PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-08-08)

pgweekly_2007_08_08.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 8, 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. FEATURED NEWS ————- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR I am still […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-08-01)

pgweekly_2007_08_01.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 1, 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. FEATURED NEWS ————- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR I am still […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-07-25)

pgweekly_2007_07_25.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 25, 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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About All Those Comments On “The Cult Of The Amateur”

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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PG Canada Live

On Canada Day 2007 the new Project Gutenberg Canada went live! As one would expect the site multilingual in both English and French. To celebrate their opening they released a “baker’s dozen: thirteen ebooks” which were specially created for the launch. With Canada’s copyright at life+50 years, they will likely be producing some new books […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-07-18)

pgweekly_2007_07_18.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 18, 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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The Connext all-in-one concept device

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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-07-11)

pgweekly_2007_07_11.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 11, 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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Thanks from Troop 309 Temecula

Greetings,We’ve now read most all the Gutenberg online Boy Scout books and related teen and pre-teen adventure books at our campouts.Great stuff, we just wish you posted more. Thanks again for a wonderful service. We also received much benefit from the book on knots. I’ve also read all of Dumas’ books from your site. Love […]

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The Cult of the Amateur – Part IV

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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-07-04)

pgweekly_2007_07_04.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, July 4, 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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