Michael Hart

The People Behind Project Gutenberg

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There’s no doubt PG would not be where it is today without Michael Hart and the tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world. As you can imagine, it’s impossible to name every person. What Wiki Team member Ricardo F. Diogo has done is put together a page on the Gutenberg Wiki naming the […]

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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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Project Gutenberg feature in Red Hat Magazine

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Free as in, well, free. At least, that’s what the folks at Project Gutenberg believe. They work hard to make as many literary (in a very broad sense of the term) works as possible available in a variety of formats, languages, and media to as many people as possible. They are guided by similar principles […]

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Michael Hart wants IBM Memory Key’s

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Michael Hart is looking for one of the original “IBM Memory Keys” that have evolved into our current RAMsticks, USBsticks, etc., or even the UK version that existed before that. It doesn’t have to be functional…he just wants it for comparison purposes. Please contact Michael at hart@pglaf.org if you might be able to provide one.

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Michael Hart Interviewed on NPR about Digital Libraries

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This coming weekend an interview with Michael Hart about Digital Libraries will be broadcast on NPR [National Public Radio]. In this interview he was also joined by Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive) and Michael Keller (Librarian of Stanford). Michael specifically talks about wearing Digital Libraries on a necklace, Terabyte hard drives and creating a Billion […]

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The Medieval Helpdesk: A Youtube Video

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A short movie on YouTube that is getting millions of hits, and is a total riot! Just a short note on how the video about the Medieval “Book” Helpdesk got here. As with so many people, I had played with YouTube once a month or so to do a little searching for certain things and […]

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Word for Word

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Electronic publishing is replacing print, changing reading as well as society. Cavemen used charcoal to write on walls. Ancient Egyptians scrawled hieroglyphics on papyrus scrolls. Medieval monks penned illuminated manuscripts on parchment. Then Johannes Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, making writing available to all. Now a revolution is under way that is rapidly […]

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Hart’s Opinion on Copyright Law Rejection

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Some sad news to report: the 9th Circuit has rejected constitutional challenges to the copyright laws in *Kahle v. Gonzales*. The opinion is here. Sad, yes, but also positively maddening, for reasons I will explain shortly.First, a bit of background: Plaintiffs in this case — the Internet Archive and its Chairman, Brewster Kahle, and the […]

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