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PT1b Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

pt1b1.106 Weekly_January_11.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 11, 2006, PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Including Project Gutenberg of Europe Statistics For The First Time PT1B Due to our weekly Wednesday to Wednesday schedule, this is our FIRST Weekly PG Newsletter of 2006, and January 04 marked our LAST 2005 Weekly Newsletter I'm thinking of moving everything one week earlier in 2007. Comments??? * *** Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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Barrie (for U.S. only}[peterxxx.xxx] 16C May 1991 Moby Dick [From OBI]*, Herman Melville [mobyxxxx.zip] 15 Apr 1991 The 1990 CIA World Factbook [CIA Factbook #0][worldxxx.xxx] 14 Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll[Carroll#3][snarkxxx.xxx] 13 Feb 1991 Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll[Carroll2][lglassxx.xxx] 12 Jan 1991 Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll [Carroll #1][alicexxx.xxx] 11 Aug 1989 The Bible, Both Testaments, King James Version [kjvxxxxx.xxx] 10 Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9 Dec 1978 Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address [linc2xxx.xxx] 8 Dec 1977 The Mayflower Compact [mayflxxx.xxx] 7 Dec 1976 Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry [liberxxx.xxx] 6 Dec 1975 The United States' Constitution [constxxx.xxx] 5 Nov 1973 Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln [gettyxxx.xxx] 4 Nov 1973 John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address [jfkxxxxx.xxx] 3 Dec 1972 The United States' Bill of Rights [billxxxx.xxx] 2 Dec 1971 Declaration of Independence [whenxxxx.xxx] 1 * Have We Given Away A Trillion Books/Dollars Yet? If our average eBook has reached just 1% of the world population of 6,490,765,518 that would be 18,183 x 64,907,655 = ~1.18 Trillion !!! With 18,183 eBooks online as of January 11, 2006 it now takes an average of ~1% of the world gaining a nominal value of ~$.85 from each book. [1% world population x #eBooks] 64,907,655 x 18,183 x $.85 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book To 100 Million With 18,183 eBooks online as of January 11, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.5r from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.67 when we had 15,035 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 18,183 eBooks in 34 Years and 06.25 Months We Averaged ~527 Per Year 43.9 Per Month 1.44 Per Day At 41 eBooks Done In The 007 Days Of 2007 We Averaged 5.9 Per Day 41 Per Week 178 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

pt1a1.106 pt1b1.106 Weekly_January_11.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 11, 2006, PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** Including Project Gutenberg of Europe Statistics For The First Time PT1A Due to our weekly Wednesday to Wednesday schedule, this is our FIRST Weekly PG Newsletter of 2006, and January 04 marked our LAST 2005 Weekly Newsletter I'm thinking of moving everything one week earlier in 2007. Comments??? * *** Editor's comments appear in [brackets]. Newsletter editors needed! 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[Including 521 Australian eBooks, and 218 Project Gutenberg Europe] [First week PGEu is included] [17,965 eBooks not counting PGEu] [As per the 2005 accounting] We Are ~91% of the Way to 20,000!!! ***527 eBooks Averaged Per Year Since July 4, 1971*** 15,121 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~250 eBooks per Month for ~60 Months We Have Produced 41 eBooks in 2006 1,817 to go to 20,000!!! 17 More eBooks From Distributed Proofreaders 7,897 total from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] [Currently over 36,000 DP volunteers] 521 from Project Gutenberg of Australia 218 from Project Gutenberg of Europe Averaged 10.33 Per Month For 2005 27.00 Per Month for 2006 [Added 9 In First 1/3 of January] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [Including PG Australia] We Are Averaging ~178 books Per Month This Year [Including PGAu and PGEu] [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] [Now including totals from both Australia and Europe] [Apologies, it will take a while to integrate Europe, not all statistics may be totally equalized yet] [PGEu Statistics Are Counted Monthly Not Weekly] All Three Sites Combined Are Averaging 41 eBooks Per Week In 2006 41 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] LEGAL DOWNLOADS SURGE AFTER CHRISTMAS [Likely a result of the 14 million iPods sold in the last quarter] Sales of music tracks online surged over the holidays, indicating what might be new baseline levels for the market. During the Christmas week, 9.5 million tracks were downloaded from legal online music services, a new record for single-week sales. The following week, that number jumped to nearly 20 million tracks, triple the number sold during the same week a year earlier. Analysts attribute much of the gain to the ballooning number of portable MP3 players in the hands of consumers and to strong sales of gift cards. For the year, legal downloads rose 147 percent to 142.6 million. Although a drop always follows the holiday spike, analysts said the holiday numbers could indicate a market that will grow to perhaps 750 million or 1 billion tracks in 2006. Such numbers still pale compared to downloads on P2P services, which are estimated at 250 million per week, but experts say the upswing in legal downloads signals a changing tide for online music. CNET, 8 January 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6023769.html US-VISIT WANTS ALL 10 FINGERS PRINTED Officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced a plan to begin requiring visitors to the United States to have all 10 of their fingers to be printed to be admitted to the country. Currently, the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program requires prints of two fingers; the change to 10 will reportedly increase both security and privacy and will decrease the number of visitors who must undergo a second inspection to enter or leave the country. DHS said biometric technology such as fingerprinting is already reliable, but the agency is working with technology vendors to develop products that are more accurate, faster, and more mobile. Federal Computer Week, 5 January 2006 http://www.fcw.com/article91877-01-05-06-Web GOVERNMENT KEEPING TABS WHEN IT SHOULDN'T Despite a federal directive forbidding the use of Web-tracking technologies for federal agencies, recent reports have shown that the majority of agencies do in fact employ permanent cookies or other tools that track users. The technologies can be used to identify repeat visitors to federal Web sites and sometimes to track users' surfing on nongovernmental sites. Last week, the Associated Press found that the National Security Agency was using permanent cookies (temporary cookies are allowed), a practice it has since discontinued. Separately, reporters at CNET News.com looked at the Web sites of all agencies listed in the U.S. Government Manual and evaluated what tracking tools they were using. Results showed dozens of agencies using tools that appear to contravene the directive, including sites for the military, cabinet departments, and election commissions. When contacted about the tracking tools, officials at many agencies reportedly said they were unaware that their sites used such technologies. Peter Swire, law professor at Ohio State University, who participated in the drafting of an earlier Web-tracking policy for the Clinton administration, said, "It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously." "It's evidence that privacy is not being taken seriously." CNET, 5 January 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6018702.html MICROSOFT RELEASES WMF PATCH EARLY Responding to concerns that the recently disclosed Windows Meta File (WMF) vulnerability presented serious risk, Microsoft has released a patch ahead of the company's monthly patch release date. Microsoft said that testing of the patch was completed early and that there was "strong customer sentiment that the release should be made available as soon as possible." Some security experts, warning of the threat posed by the flaw, had even encouraged users to install a third-party patch developed by a European programmer. The patch is for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003; although Microsoft had earlier said the vulnerability also affected Windows 98 and Windows ME, the company now says those operating systems are not affected by the flaw. With the release, Microsoft acknowledged that the risk to unpatched systems is critical, though it said data indicated that the infection rate from attacks that exploit the weakness was low to moderate so far. Some security experts offered a different characterization of the situation, saying they have identified thousands of Web sites that exploit the flaw. ZDNet, 5 January 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6020070.html [as a result of] USERS SWEAT BULLETS WAITING FOR WMF PATCH Security experts are warning about the danger of a currently unpatched vulnerability in all current versions of the Windows operating system, but Microsoft has said the patch won't be released until January 10, its next scheduled patch release date. Sam Curry of Computer Associates International said, "This vulnerability is rising in popularity among hackers, and it is simple to exploit." Others estimate that more than one million computers have already been infected worldwide, noting that attacks have taken the form of malicious Web sites, Trojan horses, and instant messaging worms. The flaw, which affects how Windows handles Windows Meta File (WMF) images, is especially dangerous because users need only view an image designed to take advantage of the vulnerability to have their computers infected. Despite the calls for an immediate patch, Microsoft, which adopted a schedule of monthly patch updates, has said the fix for the current bug will not be released until the next scheduled group of patches. In the meantime, Microsoft is warning users to be careful about what sites they visit. Most Internet users, however, do not have a level of awareness of such security concerns to protect themselves, according to Stacey Quandt, an analyst with the Aberdeen Group. ZDNet, 3 January 2006 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6016747.html EEF SEEKS PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER RESEARCHERS The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on Sony EMI to pledge not to pursue prosecution of computer researchers who investigate the security of the company's products. Last fall, the company was caught in a public outcry over technology included in music CDs. The technology installed itself on users' computers and scanned them for potentially illegal activities. The company has removed those tools from CDs, but security researchers believe they have reason to reverse engineer copy protections on EMI CDs, a practice which would violate not only the Digital Millennium Copyright Act but also EMI's end user license agreement. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney with EFF, said, "When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble." You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: Internet News, 5 January 2006 If you have questions or comments about Edupage, http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3575441 send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu SPAMMER HIT WITH $11.2 BILLION FINE A court has slapped a Florida spammer with an $11.2 billion fine, setting a new precedent for fines against spammers, though the ruling is unlikely to have much effect on the volume of spam. Internet service provider CIS Internet Services, which provides Internet service to parts of Iowa and Illinois, had sued James McCalla for sending more than 28 million e-mail solicitations that fraudulently used the CIS domain as the return address. In addition to the fine, McCalla is forbidden from accessing the Internet for three years. Robert Kramer III, owner of CIS, welcomed the ruling, calling it the "economic death penalty," though he acknowledged that he does not expect to receive any of the money awarded. John Mozena, co-founder and vice president of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, said this and other rulings against spammers have not had a significant effect on the total volume of spam, which he estimated continues to be about two-thirds of all e-mail traffic. What is needed, he argued, rather than current laws, which only forbid deceptive or fraudulent spam, is a prohibition against all spam. Wired News, 5 January 2006 MICROSOFT AGREES TO CLOSE CHINESE BLOGGER'S SITE Following a formal request from Chinese officials, Microsoft has shut down the blog of a high-profile Chinese journalist. China is well known for censoring public speech it considers critical of the government, and Microsoft's actions are not the first in which non-Chinese companies have complied with Chinese authorities. Officials from Microsoft noted that if their services are to be available in China, the company must comply with local laws. As Brooke Richardson, a group product manager for MSN said, "We think it's better to be there with our services than not be there." Last year Yahoo was faulted by some for cooperating with Chinese officials, and it too stated then that a requirement of continuing operation in the country is to conform to local laws and regulations. Rebecca MacKinnon, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, expressed concerns on her blog about Microsoft's action. "Can we be sure," she said, "they won't do the same thing in response to potentially illegal demands by an overzealous government agency in our own country?" New York Times, 6 January 2006 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/technology/06blog.html To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell [Maker of voting machines that leave no paper trail for recounts.] *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK This is going to be big year for investigations of United States government operations. Tom Delay, now has permanently resigned as the Speaker of the House of Representatives Scooter Libby is under indictment. [Top White House Procurement Officer] Jack Abramoff has pled guilty, gateway to more. Michael Scanlon has pled guilty, gateway to more. [Former Abramoff partner and Delay aide] Russ Tice and James Risen giving information about possible millions of illegal NSA wiretaps, not just the select few admitted to by President Bush. ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06 News out about Project Echelon to listen to ATMs, computers, etc., from half a mile away, and other eavesdropping projects that can record conversations through a foot or two of solid concrete. [DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the same people who brought you the Internet, nee DARPANet] But Judge Alito's listing of his membership in the Princeton CAP organization as one of his three top choices for his resume won't make any difference. [CAP = Concerned Alumni of Princeton, ultra-conservative campus group dedicated to returning Princeton to the days when women and blacks were not allowed into colleges. A critic of CAP was dropped from the Alito witness list on 01/07/06 before any testimony could be given.] * China won't take strong action against Iran nuclear program because China just made a deal to buy lots of Iranian oil [Economic Warfare] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK Former NSA official Russell Tice wants to testify before Congress, but the White House is blocking his testimony on the grounds that Congress does not have high enough classified clearance. "I intend to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted while I was an intelligence officer with the National Security Agency and with the Defense Intelligence Agency." December 16, 2004 The same day The New York Times broke the story of wiretaps without warrants from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. [FISA court] Washington Times, New York Times, ABC Nightly News *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 90% of cars do not achieve their sticker ad mileage. ABC Nightly News, 01/10/06 * 14 million iPods were sold in the last quarter of 2005, one of the biggest holiday hits. Compare to 1 1/4 million Apple computers in same period. Apple has now sold 42 million iPods, 1/3 of them in the last quarter. . .Wow! iTunes is coming up on 1 billion total sales. 83% of the total online music figures. Washington post [Now that Apple is switching from Motorola chips to Intel, perhaps they can finally get more than 5% share in computers.] * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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. 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A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book With 17,926 eBooks online as of January 04, 2006 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.56 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.67 when we had 14,956 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,926 eBooks in 34 Years and 06.00 Months We Averaged ~520 Per Year 43.3 Per Month 1.42 Per Day At 2970 eBooks Done In The 364 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 248 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. In previous news I heard about the U.S. Census, no mention was made about the annexation of various nearly locations as a cause of this normally unexpected growth, but it is mentioned at the site I found on the subject of the current Special Census. If annexation is the primary cause of such increases, country wide, then we should not be expecting a huge rise in the 2010 Census, but rather should expect something more along the norm. However, if it is not annexation, but more actual people on the average, then this might be an indicator that the population of the U.S. may have seen 300 million go by some time ago. For more details, see: www.normal.org/WhatsNew/Census.htm The production statistics are calculated based on full weeks' production; each production-week starts/ends Wednesday noon, starts with the first Wednesday of January. January 5th was the first Wednesday of 2005, and thus ended PG's production year of 2004 and began the production year of 2005 at noon. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

pt1a4.d05 Weekly_January_04.txt **The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 4, 2006 PT1** *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A Due to our weekly Wednesday to Wednesday schedule, this is our LAST Weekly PG Newsletter of 2005, and January 11 will mark our FIRST 2006 Weekly Newsletter >I'm thinking of moving everything one week earlier when in 2007. Comments?< * [Several hot messages immediately below] In a joint issue Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.org/) and Project Gutenberg of Australia (http://gutenberg.net.au) are commemorating the 400th anniversary of the beginning of Australia~Rs documented history, with the release of "The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765" by J E Heeres. In 1606 Willem Janszoon (aka Jansz.) charted some of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula and made the first authenticated landing on Australian soil. A number of events are being organised to commemorate the occasion by "Australia on the Map: 1606-2006" (http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au/) Heeres book was published in 1899 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Geographical Society of the Netherlands. Heeres notes in the introduction to the book that the object of publication was "once more to throw the most decided and fullest possible light on achievements of our forefathers in the 17th and 18th century, in a form that would appeal to foreigners no less than to native readers. An act of homage to our ancestors, therefore, a modest one certainly, but one inspired by the same feeling which in 1892 led Italy and the Iberian Peninsula to celebrate the memory of the discoverer of America, and in 1898 prompted the Portuguese to do homage to the navigator who first showed the world the sea-route to India." Herres work is now difficult to access and it is fitting that we are able, with the release of this ebook, to once more to "throw the most decided and fullest possible light on achievements" of the Dutch in commemorating the first authenticated landing on Australian soil by Willem Janszoon. Heeres notes in the introduction to the book that "the documents, here either republished or printed for the first time, are all of them preserved in the State Archives at the Hague, unless otherwise indicated. They have been arranged under the heads of the consecutive expeditions, which in their turn figure in chronological order. This seemed to me the best way to enable readers to obtain a clear view of the results of the exploratory voyages made along the coasts of Australia by the Netherlanders of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." All have been translated into English and the English and Dutch text appears side by side on each page. The ebooks may be found at Project Gutenberg of Australia at http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#heeres and at Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17450 Another important book relating to the early discovery of Australia is 'The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea' by George Collingridge This ebook was a joint release to celebrate the issue of the 500th ebook by Project Gutenberg of Australia and may also be found at both Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg of Australia. * A BIT ABOUT PROJECT RUNEBERG Project Runeberg was the first Project Gutenberg spin off, starting on December 13, 1992, when Project Gutenberg was just coming up on having 50 freely downloadable eBooks. The following has been excerpted from an email I received from Lars Aronsson, founder of Project Runeberg, on December 24, 2005. [My own comments are in brackets] *** It is now thirteen years and two weeks since I started Project Runeberg, the Scandinavian online literature archive. The name comes from Finland's most hailed poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-1877), but is also a play on the name of my rolemodel, Project Gutenberg. Despite the ambition to cover all Scandinavian countries, Project Runeberg is dominated by Swedish literature. [About 1,500 eBooks at about 175 pages per book, as of January 1, 2005] On January 1, 2005, Project Runeberg's collections contained 260,000 pages scanned in digital facsimile, corresponding to 13 linear metres of shelving. That day we should have scanned 494 pages (0.19 percent of 260.000), but instead we scanned 1200 pages. For the whole of January, we should have scanned 15,755 pages (0.78 metres), but in reality we only scanned 12,384 (0.61 metres). In 1996 we finished typing the Swedish text of the Bible. In 2003 we finished scanning a classic 38 volume Swedish encyclopedia. We currently have 376,900 scanned pages online in addition to our early e-texts, corresponding to 18.8 metres of shelving. One third (125,000 pages) were added in the last 12 months. [About 2,150 eBooks at about 175 pages per book, as of January 1, 2005] [An increase of about 650 books at 175 pages each, in 2005] [The 175 pages is just an estimate I made] * [The following was simply too cute not to include, no connection to me or PG] See Gutenberg! The Musical! Jermyn Street Theatre presents the world premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical! written and performed by Anthony King and Scott Brown Michael Roulston at the piano Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, so Bud Davenport and Doug Simon wrote a musical about him. Now they're bringing it to the West End. They don't have a cast, a budget, or a producer - but they have a dream, and they're crossing an ocean to bring it to you. "One of the most clever performances in the city." (New York Metro) It's the "true" story of Gutenberg, his buxom wench Helvetica, and an evil Monk, hell-bent on keeping the masses illiterate. "Gutenberg! 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[Includes Australian eBooks] We Are ~90% of the Way to 20,000!!! 14,864 New eBooks Since The Start Of 2001 That's ~248 eBooks per Month for ~60 Months We Produced 2970 eBooks in 2005!!! 2,074 to go to 20,000!!! 7,880 from Distributed Proofreaders Since October, 2000 [Details in PT1B] 519 from Project Gutenberg of Australia 210 from Project Gutenberg of Europe Average 10.33 Per Month For 2005 [We will start including these in 2006] [Apology for previously mixed numbers!] We Averaged ~339 eBooks Per Month In 2004 We Averaged ~248 eBooks Per Month In 2005 [This change is due to the opening of Project Gutenberg sites other than the original one at www.gutenberg.org] This Site Averaged ~57 eBooks Per Week This Year 42 This Week It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks It took ~32 months, from 2002 to 2005 for our last 10,000 eBooks It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100 It took ~2.00 years from Oct. 2003 to Nov. 2005 from 10,000 to 17,500 * ***Introduction [The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] Edupage has been on vacation from Dec 21 to today. You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** News From Other Sources A European Commission study has revealed that giving more copyrights means less publications. [Do a search on "european commission" copyright database for multiple stories] * James Risen says that the US pressured international phone companies to route more of international calls through the US to help out with the wiretap efforts. [Much too much to relate here. See book "State of War" and CNN's story "The Book Behind the Bombshell"] *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA [As requested adding sources, etc., when possible. Remember, the subject is not the article's subject, the subject is the manipulation of the world news.] U.S. House Resolutions 635, 636, and 637 are not being mentioned. * Argentina and Pay Brazil Pay Off and Tell Off IMF [International Monetary Fund] IMF spokesmen refused to comment, but it was all the big news in much of the world when both Argentina and Brazil paid off about $10 and $15 billion respectively in the last few days, saying that this freed them from the unusually harsh restrictions and controls of the IMF. [See the book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"] The IMF had been withholding approval of economic policies. Reuters termed the stormy relationship to the IMF as "years of bitter clashes." This news, along with the recent news of a major oil strike for Brazil, could mean that next major places to watch in the world economy will be Brazil and Argentina, along with other major changes in South America. * GENIE Global Nuclear from "Energy Daily" recycles nuclear fuel, and drastically reduce the amount of nuclear waste that would have to be stored deep underground for hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years. [I couldn't find the exact reference "GENIE" but did find articles from the New York Times and Scientific Amercian, with a search on: nuclear recyling breeder ] *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK Various comments about how much, or how little, former House leader Tom Delay's wife and daughter were paid, for what, and by whom, by opposing sides on this issue. *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK This could be the biggest year of political scandals in the US for over a century. Also see: "K Street Project" [K Street is to lobbyists in Washington, D.C. as Madison Avenue is to advertizers in New York] *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK See Doublespeak [Not going to actually repeat these slings and arrows] *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK When CNN/USA Today/Gallup pollsters asked in a telephone survey whether President Bush is a "uniter" or a "divider" 49 percent said a uniter and 49 percent said a divider. * The average household about $10,000 on credit cards. New regulations are doubling the minimum payments, as previous minimums would end up with people paying for possible decades totalling more interest than the money they borrowed. The average credit card user has seven credit cards. 35 million credit card users only pay the minimum. Source: ABC World News Tonight * 1/3 of our crops are pollinated by honeybees PBS * 100 Dunkin Donuts franchises got 9/11 Small Business Assn loans. * Tropical Storm Zeta was the 27th named storm of 2005, and tied the record for the latest storm of the year. 2005 saw the most storms in a year and most category 5 storms, since such records were started in 1851, and extended 2005's record breaking year in terms of total number of tropical storms. First time over the 21 letters used for names, these used 6 letters of the Greek Alphabet. Before last month, only four December hurricanes had formed in 153 years of record keeping, and we got two last month. Records set in 2005 Most Powerful Hurricane [Wilma] Most Hurricanes Most Hurricanes to Strike US Most Tropical Storms Most December Tropical Storms Latest Hurricane [Tied] Most Category 5 Hurricanes [Katrina, Rita, Wilma] Source: www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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. * POEM OF THE WEEK Angles he hasn't told me anything new lately all I remember were meaningless sounds coming from the throat of a tired hawk screening my front lawn; all the preys had been put to sleep the night before. nature's TLC spelled euthanasia the skies stretch far, beyond my comprehension all I can feel is the future rain ducked behind a white cloud in the land of millions of shapeless purple-grayish thunder-friendly apparitions haunting my sight the chill air and the coldness inside switch places at times my body becomes a windy universe in which nothings stays put. Shivering and wanderings define my skin, my flesh the eyes strain to grasp the tornadolike rebellion of every cell But then, in the middle of silence, a faint sound begins to grow. A voice in the mist proclaiming that every pair of eyes is prone to misinterpretations That things are seen from the inside out, and not the other way around like my mind had always taught me That to put order in one's soul it takes for one to be awakened on a chill, misty morning by the crying of a hawk whose prey had forsaken him A white cloud in the shape of a guitar pours down sweet music of raindrops that my hearing has so longed for. A harmonic announcement letting the eyes know that the heart was wrong Copyright 2006 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. 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Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter
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[1% world population x #eBooks] 64,879,065 x 17,882 x $.86 = ~$1 Trillion [Google "world population" "popclock" to get the most current figures.] * A Trillion Dollars Given Away At Just $.56 Value Per Book With 17,884 eBooks online as of December 28, 2005 it now takes an average of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.56 from each book. This "cost" is down from about $.67 when we had 14,865 eBooks a year ago. Our Target Audience Is 1.5% Of The World Population, or 100,000,000 readers. At 17,884 eBooks in 34 Years and 05.75 Months We Averaged ~519 Per Year 43.2 Per Month 1.42 Per Day At 2928 eBooks Done In The 357 Days Of 2005 We Averaged 8.2 Per Day 57 Per Week 249 Per Month If you are interested in the population of the world or of the U.S. you might want to know that these numbers, official as they appear, are just just estimates, and perhaps not as accurate as we hope. Recently the U.S. Congress, pertaining to district reapportionment, who gets to vote for which Congresspeople, decided that many of the districts were undercounted by 5%, perhaps then later deciding that all districts had been undercounted by 5% [can't recall details]. However, I just this moment heard a news item that made me wonder a bit more about the accuracy of the U.S. Census. A "Special Census" is taking place in Normal, Illinois, that is expected to count more people, by a factor of 3,000 or 3,400, depending on which source. 45,386 was the population as per the 2000 Census, so 3,000 added to this would be an increase of 6.6%, and 3,400 would be 7.5%, above a possibly automatic increase of 5% as per the same terms above but I presume this is in addition to previous adjustments. Of course, we should consider that we would have to double figures, perhaps to 15% from those above, if are considering the normal time between censuses of 10 years, these are for 5 years' growth. 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PT1a Weekly Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael Hart 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

pt1a3.d05 Weekly_December_28.txt *The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, December 28, 2005 PT1* *******eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971******** PT1A REQUEST FOR BOOKS!!! Several of our long time volunteers are having trouble locating copies of the following books. Before you do too much to acquire them, you might want to check from your own local copyright law about scanning them, as I presume some of these may not fit into a public domain status in all countries, but all should be ok in "life +50" countries, and some perhaps even more widely. Contact cjc(a)gutenberg.net.au if further information is required. 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Founder's Comments, News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing. Note bene that PT1 is now being sent as PT1A and PT1B. [Since we are between Newsletter editors, these 2 parts may undergo a few changes while we are finding a new Newsletter editor. Email us: hart(a)pobox.com and gbnewby(a)pglaf.org if you would like to volunteer.] This is Michael Hart's "Founder's Comments" section of the Newsletter *Headline News from Edupage [PG Editor's Comments In Brackets] JAPAN EXPLORES SEARCH ENGINE DEVELOPMENT The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has organized a study group of universities and electronics companies, including Hitachi and Panasonic, to consider the merits of creating a search engine specifically for Japan's Web users. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has publicly stated that Japan needs to extend its influence in the IT arena. The government reportedly is considering spending up to $885 million on the search-engine plan as part of its efforts to become more dominant online. ZDNet, 21 December 2005 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6004037.html PATENT OFFICE EXPECTED TO REJECT NTP PATENTS The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office notified NTP, a patent holding company, and Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, that it expects to reject the five patents held by NTP. The two companies are involved in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by NTP. The patent office had issued preliminary rejections of the e-mail patents in the past, but speeded its review process in response to a request by RIM. The patent review is separate from the patent infringement lawsuit, which could potentially stop most BlackBerry service in the United States. NTP expects to appeal the final patent rulings, a process that could take several years. New York Times, 19 December 2005 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/technology/20rim.html HACKERS HIT SECURITY COMPANY DATABASE Hackers gained access to the financial and personal data of 3,800 law enforcement and network security professionals when they broke into the customer database of Guidance Software in Pasadena, California. Guidance Software is a leading provider of software to diagnose hacker attacks, and its EnCase product is used by hundreds of security researchers and law enforcement agencies worldwide, including the U.S. Secret Service and FBI. The break-in took place in November and was discovered December 7. The company alerted its customers within two days after the discovery and assured them it would no longer store customer credit card data. The company is working with the Secret Service on a detailed investigation of the incident. Washington Post, 20 December 2004 (registration req'd) www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121901525.ht… You have been reading excerpts from Edupage: If you have questions or comments about Edupage, send e-mail to: edupage(a)educause.edu To SUBSCRIBE to Edupage, send a message to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU and in the body of the message type: SUBSCRIBE Edupage YourFirstName YourLastName or To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your settings, or access the Edupage archive, visit http://www.educause.edu/Edupage/639 *** INTERESTING QUOTES: "There is no question that what this platform, what I call the `flat world platform,' does is really empower individuals. "We've gone from a globalization that was really built around countries, to one built around companies, to one that is increasingly empowering individuals." Tom Friedman Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/newshour_index.html * "Freedom is what promotes innovation." Reed Hastings, Netflix Founder * News From Other Sources Reports surfaced today that Harry Pooter and the Pyramid of Furmat will be the 7th and final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. However, similar reports indicated the title of The Half Blood Prince would be Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storge. "The Pyramids of Furmat lie a few miles east of the famous Fortress of Shadows, not far from the magnificent Pillar of Storge." According to Ms. Rowling. http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=2468322005 and Glasgow Daily Record, UK - Dec 26, 2005 *HEADLINE NEWS AVOIDED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR U.S. MEDIA Vice President Cheney removed his residence from online sources, says The New York Times, December 28, 2005. Google then replaced the tampered government photographs with others from a more reliable/valid private source. See Maureen Dowd's column. * Delphi auto parts has finally withdrawn from the table a proposal to cut workers' wages to 33%, not *by* 33%, in the face of asking for hundreds of millions to pay 600 executives it wants to keep as it files bankruptcy, the same 600 executives who led them into bankruptcy. If changes at Delphi do not run smoothly, General Motors could also face insolvency. ABC News Automotive News Detroit Free Press * At least there was some mention of the over 200,000 deaths due to the tsunami in some of the "year in review" stories. * No mention of Valerie Plame, whose husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, warned before the Iraq war that the WMD [Weapons of Mass Destruction] cited by President Bush and others did not exist. Ms. Plame was then "outed" as a CIA agent, presumably in response. [No mention even in the Top 100 stories of the year.] * The "eminent domain" strategies of moving people out of their neighborhoods to move in big businesses who would pay more taxes got no mention either. However, at least one story mentioned that most Seaside, MS. homes were over $1 million, and that once offshore floating casinos will now be rebuilt on land, land once owned by the poor who lived there for a number of generations, who will never get to rebuild. Apparently residents there are being pressured by the city to sell cheap rather than rebuild. Source: msnbc.msn.com/id/10549743/ * No mention of Special Agent Coleen Rowley's memo to the FBI about 9/11 after 21 years on the job. Though she was one of TIME's persons of the year, 2002, all of whom were whistleblowers, all of whom were women. The others brought down Enron and Worldcom, and not much mention of them, either. * What about those in Congress who were advised of wiretaps? Was it only a dozen? Were they sworn to not tell anyone, even other members of Congress? *DOUBLESPEAK OF THE WEEK "We will rebuild the hurricane damage to the poor." or "We will rebuild the hurricane damage for the rich." *PREDICTIONS OF THE WEEK New Orleans WILL have Mardi Gras. *STRANGE QUOTES OF THE WEEK "The only ones complaining about trailers are those already living in houses." ABC World News Tonight 12/20 *ODD STATISTICS OF THE WEEK There will be a "leap second" added between 2005 and 2006 to correct for some slowing of rotation of the earth, mostly due to drag from the moon. This is a common occurance, done 7 years ago and some 21 times since Greenwich Mean Time began in 1884. [Also called Coordinated Universal Time] * Movie theater grosses are down 14% over last year for the holiday season, but the statistics do not include any reference to the fact that more money is coming in from video rentals than theaters. * Still hoping for more statistical updates and additional entries. "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. * POEM OF THE WEEK Prediction Facilitators again pop up at me through covers of books, pictures in motion, songs I sometimes listen to when I'm ready to listen saying things I thought I knew but then realized I never quite got growing in me a sort of feeling that resembles maturity as a non-profit living in a profit oriented world grey skies readily situated me on the brink of a paradise lost situation when I met this man; he sang Happy Birthday to Jesus every Christmas while this woman he loved was mailing gifts to Santa Claus the child I hold within still listens hard the chimes of freedom are ringing again on their veranda; let my soul be yours this very moment the new year breathes its first breaths the swing they sit on makes little squeaking noises, the night is chilly, their feet covered in fluffy blankets. A tiara of fireflies lights up an airy path thoughts wander on while reading from the classics: two books for a dollar again this year wonderers like marlins dive into the depth of each other's eyes. The Moon predicts they'll always keep them open. Copyright 2005 by Simona Sumanaru and Michael S. Hart Please send comments to: simona_s75 AT yahoo.com & hart AT pobox.com *** *Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists For more information about the Project Gutenberg's mailing lists, including the Project Gutenberg Weekly and Monthly Newsletters: and the other Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists: The weekly is sent on Wednesdays, and the monthly is sent on the first Wednesday of the month. To subscribe to any (or to unsubscribe or adjust your subscription preferences), visit the Project Gutenberg mailing list server: http://lists.pglaf.org If you are having trouble with your subscription, please email the list's human administrators at: help(a)pglaf.org

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Happy Holidays!!!
by Michael Hart 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Happy Holidays to all!!! Particularly those who are with us today! Give eBooks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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Happy Holidays!!!
by Michael Hart 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Happy Holidays to all!!! Particularly those who are with us today! Give eBooks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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