,----[ Rakesh Ambati wrote: ] | Here something very interesting to read. | | http://www.gutenberg.net/events/pg-amazon-apr1.html `----
,----[ Imran William Smith wrote: ] | Check the URL. April 1st. i.e. it's a joke. | | Nevertheless, I encourage everyone to investigate Project | Gutenberg and consider contributing. The aim is to transcribe | large amounts of paper books and other texts into electronic | format, provided that their copyright has expired (making this legal). `----
Well, here is something not entirely off topic:
I fell for the hoax by google :-D It is still there at: https://gmail.google.com/?dest=http%3A%2F%2Fgmail.google.com%2F Well, it is not a hoax but true - a clever strategy to market gmail!
Recently I stumbled upon http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/ http://www.ibiblio.org/webster/#search_form
GCIDE has evolved over a decade, and now supports search with perl-style regular expressions, giving unmatched functionality. One can enrich word power with GNU software. What is truly needed is more vigorous advocacy and exposure of the fine work done by GNU to a wider audience.
Regards, Ramanraj.