Project Gutenberg Newsletter October 2025

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PGLAF CEO Greg Newby’s Medical Status

Greg has worked on Project Gutenberg since 1991, and directed the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) as CEO since its founding in 2000. Greg has been the guiding hand of Project Gutenberg, and PGLAF, along with helping to launch Distributed Proofreaders, for more than 30 years.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter August-September 2025

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Video about Three AI Initiatives

Here’s a 19-minute online presentation Professor Ilana Kingsley made for the Pacific Northwest Library Association annual conference.

It’s about three artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that PG has undertaken in the past couple of years. First is the audiobooks, followed by browsing categories & book summaries. Also a bonus application that is rather neat.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter July 2025

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Project Gutenberg turns 54!

On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart had the idea of using a computer to read and enjoy literature. This innovation led to the creation of Project Gutenberg, which continues to thrive today.

You can read more about the history of Project Gutenberg in our 50th anniversary writeup:

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter April-June 2025

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Empathy.ai seeks testers of Project Gutenberg-focused AI

Project Gutenberg has had interests in how modern artificial intelligence tools might be helpful for different situations. Within the past year, Project Gutenberg has added AI-generated book summaries and browsing categories for almost every book - you can see these on any book’s landing page.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter January-March 2025

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Seeking Help for a Website Accessibility Statement

Project Gutenberg has not had an accessibility statement for https://www.gutenberg.org, and we were recently reminded of this.

If you have expertise in writing an accessibility statement for a website, and might be able to help draft one, please get in touch by return email.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter November-December 2024

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Caricature Image of Michael Hart

Newsletter readers might enjoy a caricature of Michael Hart by Denis Renard. This is featured in the History of eBooks comic,

https://archive.org/details/history-ebooks-drawings

More information about the artist, Danis, is online at http://planchetdessins.canalblog.com/

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter October 2024

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Help with Social Media

From one of our great social media volunteers:

“I wonder if someone is willing to back me up at Mastodon (@gutenberg_org), only when it’s needed. Mastodon is a fediverse platform similar to others social media. Only 2-3 posts a day are enough for this purpose. You can take a look at our account here https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org.”

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter September 2024

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Scribble, for authors and aspiring authors

From Torrey Butler:

In 2016, I began writing my first book. Foreign territory at the time because I didn’t have a clue where to start. Everyone I sought out for help either gave me the run around, tried to offer illegitimate services, or flat out didn’t care to help me along the way. Despite the adversity & uncertainty, I pushed through, publishing my first book 4-years later in 2020. This disparity is what millions of people are faced with. In today’s literary world, many talented voices with a story to tell are silenced, as they struggle to find the adequate support where their voice can be heard and appreciated.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter August 2024

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Project Gutenberg welcomes specific suggestions or fixes, as well as people to join the team working on day-to-day operations.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter June 2024

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