books

An easy library catalog with Tellico

Write a full post in response to this!

Setting up an electronic “card catalog” for my books always seemed like a lot of work, so I hadn’t really attempted it before; lately, I happened across a KDE program called Tellico that made it so easy and fun that I completed my inventory in under a week. Plus, I finally found a use for that “CueCat” scanner I’ve had collecting dust for the last several years!

Gutenberg books with GNU/Linux - Part 1

Edutainment

Write a full post in response to this!

I am a great fan of the Gutenberg project, a noteworthy and honorable effort to digitize copyright-free texts. This project has released into the public domain over 20,000 classic books.

This article will explain how to integrate this huge body of material with the Ubuntu desktop.

Summer Reading

Write a full post in response to this!

Today I thought I might suggest a little bit of summer reading, now the good weather has finally arrived in the UK! Some are a little off the beaten track, with less explicit links to free software; all of them, in my opinion, will be of interest to anybody visiting this website. So, read the list, pay a visit to Amazon and grab the nearest bottle of sun cream!

Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman



CariNet: Cloud computing is a reality.