Comments on: An open-source rival to Google's book project

Digitizing the world's books is too important a job to leave to private ventures, say backers of the Internet Archive.
Photos: Gearing up the scanners

[powerclam]

What about the Gutenberg project?

http://www.promo.net/pg/list.html
Seems like ANY discussion of this sort of project MUST at least MENTION Project Gutenberg.
THOUSANDS of past-copyright books scanned in an ongoing project that was essentially open-source before open-source had a name.
Why doesn't the article make even a passing mention?

[powerclam]

What about the Gutenberg project?

http://www.promo.net/pg/list.html
Seems like ANY discussion of this sort of project MUST at least MENTION Project Gutenberg.
THOUSANDS of past-copyright books scanned in an ongoing project that was essentially open-source before open-source had a name.
Why doesn't the article make even a passing mention?

[ciropabon]

Gutenberg, gutenberg, gutenberg

What a shame! You did not do your homework... What about spending 10 minutes looking for e-books? You can get 16.000 books from Gutenberg through P2P, RSS or you can download them to your PDA. You can even get DVD or CD images for the entire catalog (the million dollar DVD). You can check if the book you are transcribing is in the public domain. And this time the volunteer work is, without doubt, better than having a guy flipping pages in a voting booth contraption, because WE READ AND PROOFREAD the books. But no, quality problems are only for Wikipedia articles, I guess. Well, I can understand you: the project has been around only for 34 years... it is not news: for news, you have Google, google, google. Gurgle.

[ciropabon]

Gutenberg, gutenberg, gutenberg

What a shame! You did not do your homework... What about spending 10 minutes looking for e-books? You can get 16.000 books from Gutenberg through P2P, RSS or you can download them to your PDA. You can even get DVD or CD images for the entire catalog (the million dollar DVD). You can check if the book you are transcribing is in the public domain. And this time the volunteer work is, without doubt, better than having a guy flipping pages in a voting booth contraption, because WE READ AND PROOFREAD the books. But no, quality problems are only for Wikipedia articles, I guess. Well, I can understand you: the project has been around only for 34 years... it is not news: for news, you have Google, google, google. Gurgle.

[spytrdr]

gutenberg.org

I agree with the previous comments.
It's very cheap reporting to not even MENTION Project Gutenberg as the grand daddy of all these new book-digitizing projects that are just warming up the scanners.
There's also SunSite, onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu and many others.
And then there's the coolest project of all:
UNILIBRARY (com/net/org)

[spytrdr]

gutenberg.org

I agree with the previous comments.
It's very cheap reporting to not even MENTION Project Gutenberg as the grand daddy of all these new book-digitizing projects that are just warming up the scanners.
There's also SunSite, onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu and many others.
And then there's the coolest project of all:
UNILIBRARY (com/net/org)

[finlandforum]

Bookmobile connectivity

Yes, the bookmobile is driving proof that universal access is possible today. But there is a problem. And its name is Internet connection.
http://www.highspeedsat.com/bookmobilesinstalls.htm

[finlandforum]

Bookmobile connectivity

Yes, the bookmobile is driving proof that universal access is possible today. But there is a problem. And its name is Internet connection.
http://www.highspeedsat.com/bookmobilesinstalls.htm