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Anacleto Search of Project Gutenberg’s eBooks

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Gutenberg volunteers & other interested folks: Here’s something new to try. It’s a search engine that includes fielded searches, plus text, for the PG content. It enables searching the files (as Google does), and parses the catalog for database-style searches (like our Yahoo search). It’s fresh. Please email Anna Tothfalusi (atothfalusi@tesuji.eu) with any feedback or […]

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Digital books on the iPhone to be provided by HarperCollins

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NEW YORK (Reuters) reported that publisher HarperCollins said on Wednesday, it will be making 14 new book titles available for Apple’s web-browsing iPhone in an effort to extend publishing into digital formats. Books being made available include; “The Burnt House” by Faye Kellerman, “Now and Forever” by Ray Bradbury and “Obama” by David Mendell. It […]

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Online texts – The most enlightened initiative since English studies was invented?

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Thousands of literary texts are now available online, all submitted by volunteers. Is this the most enlightened initiative since English studies was invented? John Sutherland wrote an interesting article for the Gardian Unlimited back in July. In this article he make mention of Project Gutenberg along with several other online projects. Here’s a short extract […]

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Einstein’s “Most Important Decision”

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Einstein said that the most important decision you ever make is whether you live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe– in a positive universe or a negative universe. This relates very strongly to what is perhaps the greatest idea I came up with in all my college years, which was that you make […]

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No Contest: eBooks Are Winning!

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The pundits all ask, “Why aren’t eBooks a success?” But their queries show a ridiculous bias when their form and content always come down to the dollar. The almighty dollar. A Reply To All Those Pundits by Michael S. Hart. What If A New Product Just Doesn’t Cost Anything? If the pundits had asked the […]

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About All Those Comments On “The Cult Of The Amateur”

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Michael S. Hart Internet User ~100 Definitely Amateur Inventor of eBooks Project Gutenberg, & World eBook Fair Only Professionals Should Be Trusted That’s the main message of “The Cult Of The Amateur.” Of course, as soon as one even looks at the structure of this thought it becomes obviously a circular point in an argument […]

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The Connext all-in-one concept device

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The Connext is an all-in-one, flexible smart device that can morph its form to fit the application that it assumes. Is this the future? Well, even if it isn’t it is still a very cool device that looks just amazing.Designed by James Zhang from Yanko Design this concept combines the OLED touch-screen technology with E-paper […]

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The Cult of the Amateur – Part IV

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A reply to the complaints of the paid professional punditry on the subject of having lost their previously impermeable media monopoly they are just now only realizing hit an immoveable iceberg quite a while ago with the Internet, cell phone, and iPod revolutions. The Media. . .versus. . .The Media??? Would a television executive rather […]

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The Cult of the Amateur – Part III

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A reply to the complaints of the paid professional punditry on the subject of having lost their previously impermeable media monopoly they are just now only realizing hit an immoveable iceberg quite a while ago with the Internet, cell phone, and iPod revolutions. The Structure of the Professional Versus Amateur World Systems The Structure of […]

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The Cult of the Amateur – Part II

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Scientists versus The Media A second essay on “The Cult of the Amateur” concentrating on some aspects of professional scientists versus amateurs. The Three Greatest Scientific Thinkers of the Last Millennium When it comes to science names such as Einstein, Newton, Galileo, stand out above all the rest when it comes to understanding those scientific […]

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The Cult of the Amateur – Part I

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A reply to the complaints of the paid professional punditry on the subject of having lost their previously impermeable media monopoly they are just now only realizing hit an immoveable iceberg quite a while ago with the Internet, cell phone, and iPod revolutions. by Michael S. Hart Internet User #199 Founding Member of Project Gutenberg, […]

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