pgweekly_2006_12_20.txt
The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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* Some adjustments to the newsletter formatting.
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=[ PROGRESS REPORT ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Today Is Day #350/364, 2006
This Completes Week #50 and Month #11.50
14 Days/2 Weeks of the year remaining
GRAND TOTALS
20,103 [+ 49] Project Gutenberg
1,438 [+ 0] PG Australia
396 [+ 1] PG Europe
379 [+ 0] PG PrePrint Site
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22,316 [+ 50] GRAND TOTAL
44 - Reserved/Pending
7,684 to go to 30,000 eBooks.
~74% of the way to 30,000
~23% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000
STATISTICS FOR 2006
2,737 Project Gutenberg
921 PG Australian
186 PG Europe
379 PG PrePrints
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4,223 TOTAL [2006]
* 50 New eBooks This Week
* 70 New eBooks Last Week
* 207 New eBooks This Month [Dec]
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HISTORICAL COMPARISONS
Weekly Averages:
* 84 per week in 2006
* 61 per week in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
* 57 per week in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 78 per week in 2004
* 79 per week in 2003
* 47 per week in 2002
* 24 per week in 2001
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* 366 per month in 2006
* 266 per month in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
* 248 per month in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 336 per month in 2004
* 355 per month in 2003
* 203 per month in 2002
* 103 per month in 2001
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* 4223 New eBooks in 2006 (Passed 2005 total in 3/4 year)
* 3186 New eBooks in 2005 [Counting 216 PGeu]
* 2970 New eBooks in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 4049 New eBooks in 2004
* 4164 New eBooks in 2003
* 2441 New eBooks in 2002
* 1240 New eBooks in 2001
19,216 New eBooks since the start of 2001,
that's ~268 eBooks per Month for ~71.50 Months.
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We have several counting methods that often differ by several books. There
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The PG Australia total does NOT include PGAU eBooks posted at the U.S.
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I am hoping to get this confirmed or denied soon.
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts 2,700 HTML eBook
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Books@Adelaide Collection 1,098 eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room 2,019 Reference Files
PGCC Classic Chinese Literature 199 eBooks
The Coradella Bookshelf Collection 207 eBooks
DjVu Collection 132 PDF/DjVu eBooks
Ebooks Libres & Gratuits 1,219 eBooks
Himalayan Academy 33 eBooks
Internet Archive (eMovies) 2,577 Movie files
Literal Systems 56 AudioBooks
Logos Group Collection 34,210 TXT eBooks
Poets' Collection 121 Poems
Project Gutenberg Collection 22,196 eBooks
PSU's Electronic Classics Series 148 PDF eBooks
Renascence Editions Collection 182 HTML eBooks
The Rosetta Project 180 eBooks
Swami Center 83 PDF eBooks
Dr Widger Library 2,600 eBook Files
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INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
22,284 entries at IPL
The Internet Public Library (IPL) individual ebook listing was discontinued
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:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and
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None this week.
:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements:
"Episcopal" spelling correction in the subtitle. Headers have been corrected.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle, by C. King Eley 19881
[Subtitle: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the
Episcopal See]
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Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet, by Harold Leland Goodwin 20147
[Illustrator: E. Deane Cate]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20147 ]
[Files: 20147.txt; 20147-8.txt; 20147-0.txt; 20147-tei.tei;
20147-h.htm; 20147-pdf.pdf; 20147-page-images.zip]
Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing, Rufus T. Strohm 20146
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20146 ]
[Files: 20146.txt; 20146-8.txt; 20146-h.htm]
Elegioja, by V. A. Koskenniemi 20145
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20145 ]
[Files: 20145-8.txt]
Virgil's Aeneid and Voltaire's Henriad, by Virgil and Voltaire 20144
[Full title: The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and
the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad]
[Translator: Anonymous]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20144 ]
[Files: 20144.txt; 20144-8.txt]
La vie littéraire, by Anatole France 20143
[Subtitle: Quatrième série]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20143 ]
[Files: 20143-8.txt]
Os sonetos completos de Anthero de Quental, by Antero Quental 20142
[Contributor: Oliveira Martins]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20142 ]
[Files: 20142-8.txt]
More Jonathan Papers, by Elisabeth Woodbridge 20141
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20141 ]
[Files: 20141.txt; 20141-8.txt; 20141-0.txt; 20141-tei.tei;
20141-h.htm; 20141-pdf.pdf; 20141-page-images.zip]
Hiilivalkea, by V. A. Koskenniemi 20140
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/4/20140 ]
[Files: 20140-8.txt]
Old Fogy, by James Huneker 20139
[Subtitle: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20139 ]
[Files: 20139.txt; 20139-8.txt; 20139-0.txt; 20139-h.htm]
True Words for Brave Men, by Charles Kingsley 20138
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20138 ]
[Files: 20138.txt; 20138-h.htm]
A Comparative View of Religions, by Johannes Henricus Scholten 20137
[Tr.: Francis T. Washburn]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20137 ]
[Files: 20137.txt; 20137-8.txt; 20137-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050830193910scholten]
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry, by Various 20136
[Full title: The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasglow Chamber
of Commerce Battalion)]
[Subtitle: Record of War Service, 1914-1918]
[Editor: John W. Arthur and Ion S. Munro]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20136 ]
[Files: 20136.txt; 20136-8.txt; 20136-0.txt; 20136-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove, by Laura Lee Hope 20134
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20134 ]
[Files: 20134.txt; 20134-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050713174012hope]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home, by Laura Lee Hope 20133
[Ill.: Florence England Nosworthy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20133 ]
[Files: 20133.txt; 20133-8.txt; 20133-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050914204412hope]
The Wizard of the Sea, by Roy Rockwood 20132
[Subtitle: A Trip Under the Ocean]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20132 ]
[Files: 20132.txt; 20132-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060401173048rockwood]
The Mask, by Arthur Hornblow 20131
[Subtitle: A Story of Love and Adventure]
[Ill.: Paul Stahr]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20131 ]
[Files: 20131.txt; 20131-8.txt; 20131-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20061106153610hornblow]
Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703), by G. W. 20130
[Commentator: David Abercrombie]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/3/20130 ]
[Files: 20130-8.txt; 20130-0.txt; 20130-h.htm]
Het Leven der Dieren, by A. E. Brehm 20129
[Subtitle: Hoofdstuk 4: De Roofdieren]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20129 ]
[Files: 20129-8.txt; 20129-h.htm]
Tolstoi's leven, by Pavel Ivanovich Biroekoff 20128
[Subtitle: Zijne persoonlijke herinneringen, brieven en
aanteekeningen 1828-1863]
[Contributor: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj]
[Translator: Emma B. van der Wijk]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20128 ]
[Files: 20128-8.txt; 20128-h.htm]
Here are Ladies, by James Stephens 20127
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/0/1/2/20127 ]
[Files: 20127.txt; 20127-8.txt]
The Cave of Gold, by Everett McNeil 20126
[Subtitle: A Tale of California in '49]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20126 ]
[Files: 20126.txt; 20126-8.txt; 20126-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060625123838mcneil]
A Preface to Politics, by Walter Lippmann 20125
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20125 ]
[Files: 20125.txt; 20125-8.txt; 20125-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060621190106lippmann]
Barn and the Pyrenees, by Louisa Stuart Costello 20124
[Subtitle: A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20124 ]
[Files: 20124.txt; 20124-8.txt; 20124-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060613010719stuartcost]
Golden Stars, by Henry Van Dyke 20123
[Subtitle: And Other Verses Following "The Red Flower"]
[Contents: The Peaceful Warrior]
[ The Winds of War-News]
[ Righteous Wrath]
[ Facta non Verba]
[ From Glory unto Glory]
[ Signs of the Zodiac]
[ Britain, France, America]
[ The Red Cross]
[ Easter Road, 1918]
[ America's Welcome Home]
[ The Surrender of the German Fleet]
[ Golden Stars]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20123 ]
[Files: 20123.txt; 20123-8.txt; 20123-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20050324195421vandyke]
The Queen's Necklace, by Alexandre Dumas 20122
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20122 ]
[Files: 20122.txt; 20122-8.txt; 20122-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060508152344dumas]
Lone Star Planet, by Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire 20121
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20121 ]
[Files: 20121.txt; 20121-8.txt; 20121-h.htm]
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional, by Father Chiniquy 20120
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/2/20120 ]
[Files: 20120.txt; 20120-8.txt; 20120-h.htm]
Ambrotox and Limping Dick, by Oliver Fleming 20119
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20119 ]
[Files: 20119.txt; 20119-8.txt; 20119-h.htm]
Valkeat kaupungit, by V. A. Koskenniemi 20118
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20118 ]
[Files: 20118-8.txt]
Chatterbox, 1905., by Various 20117
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20117 ]
[Files: 20117.txt; 20117-8.txt; 20117-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: gbn453k]
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) 20116
[Author: Sir James George Frazer]
[Subtitle: The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits
Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20116 ]
[Files: 20116.txt; 20116-8.txt; 20116-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20041227084652frazer]
A Short History of the 6th Division, by Thomas Owen Marden 20115
[Subtitle: Aug. 1914-March 1919]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20115 ]
[Files: 20115.txt; 20115-8.txt; 20115-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20051105031107marden]
Goethen runoja, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 20114
[Translator: V. A. Koskenniemi]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20114 ]
[Files: 20114-8.txt]
Nonsense Drolleries, by Edward Lear 20113
[Subtitle: The Owl & The Pussy-Cat--The Duck & The Kangaroo.]
[Illustrator: William Foster]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20113 ]
[Files: 20113.txt; 20113-8.txt; 20113-h.htm]
Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land, by Ellis Towne et al. 20112
[Full author: Ellis Towne; Sophie May and Ella Farman]
[Subtitle: And Other Stories]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20112 ]
[Files: 20112.txt; 20112-h.htm]
With Those Who Wait, by Frances Wilson Huard 20111
[Illustrator: Charles Huard]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/0/1/1/20111 ]
[Files: 20111.txt; 20111-8.txt; 20111-h.htm]
Canada: the Empire of the North, by Agnes C. Laut 20110
[Subtitle: Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth
from Colony to Kingdom]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/1/20110 ]
[Files: 20110.txt; 20110-8.txt; 20110-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060929172837laut]
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2, by Boutwell 20109
[Full author: George S. Boutwell]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20109 ]
[Files: 20109.txt; 20109-8.txt]
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, by Duc de Rovigo 20108
[Full title: Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de
l'empereur Napoléon]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20108 ]
[Files: 20108-8.txt; 20108-0.txt]
Denmark, by M. Pearson Thomson 20107
[Ill.: F. J. Hyldahl]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20107 ]
[Files: 20107.txt; 20107-8.txt; 20107-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20060303161224thomson]
How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl, by Irene Elliott Benson 20106
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20106 ]
[Files: 20106.txt; ]
[Clearance: 20060919041248benson]
The Land We Live In, by Henry Mann 20105
[Subtitle: The Story of Our Country]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20105 ]
[Files: 20105.txt; 20105-8.txt; 20105-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20041119160020mann]
The Cross-Cut, by Courtney Ryley Cooper 20104
[Ill.: George W. Gage]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20104 ]
[Files: 20104.txt; 20104-8.txt; 20104-h.htm; ]
[Clearance: 20061106152829cooper]
A princeza na berlinda, by Urbano de Castro 20103
[Subtitle: Rattazzi a vol d'oiseau, com a biographia de sua Alteza]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20103 ]
[Files: 20103-8.txt]
The International Magazine - Volume V. No. 2, February 1852, by Various 20102
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20102 ]
[Files: 20102.txt; 20102-8.txt; 20102-0.txt; 20102-tei.tei;
20102-h.htm; 20102-pdf.pdf; 20102-page-images.zip]
Under Fire, by Charles King 20101
[Illustrator: C. B. Cox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20101 ]
[Files: 20101.txt; 20101-8.txt; 20101-h.htm]
Runoja, by V. A. Koskenniemi 20100
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/1/0/20100 ]
[Files: 20100-8.txt]
Historia de la célebre Reina de España Doña Juana, by Anonymous 20099
[Full title: Historia de la célebre Reina de España Doña Juana,
llamada vulgarmente, La Loca]
[Illustrator: R. Monleón]
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/2/0/0/9/20099 ]
[Files: 20099.txt; 20099-8.txt; 20099-h.htm]
The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896, by Various 20093
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/0/0/20093 ]
[Files: 20093.txt; 20093-8.txt; 20093-0.txt; 20093-tei.tei;
20093-h.htm; 20093-pdf.pdf; 20093-page-images.zip]
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