Book People Archive

Re: Ebooks good, Books better.


I am going ahead and posting this directly. . . .

So watch out not to post duplicate copies. . . .
             
I'm still getting used to the new reply option,
which is better. . .but still in reverse priority
of to whom the replies go.


On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 NakedWord@[redacted] wrote:
> 
> Michael! Wouldn't it be great to bring the Gutenberg editions full circle, 
> offering these lost volumes in print again? Paul, how about you? It's time to > make a bee-line to the second print revolution and leave today's publishing 
> industry scratching their figurative heads and wondering what happened! 
> Readers unite! Workers control the means of production! ... er... ahem.
> 
Actually, our Project Gutenberg Etexts have been used to created new print
editions for years, if not a decade. . .it's one of the original purposes 
I had in mind when I started doing Etexts some 30 years ago. . . .        
                                                                          
However, _I_ still want a gizmo I can carry in my pocket that will hold a 
thousand Etexts and let me read, search, bookmark, and output quotations. 
                                                                          
I want those for everyone. . .at prices so cheap no one care if they lose 
one or break one, except for lost bookmarks, etc. . .but I would also put 
in a reminder to download the bookmarks and quotes regularly, after some  
number were saved, that number to be entered by the user. . .0 is a number.


Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!


Michael S. Hart
<hart@[redacted]>
Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
Executive Director
Internet User ~#100