On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:03:43 +0530, Soumya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for my ignorence. Joined late :-(
Welcome! Der aye par durust aye!! <8^) > Can you give me the URL of PG site? http://www.gutenberg.org PG or Project Gutenberg is an endevour to convert all the books in public domain (meaning whose copyrights have expired) to computer readable format, the preferred format being a plain simple ascii file ... there are thousands of books over there ... enough to fill a DVD even, and most of them being plain ascii files! And most files are zipped in the DVD!!! To download DVD images go to ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/8/0/10802 To downlaod CD images go to ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/1/2/2/11220 Lastly, an official description about themselves : "Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 13.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use (for complete details, see the license page)." Please remember that these CD & DVD images are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 license. For more details on the licensing issues pls go to http://www.gutenberg.org/license If you would like to submit works to PG then know more about it from http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/spd-howto Happy reading all!! > -- Soumya -- - Prem ---------------------------------------------------- Prem Kumar Aparanji M: 00919830631687 [Kolkata, WB, INDIA] http://prem.shaliniprem.com http://www.shaliniprem.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
