What is the cost of the entire package?

Gary Peterson


On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, W. Nick Dotson wrote:

> Kurzweil 1000 is a scanning/OCR--actually, editing program which is self-voicing, gives direct access to some 255 file
> types, and with version 6, ".pdf" files, allows for the editing and cleaning up, summarization of those files, with speech
> engines in some 8 languages, and recognition in some 150 or so with version 6...  The Classic Lit disc is a bonus which
> comes with K1K. It does not ship with the demo version and is on a distinctly separate CD-ROM.
> 
> 
> W. Nick Dotson
> 
> 
> --Original Message Text---
> From: David
> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 07:46:47 -0700
> 
> 
> 
> Hi listers! ÿwhere can I get the Kurzweil 1000
> I want it mainly ÿfor the texts! ÿis thees text on a demo CD, ÿor du you ÿhave
> to purchase the pade version to get thees texts.
> David from Arizona.
> 
> 
> ----------
> | From: W. Nick Dotson <[log in to unmask]>
> | To: [log in to unmask]
> | Subject: Re: Fw: books on CD ROM (the next stage beyond PLEASE COPY
> THISDISK)
> | Date: Sunday, June 24, 2001 6:00 AM
> |
> | In fact, it ships with Kurzweil 1000 also, and has more than 2200 offerings
> in plain ascii text file format. ÿThe works are
> | organized alphabetically by authors last name, with short works in the
> parent folder, and sub folders containing longer
> | works--books plays Etc.--the books are broken up into segments of 5 or so
> chapters per segment. ÿWhile I would have
> | preferred the older Project Gutenberg idea of the whole work in one file,
> for some reason it was deemed easier for the LD
> | users of K3000 to have them presented this way, and it really isn't too
> hard to "select all" of the files in a folder, and cut
> | and paste them into one work...
> |
> | W. Nick Dotson
> |
> | P..S. ÿInsight Engineering was doing various electronic codexes of various
> author's works, and Library of the Future was
> | a work with it's own speech friendly front-end from the company World
> Library Inc.
> |
> | On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:08:12 -0400, MARLENE MCINTOSH wrote:
> |
> | I believe that there is already a CD-ROM with over 1100 books in ASCII
> text format that comes with the Kurzweil 3000
> | format.
> |
> | Marlene McIntosh
> |
> | >>> [log in to unmask] 06/23/01 20:12 PM >>>
> | Hi listers! thought I would send this forwarded message.
> | David from Arizona.
> |
> |
> |
> | ----------
> | | From: richard seltzer <[log in to unmask]>
> | | To: richard seltzer <[log in to unmask]>
> | | Subject: books on CD ROM (the next stage beyond PLEASE COPY THIS
> DISK)
> | | Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 1:34 PM
> | |
> | | At one point or another your requested information regarding PLEASE
> COPY
> | | THIS DISK, our project to make public domain books available on
> | diskettes.
> | |
> | | After eight years of our doing that, it's now high time to make these
> | texts
> | | (and far more) available on CD ROM -- providing many more books at far
> | less
> | | cost in an easy to use format. ÿWe're calling this project SEEDY PRESS
> --
> | | books on CD ROM.
> | |
> | | Many of you probably already have general collections of popular classic
> | | texts on CD ROM.
> | |
> | | But is that all you need?
> | |
> | | I'd like to make available an enormous number of texts, providing greater
> | | variety of choice and breadth and depth than what you are familiar with.
> | | That would give
> | | you the opportunity to read the other works of authors that you have
> | sampled
> | | before and to pursue topics of interest to you in the detail you wish,
> | | rather than being dependent on the selections that others have made for
> | you.
> | |
> | | I just built the first of these CDs -- American Literature before 1920.
> | It
> | | consists of 349 books, in plain ASCII text, with each author's works in a
> | | separate directory, and with a comprehensive HTML index page with links
> | to
> | | all the exts, for easy navigation. The price is $29 (i.e., less than
> | nine
> | | cents per book).
> | |
> | | Authors include: Louisa Mae Alcott, Horatio Alger, B.M. Bower, Ambrose
> | | Bierce, Willa Cather, James Fennimore Cooper, Stephen Crane, Richard
> | Harding
> | | Davis, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Zane Grey, Bret Harte,
> | | Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, Olvier Wendell Holmes, William Dean
> | Howells,
> | | Washington Irving, Henry James, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth
> Longfellow,
> | | Herman Melville, Frank Norris, Edgar Allan Poe, Upton Sinclair, Henry
> | David
> | | Thoreau, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, Walt Whitman, Stewart
> Edward
> | | White, and many others.
> | |
> | | It includes well-known works and also works that are very hard to find
> | and
> | | have been out of print for decades. The collection of Westerns, by
> | authors
> | | like Bret Harte and Zane Grey, is particularly interesting.
> | |
> | | You can see the detailed table of contents at
> | | http://www.samizdat.com/amlitcd.html
> | |
> | | If there is enough demand to justify the work involved, I'd like to put
> | | together four more CDs, in the same format, and to add new books to each
> | of
> | | these CDs as they become available.
> | |
> | | The other CDs would cover British/Canadian/Australian Literature,
> | Nonfiction
> | | (history, science, religion, etc.), World literature (in English
> | translation
> | | and also in the original language, when available), and Children's Books.
> | | They too would have hundreds of books and would sell for $29 each. ÿThe
> | full
> | | set of five would probably amount to between 1200 and 1500 books -- a
> | | complete library. (All would be texts published before 1920, and hence in
> | | the public domain.)
> | |
> | | Please let me know if you like this approach.
> | |
> | | Suggestions welcome.
> | |
> | | Richard
> | |
> | | Richard Seltzer, [log in to unmask], www.samizdat.com
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> | | Online discussion http://webworkzone.com/bootcamp
> | ÿAudio of three Internet business speeches www.samizdat.com/internet
> | | 617-469-2269
> 
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> 
> W. Nick Dotson/Proprietor of Dots-On Enterprises
> and
> Support Technician for Kurzweil Educational 1000
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