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Project Gutenberg's Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, October 3, 2001
11 months ago we posted our 3,000th Etext, with 100-200 reserved.
Today, we posted our 4,000th text, with only about 64 slots reserved.
10 months from now we are scheduled to be announcing our 5,000th Etext
Etexts Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since Before The Internet
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Several volunteers are now using teixlite to tag PG books,
but we need a volunteer to write a PG style sheet, either
.css or .xsl, to use with the teixlite.dtd we have.
From: Judith Boss <jeboss@home.com>
The Online Distributed Proofreading team proudly announces that September
was their new record high month with 9074 pages proofed in the month!!
September also had the Teams new record high day with 680 pages completed
on September 7th. We have set our goal at 10,000 pages for the month
of October, stop on by and help us set a new record!
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We need someone to write the weekly Newsletters for November. . . .
I'll be on the road. . . .
I can give you a kind of "fill in the blanks" approach to make it easy.
I should be able to do the monthly Newsletters. . . .
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We need some volunteers who can spend just a minute or two looking
over each of the three or so eTexts we post on the average day....
Just to download them and check to see that nothing went wrong in
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"hard returns" or there will be trailing spaces on some or all
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even easier as we go along. 100 Etexts per month is just too much
for any small group of people to do well. . . .
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Please send in as much copyright research as you can in the next
month, as I plan to be away for November, and don't want to swamp
Greg Newby with more copyright research than is necessary.
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Here Are Your 29 New Project Gutenberg eTexts For This Week:
And two updated editions:
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We have posted new and significantly revised 11th editions of:
Jan 2003 Every Man In His Humour, by Ben Jonson [Jonson #1][emihhxxx.xxx]3694
[the new files are emihh11.txt and emihh11.zip]
Feb 2003 Cynthia's Revels, Ben Jonson [cynthxxx.xxx]3771
[the new files are cynth11.txt and cynth11.zip]
Apr 2003 Entire PG Edition of The French Immortals [IM#87][imewkxxx.xxx]4000
Apr 2003 Entire An "Attic" Philosopher by Souvestre [IM#86][im86bxxx.xxx]3999
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v3 [IM#85][im85bxxx.xxx]3998
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v2 [IM#84][im84bxxx.xxx]3997
Apr 2003 An "Attic" Philosopher by E. Souvestre, v1 [IM#83][im83bxxx.xxx]3996
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Apr 2003 The Entire Madame Chrysantheme by Loti [IM#82][im82bxxx.xxx]3995
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v4 [IM#81][im81bxxx.xxx]3994
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v3 [IM#80][im80bxxx.xxx]3993
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v2 [IM#79][im79bxxx.xxx]3992
Apr 2003 Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti, v1 [IM#78][im78bxxx.xxx]3991
90
Apr 2003 The Entire Conscience by Hector Malot [IM#77][im77bxxx.xxx]3990
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v4 [IM#76][im76bxxx.xxx]3989
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v3 [IM#75][im75bxxx.xxx]3988
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v2 [IM#74][im74bxxx.xxx]3987
Apr 2003 Conscience by Hector Malot, v1 [IM#73][im73bxxx.xxx]3986
Mar 2003 Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott[Alcott#10][hspskxxx.xxx]3837
Mar 2003 Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss [sfrbnxxx.xxx]3836C
[This is a copyrighted Project Gutenberg Etext]
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Mar 2003 Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 [cwlv1xxx.xxx]3835
Mar 2003 Hassan, James Elroy Fletcher [Fletcher #2][htshbxxx.xxx]3834
[Full Title: Hassan: The Story of Hassan of Baghdad
and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand] Mar 2003 [ xxx.xxx]3833
Mar 2003 Australian Legendary Tales, by K. L. Parker[KLP#2][strltxxx.xxx]3833
[Full title: Australian Legendary Tales--
Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the piccaninnies]
[Author's Full Name: K. (Katie) Langloh Parker (1856-1940)]
Mar 2003 Australia Felix, by Henry Handel Richardson[HRR#3][strlfxxx.xxx]3832
Mar 2003 The Secret Power, by Marie Corelli [Corelli#2][scrtpxxx.xxx]3831
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Mar 2003 Overruled, by George Bernard Shaw [GBS#24][overrxxx.xxx]3830
Mar 2003 Love Among the Chickens, by P. G. Wodehouse[PGW#6][lvchkxxx.xxx]3829
Mar 2003 Simon the Jester, by William J. Locke [sjstrxxx.xxx]3828
Mar 2003 The Days Before Yesterday, Lord Frederic Hamilton [tdbysxxx.xxx]3827
Mar 2003 Rise of the New West, 1819-1829, by F.J. Turner [rstnwxxx.xxx]3826
25
Mar 2003 Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw [GB Shaw #23][pygmlxxx.xxx]3825
Mar 2003 The Lamp of Fate, by Margaret Pedler [Pedler #2][lmpftxxx.xxx]3824
Mar 2003 Thelma, by Marie Corelli [thlmaxxx.xxx]3823
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We created 29 new eTexts for you this week.
With 3945 eTexts online as of October 3, it now takes an average of
100,000,000 readers gaining a nominal value of $2.53 from each book,
for Project Gutenberg to have alreacy given away $1,000,000,000,000
[One Trillion Dollars] in books.
*100,000,000 readers is one to two percent of the world's population!*
Our Total For The Year Is About 909 For 275 days,
this is 3.30 per day or 99 Per 30 day month. . . .
This Would Yield About 1204 For The Year. . . .
We are about 40 weeks through the year. . . .
counting each Wednesday as ending one week.
Weekly Yearly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
01/03/01 29 22.74
October total 29
09/26/01 27 22.59
09/19/01 31 22.47
09/12/01 31 22.3
09/05/01 27 22.2
September total 116
08/29/01 25 22
08/22/01 21 22
08/15/01 30 22
08/08/01 20 22
08/01/01 22 22
August total 117
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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