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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Australia
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North Dakota!!! Don't we have ANYone there???
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2 0100021.txt Nineteen eighty-four Orwell George
3 0100031.txt When the World Screamed Doyle Sir Arthur C
4 0100041.txt Under the Northern Lights Sullivan Alan
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5 0100051.txt Australia Felix Richardson Henry Handel
6 0100061.txt The Way Home Richardson Henry Handel
7 0100071.txt Ultima Thule Richardson Henry Handel
8 0100081.txt Here's Luck Lower Lennie
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Here is a list of the 21 other Etexts posted since last Wednesday.
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We have posted a significantly improved 11th edition of:
Sep 2001 With Lee in Virginia [US Civil War], by G.A. Henty[leeivxxx.xxx]2805
[The new files are leeiv11.txt and leeiv11.zip]
And 21 New eTexts for your reading pleasure and research:
Apr 2003 The Entire Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet [IM#05][im04bxxx.xxx]3918
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v4 [IM#04][im03bxxx.xxx]3917
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v3 [IM#03][im02bxxx.xxx]3916
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v2 [IM#02][im01bxxx.xxx]3915
Apr 2003 Serge Panine, by Georges Ohnet, v1 [IM#01][im00bxxx.xxx]3914
Apr 2003 Entire Confessions of J.J.Rousseau/Book 13 [JJ#13][jj13bxxx.xxx]3913
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 12 [JJ#12][jj12bxxx.xxx]3912
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 11 [JJ#11][jj11bxxx.xxx]3911
Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 10 [JJ#10][jj10bxxx.xxx]3910
Feb 2003 The Gates of Chance, Van Tassel Sutphen [thgtsxxx.xxx]3758
Feb 2003 The White Bees, Henry Van Dyke [Henry Van Dyck #7][twbeexxx.xxx]3757
Feb 2003 Indiscretions of Archie, by P. G. Wodehouse[PGW#5][ndscrxxx.xxx]3756
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Feb 2003 Common Sense, by Thomas Paine [Tom Paine#5][comsnxxx.xxx]3755
[New text comsn10a.txt and .zip based on the Collected works of Thomas Paine]
Also see: Jul 1994 Common Sense, Thomas Paine [comsnxxx.xxx]147]
Feb 2003 The Wonders Of Instinct, by J H Fabre[JH Fabre #6][nstncxxx.xxx]3754
Feb 2003 Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare[pcockxxx.xxx]3753
Feb 2003 Voyager's Tales, by Richard Hakluyt [Hakluyt #2] [vgrtlxxx.xxx]3752
Feb 2003 The Psychology of Beauty, by Ethel D. Puffer [psbtyxxx.xxx]3751
Feb 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt Vol 2, From Rome to the End[2loflxxx.xxx]3750
Also see:
Jan 2003 Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, Paris To Rome [1loflxxx.xxx]3689
Feb 2003 Quotations of Rousseau's Confessions, David Widger[dwqjjxxx.xxx]3749
Feb 2003 Journey to Interior of Earth, by Verne [Verne #17][xjrnyxxx.xxx]3748
[8-bit accents are included in 8jrny10.*, plain characters are in 7jrny10.*]
Feb 2003 Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto in Italian [xofurxxx.xxx]3747
[8-bit accents are included in 8ofur10.*, plain characters are in 7ofur10.*]
*** Progress Chart ***
This is NOT counting the Etexts recently posted on the Project Gutenberg of
Australia site[s]. . .which will be added in a week or two, as we figure up
the ways to include them in our listings, depending on which ones are legal
to post on our US sites. If we had counted those, we would already be past
100 Etexts for August, even with another week to go.
Our Total For The Year Is About 741 For 234 days,
this is 3.16 per day or 95 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1160 For The Year. . . .
We are about 34 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/22/01 21 22.30 or 29 this week, counting the 8 from Australia
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August subtotal 93
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
HP UNVEILS FIRST DVD+RW DRIVE
Hewlett-Packard next month will debut the first commercially available DVD
drive for PCs that allows users record a movie, watch it on a typical home
DVD player, and then erase and record again on the same disc. The
DVD-writer dvd100i will carry a price tag of $599, and PC and electronics
makers are hoping the new product will jumpstart holiday sales as consumers
seek out the latest gadgetry to complement their home entertainment
centers. Dataquest estimates that 2.1 million DVD rewritable drives will
ship by the end of next year, and that by 2005, that number will reach 14.3
million drives. In addition to HP's backing, the DVD+RW format has the
support of Dell, Sony, Philips Electronics, Mitsubishi, Ricoh, Thomson
Multimedia and Yamaha. (ZDNet News 20 Aug 2001)
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E-BOOKS MAY SAVE STUDENTS' ACHING BACKS
Responding to worries that students in Texas are carrying too
many weighty textbooks, the state is increasing the use of
electronic textbooks and broadening the curriculum to include
digital media. The state has earmarked $1.8 million to be spent
on e-books over six years. E-books are also handy "for courses
in which the information changes rapidly, for example history,"
noted Charles Mayo of the Texas Education Agency. In September,
the state legislature will release the results of a $1.3 million
e-book effectiveness analysis. Some people criticize that viewing
books on computer screens for prolonged periods of time is
unhealthy for kids and that electronic textbook technology is
not available for lower-income school districts.
(Houston Chronicle, 12 August 2001)
[And how many of us are happy with even licensing a bike or dog?]
LICENSE WEB USERS? IT'S A THOUGHT
An increasing number of security experts say the Internet would
be a much safer place if consumers had the basic computer skills
to protect themselves. Some have begun to float the idea that
computer users should be required to obtain licenses. Richard
Forno, co-author of the security book "Incident Response," said
this argument would lead to licenses for usage of household
appliances next, because mishaps also occur when people use
power tools or items such as barbeque grills. Rob Rosenberger
of vMyths, a virus information Web site, said that a global
licensing body would be needed if there is to be formal
policing for the Internet.
(Wired News, 16 August 2001)
[What a waste of bandwidth!]
HOLLYWOOD, AN EYE ON PIRACY, PLANS MOVIES FOR A FEE ONLINE
Five movie studios have teamed up to develop a video-on-demand
service that allows users essentially to rent movies online.
"This announcement confirms that film producers are eager for
the Internet to enlarge and flourish," declared Jack Valenti,
president of the Motion Picture Association of America. For a
fee, consumers with high-speed connections will be able to
download films. The studios involved--Sony Pictures, MGM, Warner
Brothers, Paramount, and Universal--are hoping that the service
will be adequately secure against digital piracy. The downloaded
films will be programmed to stay on consumer hard drives for 30
days but erase themselves 24 hours after the first viewing.
Video-on-demand will initially be available on Web-enabled TVs
and PCs, but is expected to branch out into cable TV and other
media. (New York Times, 17 August 2001)
"WEB BUGS" TRACK INTERNET USE
A new Cyveillance report finds that "Web bugs"--invisible
technology that gathers information on Web site visitors--are
embedded in 18 percent of personal Web pages, compared to less
than 0.5 percent in 1998. Companies such as America Online and
Yahoo!'s Geocities include Web bugs in the Web page-building
technology they offer free to users. Spokesmen for Web bug
distributors claim that the technology is not in any way used to
collect personally identifiable data on visitors, but privacy
proponents are concerned, especially when consumers are unaware
that their personal pages host Web bugs. Yahoo! does not mention
the fact that Web bugs are placed on personal pages, and AOL
fails to describe their use. "It's extremely troubling--the
technology should not be used to collect information in such a
covert way," argued PricewaterhouseCoopers' Scott Charney.
(New York Times, 14 August 2001)
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