Re: Book People mailing list to end at the end of the month
- From: Nick Hodson <nicholashodson@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Book People mailing list to end at the end of the month
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:27:44 +0000 (GMT)
[Moderator: This was sent to me a few days ago, and I'm now forwarding it to
the list with the author's permission. Nick Hodson's online book site,
Athelstane E-Books, can be found at http://www.athelstane.co.uk/ - JMO]
Dear John
Thank you very much for all the work you have done for us over those
years. I personally have benefited greatly from your work, and from
friendship with quite a few people whom I would not have met except
through your work.
In 1997 I had suddenly to move in with my parents to look after them,
and that was when I started reading Book People emails. That was also
when I started seriously scanning books and writing software for that
work, as that was the best way I could pass the time.
The nearly 450 books I have on my website are being moved to Gutenberg,
also to the Internet Archive, and to the Mobipocket bookshelf. I hope
that by the end of today there will be over 400 of my books on PG.
Mobipocket is near that number and IA, for which I have been re-scanning
many of my books, is at about 250.
So our decades have just about coincided. Time rolls on,
Kind regards, Nick Hodson (Athelstane)