Professional Documents
Culture Documents
**Today marks the end of the 2004 production year, starting the 2005 year**
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[Search for "*eBook" or "*Intro". . .to jump to that section, etc.]
*eBook Milestones
*Introduction
*Hot Requests New Sites and Announcements
*Continuing Requests and Announcements
*Progress Report
*Distributed Proofreaders Collection Report
*Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Report
*Permanent Requests For Assistance:
*Donation Information
*Access To The Project Gutenberg Collections
*Mirror Site Information
*Instant Access To Our Latest eBooks
*Have We Given Away A Trillion Yet?
*Flashback
*Weekly eBook update:
This is now in PT2 of the Weekly Newsletter
Also collected in the Monthly Newsletter
Corrections in separate section
7 New From PG Australia [Australian, Canadian Copyright Etc.]
84 New Public Domain eBooks Under US Copyright
[2 counted twice last week, we really did 2 more this week]
*Headline News from NewsScan and Edupage
*Information About the Project Gutenberg Mailing Lists
***
*eBook Milestones
51 to go to 15,000!!!
We have now averaged ~448 eBooks per year since July 4th, 1971!!!
It took ~32 years, from 1971 to 2003 to do our 1st 10,000 eBooks
It took ~32 months, from 2001 to 2004 for our last 10,000 eBooks
It took ~10 years from 1993 to 2003 to grow from 100 eBooks to 10,100
HEADLINE NEWS
Jan 2005 Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, by O'Brien[050005xx.xxx]0400A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500051.txt or .zip
[Author's full name: John O'brien, pseudonym for Patrick Joseph Hartigan]
***
***Introduction
[The Newsletter is now being sent in two sections, so you can directly
go to the portions you find most interesting: 1. Founder's Comments,
News, Notes & Queries, and 2. Weekly eBook Update Listing.]
***
***Hot Requests New Sites and Announcements
www.pgcc.net
[also available as www.gutenberg.us and www.gutenberg.cc]
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4300
Basically this paginates the txt file and remembers your last position
in a cookie so you can later resume reading where you left off.
Please test it. It should work with any book that has a text file
where the encoding is known.
MACHINE TRANSLATION
***
Please use our new site for downloading DVD and CD images, etc.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cdproject
and
The PG bittorrent tracker is up and running.
Aaron Cannon has placed the CD and DVD there if anyone wants to test.
You can access it by visiting
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu:6969
***
http://www.gutenberg.org/about
***
We currently have access to a dozen DVD burners. If you have a DVD burner
and are interested in lending a hand, please email Aaron Cannon
<cannona@fireantproductions.com>
Please note that we can only use DVDs which are burnt in the dvd-r format,
as we have had some compatibility issues with the dvd+r format.
***
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/images
In the first 11.80 months of this year, we produced 3960 new eBooks.
It took us from July 1971 to December 2002 to produce our first 3,960 eBooks!
Since completing its first eBook (#3320) on Mar 13th, 2001, the
Distributed Proofreaders team has now produced its 6,165th eBook (#14597).
Of that total, there are 5,786 unique, brand-new titles.
Check out our website at www.gutenberg.org, and see below to learn how
you can get INSTANT access to our eBooks via FTP servers even before
the new eBooks listed below appear in our catalog.
eBooks are posted throughout the week. You can even get daily lists.
http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/subscribe-howto
or
http://www.gutenberg.org/subs.shtml
***
However, there are ~300 Chinese eBooks from Prof. Mao in progress.
***
http://www.pgdp.net
If you have a book that has been scanned, but not yet run
through OCR (optical character recognition) or proofed,
and you would like the Distributed Proofreaders to work on it,
please email dphelp@pgdp.net and we will get things started.
Do you have Public Domain books you would like to see in the archive?
Can they be destructively scanned? If so send them to the Distributed
Proofreading Team! Please email dphelp@pgdp.net with your geographic
location. You will be given the address of the nearest high-speed scanner
(note that the high-speed scanner requires destruction of the book(s) which
will not be returned). We have high-speed scanners currently located in
the east, west and central portions of the US to make shipping easier.
Please make sure that any books you send are _not_ already in the archive
and please check them against David's "In Progress" list at:
http://www.dprice48.freeserve.co.uk/GutIP.html
dphelp@pgdp.net
Do you like to work on an entire book at once but don't have the time
or technology to do the scanning, OCR, and initial proofing yourself?
Distributed Proofreaders has the perfect solution! Just send us email
telling us that you are interested in post-processing and we will help
find a project you would like to work on.
***Donation Information
We Have Included Quick and Easy Ways to Donate. . .As Per Your Requests!
***
QUICK WAYS TO MAKE A DONATION TO PROJECT GUTENBERG
NetworkForGood:
http://www.guidestar.org/partners/networkforgood/donate.jsp?ein=64-6221541
or
PayPal to "donate@gutenberg.org":
http://www.paypal.com
/xclick/business=donate%40gutenberg.org&item_name=Donate+to+Gutenberg
Mirrors (copies) of the complete collection are available around the world.
To find the sites nearest you, go to:
http://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL
Use your Web browser or FTP program to visit our master download
site (or a mirror) if you know the file's name you want. Try:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs
or
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/
and then navigate to the appropriate directory and look for the first
five characters of the file's name. Note that updated eBooks usually
go in their original directory (e.g., etext99, etext00, etc.)
***
Statistical Review
FLASHBACK!
May 2003 The Pedler of Dust Sticks, by Eliza Lee Follen[#5][pdlrdxxx.xxx] 4040
May 2003 Volpone; Or, The Fox, Ben Jonson [Jonson #5][vlpnrxxx.xxx] 4039
May 2003 Imaginary Portraits, Walter Horatio Pater [#6][?imagxxx.xxx] 4038
May 2003 Appreciations, With An Essay on Style, Pater [#5][?awaexxx.xxx] 4037
May 2003 Essays From The Guardian, Walter Horatio Pater[#4][?essgxxx.xxx] 4036
With 14,956 eBooks online as of January 05, 2005 it now takes an average
of 100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $0.67 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have currently given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
This "cost" is down from about $.92 when we had 10,821 eBooks a year ago.
Can you imagine ~14,956 books each costing ~$.25 less a year later???
Or. . .would this say it better?
Can you imagine ~14,956 books each costing 1/3 less a year later???
***
RADAR INFO 'MORE RELIABLE' THAN WHAT THE AIRLINES TELL YOU
[Tired of not being able to believe what the airlines tell you?]
[India and China will be moving up the technology ladder, just watch.]
>From Edupage
Y
ou have been reading excerpts from Edupage:
If you have questions or comments about Edupage,
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-958352.html
or send e-mail to: edupage@educause.edu
***
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
"We were more generous when we were less rich, many of the rich countries.
And it is beyond me, why are we so stingy, really. Even Christmas time
should remind many Western countries at least how rich we have become."
Not to mention why President Bush took four days before giving out
any statement whatsoever.
I'm sure you've all now heard this spin-doctored beyond belief,
so I'll let it be other than to add that when all is said and done,
perhaps over a year from now, the death toll might be 1/4 million,
possibly the second greatest natural disaster of all time.
More on TIMSS
I'm not at all sure why the 8th grade math scores got the
press releases a few weeks ago, my own comparisons with a
report from 1999 that I saved showed that the U.S. scores
in 8th grade science showed much more of a change:
1999
2003
Rank Country Name Score
09 United States 527
Math
Grade 8
1. Singapore 605
2. Korea [Rep./South] 589
3. Hong Kong, SAR 586
4. Chinese Taipei 585
5. Japan 570
6. Belgium [Flemish] 537
7. Netherlands 536
8. Estonia 531
9. Hungary 529
10. Malaysia 508
11. Latvia 508
12. Russian Federation 508
13. Slovak Republic 508
14. Australia 505
15. United States 504
Math
1. Singapore 594
2. Hong Kong SAR 575
3. Japan 565
4. Chinese Taipei 564
5. Belgium [Flemish] 551
6. Netherlands 540
7. Latvia 536
8. Lithuania 534
9. Russian Federation 532
10. England 531
11. Hungary 529
12. United States 518
13. Cyprus 510
14. Moldova, Rep. of 504
15. Italy 503
Grade 8
1. Singapore 578
2. Chinese Taipei 571
3. Korea, Rep./South 558
4. Hong Kong, SAR 556
5. Estonia 552
6. Japan 552
7. Hungary 543
8. Netherlands 536
9. United States 527
10. Australia 527
11. Sweden 524
12. Slovenia 520
13. New Zealand 520
14. Lithuania 519
15. Slovak Republic 520
Science
Grade 4
1. Singapore 565
2. Chinese Taipei 551
3. Japan 543
4. Hong Kong, SAR 542
5. England 540
6. United States 536
7. Latvia 532
8. Hungary 530
9. Russian Federation 526
10. Netherlands 525
11. Australia 521
12. New Zealand 520
13. Belgium [Flemish] 518
14. Italy 516
15. Lithuania 512
Three weeks ago nearly every new service had positive comments
about the improved U.S. students' TIMSS test scores that come
out every four years. Only one source I heard had the nerve
to say that the scores didn't really show any improvement,
while the rest seemed to reek of jingoism.
Much more likely is the fact that the U.S. ranking has
been changed more by changes in the other countries,
both in terms of the changes the countries chosen for
the 2003 tests, and the performance changes of those
countries that stayed the same.
Obviously the other countries changed much more than the U.S.,
over 7 times as much change, not to mention that many of the
countries tested in 1999 were not tested in 2003, a factor of
change much greater than that of the U.S. performance change.
http://lists.pglaf.org