What happened to Project Project Gutenberg?

[acw]

Almost a year and a half ago, after reporting on Service's The Spell of the Yukon, I briefly mentioned that my Nook's battery was failing, and that there would be a "brief pause" in Project Project Gutenberg, my silly-but-to-me-fun project for reading things in the order that they were digitized by Project Gutenberg

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[crayonbeam]

the fact that you accidentally hit the ok button before reading it all and without actually agreeing to it all says a lot about the weakness of the contract

but I definitely do not think of my iPhone and iTunes purchases as fully mine... if the estate of the Beatles changes their mind about licensing music, I know that will disappear from my devices

contrasted with lugging around CDs, I've made my peace with the devil's bargain

[anonymous]

Well! I was wondering what had happened to Project Project Gutenberg, and now I know. Hurrah for your son giving you informal but practical legal guidance. Brickbats to B & N for putting up such a stupid 'agreement'.

Meanwhile, I bogged down in Project Scott Joplin at Leola. I just didn't like it, but am too compulsive to just drop it halfway through and keep moving. So the piece I have liked the least (so far) is the one to which the book has been open the longest. Go figure. Parts C and D are much more pleasing than parts A and B. Mostly because of interesting key modulations. So, it's not a total loss. And tonight, after months of avoidance, I even went back and fumbled my way through parts A & B, and they are better for having aged. Or something. (What I actually think is that the practice I did before made me able to play them more easily now, and so they sound incrementally better, and so I like them incrementally more. Practice makes better, etc