[dvdvol] RE: cd/dvd request & question.

[Aaron Cannon]

There is about 20MB or so of extra space on the best of CD.  It's not a 
lot, but it's something.

Thanks for your help and sorry it took so long to get back to you.

Sincerely
Aaron Cannon


At 10:13 AM 5/10/2005, Scott Clous wrote:
>I've signed up for that list, I think between updating the existing
>books for the updating the CD, that will get me up to speed.  Is there
>room for more on the CD?
>
>After I understand how to update that one, we can look at the DVD.
>
>Thx.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aaron Cannon [mailto:cannona at fireantproductions.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:07 PM
>To: Scott Clous
>Cc: cd at pglaf.org; John Hagerson
>Subject: RE: cd/dvd request & question.
>
>Thanks for your interest in doing this.  As for determining what to
>include... well, that's the big question and the major difficulty in
>making the compilation.  You might consider asking on Distributed
>Proofreaders and gutvol-d for people's opinion as to what are some
>titles they think should be included.  That's how the CD was built.
>
>You can find information on how to join the gutvol-d mailing list at
>http://www.gutenberg.org/
>
>Good luck and let me know if I can be of assistance.
>
>Sincerely
>Aaron Cannon
>
>
>At 08:35 AM 5/4/2005, you wrote:
> >sure.
> >
> >I have a bit of time, and a bit enough drive to develop the ISO, etc.
> >
> >I was wondering how one decides what is the most deserving, but for me,
>
> >limiting to English is a good idea, and yes, then making sure they are
> >the most recent versions is ideal.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----------
> >From: John Hagerson [mailto:j.hagerson at comcast.net]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:43 PM
> >To: Scott Clous; cd at pglaf.org
> >Subject: RE: cd/dvd request & question.
> >
> >Scott,
> >
> >
> >
> >That would be great! One thing to note is that we have revised the web
> >copies of a number of the items that we have on the August 2003 CD and
> >the December 2003 DVD. Ideally, we would include the "latest and
>greatest"
> >versions of each of our files. Obviously, there would need to be a
> >cut-off somewhere or it would never get done (and which is part of the
> >reason why it has yet to be done).
> >
> >
> >
> >I tried to use the catalog data in XML and use that to generate HTML
> >for navigation for a subset of our books. I was able to automate part
> >and I had to hand tweak part, mainly because my tools did not
> >understand the byte order mark at the beginning of the XML file and
> >ignored the necessary 8-bit back to 16-bit translation. If you would
> >like to see any of my efforts, please let me know.
> >
> >
> >
> >Have a great day!
> >
> >John Hagerson
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Scott Clous [mailto:Scott.Clous at ccci.org]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 2:41 PM
> >To: cd at pglaf.org
> >Subject: cd/dvd request & question.
> >
> >
> >
> >Question--The last Best of DVD and CD were made in August 2003, could I
>
> >update one for 2005, with newly added material (Sherlock Holmes stuff,
> >etc.) and submit it back to you all?
>
>
>
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