Links

Here are some links to sites we like. Some are related to Plucker Books, some ain't. Read the descriptions to find out.

Plucker

Plucker's E-books

plucker.gnu-designs.com/index.pl/samples

Members of the Plucker project created some examples of how Plucker works. They have a few ebooks and technical documentation at their samples page.

Linux Documentation

www.linuxdoc.org

Free documentation (under the GNU General Public License) on all things linux. They offer their HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs in Plucker format and their other formats are also available for you to roll your own.

Text

Distributed Proofreaders

http://www.pgdp.net

Join DP and help produce material which we can use to make Pluckerbooks. It is easy and fun!

Project Gutenberg

www.gutenberg.net

The de facto standard of e-book publishing. They've been around forever, and a lot of the e-books you'll find on the net originated here (including "several" of ours....ahem).

Wiretap

wiretap.area.com

A bunch of texts originally offered via gopher and now offered via a bunch of ways.

Markup (HTML, XML, etc.)

Sacred Texts

www.sacred-texts.com

Religion-oriented works in HTML format. Very cool, unique collection!

Arthur's Classic Novels

www.unityspot.com/arthurs/

Contains a bunch of Gutenberg and other e-texts marked up using the HTML Writer's Guild gutbook.dtd. We put this before the HWG's site because, frankly, there's more stuff here!

Xooqi

xooqi.mondoplex.com

Offers very high-quality HTML formatted public domain works. Also provides print-on-demand services.

HTML Writer's Guild Gutenberg XML Texts

gutenberg.hwg.org

The HTML Writer's Guild created a couple of XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to markup Gutenberg texts. Unfortunately, the project has seemed to be left to die a forgotten death … except by Arthur Wendover (see above).

The Ex-Classics Web Site

www.exclassics.com

A short, esoteric collection of works that used to be considered classics.

Bartleby

www.bartleby.com

Bartleby offers very high-quality html formatted books and reference materials.

The Litrix Reading Room

www.litrix.com

Some decent-quality html versions of public-domain books.

Tools

GutenMark

www.sandroid.org/GutenMark/

A very cool tool that marks up Gutenberg texts.

html2txt

cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/html2txt/

A CGI program run by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that converts HTML to text (go figure!). We've used this a couple of times to submit some Plucker Books online originals to Project Gutenberg.

Jpluck

jpluck.sourceforge.net

No offense to the maintainers of Plucker Desktop, but Jpluck rules! If you haven't taken it for a spin, do so. And hey, they link to Pluckerbooks as well...

Copyrighted Works

Free-ePress.com

www.free-epress.com

A site I just found out about that seems promising, especially to the voices in my head who say that I am an author trapped in a procrastinator's body. You download and read the copyrighted books for free. Then, you get to decide how much you want to pay for it. It is a similar notion to what Stephen King did with the electronic-only publication of his The Plant. Although, it seems to me that Free-ePress.com was around first....

Listings and Mixed Content

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org

Besides offering the largest listing of etexts available online, the IPL also offers some exclusive online exhibits and reference material.

UPenn's On-Line Books Page

digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

An extensive searchable listing of books that are available online, as well as some other great resources. The list includes books mostly in text, html, and PDF formats and is not limited to public domain works.

Great Books Index

books.mirror.org

There's not much more to say than what's in the title.

Memoware

www.memoware.com

Memoware provides a repository for many documents viewable on handheld devices (including PalmOS). If you're looking for plucker books, try www.memoware.com/cgi-bin/mwsearch.cgi?Any=plucker.

Blackmask

www.blackmask.com

They provide HTML, PDF, and palm-formatted (DOC and iSilo, I believe) versions of public domain works.

Library of Congress

Library of Congress Classification Outline

lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

Exactly what it sounds like. A basic outline of the classes, sub-classes, sub-sub... well, you get the idea.

Cataloguing Policy and Support Office

www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/

This is the main office for the maintenance and development of the classification system. They issue errata and whatnot from time to time and do other seemingly important things.

Link-Backs

These people have linked to us, and so we'll return the favor! Note that some of the above places have linked to us, but in the interest of non-duplication, we'll only list sites here that we haven't listed above.

Note: We found some of these places using Google's nifty "link:" syntax.

FAIFzilla.org

www.faifzilla.org

FAIFzilla.org is the home page for the no-frills online version of Sam Williams' Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. We are happy to host a Plucker version of the work, and Mr. Williams has delightfully linked to our version in his "Alternate Formats" section.

David A. Wheeler's Suggestions for PalmOS PDA Users

www.dwheeler.com/palm-suggest.html

themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/440/

David Wheeler's review of cool things to do with your PalmOS device.

Latz: E-books on your Palm

www.latz.org/palm/e-books.shtml

Some links to palm e-book related sites.

Shallow Sky Palm Pilot Links

www.shallowsky.com/palm.html

General palm pilot related links.

Concordia.net: Science and History and Philosophy of Science Links

alcor.concordia.ca/~vpetkov/lacscic.html

Links to Science and History and Philosophy of Science sources, etc.

Not Plucker, but still cool...

Eldred v. Ashcroft

eldred.cc

Eric Eldred, proprietor of Eldritch Press, et al have petitioned to have the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 overturned. They have fought hard and long for two years (more?) and have found their way to the steps of the Supreme Court. This page details the effort and provides updates on the case. We wish Eldred and Co. success in their endeavor!

2600

www.2600.com

Truth in journalism.

Plucker Books is a private effort to provide clean HTML versions of electronic texts, especially for viewing on handheld devices.