows better on the screen, I wrote
some
software in Perl. You can download it here:
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=projectgutenberg
(includes a library and a command-line program 'pg2pdb' and
documentation). Or on any modern operating system you should be
able
to
install it and the other libraries it depends on thus:
$ cpan Palm::ProjectGutenberg
or
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install qw(Palm::ProjectGutenberg)'
For those stuck on older machines, I have also made the
functionality
available through a webby interface here:
http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/pg2pdb/
Simply upload a plain text file through the web form, and you'll get
back a .PDB file that you can put onto your PDA or phone.
A Few Major Projects For Your Consideration
1. Web Pages Designed By And For Our Project Gutenberg Readers.
2. Textbooks Are Becoming A More And More Highly Requested Item.
3. Request To Help Complete Our Collection Of Andrew Lang Books.
4. eBooks On Cellphones: We Have Several Formats You Can Try.
1. Web Pages Designed By And For Our Project Gutenberg Readers.
This would include other languages, web pages designed by and for
people of various ages from the youngest to the oldest, and, even
web pages designed around favorite subjects, favorite authors, or
even favorite books or characters.
Personally, I would LOVE to see web pages designed for readers at
various grade levels and then translated into many languages.
2. Textbooks Are Becoming A More And More Highly Requested Item.
As more and more people spend more and more years homeschooling a
greater portion of modern kids, they are asking us for more books
to help teach any of the various subjects, from reading, writing,
and arithmetic, to geography and astronomy, to the dinosaurs, and
an enormous number of other subjects.
If you ever wanted to pass on your knowledge, now is the time and
the place, for books here last forever and cover the world.
3. Request To Help Complete Our Collection Of Andrew Lang Books.
Many of you are familiar with the various "Color" Fairy Books, as
"The Red Fairy Book," by Andrew Lang, and a host of other colors,
but few of us have ever even seen a list of them all, including a
surprising number of books relating true events, etc.
If you find any Andrew Lang books, Fairy, Animal, True, etc., that
we
don't have in our collection, please let me know, and we will help
in
the process of completing this collection.
4. eBooks On Cellphones: We Have Several Formats You Can Try.
Let me know if you would like to help us set up our Cellphone pages
to bring more eBooks to more people in more of the world.
Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!!
FLASH RAM
I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.
The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the
Poqet computer, etc.
The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems
and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular
in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors
resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.
We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash,"
for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample
of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under.
Thank you, Mate!
POWERPOINT
We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.
One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.
Additional Newsletter Services
In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and
totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.
You should notice that we had a very good month, with 100
books done nearly every single week.
These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at
httpwww.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report
[As of about noon Central Daylight Time]
Various totals from the ~30,000 at
httpwww.gutenberg.org
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
This week:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Thu 2009-05-14 | 10
Fri 2009-05-15 | 14
Sat 2009-05-16 | 9
Sun 2009-05-17 | 9
Mon 2009-05-18 | 14
Tue 2009-05-19 | 13
Wed 2009-05-20 | 12
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 25 eBooks.
Grand total for today: 28,801 [-28,029] up 772 in two months]
24300 English en
1420 French fr
578 German de
498 Finnish fi
418 Dutch nl
400 Chinese zh
322 Portuguese pt
232 Spanish es
194 Italian it
63 Latin la
58 Esperanto eo
55 Swedish sv
54 Tagalog tl
29 Greek el
>From March and February. . . .
Grand total for today: 28,029 [-27,475 =] up 554
23669 English en
1374 French fr
567 German de
490 Finnish fi
402 Dutch nl
399 Chinese zh
302 Portuguese pt
225 Spanish es
178 Italian it
Compared to last month's 27,475
23468 English en
1359 French fr
560 German de
484 Finnish fi
400 Chinese zh
387 Dutch nl
294 Portuguese pt
222 Spanish es
176 Italian it
Grand total for today: 27,475 [- 27,188 ] +287
23,277 [ - 23,075 =] +202 English en
1,333 [ - 1,319 =] + 14 French fr
556 [ - 553 =] + 3 German de
480 [ - 476 =] + 4 Finnish fi
392 [ - 377 =] + 25 Chinese zh
370 [ - 361 =] + 9 Dutch nl
287 [ - 267 =] + 20 Portuguese pt
218 [ - 217 =] + 1 Spanish es
169 [ - 164 =] + 5 Italian it
Not to mention PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe....
Total increase +287 All Reported Languges
and from the previous month. . . .
Grand total for today 27,188 [ - 26,867 =] +321
23,075 [ - 22,863 =] + 212 English en
1,319 [ - 1,289 =] + 76 French fr
553 [ - 549 =] + 4 German de
476 [ - 470 =] + 6 Finnish fi
361 [ - 359 =] + 2 Dutch nl
377 [ - 359 =] + 18 Chinese zh
267 [ - 260 =] + 7 Portuguese pt
217 [ - 207 =] + 10 Spanish es
164 [ - 159 =] + 5 Italian it
etc.,etc.,etc.
Total increase + 321 All Reported Lanugages
Thanks to Greg Newby!
//////
And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [2 months]
28,801 up 772 PG General Automated Count
1,760 up 32 PG of Australia
631 up 66 PG of Europe
2,021 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42],etc.
266 up 44 PG of Canada, Estimated.
======
33,479 up 922 Grand Total [461/month, two months]
>From March
27,475 + 287 PG General Automated Count
1,723 + 6 PG Australia
553 + 13 PG Europe
2,494 + 33 PG PrePrints
202 + 12 PG Canada [Estimated]
======
32,447 + 349 by various automated counts and newsletters
Note Without counting PrePrints, we are still about 30K,
and some of the new .lit collection will not make it under
our current rules of addition from PrePrints, and would be
deleted from PrePrints without moving to other listings.
The 307 Chinese eBooks in PrePrints will probably go, as a
team of our best Chinese workers says they are not worth a
lot more time to work on, etc.
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
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Baha'u'llah and the New Era, by J. E. Esslemont 19241C
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The Golden Treasury, by Various 19221
[Subtitle: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language]
[Editor: Francis Turner Palgrave]
[Illustrator: A. Pearse]
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De Koran 19786
[Subtitle: Voorafgegaan door het leven van Mahomed, eene inleiding
omtrent de Godsdienstgebruiken der Mahomedanen, enz.]
[Annotator: L. Ullmann, G. Weil, R. Sale]
[Editor: S. Keyzer]
[Translator: M. Kasimirski]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/7/8/19786 ]
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A Truthful Woman in Southern California, by Kate Sanborn 19391
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Baby Pitcher's Trials, by Mrs. May 19390
[Subtitle: Little Pitcher Stories]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/9/19390 ]
[Files: 19390.txt; 19390-h.htm]
Child Songs of Cheer, by Evaleen Stein 19389
[Illustrator: Antoinette Inglis]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19389 ]
[Files: 19389.txt; 19389-h.htm]
The Sagebrusher, by Emerson Hough 19388
[Subtitle: A Story of the West]
[Illustrator: J. Henry]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19388 ]
[Files: 19388.txt; 19388-8.txt; 19388-h.htm]
The Outcasts, by W. A. Fraser 19387
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[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19387 ]
[Files: 19387.txt; 19387-h.htm]
An Author's Mind, by Martin Farquhar Tupper 19386
[Subtitle: The Complete Prose Works of Tupper, Volume 5 (of 6)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19386 ]
[Files: 19386.txt; 19386-8.txt; 19386-h.htm]
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III, by Various 19385
[Subtitle: The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19385 ]
[Files: 19385.txt; 19385-8.txt; 19385-0.txt; 19385-h.htm]
On Christmas Day In The Evening, by Grace Louise Smith Richmond 19384
[Illustrator: Charles M. Relyea]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19384 ]
[Files: 19384.txt; 19384-h.htm]
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, Jan. 1844, Vol. 23, Nbr. 1 19383
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19383 ]
[Files: 19383.txt; 19383-8.txt; 19383-h.htm]
Punch, Volume 159, October 13, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19382
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19382 ]
[Files: 19382.txt; 19382-8.txt; 19382-h.htm]
Among the Farmyard People, by Clara Dillingham Pierson 19381
[Illustrator: F.C. Gordon]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19381 ]
[Files: 19381.txt; 19381-8.txt; 19381-h.htm]
Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Gustav von Bezold 19380
[Subtitle: Jahrgang 1900
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/8/19380 ]
[Files: 19380.txt; 19380-8.txt; 19380-0.txt; 19380-tei.tei;
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The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad, by Edward John Thompson 19379
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19379 ]
[Files: 19379.txt; 19379-8.txt; 19379-h.htm; ]
Oriental Encounters, by Marmaduke Pickthall 19378
[Subtitle: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19378 ]
[Files: 19378.txt; 19378-8.txt; 19378-h.htm; ]
A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers 19377
[Author: William Penn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19377 ]
[Files: 19377.txt; 19377-h.htm]
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research, by Michael Sage 19376
[Preface: Sir Oliver Lodge]
[Tr.: Noralie Robertson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19376 ]
[Files: 19376.txt; 19376-8.txt; 19376-h.htm; ]
A senhora Rattazzi, by Camilo Castelo Branco 19375
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19375 ]
[Files: 19375-8.txt]
Valkaman perhe, by Osmo Lajula 19374
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19374 ]
[Files: 19374-8.txt]
Northern Nut Growers Association, Tenth Annual Meeting, by Various 19373
[Title: Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings
At The Tenth Annual Meeting.]
[Editor: Northern Nut Growers Association]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19373 ]
[Files: 19373.txt; 19373-8.txt; 19373-h.htm]
John Jagon henki tahi kuollutko vai elava?, by Wilkie Collins 19372
[Translator: Anton Oskar Forsman]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19372 ]
[Files: 19372-8.txt]
The Forfeit, by Ridgwell Cullum 19371
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19371 ]
[Files: 19371.txt; ]
Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper 19370
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/7/19370 ]
[Files: 19370.txt; 19370-8.txt; 19370-h.htm]
The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, by Robert Barr 19369
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19369 ]
[Files: 19369.txt; 19369-8.txt; 19369-h.htm]
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa, by Hoffman 19368
[Subtitle: Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300]
[Author: Walter James Hoffman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19368 ]
[Files: 19368.txt; 19368-0.txt; 19368-h.htm]
Romance, by Walter Raleigh 19367
[Subtitle: Two Lectures]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19367 ]
[Files: 19367.txt; 19367-h.htm]
Punky Dunk and the Spotted Pup, by Anonymous 19366
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19366 ]
[Files: 19366.txt; 19366-h.htm]
Everlasting Pearl, by Anna Magdalena Johannsen 19365
[Subtitle: One of China's Women]
[Author: Preface by Walter B. Sloan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19365 ]
[Files: 19365.txt; 19365-8.txt; 19365-h.htm; ]
Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 5, May 1895 19364
[Title: The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration]
[Subtitle: Two Florentine Pavements]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19364 ]
[Files: 19364.txt; 19364-8.txt; 19364-h.htm]
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, by Ruth McEnery Stuart 19363
[Illustrator: G. H. Clements]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19363 ]
[Files: 19363.txt; 19363-h.htm]
In the Year 2889, by Jules Verne and Michel Verne 19362
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19362 ]
[Files: 19362.txt; 19362-8.txt; 19362-h.htm]
The Babes in the Wood, by Anonymous 19361
[Subtitle: One of R. Caldecott's Picture Books]
[Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19361 ]
[Files: 19361.txt; 19361-8.txt; 19361-h.htm]
Six to Sixteen, by Juliana Horatia Ewing 19360
[Subtitle: A Story for Girls]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/6/19360 ]
[Files: 19360.txt; 19360-8.txt; 19360-0.txt; 19360-h.htm]
The Patient Observer, by Simeon Strunsky 19359
[Subtitle: And His Friends]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19359 ]
[Files: 19359.txt; 19359-8.txt; 19359-h.htm; ]
War Rhymes, by Abner Cosens 19358
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19358 ]
[Files: 19358.txt; 19358-h.htm]
[Note that the author used the pseudonym "Wayfarer"]
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems, by Frances Fuller Victor 19357
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19357 ]
[Files: 19357.txt; 19357-8.txt; 19357-h.htm]
Golden Stories, by Various 19356
[Subtitle: A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19356 ]
[Files: 19356.txt; 19356-8.txt; 19356-h.htm]
A Book of Prefaces, by H. L. Mencken 19355
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19355 ]
[Files: 19355.txt; 19355-8.txt; 19355-h.htm]
Lessons in Music Form, by Percy Goetschius 19354
[Subtitle: A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and
Designs Employed in Musical Composition]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19354 ]
[Files: 19354.txt; 19354-8.txt; 19354-h.htm]
Captain Jinks, Hero, by Ernest Crosby 19353
[Illustrator: Dan Beard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19353 ]
[Files: 19353.txt; 19353-8.txt; 19353-h.htm]
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure,by William Thomas Fernie 19352
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19352 ]
[Files: 19352.txt; 19352-8.txt; ]
Curlie Carson Listens In, by Roy J. Snell 19351
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19351 ]
[Files: 19351.txt; 19351-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 152, December 22, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19350
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/5/19350 ]
[Files: 19350.txt; 19350-8.txt; 19350-h.htm; ]
Punch, Vol. 159, November 17, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman 19349
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19349 ]
[Files: 19349.txt; 19349-8.txt; 19349-h.htm]
Gideon's Band, by George W. Cable 19348
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Mississippi]
[Illustrator: F. C. Yohn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19348 ]
[Files: 19348.txt; 19348-8.txt; 19348-h.htm]
The Myths of the New World, by Daniel G. Brinton 19347
[Subtitle: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race
of America]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19347 ]
[Files: 19347.txt; 19347-8.txt; 19347-0.txt; 19347-h.htm]
New Word-Analysis, by William Swinton 19346
[Subtitle: Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19346 ]
[Files: 19346.txt; 19346-8.txt; 19346-0.txt; 19346-h.htm]
La vie litteraire, by Anatole France 19345
[Subtitle: Troisieme serie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19345 ]
[Files: 19345-8.txt]
La vie litteraire, by Anatole France 19344
[Subtitle: Deuxieme serie]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19344 ]
[Files: 19344-8.txt]
The Making of Mary, by Jean Forsyth 19343
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19343 ]
[Files: 19343.txt; 19343-8.txt; 19343-h.htm]
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spritualism, A. Alpheus 19342
[Subtitle: How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System
of Method, Application, and Use]
[Author note: The LOC calalogue says "A. Alpheus" is a pseudonym but
does not give the author's real name.]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19342 ]
[Files: 19342.txt; 19342-h.htm; ]
A Maker of History, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 19341
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/4/19341 ]
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May 2002 Mr. Honey's Tourist Dictionary English-German [8tredxxx.xxx] 3219C
[Language: English/German]
May 2002 Mr. Honey's Tourist Dictionary German-English [8trdexxx.xxx] 3218C
[Language: German/English]
May 2002 Honey's Small Business Dictionary English-German [8smedxxx.xxx] 3217C
[Language: English/German]
May 2002 Honey's Small Business Dictionary German-English [8smdexxx.xxx] 3216C
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May 2002 Mr. Honey's Insurance Dictionary English-German [8inedxxx.xxx] 3215C
[Language: English/German]
May 2002 Mr. Honey's Insurance Dictionary German-English [8indexxx.xxx] 3214C
[Language: German/English]
May 2002 Mr. Honey's Beginner's Dictionary English-German [8bgedxxx.xxx] 3213C
[Language: English/German]
May 2002 Mr. Honey's Beginner's Dictionary German-English [8bgdexxx.xxx] 3212C
[Language: German/English]
May 2002 Honey's Small Banking Dictionary English-German [8baedxxx.xxx] 3211C
[Language: English/German]
May 2002 Honey's Small Banking Dictionary German-English [8badexxx.xxx] 3210C
[Language: German/English]
May 2002 Honey's Medium Business Dictionary, English-German[8meedxxx.xxx] 3209C
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May 2002 Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes [lvthnxxx.xxx] 3207
[Subtitle: Or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth]
Eclesiastical and Civill]
May 2002 Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words [mlangxxx.xxx] 3206
May 2002 Moby Pronunciation List [mpronxxx.zip] 3205
May 2002 Moby Hyphenation List [mhyphxxx.zip] 3204
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Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population = ~100 million people.
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At 21,366 eBooks in 35 Years and 02.75 Months We Averaged
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51 Per Month
1.66 Per Day
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368 Per Month
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Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment,
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year of 2005 and began the production year of 2006 at noon.
This year there will be 52 Wednesdays, thus no extra week.
***BREAK FOR PT1A AND PT1B***
*Headline News from Edupage
[PG Editor's Comments In Brackets]
BRITISH LIBRARY SAYS COPYRIGHT LAW NEEDS UPDATING
The British Library has called for a wide-scale revision of existing
copyright law, which, it said, inadequately addresses digital content,
putting too much control into the hands of content producers and
owners. Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, took
aim at digital rights management (DRM) technology in particular, saying
that it allows content producers to prevent legitimate uses of content,
such as for academic purposes, for archival efforts, or for making
content available to people with disabilities. Calling the problem a
global issue, Brindley said that without "a serious updating of
copyright law to recognize the changing technological environment, the
law becomes an ass." The Open Rights Group supported the library's
call for revising copyright law, saying that the current situation
"allows publishers to write whatever license they like, which is what
is happening now." The British Library also said the question of
orphaned works should be addressed--works whose proper copyright owners
cannot be located easily or at all.
CNET, 25 September 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6119043.html
PUBLISHERS TAKE HEART FROM BELGIAN COURT RULING
Buoyed by a recent ruling from a court in Belgium, the World
Association of Newspapers (WAN) is leading the development of an
automated system for coordinating content permissions with search
engines. The Belgian court found that Google violates the rights of
content producers when it indexes news stories and reposts parts of
those stories on its own site. News organizations have long complained
that search engines profit from the efforts of news outlets, and the
court ruling, which Google is appealing, strengthens their position in
trying to restrict how search engines are allowed to use online
content. Search engines typically rely on applications that scour the
Web for content and incorporate it into search results without human
intervention. The Automated Content Access Protocol being developed by
the WAN will reportedly give news organizations the ability to include
parameters about how their content may be used inside online content.
The applications that search engines use to index content will be able
to interpret those parameters and treat the content accordingly. Gavin
O'Reilly, chairman of the WAN, said, "This system is intended to
remove completely any rights conflicts between publishers and search
engines."
CNET, 22 September 2006
http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6118523.html
YALE TO POST VIDEO OF COURSES ONLINE
Yale University announced plans to begin posting video of course
lectures online. Yale's effort is part of a larger movement in higher
education toward open courseware, led in large part by an initiative
started at MIT in 2001. For the OpenCourseWare project, MIT posts
course materials online, including syllabi, reading lists, and other
resources. Diana Kleiner, who is leading the effort at Yale, said the
project follows "MIT's footprints" but represents the next step.
Kleiner said that Yale officials believe the in-class experience to be
central to the educational experience. Under the program, all of the
lectures for a given course will be recorded and placed online.
Beginning with seven courses this year, the program is expected to grow
quickly to include many more in successive years. The university is
exploring ways to ensure that offering video of lectures online will
not encourage Yale students to skip class and simply watch the lectures
at their convenience. Also at issue are intellectual property
considerations, given that faculty are free to use some copyrighted
materials in lectures, but that those materials may not be used
similarly by the public.
Inside Higher Ed, 20 September 2006
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/20/yale
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*HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA
Besides all the references to the National Intelligence Estimate
that said the US is causing more terrorism via its trowback uses
of gunboat diplomacy in the Middle East, several officers in the
command positions in Iraq had the following comments this week.
The officers were, Major General John Batiste, Major General
Paul Eaton, and Colonel Paul Hammes. Batiste was commander
of the 1st Infantry Division, and was also the senior military
aide to Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and blames Congress
for not asking "the tough questions." He also mentioned threats
by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to fire anyone who said
he needed a postwar strategy.
In comments earlier this spring, General Batiste added, "the current
administration repeatedly ignored sound military advice and counsel
with respect to the war plans. I think the principles of war are
fundamental, and we violate those at our own peril."
Around the same time Commanding General Anthony Zinni, of the
Central Command in Iraq had the following additional comments:
"I think we are paying the price for lack of credible planning, or
the lack of a plan. We are throwing away 10 years of planning, in
effect, for underestimating the situation we were going to get into
and for not adhering to the advice that was being given to us by others.''
Major General Eaton said referred to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
as "incompetent, stragically, operationally, and tactically," and
added "Mr. Rumsfeld and his immediate team must be replaced or we
will see two more years of extraordinaily bad decision making."
Eaton was in command of U.S. efforts to train the Iraq military
until the last election.
Earlier this year he wrote the following to the New York Times:
"Rumsfeld has put the Pentagon at the mercy of his ego, his Cold
Warrior's view of the world and his unrealistic confidence in
technology to replace manpower. As a result, the US Army finds itself
severely undermanned. . .cut to 10 active divisions but asked by the
administration to support a foreign policy that requires at least 12
or 14," [active divisions].
DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK
The various declassifying of minimal pages of the National
Intelligence Estimate that only support the administration,
but leave out the entire portion that said the U.S. caused
more problems than it solved by invading Iraq.
*QUOTES OF THE WEEK
16 days afterwards, still no real apology from the Pope.
*PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK
Just as the rich keep getting richer,
and the poor keep getting poorer,
the distance between the various
portions of humanity will increase,
and the reason won't matter. . .
any reason will do. . .the reasons
for wars are usually fabrications.
*ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK
47% of female students said they would not raise their hands
in class even if they knew the answer for fear of harassment
for being smart.
Source: NPR, Sunday Morning
*
By the way, for those interested, the official U.S. population
[i.e. if you had invested in ConEd and the S&P in 1997,
and had made $1,000 on your S&P, your profits from that
ConEd stock would be $15,000]
Yet the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) voted 5-0 to
allow the new system.
estimates just passed 299 million, though many say estimations
of this nature leave out as much as 5% of the population, with
the obvious exclusion of the 11-12 million immigrant workers
now being mentioned so much in the news.
Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries.
[This one is getting a little out of date, as the US population
is obviously no longer 6% of the world. In fact, rounding to the
nearest percent, the US will soon fall from 5% to 4%.]
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same,
it would look something like the following. There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans
52 would be female
48 would be male
70 would be non-white
30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States
80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer [I think this is now much greater]
1 would be 79 years old or more.
Of those born today, the life expectancy is only 63 years,
but no country any longer issues copyrights that are sure
to expire within that 63 year period.
I would like to bring some of these figures more up to date,
as obviously if only 1% of 6 billion people owned a computer
then there would be only 60 million people in the world who
owned a computer, yet we hear that 3/4 + of the United States
households have computers, out of over 100 million households.
Thus obviously that is over 1% of the world population, just in
the United States.
I just called our local reference librarian and got the number
of US households from the 2004-5 U.S. Statistical Abstract at:
111,278,000 as per data from 2003 U.S Census Bureau reports.
If we presume the saturation level of U.S. computer households
is now around 6/7, or 86%, that is a total of 95.4 million,
and that's counting just one computer per household, and not
counting households with more than one, schools, businesses, etc.
I also found some figures that might challenge the literacy rate
given above, and would like some help researching these and other
such figures, if anyone is interested.
BTW, while I was doing this research, I came across a statistic
that said only 10% of the world's population is 60+ years old.
This means that basically 90% of the world's population would
never benefit from Social Security, even if the wealthy nations
offered it to them free of charge. Then I realized that the US
population has the same kind of age disparity, in which the rich
live so much longer than the poor, the whites live so much longer
than the non-whites. Thus Social Security is paid by all, but is
distributed more to the upper class whites, not just because they
can receive more per year, but because they will live more years
to receive Social Security. The average poor non-white may never
receive a dime of Social Security, no matter how much they pay in.
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With The Immortal Seventh Division, by E. J. Kennedy 19339
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The Keeper, by Henry Beam Piper 19338
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A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens 19337
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[See also: #46, a different edition]
The Tangled Threads, by Eleanor H. Porter 19336
[Contents: A Delayed Heritage]
[ The Folly of Wisdom]
[ Crumbs]
[ A Four-Footed Faith and a Two]
[ A Matter of System]
[ Angelus]
[ The Apple of Her Eye]
[ A Mushroom Of Collingsville]
[ That Angel Boy]
[ The Lady in Black]
[ The Saving of Dad]
[ Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving]
[ When Mother Fell Ill]
[ The Glory and the Sacrifice]
[ The Daltons and the Legacy]
[ The Letter]
[ The Indivisible Five]
[ The Elephant's Board and Keep]
[ A Patron of Art]
[ When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/3/19332 ]
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Oscar the Detective, by Harlan Page Halsey 19335
[Subtitle: Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/3/19335 ]
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Punch, Vol. 152, December 15, 1920, ed. by Sir owen Seaman 19334
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The Story of a China Cat, by Laura Lee Hope 19333
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[Files: 19333.txt; 19333-h.htm; ]
Michael Angelo Buonarroti, by Charles Holroyd 19332
[Subtitle: With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar,
Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/3/19332 ]
[Files: 19332.txt; 19332-8.txt; 19332-0.txt; 19332-tei.tei;
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Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians, by James Stevenson 19331
[Title: Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of
the Navajo Indians]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/3/19331 ]
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An Apache Princess, by Charles King 19330
[Subtitle: A Tale of the Indian Frontier]
[Illustrator: Frederic Remington and Edwin Willard Deming]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/3/19330 ]
[Files: 19330.txt; 19330-8.txt; 19330-h.htm]
The Sunny Side of Ireland, by John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger 19329
[Subtitle: How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19329 ]
[Files: 19329.txt; 19329-8.txt; 19329-h.htm]
The Sea-Kings of Crete, by James Baikie 19328
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19328 ]
[Files: 19328.txt; 19328-8.txt; 19328-h.htm]
Reize in Taka (Opper-Nubie), by Anonymous 19327
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19327 ]
[Files: 19327-8.txt; 19327-h.htm]
Van Orenburg naar Samarkand, by Anonymous 19326
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1873]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19326 ]
[Files: 19326-8.txt; 19326-h.htm]
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII (of X), by Various 19325
[Editor: Marshall P. Wilder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19325 ]
[Files: 19325.txt; 19325-8.txt; 19325-h.htm]
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI (of X), by Various 19324
[Editor: Marshall P. Wilder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19324 ]
[Files: 19324.txt; 19324-8.txt; 19324-h.htm]
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V (of X), by Various 19323
[Editor: Marshall P. Wilder]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19323 ]
[Files: 19323.txt; 19323-8.txt; 19323-h.htm]
The Antichrist, by F. W. Nietzsche 19322
[Translator: H. L. Mencken]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19322 ]
[Files: 19322.txt; 19322-8.txt; 19322-h.htm]
Evolution, by Theodore Graebner 19321
[Subtitle: An Investigation and a Critique]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19321 ]
[Files: 19321.txt; ]
Jaakko Cook'in matkat Tyynella merella, by Antti Fredrik Hassell 19320
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/2/19320 ]
[Files: 19320-8.txt]
A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive, by W. Augustus Munn 19319
[Subtitle: With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the
Management of Bees Throughout the Year]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19319 ]
[Files: 19319.txt; 19319-8.txt; 19319-h.htm; ]
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle, by Laura Lee Hope 19318
[Subtitle: Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19318 ]
[Files: 19318.txt; 19318-8.txt; 19318-h.htm; ]
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I, by Ian Hamilton 19317
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19317 ]
[Files: 19317.txt; 19317-8.txt; 19317-h.htm]
Lyra Heroica, by Various 19316
[Subtitle: A Book of Verse for Boys]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19316 ]
[Files: 19316.txt; 19316-8.txt; 19316-h.htm]
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, by Giacomo Leopardi 19315
[Translator: Frederick Townsend]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19315 ]
[Files: 19315.txt; 19315-8.txt; 19315-h.htm]
Raphael, by Estelle M. Hurll 19314
[Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
Painter With Introduction And Interpretation]
[Editor: Estelle M. Hurll]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19314 ]
[Files: 19314.txt; 19314-8.txt; 19314-0.txt; 19314-h.htm]
The Silk-Hat Soldier, by Richard le Gallienne 19313
[Subtitle: And Other Poems in War Time]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19313 ]
[Files: 19313.txt; 19313-h.htm]
Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19312C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19312 ]
[Files: 19312.txt; 19312-8.txt; 19312-0.txt; 19312-tei.tei;
19312-h.htm; 19312-pdf.pdf]
The Outdoor Girls in Florida, by Laura Lee Hope 19311
[Subtitle: Or, Wintering in the Sunny South]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19311 ]
[Files: 19311.txt; 19311-h.htm; ]
Happy Pollyooly, by Edgar Jepson 19310
[Subtitle: The Rich Little Poor Girl]
[Illus.: Reginald Birch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/1/19310 ]
[Files: 19310.txt; 19310-8.txt; 19310-h.htm; ]
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer, by Simon Newcomb 19309
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19309 ]
[Files: 19309.txt; 19309-8.txt; ]
Pioneers and Founders, by Charlotte Mary Yonge 19308
[Subtitle: or, Recent Workers in the Mission field]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19308 ]
[Files: 19308.txt; 19308-h.htm]
The Lion of Petra, by Talbot Mundy 19307
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19307 ]
[Files: 19307.txt]
Wat er te zien valt in Armenie, by Noel Dolens 19306
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907-1908]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19306 ]
[Files: 19306-8.txt; 19306-h.htm]
Van Toledo naar Granada, deel 2, by Jane Dieulafoy 19305
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19305 ]
[Files: 19305-8.txt; 19305-h.htm]
Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley, C.N. and A.M. Williamson 19304
[Author: C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson]
[Illustrator: Clarence Rowe]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19304 ]
[Files: 19304.txt; 19304-8.txt; 19304-h.htm]
Raftmates, by Kirk Munroe 19303
[Subtitle: A Story of the Great River]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19303 ]
[Files: 19303.txt; 19303-h.htm; ]
Dinosaurs, by William Diller Matthew 19302
[Subtitle: With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19302 ]
[Files: 19302.txt; 19302-8.txt; 19302-h.htm; ]
Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 19301
[Author: Edward Feild]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19301 ]
[Files: 19301.txt; 19301-8.txt; 19301-h.htm; ]
A Traveler's Narrative, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19300C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/3/0/19300 ]
[Files: 19300.txt; 19300-8.txt; 19300-0.txt; 19300-tei.tei;
19300-h.htm; 19300-pdf.pdf]
The Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19299C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19299 ]
[Files: 19299.txt; 19299-8.txt; 19299-0.txt; 19299-tei.tei;
19299-h.htm; 19299-pdf.pdf]
The World Order of Baha'u'llah, by Shoghi Effendi 19298C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19298 ]
[Files: 19298.txt; 19298-8.txt; 19298-0.txt; 19298-tei.tei;
19298-h.htm; 19298-pdf.pdf]
Unfolding Destiny, by Shoghi Effendi 19297C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19297 ]
[Files: 19297.txt; 19297-8.txt; 19297-0.txt; 19297-tei.tei;
19297-h.htm; 19297-pdf.pdf]
Tablets of the Divine Plan, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19296C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19296 ]
[Files: 19296.txt; 19296-8.txt; 19296-0.txt; 19296-tei.tei;
19296-h.htm; 19296-pdf.pdf]
The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View, by Laura Lee Hope 19295
[Subtitle: Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19295 ]
[Files: 19295.txt; 19295-h.htm]
The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island, by Laura Lee Hope 19294
[Subtitle: Or, A Cave and What It Contained]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19294 ]
[Files: 19294.txt; 19294-8.txt; 19294-h.htm]
La Legendo de Dorm-Valeto, by Washington Irving 19293
[Translator: Edwin Grobe]
[Language: Esperanto]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19293 ]
[Files: 19293.txt; 19293-0.txt; 19293-h.htm]
Tablet to August Forel, by `Abdu'l-Bah 19292C
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19292 ]
[Files: 19292.txt; 19292-8.txt; 19292-0.txt; 19292-tei.tei;
19292-h.htm; 19292-pdf.pdf]
Compilation on Scholarship, by The Universal House of Justice 19291C
[Author: Research Department of the Universal House of Justice]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/2/9/19291 ]
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Statement on Bah'u'llh, by Bah' International Community 19290C
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Some Answered Questions, by `Abdu'l-Bah 19289C
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Bohemian Days, by Geo. Alfred Townsend 19288
[Subtitle: Three American Tales]
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Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bah, by `Abdu'l-Bah 19287C
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The Promise of World Peace, by The Universal House of Justice 19286C
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The Promulgation of Universal Peace, by `Abdu'l-Bah 19285C
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Paris Talks, by `Abdu'l-Bah 19284C
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The Prosperity of Humankind, by Bah' International Community 19283C
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The Promised Day is Come, by Shoghi Effendi 19282C
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One Common Faith, by Baha'i International Community 19281C
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Messages to the Baha'i World: 1950-1957, by Shoghi Effendi 19280C
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Memorials of the Faithful, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19279C
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Messages to Canada, by Shoghi Effendi 19278C
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Messages to America, by Shoghi Effendi 19277C
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High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska, by Shoghi Effendi 19276C
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God Passes By, by Shoghi Effendi 19275C
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Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, Shoghi Effendi 19274C
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The Dead Men's Song, by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock 19273
[Subtitle: Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its
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The Early Bird, by George Randolph Chester 19272
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Dawn of a New Day, by Shoghi Effendi 19271C
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Directives from the Guardian, by Shoghi Effendi 19270C
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Compilation on Women by, Universal House of Justice 19269C
[Author: Research Deparment of the Universal House of Justice]
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Compilation on Peace by, Universal House of Justice 19268C
[Author: Research Deparment of the Universal House of Justice]
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Century of Light, by Baha'i International Community 19267C
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Japanese Literature, by Various 19264
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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris, by Henry Labouchere 19263
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Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1895 19262
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Citadel of Faith, by Shoghi Effendi 19254C
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Compilation on Baha'i Education, by The Universal House of Justice 19253C
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Baha'i Administration, by Shoghi Effendi 19252C
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Arohanui: Letters to New Zealand, by Shoghi Effendi 19251C
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'Abdu'l-Baha in London, by 'Abdu'l-Baha 19250C
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The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2), by Shoghi Effendi 19245C
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The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1), by Shoghi Effendi 19244C
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The Advent of Divine Justice, by Shogi Effendi 19243C
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Bahiyyih Khanum, by Baha'i World Centre 19242C
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Baha'u'llah and the New Era, by the Universal House of Justice 19241C
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