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Subject: December 10th Project Gutenberg Newsletter
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:11:00 -0600 (CST)
***The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 10, 1997**
Some of you may receive this a day later due to shifts in a
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CONTENTS:
Shakespeare
Portuguese Etext Team
Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine Site of the Month
For December:
A new release of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare;
which brings us to Etext #1137. This brings us to 10 times
as many files as we had available just 4 years ago today.
As you may be aware, December 10th has been important to us
in the past, as we posted our 100th Etext on December 10th,
1993--just four years ago. As promised, we are releasing a
version of this as independent files, so you no longer have
to download the Complete Works of Shakespeare to get any of
the particular plays or poems you may wish to use.
We need Shakespeare volunteers to scan or type and proof
Two Noble Kinsmen and Cardenio, dubious Shakespeare texts.
Please contact: Dianne Bean <beandp@primenet.com>.
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Please put us on your holiday gift list. . .last year about
this time was the first month we ever received more than we
spent on running Project Gutenberg; details appended below.
It would be nice if we could manage this for two months for
1998, and we will hopefully continue to gain publicity from
the major media that will encourage volunteers & donations.
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We need xeroxes of the title page [both sides] of the Oxford
Book of English Verse [pre-1923 edition].
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Would those interested in Edgar Allen Poe let me know. The
files are mostly ready for final proofreading.
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In general, those of you who have worried about sending big
amounts of email or snail mail, or being too demanding on a
few of us, now is the time to send in xeroxes, questions or
some other items you were worried might take too much time,
effort, etc., on the parts of our volunteers or myself. The
holidays are traditionally a period when we do huge amounts
of work, and the computers are very fast because others are
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We are also working on a new high bandwidth listserver: we
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Our Portuguese Team is forming up, and anyone interested in
doing Etexts or sites in Portuguese or in translation is an
extremely welcome addition. Please contact Lucia Segovia:
<lsegovia@mail.telepac.pt> about Etexts in Portuguese: and
Marco Campos <mcampos@esoterica.pt> about forming sites.
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"Yahoo Internet Life" magazine has chosen Project Gutenberg
as their "Site of the Month" for January, 1998, in an issue
dedicated to the "Top of the Net." This issue should reach
the newsstands this week and my advance copy is interesting
in the extreme. I would suggest taking a look at the whole
thing, and possibly at our article with is the middle at pp
68-69. Somehow I think our press is getting better, and it
may yet help us keep afloat.
"In the galaxy of Website awards we offer our five stars
just 12 times a year. Here's this month's in-depth look
at a Web site or service that is truly distinctive. . ."
Also:
As of today, TopTenLinks ranked your web site as one of the
top ten web sites on the Internet! Your ranking can be found
at TopTenLinks located at: www.toptenlinks.com
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I have returned from my month of hobnobbing, with my fellow
wizards on the West Coast and have made numbers of contacts
that should someday provide some help in nearly all areas I
think we need help: financial, incorporation, more Etexts,
and more computers and scanners. I will be following up on
these contacts in the year[s] to come, and hopefully make a
variety of new contacts each November to come. If you have
suggestions for areas I did not include above please let me
know. Oh, I also made a public relations contact that I am
hoping will get us more publicity.
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Now, here are the 32 November Etexts, and 17 from December--
we promised that as soon as we had 1,000 Etexts we would put
out individual editions of the Shakespeare works that we had
posted as a single large file as our 100th Etext, four years
ago this very week, and dedicated to my father, who died the
10th of December, 1989, after helping me take one of the big
steps towards getting Project Gutenberg out of this basement
and into a more worldwide mode of circulation. Thanks Dad!!
Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext]####
A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work.
Dec 1997 A Lover's Complaint, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws44xx.xxx]1137
Dec 1997 King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws42xx.xxx]1136
Dec 1997 Tempest, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws41xx.xxx]1135
Dec 1997 The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws40xx.xxx]1134
Dec 1997 Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws39xx.xxx]1133
Dec 1997 The Life of Timon of Athens, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws37xx.xxx]1132
Dec 1997 The Tragedy of Coriolanus, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws36xx.xxx]1131
Dec 1997 Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws35xx.xxx]1130
Dec 1997 Macbeth, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws34xx.xxx]1129
Dec 1997 King Lear, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws32xx.xxx]1128
Dec 1997 Othello, The Moor of Venice, by Shakespeare [WL][1ws32xx.xxx]1127
Dec 1997 Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws31xx.xxx]1126
Dec 1997 All's Well that End's Well, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws30xx.xxx]1125
Dec 1997 History of Troilus and Cressida, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws29xx.xxx]1124
Dec 1997 Twelfth Night; or What You Will, by Shakespeare[WL][1ws28xx.xxx]1123
Dec 1997 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by Wm Shakespeare [WL][1ws26xx.xxx]1122
Dec 1997 As You Like It, William Shakespeare [World Library][1ws25xx.xxx]1121
Nov 1997 Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare[World Library][1ws24xx.xxx]1120
Nov 1997 King Henry V, William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws23xx.xxx]1119
Nov 1997 Much Ado about Nothing, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws22xx.xxx]1118
Nov 1997 King Henry IV, Part 2, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws21xx.xxx]1117
Nov 1997 The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare[WL][1ws20xx.xxx]1116
Nov 1997 King Henry IV Part 1, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws19xx.xxx]1115
Nov 1997 The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws18xx.xxx]1114
Nov 1997 A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws17xx.xxx]1113
Nov 1997 Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws16xx.xxx]1112
Nov 1997 King Richard II, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws15xx.xxx]1111
Nov 1997 King John, by William Shakespeare [World Library] [1ws14xx.xxx]1110
Nov 1997 Love's Labour's Lost, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws12xx.xxx]1109
Nov 1997 Two Gentlemen of Verona, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws11xx.xxx]1108
Nov 1997 The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws10xx.xxx]1107
Nov 1997 Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare [WL][1ws09xx.xxx]1106
Nov 1997 The Shakespearian Sonnets, William Shakespeare [WL][1ws07xx.xxx]1105
Nov 1997 The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws06xx.xxx]1104
Nov 1997 King Richard III, by William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws04xx.xxx]1103
Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 3, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws03xx.xxx]1102
Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 2, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws02xx.xxx]1101
Nov 1997 King Henry VI, Part 1, William Shakespeare [WL] [1ws01xx.xxx]1100
Nov 1997 The Riverman, by Stewart Edward White [rvrmnxx.xxx]1099
Nov 1997 The Turmoil, A novel, by Booth Tarkington [BT#5] [turmoxx.xxx]1098
Nov 1997 Mrs. Warren's Profession, by G. B. Shaw [Shaw #4] [wrproxx.xxx]1097
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Nov 1997 The Story of Jees Uck, by Jack London [London #34] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 Batard, by Jack London [Jack London's Etext #33] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 The Marriage of Lit-lit, by Jack London[London #32][fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 The One Thousand Dozen, by Jack London [London #31][fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 Too Much Gold, by Jack London [London #30] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 The Faith of Men, by Jack London [London #29] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 A Hyperborean Brew, by Jack London [London #28] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 A Relic of the Pliocene, by Jack London[London #27][fthmnxx.xxx]1096
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Not sure how we are going to index a collection and member of the collection,
when both have the same name. Suggestions?
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Nov 1997 The Faith of Men, by Jack London [London #27-34] [fthmnxx.xxx]1096
Nov 1997 Light of the Western Stars, Zane Grey[Zane Grey #4][lwstrxx.xxx]1095
Nov 1997 Tamburlaine the Great PT 1, by Christopher Marlowe [tmbn1xx.xxx]1094
Nov 1997 The Beast in the Jungle, by Henry James [James #15][bstjgxx.xxx]1093
Nov 1997 The Description of Wales, by Geraldus Cambrensis [dscwlxxx.xxx]1092
Nov 1997 Heroes and Hero Worship, by Thomas Carlyle [TC#3] [herosxxx.xxx]1091
Nov 1997 Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift[#4][bstafxxx.xxx]1090
Nov 1997 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London[#19-26][mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 Planchette, by Jack London [#26] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 All Gold Canyon, by Jack London [#25] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 The Shadow and the Flash, by Jack London [#24] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 The Minions of Midas, by Jack London [#23] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 Amateur Night, by Jack London [#22] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 Local Color, by Jack London [#21] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 The Leopard Man's Story, by Jack London [#20] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Nov 1997 Moon-Face, by Jack London [Jack London #19] [mfacexxx.xxx]1089
Here is a request for help from Donald Knuth. [Yes, THE Donald Knuth]
Mies van der Rohe was famous for saying "God is in the details";
for example, his obituary in the New York Herald Tribune (1969)
mentioned this. So I tried to find it in his writings; no luck.
[It is of course a wonderfully apropos motto for computer scientists.]
I talked to some architects, and got the following lead, supposedly
quoted from a biography of Mies by Franz Schulze (U Chicago Press, 1985),
footnote on page 281, although Stanford's library doesn't have that book:
More details on request.
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>From one of our volunteers searching various libraries for public domain
materials for Project Gutenberg--[Please note that we can only use books
published before 1923. . .due to the U.S. copyright laws. . .but that we
will be posting books in other countries that will be produced there, of
later dates, but which are public domain in those countries.]
"Had a real shocker today, although I imagine it's no surprise to you. I
spent a few hours digging, only to find that the General Circulation
Section of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library has no public
domain books!! The closest I came was one 1924 edition of the oeuvres
of some obscure Frenchman - en francais. Just out of curiosity, I
checked some of the reference section as well, w/ the same result."
We would like to find out where the pre-1924 editions are being kept.
Thanks so much for any information you can provide. hart@pobox.com
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