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From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [eBook-List] [DUC] INFO/NYT: The Romance of the Paper Book and the Developing
Reality of Electronic Text for Document Delivery As Seen By a Published Author
REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:
A published author shares her emotional reactions and
observations regarding the developing trend away from paper text
to electronic and web based formats in book publication. Uploading the
next days reading at home may have advantages over the rush to the
airport bookstore the next day.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204-4584
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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: MARGARET DIEHL
Title: Ready to Download Now
Source Date: December 12, 1999
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Electronic Books, Cultural Values, New
Technologies, Social Adjustment
URL: Listed Below Article Summary
December 12, 1999
BOOKEND / By MARGARET DIEHL
Ready to Download Now
As I spend more of my time in front of the computer -- writing,
perusing online newspapers and magazines, sending e-mail -- it has become
clear to me that one day I will read like this. I mean really read:
novels, poetry, lengthy prose, for the purpose of deep, slow literary
pleasure. I will end my life, if I am blessed with a normal span, embraced
by a new technology, adjusted to it, and still in love with stories and
the English language.
I refused to believe this a few years ago. How could something like
an electronic book -- a small, wireless computer one can load with any
volume off a comprehensive menu, at a price that will probably be less
than the cost of a paperback now -- compete emotionally with ''real''
books, those flexible, paper- and ink-scented companions we have all
tucked under an arm to read on the train; carried off triumphantly from
the store, signed by the author; left out in the rain or used to prop up a
wobbly table? Real books are discovered in vacation cottages, inherited
from a grandmother or your husband's first wife; they're scribbled in,
bled on, thrown at the wall.
Lately, I've started to look forward to the new era. I can imagine
becoming attached to my e-book, my carry-everywhere entertainment
center, a cornucopia that never empties -- what I feel now toward my
laptop but more so.
As for the love of paper, my suggestion is to transfer it back to
trees. Visit them, sniff their bark or a crisp curled leaf in October. The
natural world is always with us. What matters, in literature, is the word.
An abstracted citation for this story will be archived in an edition of
E-Carm News at http://www.ecarm.org
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 17:49:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dianne Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What I need most are people who already have books to scan, or who have
books to donate for scanning or typing.
Christine Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have. . . .
Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World by George Rawlinson;
no copyright date on the title page. I only have vol 3.: concludes the
fourth monarchy (Babylonia) and the fifth monarchy (Persia).
***She is willing to pay for the other two volumes if you can find them.
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Blackstone's Commentaries Request
Is this doable? I just got the first of four volumes (I'm not sure when
I'll be able to afford the other three -- they're about $16 each) of the
paperback facsimile edition the University of Chicago Press put out in 1979.
The facsimile title page says it was published in Oxford in M.DCC.LXV. It
has "s"s that look like "f"s, footnotes all over the place, and lots of
French and Latin phrases scattered thru it, all in Italics. Each volume is
about 500 pp. So I ask again, is this doable?
From: "K. Kay Shearin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of
the First Edition of 1765-1769, from The University of Chicago Press,
copyright 1979.
There's a hardbound edition, too, but in paperback the ISBNs are:
Vol. 1: 0-226-05538-8 (this is the one I have)
Vol. 2: 0-226-05541-8
Vol. 3: 0-226-05543-4
Vol. 4: 0-226-05545-0
The intro says it's "the most important legal treatise ever written in the
English language," and this "edition is meant to make the book available to
students and scholars in an accurate, accessible, and inexpensive form," so
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Latin Etexts: we are expanding our collection of Latin Etexts,
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Can anyone find:
Artistotle's Categories translated by E. M. Edghill
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From: Sandra Laythorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Would anyone be willing to proofread the works of:
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) lived in the village of Otterbourne,
Hampshire, England, all her life. She was a friend of John Keble,
founder of The Oxford Movement, and would have known Florence Nightingale.
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We have cleared four of the eight volume set of Elson Readers
[5-8 are ok, but our 1-4 are newer editions, so we need these
from before 1923, or at least with all copyright dates listed
before 1923] Mike Pullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Oliver.C.Colt. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Professor Hart. Some time ago I sent you a transcript of a tale
written by Tolstoy and translated by Aylmer Maude, the title being "A
prisoner in the Caucuses". There was some uncertainty about the
copyright position, as the book from which I had taken this was
published in the U.K. in 1931. However, I find that this translation and
others by Aylmer Maude were being published long before that in a
variety of publications. It occurs to me that if the matter is investigated
it might well be that the story could be used in P.G. without infringing
any copyright. May I suggest that if you are interested you set your
bloodhounds on the trail, unless you feel quite sure that a search would
be pointless.
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Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) lived in the village of Otterbourne,
Hampshire, England, all her life. She was a friend of John Keble, founder of
The Oxford Movement, and would have known Florence Nightingale, who was a
near neighbour, and other notables. She was a very popular novelist, but
her books are little read nowadays, because they are considered by modern
critics to be sentimental and narrow. Her most popular work is 'The Heir of
Redclyffe' (1853), which has recently been reprinted. Miss Yonge was a
woman of her time, and records the lives of families living through the
great social changes of the 19th Century. I think her works are ideal for
the Gutenberg Project, because they are important social records, have been
neglected for nearly 100 years, and they deserve to have a wider reading
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Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][7hckbxxx.xxx]2322
Sep 2000 Hans Huckebein, by Wilhelm Busch [Three * Stories][8hckbxxx.xxx]2322
*Hans Huckebein, der Ungluecksrabe; Das Pusterohr; Das Bad am Samstag Abend*
German/Two versions/7-bit version without accents/8-bit version with accents.
Aug 2000 The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #7][dscmnxxx.xxx]2300
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Mar 2000 Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 13[13frdxxx.xxx]2113
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Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][8wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 8, by Goethe[Goethe 20][7wml8xxx.xxx]2342
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][8wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 7, by Goethe[Goethe 19][7wml7xxx.xxx]2341
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][8wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 6, by Goethe[Goethe 18][7wml6xxx.xxx]2340
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][8wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 5, by Goethe[Goethe 17][7wml5xxx.xxx]2339
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][8wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 4, by Goethe[Goethe 16][7wml4xxx.xxx]2338
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][8wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 3, by Goethe[Goethe 15][7wml3xxx.xxx]2337
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
[A word of explanation--ALL the texts for the entire 8 volumes WERE posted in
the 2 volume names listed below. . .this was because I did not understand the
structure of the index entries I received until the last minute, and I wanted
to go ahead and make the files available then. In today's Newsletter. . .we
have divided these up into the 8 volumes. . .so if you want to keep them in a
larger file format, keep the old files. . . .for as of now the same filenames
for volumes 1 and 2 will actually only contain 1 volume each/did have 4 each]
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][8wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 2, by Goethe[Goethe 14][7wml2xxx.xxx]2336
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][8wml1xxx.xxx]2335
Sep 2000 Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 1, by Goethe[Goethe 13][7wml1xxx.xxx]2335
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Oct 2000 Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, Mackail [8efgmxxx.xxx]2378
[The 7 bit version does not contain accents, the 8 [binary] bit version does]
Oct 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London ###] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
[We stopped numbering such stories individually, but since these are close to
the last stories he ever wrote, we will finish Jack London this way. mh]
Contains. . . .
Oct 2000 An Odyssey of the North, by Jack London [J.L.#87] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Wife of a King, by Jack London [London #86] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Wisdom of the Trail, by Jack London [J.L.#85] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Priestly Prerogative, by Jack London[J.L.#84] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 To the Man on the Trail, by Jack London [J.L.#83] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 In a Far Country, by Jack London [London #82] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Men of Forty Mile, by Jack London[London #81] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The Son of the Wolf, by Jack London [London #80] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 The White Silence, by Jack London [London #79] [snwlfxxx.xxx]2377
Oct 2000 Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington [slvryxxx.xxx]2376
Oct 2000 Tartarin de Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtrnxxx.xxx]2375
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier by Madame de Lafayette[mntpnxxx.xxx]2374
Oct 2000 The Path of the Law, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[#2][pthlwxxx.xxx]2373
Oct 2000 The Woman-Haters, by Joseph C. Lincoln [wmnhrxxx.xxx]2372
Oct 2000 The Filigree Ball, by Anna Katherine Green [AKG#4][flgblxxx.xxx]2371
Oct 2000 Sir Gibbie, by George MacDonald [G. MacDonald #8][sirgbxxx.xxx]2370
Oct 2000 One of Ours, by Willa Cather [Willa Cather #6][1oursxxx.xxx]2369
Oct 2000 The Angel and the Author et al, by J K Jerome[#23][angauxxx.xxx]2368
Oct 2000 Los Bombardeos Atomicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki/SP[sbombxxh.xxx]2367
Oct 2000 The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [SP][sbombxxh.xxx]2367
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Oct 2000 The Beldonald Holbein, by Henry James [James #22][bldhbxxx.xxx]2366
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier, by Mme. de Lafayette [7mntpxxx.xxx]2365
Oct 2000 The Princess de Montpensier, by Mme. de Lafayette [8mntpxxx.xxx]2365
Oct 2000 Active Service, by Stephen Crane[Stephen Crane #3][tvsrvxxx.xxx]2364
Oct 2000 Incognita, by William Congreve[William Congreve#5][ncogaxxx.xxx]2363
Oct 2000 The Story of Wellesly, by Florence Converse [wlslyxxx.xxx]2362
Oct 2000 Why Go To College, by Alice Freeman Palmer [y2clgxxx.xxx]2361
Oct 2000 Riddle of the Sands, by Erskine Childers [riddlxxx.xxx]2360
Oct 2000 Stories by English Authors in France, Scribners Ed[sbeafxxx.xxx]2359
CONTENTS
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT, by R. L. Stevenson
A LEAF IN THE STORM, by Ouida
A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED, by Wilkie Collins
MICHEL LORIO'S CROSS, by Hesba Stretton
A PERILOUS AMOUR, by Stanley J. Weyman
Oct 2000 The After House, by Mary Roberts Rinehart[MRR #14][ftrhsxxx.xxx]2358
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxx.xxx]2357C
Oct 2000 Great Jehoshaphat & Gully Dirt, Jewell Ellen Smith[gjagdxxh.xxx]2357C
[The HTML version of the first edition is named gjadh10h.htm and gjadh10h.zip]
[The plain version of this first edition is named gjadh10.txt and gjadh10.zip]
Oct 2000 Tommy and Co., by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #22][tomcoxxx.xxx]2356
Oct 2000 The Formation of Vegetable Mould, by Darwin [CD#9][vgmldxxx.xxx]2355
Oct 2000 On the Brain, by T. H. Huxley [THH#3] [Darwin #8][huxbrxxx.xxx]2354
Oct 2000 Tea-table Talk, by Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome #21][ttalkxxx.xxx]2353
Oct 2000 Eurasia, by Chris. Evans [uasiaxxx.xxx]2352
Oct 2008 John Halifax, Gentleman, by Mrs. Craik:Dinah Maria[halifxxx.xxx]2351
Oct 2000 His Last Bow, by Arthur Conan Doyle[A.C.Doyle #23][lstbwxxx.xxx]2350
Oct 2000 The Adv. of The Devil's Foot, A. Conan Doyle [#22][dvlftxxx.xxx]2349
Oct 2000 The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax [ACD #21][lcrfxxxx.xxx]2348
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Dying Detective, A Conan Doyle #20[dydetxxx.xxx]2347
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Bruce-Partington Plans [Doyle #19][bplanxxx.xxx]2346
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Red Circle A. Conan Doyle [#18][rcrclxxx.xxx]2345
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of The Cardboard Box, by Connan Doyle #17[crdbdxxx.xxx]2344
Oct 2000 The Adv. Of Wisteria Lodge, A. Conan Doyle [#16][wstraxxx.xxx]2343
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 10:20:18 -0600
From: Judith Boss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Zane Grey book available
Michael:
In addition to the previous 6 books, I have a copy of Zane Grey's _The
Last Trail_ [TAKEN!] available for someone to work with.
B. M. Bower, _Casey Ryan_
_The Gringos_
_Skyrider_
Frances Hodgson Burnett, _In Connection with the DeWilloughby Claim_
W. W. Jacobs, _Many Cargoes_
H. G. Wells, _The Undying Fire_ TAKEN!
Time to run the copyright rules by them again, and also have had a couple
of complaints about the how-to input directions being wordy. I thought I
re-wrote them, but that's not what's at the site. Remind me again when the
time comes if you want me to do it.
Dianne
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A PROPOSAL FOR PUBLISHING PROJECT GUTENBERG BOOKS IN HTML
by philip Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There is a problem in that PG books are currently on the web
site in ascii, but the prefered format for web-basded information
is HTML. One solution would be to copy all the books into HTML.
However, this would present other problems, such as:
(1) what about other data formats such as WAP, RTF, DocBook,
MSWord, PDF, etc? Will we want to transcribe all existing PG
books into these formats as well?
(2) what about new PG books? We don't want to have to manually
enter the same book multiple times, once for each format.
(3) HTML is popular now, but will it be in 10 years time? Will
something else be popular then? We don't want to have to keep
re-translating.
These problems can be solved by translating them not into HTML,
but into an XML-based format.
I envisage that most of ther work in translation can be done
programmatically -- I plan writing a few experimental Python scripts
to do this over the next few weeks.
Of course, it is necessary to define exactly what the XML-based format
will look like (i.e. what tags to use, and their meaning). My preference
would be for something quite simple: <p>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3> to define
types of paragraph, <i> and <b> to define italic and boldface, and
<pre> to define preformated text. As you probably know, these are the same
tags that HTML uses.
Once the data is in the XML format, translating to the other formats I
mentioned above will be easy, i.e. it will be able to be done entirely
automatically once the right programs are written. I do not envisage these
programs as being difficult to write. So once a book is in XML, it is
(almost) automatically available in all the other formats that we will
support. And if PG decides to use a new format, it is just a matter of
writing a smallish translation program, and hey presto all the existing
books are converted.
New PG books would be typed in in the XML format (another reason for
making it as simple as possible).
PERSONAL NOTES
I've got the programming skills to do the code-writing part of the
project, and I have a web server that I can host 500MB of data on.
The thing I would probably need most help on is manually formatting text
into XML (as I said, I hope most of this process can be automated).
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RACING TO CONVERT BOOKS TO BYTES
Although skepticism remains as to whether readers will embrace
digital books, interest in the electronic format is growing, with
young people leading the trend. The University of Texas at
Austin plans to spend $1 million to increase its current
collection of 6,000 electronic books. Students are checking out
the university's digital books at astonishing rates, says
librarian Dennis Dillon. "Usually a book has a one-third chance
of being checked out," Dillon says. "So to have some title
checked out 25 times in two months--that's shocking." Companies
such as Microsoft are preparing for a wave of digital reading,
predicting that electronic books will overtake print books within
10 years. Meanwhile, traditional publishers such as Random House
are skeptical about the new format but are still moving to
digitize all of their titles. Startups such as netLibrary, which
sells electronic books to libraries, are working to draw readers
by offering a large selection of titles. However, in order to
get publishers to sell titles, these companies need to prove that
sufficient demand exists for the digital format. (New York Times 12/09/99)
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Internet retailer Amazon.com and the Amazon Bookstore, a small feminist
bookstore in Minneapolis that has used the name "Amazon" since 1970, have
settled a legal dispute over the use of their common name. The Minneapolis
store will always refer to itself by its full name of Amazon Bookstore
Cooperative and will assign its common-law rights to the name to Amazon.com
in return for a license from the Internet company to continue using the
Amazon name. (AP/USA Today 4 Nov 99)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg578.htm
I have scanner and Omnipage, and would be happy to scan things for others
(without proof reading their work). If the person is in the SF Bay area it
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