Books Index update from #833 to #864. 

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April 3, 1997

!!!Next month should see the presentation of Etext #900!!!

In addition to the 32 Etexts prepared in March, 1997, this Newsletter would like to address the following topics:

0. Sending Us Files
1. Lost Etexts
2. Etexts In More Languages
3. The Complete Works Of Various Authors
4. Etext #1,000
5. Etexts In More Formats
6. New Project Gutenberg Sites

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0. Sending Us Files

We have added a new "outgoing" site as prairienet is often full, and mrcnext is going down permanently as soon as the files and operations there are moved. If you have trouble FTPing files to us, please let me know and I will send you a new location and password.

1. Lost Etexts

We have been made aware of several Etexts and several site locations that are in danger of being lost to the public: including, but not limited to, "The Oxford Book of English Verse," and Gunther Hille's site for German Etexts.

If you can assist us preserving these materials, we should be able to do the copyright research and repost them for a new generation of people to use. Even if the copyright is not certain, we can see to it that they end up in Internet Archives at archive.org.

Please help us save any materials, any site, any language.

2. Etexts In More Languages

We would like to encourage you to help with more languages for the Etext libraries, even if it is just one short book or other work. We need to show people of every language a possibility of have their works made available to the wide world of computer users on and off the Internet.

All formats are encouraged, and all materials of a general interest, whether original or translations.

We need some serious help with these, even if for only the first few books to get the ball rolling, or in preparation of materials we have received, as I am somewhat limited in my abilities to edit and present materials in the language and format of many of the materials we would like to do.

We would like Etexts in the following languages:

1. Arabic 2. Chinese 2. Esperanto 4. French 5 German 6. Greek 7. Hebrew 8. Hungarian 9. Italian 10. Korean 11. Japanese 12. Lithuanian 13. Portuguese 14. Romanian 15. Russian 16. Slovak 17. Spanish

Please let us know if you have other languages to add, in whatever format. We should love to include Native American and Canadian Etexts, in addition to the ones we have already produced, and those from any other of the world's cultures you might be able to provide.

3. The Complete Works Of Various Authors

With Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Master of Ballantrae" [The first book listed below], we are nearly complete in our "Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson," and need only the following two works of which he was co-author:

The Ebb Tide

and

The Wrecker

Please advise if you can help with either of these or if you are aware of any other material, even letters, notes or anything else that we could add to our collection.

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We have decent starts on the Complete Dickens, Twain and Wilde, and would like your suggestions for other authors for whom a complete collection would be desired. Please let us know if you would like to work on any of these.

We would also like to start on the complete works of the major authors in other languages and also in translation into English and perhaps other languages. For many book titles there will already be a Public Domain translation . . .but we would also like to be prepared to make some, in cases in which copyrights have been unduly extended.

We are making a start with Dumas.

We are forming an Ibsen Team:

Kirsten will find the books, we will do the copyright clearances, she will then scan them and provide them to you for proofreading.

Kirsten Tozer Documents Librarian Central Washington University tozerk@cwu.edu

4. Etext #1,000

As we approach our 1,000th Etext, Project Gutenberg would like a variety of suggestions for the 900th, 999th, 1,000th and 1,001th Etexts; we would like to do something as appropriate as possible for these, including a possible Etext of Homer's Odyssey: to do some added reading with next month's television spectacular. We do not necessarily agree that all media presentations are a best possible endeavor, but they are, at least, a place to start.

As promised, as we approach Etext #1,000, we are working on some presentation of a "catalogue" for our budding little library; if you are interested in working on or testing our search programs, and other implementations, or if you are one of the persons from whom we received requests for books to volunteer on, please mail Dianne Bean, Director of Production at beand@pr.erau.edu; Dianne can set you up with books to find, scan or proofread, or library research for the proper editions and copyright research.

***Thanks Dianne!!!***

5. Etexts In More Formats

We would like some volunteers to work with other formats than in the Plain Vanilla ASCII format that ALL people can read; this is particularly important as we try different languages; I, myself, do not have the facilities to paste our headers on HTML, PS, and various other files we are receiving.

This would probably only take 10 minutes per book as I will send you both the file and the header, and all you will have to do is combine them and make sure the resulting file is readable.

6. New Project Gutenberg Sites

We have some interesting new sites going up around the world and would like to increase service in the southern hemisphere; a site is going up in New Zealand, with a point of presence [POP], in Australia, and we would like to provide more service to wider areas of Australia, as well as to start service in South America and Africa. Please let us know of any possibilities. The lists of our current sites follows the list of this month's Etexts.

You can get the Project Gutenberg books via FTP and the Web:

Our newest site: ftp://ftp.ihug.co.nz/pub/mirror/gutenberg
Adam Moore <sickboy@ihug.co.nz> and Sydney, AU

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uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu
[This site is in Urbana, Illinois, and is quite fast] 
ftp uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu or ftp 128.174.5.14
login: anonymous 
password: yourname@your.machine 
cd pub 
cd etext 
cd gutenberg 
cd etext96 [or 95, 94, 93, 92, 91 or 90. 70's and 80's are in /etext90] 
get filename (be sure to set bin, if you get the .zip files) 
get more files 
quit 
get INDEX?00.GUT ? = 1,2,4,8. 
get GUTINDEX.96 to see all Project Gutengberg Etexts to date. get GUTINDEX.?97 to see current releases. New files in etext97, of course.

ftp.prairienet.org
[This is usually the first site they appear in, but is slow] 
[This site is in Champaign, Illinois] 
ftp ftp.prairienet.org or ftp 192.17.3.4
username: anonymous 
password: yourlogin@your.machine.domain 
[this is your email address where you are] 
cd pub/providers/gutenberg/etext96 [etc, as above] 
ls or dir for a listing of files 
get filename.txt (ascii files) 
get filename.zip (binary zipped files) 

be sure to type "binary" before retrieving the .zip files!

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For those on the East Coast of the United States we have sailor.gutenberg.org or 198.76.201.198 in Baltimore, MD. This site should provide very fast service for both WWW and FTP service.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ has a page pointing to mirror sites.
http://sailor.gutenberg.org/ is Sailor's web page for its gutenberg site.
ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/ gets you to the Sailor/gutenberg ftp server which can also be reached from the web site above.

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In Europe, please try our newest site at: 
Bucharest High School of Computer Science 
Serving Central and Eastern Europe 
ftp://ftp.lbi.ro/pub/Books/Gutenberg

And a new at:

http://www.informika.ru/windows/books/gutenb/list.html
official server of the Ministry of Education of Russia
(the Russian part of the server not equivalent to the English one).
This is only available on the Russian language side of their system, but is pretty easy to see. Click on the WINDOWS icon at the bottom of the main menu.
Then, on the lower left selection [the web names will pop up in English] which is /books. The first one of that list, The Palms Russian Public Library, is Project Gutenberg Etexts in .zip format as mirrored from uiarchive.

and our newest site in Europe:

ftp://ftp.pinknet.cz/pub/etext/gutenberg/ in the Czech Republic.

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http://www.mirrors.org.sg/pg in Singapore

The Gutenberg archive can also be accessed from Singapore at http://www.sol.com.sg/pg

These two addresses reflect the same database in Singapore. and others are starting soon in Japan and Taiwan.

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[This is the definitive site for now]

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and 
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