PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-08-22)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_08_22.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 22, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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yBook Reader: A Review

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Good non-clunky free e-book readers available NOW Regarding the clunkiness or otherwise of e-book readers, I was absolutely delighted when I tried yBook, as mentioned in the George Davis article in the PG Newletter of 13 June 2007. You can tailor it to your own preferences in typeface, font size, type colour, background colour and […]

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Top 100 Honors: Project Gutenberg

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In the issue of PC Magazine, their “Top 100” web sites out of millions lists Project Gutenberg for being one of the best of the best Internet resources. [Update 2017: the linked webpage is no longer available so I’ve removed the link.] Project Gutenberg is among the very oldest electronic information providers in the world […]

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Scrollbox online library and e-reader

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Scrollbox.org is an online library and e-reader. It’s designed to be a simple way of reading eBooks on computers and phones with internet access. It uses no images or video so pages load quickly, and allows users to upload books for their own use. Scrollbox remembers what you were reading last time you visited and […]

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The @folio eReader

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@folio is a reading device conceived in October 1996 by Pierre Schweitzer, an architect-designer living in Strasbourg, France. It is meant to download and read any text and/or illustrations from the web or hard disk, in any format, with no proprietary format and no DRM. The technology of @folio is novel and simple, and very […]

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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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-08-15)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_08_15.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 15, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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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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