[NTLK] New Newton eBooks (continued)

From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Sat Feb 18 2006 - 02:46:47 PST

Cheers Matt,

just found below posting of yours from 2004. Did you ever do the Howard
Pyle Pirate book? I've just seen it's been released freshly by PG
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/973 (probably some typos fixed), so if
you haven't started on that yet, might be good to use the new source.

Also is the Edison book already done? I'm really looking forward to
that one! ;=}

And the photography book would be much appreciated, too--I've never
learned more about photography than from some handbooks from the 1930s
to 1950s, as they really get down to the elementary stuff and teach you
the stuff that really counts (like, why it is a shame people don't own
tripods anymore, and how to get the max out of available light, and
what have you).

I've got one or two new titles I'll add to the library this weekend (or
next week, gotta prepare the radio show for tomorrow night), so I might
add anything you have to the batch.

Dear all--

any freeware, GPL, Creative Commons licensed and public domain
submissions welcome, even from people whose first name ain't Matt or
Tony. Pls. enclose a readme.txt for each title.

DJV.
Librarian

The Temporary Newton Library
http://www.stillnewt.org/library

P.S.: Currently I'm looking for any Newton ebook editions of stuff by
James Fenimore Cooper (besides The Last of the Mohicans and The Bravo,
which we already have
http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/
Cooper,%20James%20Fenimore%20(1789-1851)/ ). So should you have any
copies of that.... Or any Henry Rider Haggard things not yet available
here
http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/
Haggard,%20Henry%20Rider%20(1856-1925)/ .... Pls. drop me a line.

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Hello Allan, Tony, et al:
I wish that I had the time to read each eBook from cover to cover! I  
only
skimmed the New Zealand Station Life book as I formatted it, but it was
quite
interesting. I just finished reading Sir Ernest Shackleton's narrative  
of
his
expedition to the South Pole, and I am in the midst of reading John  
Wesley
Powell's expedition narrative. Powell did not let his "handicap" of  
having
half an
arm blown off in the Civil War keep him from leading a dangerous rafting
expedition through uncharted canyons and river systems. What a badass!
I'm planning to start working on another batch of Newton eBooks in the  
near
future. It takes some time to create each batch, oweing largely to the
conversion process (editing, formatting, and creating hyperlinked table  
of
contents
entries for each book in NewtonPress). It also takes time to search  
through
the existing Project Gutenberg catalog for titles of possible interest.  
I
try
to approach this in an objective manner, but faced with such an  
eclectic mix
of
titles, it can be difficult to choose.
One other problem I am wrestling with is the font size of each eBook. I  
have
the formatted .rtf and NP! files, in the event that I receive requests  
for
larger format eBooks.
I am trying to offer something for everyone. The next batch of converted
eBooks will include some of the following titles:
* Naval Pioneers of Australia
* History of Canada vol. I
* Beethoven's Letters vol. I
* The Student's Elements of Geology
* Self Development and the Way to Power
* Icelandic Grammar
* History of Ottawa and Chippewa (Grammar)
* Edison - His Life and Inventions
* Incan Land - Explorations in the Peruvian Highlands
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet
* E-mail 101
* History and Practice of Photography
* The Voyage of the Beagle (by Charles Darwin)
* Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
I welcome suggestions, but please make sure that suggested titles are
copyright-free and readily available in .txt or .rtf format.
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