Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]
At 06:40 AM 11/30/01 +0800, csj wrote:
>On Friday 30 November 2001 05:44, John Griffiths wrote:
>> At the risk of wandering WAAYY out into metaphysics...
>>
>> surely the novel is a binary? it can't be usefully modified and can
>> only be read as-is.
>>
>> It'd have to be made available as a text file (or maybe printed with
>> double spacing to allow annotation?) to be usefull
>>
>> Otherwise to make use of it you'd have to either re-type it, or scan
>> and OCR
>>
>> which sounds analogous to de-compiling a binary to me.
>
>Unless you want the latest Stephen King, there's Project Gutenberg
><http://www.gutenberg.org/>.
>
AH-HAH!
correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Project Gutenberg only cover
works that are out of copyright?
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