10-22-2003, 10:00 PM
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Project Gutenberg Reaches Ebook Milestone
Project Gutenberg has just released their 10,000th eBook, exactly 18 months, to the week, after their 5,000th....
Late last week, Project Gutenberg's founder, Micheal Hart, announced that the project has passed the milestone of 10,000 free eBooks available, with the publication of the Magna Carta.
All of the eBooks, except the Human Genome Project and the audio books (due to size limitations), and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks (due to copyright), will be available shortly on a single DVD.
Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971, with the aim of "making information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search". In the 32 years since the project started, over 10,000 books, ranging from the Bible to school textbooks, and from the complete works of Shakespeare to the Declaration of Independence, have been made freely available to the public by Project Gutenberg.
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10-22-2003, 11:02 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
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This is great news. Project Gutenbeg is the best. I am glad to hear that you soon will be able to get all the books on one disk. I would gladly pay for that.
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10-22-2003, 11:32 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Pretty awesome! Gutenburg is a student's best friend. First thing I did when I got a PDA was turn Gutenburg texts into Microsoft Reader and Palm Reader eBooks. Read Bram Stoker's Dracula on my Jornada 548 three years ago. 8) And I read William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience" last summer. Long live Gutenburg!
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10-22-2003, 11:39 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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I can't wait for the oppotunity to buy a disk with all that material. Amazing!
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10-23-2003, 02:56 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 405
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I am a tremendous fan of Project Gutenberg, when I had a Helio, it was one of the few sources for books for me (since it provides .txt files).
If you have a PPC, Project Gutenberg and �Book should be two of your best friends.
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