[bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.

  • From: "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:06:41 -0400

Re: [bookshare-discuss] Getting books from P.G.Sure,

Go to gutenberg.org.

Have fun.  There sure is a lot of neat old books out there.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amber 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 5:00 PM
  Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.


  not to be dumb or anything but can you tell me how to get to pg.    Amber
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Dan Beaver 
    To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:24 PM
    Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.


    Hi all,

    Anyone can access any book that exists on PG.  All the books they have are 
available to all.


      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Lisa Friendly 
      To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; 
"bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"@freelists.org 
      Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:00 PM
      Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.


      Now I'm worried whether I followed through! If there's a specific book 
someone needs from PG and they can't access it there, do let me know!

      And thanks for that nice complement!

      Lisa



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      From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
      Reply-To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
      Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 00:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
      To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
      Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Getting books from P.G.

      Yes, I would think that we ought to be able to get
      public domain books from P.G. Some of the old books
      are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get
      otherwise. There was a book requested recently--I
      can't remember what, that I was asking if we could get
      from P.G. I think Lisa Friendly was going to ask about
      it. (Isn't that a perfectly fitting name for her?)

      Cindy


      --- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

      > Hi, Linda. I would have to change the tense of the
      > word originate to 
      > originated. 
      > Bookshare licensed a block of public domain books
      > from Gutenberg shortly 
      > after it opened its doors six years ago, but unless
      > something new has 
      > happened, we no longer receive books from them.  We
      > are also not allowed 
      > to submit books from their collection unless we scan
      > them ourselves.  So 
      > in my mind, we are actually competitors of a sort, 2
      > organizations who 
      > for whatever reason do not share our resources of
      > public domain books.  
      > I'm not saying that the work of Gutenberg isn't
      > worthy of donations.  I 
      > will say that I think it's really silly that we
      > can't work together to 
      > continue making additional public domain books
      > available to both 
      > organizations.
      > 
      > Monica Willyard
      > 
      > 
      > Linda Adams wrote:
      > > Hi, Julie.  For some reason, any message I send to
      > your e-mail address 
      > > bounces back to me, so I'll mention something
      > here.  An organization 
      > > donation possibility might be www.gutenberg.net. 
      > That is where most 
      > > of Bookshare's public domain books originate.
      > >
      > > Linda Adams
      > >
      > 



             
      
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