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eReader trial version
by Greg Newby 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Hi friends. Here's something that might be worth putting on the feeds: Project Gutenberg and CogniLore team up to revolutionize digital reading with proLibro eReader trial. Try it now and share your feedback for a chance to win a $15 gift card! https://www.cognilore.com/prolibro-trial-version/ I have a longer version for the May newsletter, in case you want some additional wording or context: In April, Project Gutenberg met with the executives at CogniLore for a comprehensive demonstration of their flagship eReader platform called proLibro. Among the free eBooks available through the application were a selection of popular titles from Project Gutenberg. CogniLore was successful in showing us how the content could be “brought to life” through the additions of interactive features and functionalities such as annotations, advanced searching, favourites, text to speech, and more. Project Gutenberg and CogniLore have agreed to continue the relationship moving forward as we both strive to share lessons learned about emerging technologies and different ways of rendering free digital content accessible to all. This innovative solution has potential to revolutionize digital publishing and the reader experience. CogniLore is excited to announce the release of the proLibro eReader trial software, for the Microsoft Windows platform. This offers access to a selection of popular Project Gutenberg titles in an enhanced format. Share your feedback in a simple survey to shape the future of digital reading and stand a chance to win a $15 gift card! Your valuable feedback on the tool will inform CogniLore’s technology roadmap and ensure that the product responds well to the needs of readers. Find information about the free trial here: https://www.cognilore.com/prolibro-trial-version/ Thanks as always! ~ Greg

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Some interesting work using PG
by Eric Hellman 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

A friend of mine is doing some interesting data analysis of PG texts. Might be interesting for our social media feeds. http://carrels.distantreader.org/ Eric Hellman

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Re: [socialmedia] ibiblio outage persists; www.gutenberg.org functional issues & new postings
by Greg Newby 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Things seem back to normal, and I've re-enabled hourly pushes of new titles. Let me know if any further problems are observed. ~ Greg On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:33:17PM -0700, Greg Newby wrote: > Hi folks. The ibiblio site had a name server problem this (Tuesday) afternoon and www.gutenberg.org is not recovered yet. > > Hopefully they'll fix it on Wednesday morning (EDT). > > I've temporarily halted the hourly run of 'dopush,' so any files published will remain queued until things are running again. There might be some cleanup, because any new books added during the outage could not be added to the catalog or have their generated formats made. > > I've put a notice on the main page of www.gutenberg.org in the meantime. > ~ Greg >

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Website down
by Christine Bell 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Hi Greg, Our website has been down for a few hours. Is there a time line for getting it back up? Kind regards, Christine

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Nice blog post
by Greg Newby 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

This is worthy of amplification on social media, I think: https://blog.pgdp.net/2024/04/01/my-distributed-proofreaders-journey/ Maybe you already saw it on the DP feed? Thanks, Greg

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Fwd: New Blog Reviewing Your Books
by Greg Newby 15 Mar '24

15 Mar '24

Hi team. I will include a link to this blog in our April email newsletter. You might find it of interest to include in the PG social media. ~ Greg ----- Forwarded message from Martin Kloos <martin(a)kloos.co.uk> ----- From: Martin Kloos <martin(a)kloos.co.uk> To: gbnewby(a)pglaf.org Subject: New Blog Reviewing Your Books Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:32:20 +0000 Dear Dr Newby, Love the site and love reading classic books. But it is so hard to understand what the books are about. So I started to dig around to find out more about the recent books and found some wonderful reads. Then I thought, why keep this information to myself! So I have created a blog, reviewing recent additions to Project Gutenberg. This way, everyone can share the love! *https://newgutenbergbooks.blogspot.com/* I wonder if you might like to include a link to this blog on your site, or quote it on a post or mail-out. There is nothing in this for me, other than finding great books and sharing that with others. Happy to answer any questions or to discuss further. -- Many thanks Martin Kloos /*07932 221 220*/ | /martin(a)kloos.co.uk /|/www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kloos <https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kloos>/ ///<https://www.credly.com/badges/717458e4-4fcc-4983-b3b1-d991be2df0c2/public_u…> / ----- End forwarded message -----

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Spam
by Paul Biba 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Over the past weeks we've started getting spam comments on our Facebook page and I have been removing them and baning the senders. This is new as I've hardly gotten any spam comments since I started my tenure. Just an alert for you to keep your eyes open on anything you might moderate. Paul

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Website slowness returns
by Greg Newby 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

We've been working with iBiblio since Friday to try to figure out why www.gutenberg.org is so slow. Today, Saturday, it's often timing out and is pretty unusable. This the same problem we've been having off and on for a couple of months. I put a notice on the main page: Website slowdowns. The website has been slow and sometimes unresponsive since Friday January 12. We are working with iBiblio, our hosting provider, to remedy the situation. Problems might persist throughout the weekend. Apologies for this disruption. Unfortunately the iBiblio folks don't offer much weekend support. I've been trying to press them to figure things out but without much luck. ~ Greg Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive and Director Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation www.gutenberg.org A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with EIN 64-6221541 gbnewby(a)pglaf.org

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PG’s website
by Laura N 26 Dec '23

26 Dec '23

It seems that our website is getting slower once again. I am getting a lot of timeout error connection. Laura

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Fwd: Facebook
by Greg Newby 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Paul & Eric: can you take a look? Thanks! Greg ----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> ----- From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> To: help2023(a)pglaf.org Subject: Facebook Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:07:57 -0600 Something is munging the new book announcements on facebook. They aren't showing covers, and some aren't even showing the title. Not complaining, you can't fix it if you don't know. -- Jonathan ----- End forwarded message -----

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