======== Subject: Gutenberg Volnteers' Newsletter From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteers' List" <gutvol-l@listserv.oit.unc.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:29:40 -0600 (CST) This is Project Gutenberg's Volunteers' Newsletter for February, 1999 We are redoing Pride and Prejudice. . .if anyone is interested in new work on this, please let me know. . .we could possibly use some help. We are also going to need some serious help if we are going to get to Don Quixote in Spanish for our Etext #2000, which is only now some 90 Etexts away. . .and we have not had much luck in finding editions the copyright has obviously gone out of. . . . We need to find editions, from any country, that were published before 1923. . . . *** I have a bunch of books available for scanning. For list, please see: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mdo1/scanbook.html Michael Oltz <mdo1@cornell.edu> *** Things have gone pretty slowly since the holidays, the last 45 days might be first time I can remember that we have not actually made a number of Etexts equal to our schedule, though we are still quite a bit ahead of our 1999 schedule, but falling back slightly. If you have sent in xeroxes or Etexts I have not dealt with, please let me know. . . . *** Here are the thank you notes that have arrived since the last issue of the Volunteers' Newsletter. * I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to read this and be thus affected if it were not on the internet. Thank you for the work you are doing. God bless. While I am writing I shall add that your Gutenberg Project is excellent. I have downloaded many books, and even managed to find time to read a few, and passed the books and your site location on to others. I will pass you kind words on to our volunteers! 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I should tell you: in the last two days I've been approached by several people who have already read selections from your collection and are delighted to have access. Yours is a good mission! [From a new site] Thanks a million and keep up the good work!!! I spent some very enjoyable hours reading from your website. I am writing you as a result of my recent delighted exposure to the Project Gutenberg sites on the internet. Came across Project Gutenberg. I must say, you have a great looking website and an excellent thing going on here! I want to say that I recently was introduced to your project and the related web sites by a friend who works in the head trauma/special needs environment. I was impressed by the collection you have amassed and to my surprise I was given privilege to hear the text spoken with some software that translated the etext. It truly was a revelation for me. I just read about your Project in Biblio's recent article about etexts and am captivated by what you have done. Have subscribed to your newsletter. Just want to thank you for this phenomenal resource I am only just beginning to mine. [Mine is a Web term for getting value from the Internet] Congratulations for the very interesting and important work that you are all doing. Thanks for your continued efforts! I am very grateful for the e-texts that Project Gutenberg has made available. Thank you for making information and literature available on the Internet. I read about your work with project gutenburg in wired. I've always been a great fan of getting literature and books on the web. I think your efforts are magnificent and should be continued. Thanks for all your hard work, hopefully someday people will understand the importance of this. *** I hope you will add my own thanks to the list Michael ============================================= Michael S. 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