BOOKS AND e BOOKS THE PAST PRESENT AND
BOOKS AND e. BOOKS: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LIBRARIES ROANOKE PUBLIC LIBRARY 100 TH SAT. FEB. 27, 2010 3 PM Cassandra Project Speaker: Michael S. Hart Founder, Project Gutenberg Co-Founder, World e. Book Fair Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
RECOMMENDATIONS • Get Devices With Wi-Fi [Phones, PDAs, MP 3 Players, Netbooks, Laptops, etc. ] • Get the Same Or Similar Devices As Your Friends Already Have. Major Advantages. [I know this sounds copycat, but unless you are cutting edge, the risks outweigh the advantages on new gear. ] • Join Or Form Some Kind of Computer Group • !!!!!!!BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!!!!!
PREDICTIONS • • • Petabyte Drives in the 2020’s Can House Billion Book e. Libraries Affordable To All Already 4. 5 Billion Active Cellphones What Happens When Everyone Can Read e. Book Online Free of Charge?
ELEPHANTS IN YOUR ROOM [A Question of Perspective] • The average hardback book is 1 pound. • 10, 000 of these books add up to the size and weight of the average elephant. • A million of these books would equal a herd of 100 elephants in your room!
A NEW CONCEPT OF SCALE • The New York Public Library is making a big deal out of the fact they gave away just over 1/3 million e. Books in 2009. I presume they will try to double that in 2010. • Even if they do, you could give away one million e. Books from any library just by handing out ONE of the terabyte drives filled with a million e. Books ONE TIME.
GREAT LIBRARIES ARE THE MEMORIES OF GREAT CIVILIZATIONS • Any Library Can House Millions of Books • Home Computers Are Home Libraries • Today you will find the distinctions between the major libraries of the world and your own local library are vanishing. • You can own millions of books today. .
THE LARGEST LIBRARIES • If you consult “World Library Records” by Godfrey Oswald, you will find it doesn’t take very many millions of books to get into the lists of the World’s Largest Libraries • Right now, today, within a mile of here, YOU could spend $1, 000 and add 10 to 20 terabytes to your present computer system, and each terabyte could hold 1 million to 2. 5 million plain full text books, depending if you used various modes of compression. [. zip, etc. ]
YOUR OWN 10 MILLION BOOKS • ONLY 10 NATIONAL LIBRARIES=10 M, BUT *YOU* COULD HAVE 10 M NOW! • Let’s say you bought your terabytes $100 each, so you ended up with 10 terabytes, or 25 T if you are using compression. • You could easily create your own library large enough to make the record books. • 5 million books puts you in the Top 100 lists of various world library categories.
3, 000 T 0 TAL AVAILABLE http: //www. worldebookfair. org • The World e. Book Fair takes place July 4 to August 4 every year. • ~85% of the millions of books are free of charge! • Including ~2 million from http: //www. archive. org • ~15% are commercial e. Books, see coupons. • You can OWN 3 million books from this source. • If Google really has millions of books along with The Million Book Project, you are well on your way to creating a major library on your computer.
PERSONAL COMPUTERS AS PERSONAL LIBRARIES • Today with terabytes in the $100 range, can OWN millions of books. you • Before The Gutenberg Press the average person owned zero books. • Before Project Gutenberg the average person owned zero libraries. • The times they are a’changin’.
“If what you did yesterday still seems big to you today, then your goals for tomorrow are not yet big enough. ” Ling Fu Yu, circa 600 B. C.
My goal in talking to you today is to change the world. . As much as The Gutenberg Press and The Literacy Revolution, and The Scientific Revolution, and The Industrial Revolution, that inevitably followed.
“There is no force greater than an idea whose time has come. ” “There is no army with a power greater than that of an idea whose time has come. ”
What Do You Want Books For? Would you want: A Cadillac if everyone could have one? A Mansion if everyone could have one? A billion dollars if everyone could have one? A million books if we all could have them? A billion books if we all could have them? A tera/petabyte if everyone could have one? Terabytes under $200, single drives at $299.
What is an e. Book? Just because the new e. Books are Japanese… Don’t let that fool you into ignoring them…. Who invented the transistor? Wright&Green Yet the first transistor radios were Japanese! Just a decade after WWII Reconstruction!!! Because WE ignored the transistor/steel etc. Globalism means we can’t ignore things now!
What is an e. Book? An e. Book is what you would get if you sat down and typed in a book. “Ceci n’est pas une pipe. ” [This is not a pipe, Rene Magritte, Belgium] A picture of a book is not an e. Book, though most importantly, you CAN read it, but you cannot search, quote, edit, etc.
Who makes e. Books? Anyone with computer access. After an e. Book is published on Project Gutenberg a billion+ can have access the very next day. +3 billion if you count cell phones!!!
Books!!! Soar with the birds in the mind of Leonardo, Travel the deeps with Verne in the Nautilus Or with Rickover’s crew under the North Pole. Or on the South Pole with Perry and Amundsen, Or on top of Mount Everest with Hillary and Norgay. Voyage to the Moon with Verne and Armstrong, Dialog with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Archimedes, Or conquer the world with their student, Alexander, Books are limited only by the human imagination. .
Why I don’t believe in footnotes I don’t want you to believe me. I want you to believe yourself. Don’t believe in footnotes. Don’t believe in authority. Do the research yourself!!! You will understand ONLY if you see multiple points of view.
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
http: //worldebookfair. com http: //www. gutenberg. org http: //www. gutenberg. cc http: //www. gutenberg. net. au http: //www. pge. rasko. net http: //www. gutenberg. ca http: //www. pgdp. net http: //www. archive. org
GIVE ME A LEVER LONG ENOUGH … A DECENT PLACE TO PUT IT …AND I WILL MOVE THE WORLD ARCHIMEDES
TODAY WE WILL TALK ABOUT SOME OF THAT LEVERAGE
THE FIRST 3 RULES OF COMPUTERS RULE #1 BACK UP YOUR DATA! RULE #2 BACK UP YOUR DATA!! RULE #3 BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!
THE SYLLOGISM OF SOCRATES Major Premise: ALL HUMANS ARE MORTAL: Minor Premise: SOCRATES IS A HUMAN: Conclusion: THUS: SOCRATES IS MORTAL
HTTP: //WORLDEBOOKFAIR. COM JULY 4 THROUGH AUGUST 4 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ~3, 000+ FREE e. BOOKS 2006=330, 000 2007=820, 000 2008 = 1 million 2009 2 million 2010 THREE million e. Books!!!
HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. ORG HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. CC HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. CA HTTP: //WWW. GUTENBERG. NET ALL YEAR ROUND 24/7/365 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD 100, 000+ FREE e. BOOKS
POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR TODAY A ONE BILLION BOOK LIBRARY ONE THOUSAND TIMES THE RAM FIVE BILLION CELL PHONES 10 BOOKS TO 100, 000 IN 12 YEARS 10, 000 IN 2003 FOR EACH 1 IN 1991 DO THAT AGAIN, IT’S A BILLION
A One Billion Book Library!!! 4 million e. Books translated into 250 languages 5 million e. Books translated into 200 languages 6. 7 million e. Books translated into 150 languages 10 million e. Books translated into 100 languages 15 million e. Books translated into 67 languages 20 million e. Books translated into 50 languages 25 million e. Books translated into 40 languages There are 250 languages spoken by over 1 million Books are limited only by the human imagination. . .
1, 000 Times the RAM!!! 8 Megabyte Flash Drives Are Only 9 -10 Years Old The Original IBM 8 M Memory Key Was $60 in 2001 In 2006 I Bought 8 G Flash drives for the same $60 With Just One More Iteration, . . 8 Terabytes for $60!!! 4 G = 10, 000 e. Books 8 T = The Entire Public Domain [Text only, 20 million books of 1 million characters. ]
1, 000 Times the RAM!!! 8 Terabyte Flash Drives Will Mean More Backups! You Will Be Able To WEAR Every Word In All Of THE ENTIRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Local Storage Is The ONLY Way To Insure Access!!! The Library of Congress Claims 100+ Million Items, but most of these are not full length book titles. .
5 BILLION CELL PHONES!!! 2007 saw HALF the potential WORLD market filled! Now at ~4. 5 billion it is TWO-THIRDS! Another year or two more will see THREE-FOURTHS Another year or two more will see SEVEN-EIGHTHS Local Access: The ONLY Way To Insure Free Access
Limited Distribution versus Unlimited Distribution • It’s better if _I_ have it, and YOU do NOT. • Artificial Scarcity, a la Prof. Kingsfield • What if EVERYone could have EVERYthing? • Is there any reason everyone with a computer couldn’t / shouldn’t have every word ever written from thousands of years ago to 15 years ago?
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU We want YOU to have the source, the source of knowledge, the source of information, the source of all libraries. We want you to OWN civilization, NOT for civilization to own YOU.
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Before the Gutenberg Press the average person owned 0 books. Before Project Gutenberg the average person owned 0 libraries. Today I Am Wearing Enough RAM Around My Neck To Hold Every Book In TWO Average U. S. Public Libraries 30, 000. zipped e. Book files Per 12 Gigabytes of RAM [With the average book having one million characters. ]
How many of you realize that a terabyte holds one million books? One million plain text books, just what you would get if you typed in a favorite book as plain email. Not MSWord files, not. pdf files, these take 10 x more. 100, 000 files instead of 1, 000. Text files zip nicely and will usually give you 2. 5 million per terabyte. This very month we saw outboard terabytes @ $217 w/shipping!
STAR TREK REPLICATORS LIVING ON YOUR DESKTOP All the functions of the Star Trek Replicators, communicators and transporters are now in various desktop systems for well under $10, 000. You can enter a book and ALL people, for the rest of HISTORY, as we know it, can download that book anywhere they can get online. • What other way can WE do something that will still be here 10 years or 100 years from now? ? ?
Affordable Terabyte Libraries • $79 can add a terabyte to your system • 1 TB = 1 million books of 1 MB per book • And 2. 5 million books in compressed formats! Those terabytes will get cheaper until we all we’re all seeing these prices on petabytes and exabytes. My first 5 MB drive, a Seagate ST-506, cost $3, 000 as an add-on to the first Apple ][ systems. $3, 000! $3, 000 now buys computers with sixteen terabytes! That’s millions of times more for each dollar. . NOT ACCOUNTING FOR INFLATED DOLLARS
PROJECT GUTENBERG MISSION STATEMENTS • Break Down the Bars of Ignorance and Illiteracy • Encourage the Creation and Distribution of e. Books • • Project Gutenberg Needs YOU!!! To Bring More Books To More People!!!
What Project Gutenberg Does NOT Do • PG does not select the titles, they are each chosen by the volunteers who start them. • PG does not choose the fonts you read in. These are set in whatever programs you use. • PG does not recommend particular pieces of hardware or software, the choice is yours. • Obvious exceptions are. pdf files, etc.
“A people cannot hope to be both ignorant and free. ” Thomas Jefferson
Technological Publishing Revolution! More books were printed in the first 50 years of The Gutenberg Press, ~1450 – 1500, than in all the thousands of years of previously recorded human history. More books will be created as e. Book files the 1 st 50 years of the Third Millennium than in all of previously recorded history.
If We Can Provide a Billion e. Books to a Billion People, that is a QUINTILLION e. Books • One billion times one billion equals ONE QUINTILLION • Personally, I’ll settle for a quadrillion
Build a better world from the bottom up, not from the top down. Forget about funding. Just get out there and do it yourself.
How To Optimize e. Bookness • • 1 Billion Cell Phones Are Made Every Year 3 Billion Cell Phones By The End of 2007! ~5 Billion Cell Phones By The End of 2010. 1 Billion Computers Are Made Every Year • Plus Millions of PDA’s, PPC’s, i. Pods, etc. All These Should Be Supported In A Wide Variety Of Formats, Styles, Fonts, etc.
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• Project Gutenberg’s Growth Record from 10 e. Books to 10, 000 • • • • • • 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^#### 10, 000>10/03 10 K 9, 500>9/03 9, 500 9, 000>8/03 9, 000 8, 500>7/03 8, 500 8, 000>5/03 8, 000 7, 500>3/03 7, 500 7, 000>1/03 7, 000 6, 500>12/02 6, 500 6, 000 >9/02 6, 000 5, 500 >7/02 5, 500 5, 000 >4/02 5, 000 4, 500 >2/02 4, 500 4, 000>10/01 4, 000 3, 500 >5/01 3, 500 3, 000 > 12/00 3, 000 2, 500 > 8/00 2, 500 2, 000 > 12/99 2, 000 1, 500 > 10/98 1, 500 1, 000 > 8/97 1, 000 500 > 4/96 500 100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100 10 > 12/90 10 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####
Project Gutenberg’s Growth Record from 10 e. Books to 20, 000 • • • • • • • 123412341234123412341234123412341234 -90 --91 --92 --93 --94 --95 --96 --97 --98 --99 --00 --01 --02 --03 --04 --05 --0625, 000 October 21, 2007 25 K >10. 07 >25 K 20, 000 June 21, 2006 20 K >06/06 20 K 19, 000 March 27, 2006 19 K > 03/06 19 K Added ~216 from PG of Europe January 01, 2006 18 K > 01/06 18 K 17 K > 08/05 17 K 16 K > 04/05 16 K 15 K > 01/05 15 K 14 K > 10/04 14 K 13 K > 06/04 13 K 12 K > 03/04 12 K 11 K > 01/04 11 K >>> October 15, 2003 >>> 10 K > 10/03 *10 K* 9, 000 > 8/03 9, 000 8, 000 > 5/03 8, 000 Note this graph is in 1/4 years 7, 000 > 1/03 7, 000 6, 000 > 9/02 6, 000 5, 000 > 4/02 5, 000 Added PG Australia in August, 2001 4, 000> 10/01 4, 000 3, 000> 12/00 3, 000 2, 000 > 12/99 2, 000 1, 000 > 8/97 1, 000 100 >12/93 <<<December 10, 1993 100 10>12/90 10 -90 --91 --92 --93 --94 --95 --96 --97 --98 --99 --00 --01 --02 --03 --04 --05 --06 - YEARS 123412341234123412341234123412341234 QUARTERS
Quotations to Consider
“There is no end to the great things we can accomplish
if we don’t worry about who gets the credit. ”
Anonymous
“Project Gutenberg has taken the Internet to the next level. ” Vint Cerf
People who say it cannot be done
Should not interrupt the people who are doing it.
“The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person who is doing it. ” Ancient Chinese Proverb
“Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. ”
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can, society is culpable in not providing instruction for all, and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. ” • Victor Hugo
Before the Gutenberg Press the average person owned 0 books. Before Project Gutenberg the average person owned 0 libraries.
HOW MANY e. BOOKS? ? ? • One Site = Over 1 e. Book Per Second • http: //www. gutenberg. org • Averages one e. Book/second for years • There are 100’s or 1, 000’s of PG sites • Your Site Could Be Next!!!
In 1955 the cost of the average paperback was 26 cents, equal to the average gallon of gasoline, both prices including tax.
Today the average paperback cost is approximately 10 dollars. The media are full of stories about the high price of gas at $3. Have you ever seen the media mention book hyperinflation?
Here is just one obvious example: “Bond. . . James Bond” 007 When James Bond first came to the world of paperback readers just over 50 years ago, price of the average paperback was $. 26, and that included the tax. .
Today with the new James Bond has come new paperback books. If you go to your local Borders or Barnes & Noble, you will see and entire rack of them over $15, and that includes the tax. . WHAT IF GAS WAS $15? ? ?
The Five Information Ages 1450 – 1710 The Gutenberg Press 1830 – 1831 High Speed Steam Press Circa 1900’s High Speed Electric Presses 1960’s – 1970’s The Xerox Machine Modern Times – The Internet/The Web
COPYRIGHT THE WAR AGAINST INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING AND REPUBLISHING 1709 Anti-Gutenberg Press 1831 Anti-Steam Powered Press 1909 Anti-Sears Catalog, Electric Press 1976 Anti-Xerox Machine 1998 Anti-Internet
REPLICATORS • Fax me a pepperoni with double cheese • Print out a Ferrari and drive away in it • Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson Engines of Creation, by Eric K. Drexler • Reprap, The First Home Replicators
The First World e. Book Fair Gave away ~30 million e. Books from July 4 to August 4, 2006 http: //www. worldebookfair. com
The Second World e. Book Fair presents 820, 000 free e. Books from July 4 to August 4, 2007 Twice as many free e. Books as in 2006 http: //www. worldebookfair. com
Bigger Better Faster More
Bigger Servers Better Searches More e. Books Faster Wires More Downloads
Week 1 World e. Book Fair Network Traffic Week 2 Weeks 1+2 July 2006
What’s in the Collection? • Now • For the future – More languages – Translations into 100 languages – Difficult works: mathematics classics, botany and physiology. Tables and figures. – “Complete works”
How to get involved • Visit www. gutenberg. org for HOWTOs and FAQs • Join Distributed Proofreaders http: //www. pgdp. net • Choose a book, and digitize it! • Join our mailing lists: http: //lists. pglaf. org • Fix an e. Book! Email errata@pglaf. org
How Can You Help? • Consider e. Books for all types of library needs: – – Reference Cataloging & acquisitions Free online access to e. Books Volunteer opportunities • Be educated about e. Book differences: – Licensing issues: really free? – Re-use and fair use: really a book? – Cost, especially compared to print
“If what you did yesterday still seems big to you today, then your goals for tomorrow are not yet big enough. ” Ling Fu Yu, circa 600 B. C.
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