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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Dec. 21, 2008 eBooks Readable By
Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
I'm expecting a rather busy day the 21st, so I am doing as much of the
Newsletter half a day early as possible, so be forewarned, some of the numbers
may be a day late or early, depending on how you look at things.
Happy Holidays!!!
Give The World eBooks in 2009!!!
48 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012
[some now saying October 11, 2011]
This leaves 4 years. 16 seasons, or 48 months.
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions.
New Project Gutenberg Landmarks and Headlines
The new goal is to put Spanish into our Top 5 list.
I desperately need some Spanish speaking people to help me!
We also officially passed 32,000 original Project Gutenberg eBooks this past
month, including all our usual listings.
This means the original Project Gutenberg editions now list as many titles as
the average U.S. public library.
Please note that PrePrints now has nearly 2,500 eBooks!!!
Well worth looking into:
http:www.preprints.readingroo.ms
We could use someone to write a piece about PrePrints.
We also need more help with the Chinese eBooks there.
The News In More Detail
The times are changing, and we can either lead or follow.
If we don't lead in the field of Chinese eBooks we follow-- and we are
starting a Project Gutenberg of Chinese, for all who may wish to get in on the
ground floor.
Believe it or not, Spanish is listed as the third language, with regard to its
use on the entire Internet so that's the next goal, to bring Spanish to out
Top 5.
In reference to that goal, I am giving a presentation for a new combination of
Internet efforts called Both Americas, in Buenos Aires early next Spring,
followed by what I would hope will be a similar conference in France. India
has had one or more problems with getting an actual invitation sent to me, and
since their current conference will be over less than a month from now, I will
not be able to attend even if such an invitation is issue at the last moment
unless it is of such an unusual nature that I can't turn it down and may have
to interrupt another trip I have now scheduled during, and including the same
period, the coming month.
This is the second time a conference hosted by people I had contact with in
India has not worked out due to inabilities to get things organized in a
manner that does not cost me a great deal of time and money, neither of which
I have great amounts of to invest in any but the wisest of manners.
I BRING THIS UP AGAIN BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH LATELY!
HENCE MY NEED FOR ASSISTANCE WITH SPANISH!!!
I fear the conference in France may be headed the direction it was headed in
last year, much as did the other one I had mentioned above, but right now I
can't say for sure that it is either going to actually happen, or that I may
speak.
Something I should mention about possible conferences
If all the plans are not made, tickets purchased, arranged, etc., so that I
can at least expect to break even on trips, at least one month in advance, the
odds of my attending the conference fall very rapidly to zero. So far the
only ones keeping up their end of the bargain are the Both Americas hosting
the conference in Buenos Aires, so that appears the only conference I am
certain to attend in six months.
AND NOW THERE ARE DOUBTS ABOUT THAT!!!
Greg Newby and I have made an attempt to set up one of few, very few,
conference appearances with a joint presentation, but we haven't heard a word
back from that one either, so I won't even mention it at the moment.
Project Gutenberg just doesn't have the money for us to get to conferences
where we would lose money in the process.
Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!!
FLASH RAM
I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.
The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc.
The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed
by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their
snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.
POWERPOINT
We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.
One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.
Additional Newsletter Services
In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of
Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.
You should notice that we had a very good month, with 100 books done nearly
every single week.
These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at
http://www.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
These are the various totals from the ~30,000 at
http://www.gutenberg.org
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
This week:
day | cnt
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Sun 2008-12-14 | 6
Mon 2008-12-15 | 5
Tue 2008-12-16 | 9
Wed 2008-12-17 | 6
Thu 2008-12-18 | 8
Fri 2008-12-19 | 7
Sat 2008-12-20 | 10
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 100 eBooks.
Grand total for today: 27,475 [- 27,188 ] +287
23,277 [ - 23,075 =] +202 English en
1,333 [ - 1,319 =] + 14 French fr
556 [ - 553 =] + 3 German de
480 [ - 476 =] + 4 Finnish fi
392 [ - 377 =] + 25 Chinese zh
370 [ - 361 =] + 9 Dutch nl
287 [ - 267 =] + 20 Portuguese pt
218 [ - 217 =] + 1 Spanish es
169 [ - 164 =] + 5 Italian it
Not to mention PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe....
Total increase +287 All Reported Languges
and from last month. . . .
Grand total for today 27,188 [ - 26,867 =] +321
23,075 [ - 22,863 =] + 212 English en
1,319 [ - 1,289 =] + 76 French fr
553 [ - 549 =] + 4 German de
476 [ - 470 =] + 6 Finnish fi
361 [ - 359 =] + 2 Dutch nl
377 [ - 359 =] + 18 Chinese zh
267 [ - 260 =] + 7 Portuguese pt
217 [ - 207 =] + 10 Spanish es
164 [ - 159 =] + 5 Italian it
etc.,etc.,etc.
Total increase + 321 All Reported Lanugages
Thanks to Greg Newby!
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And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide
27,475 + 287 112008 PG General Automated Count
1,723 + 6 111808 PG Australia
553 + 13 102108 PG Europe
2,494 + 33 102108 PG PrePrints
202 + 12 110908 PG Canada [Estimated]
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32,447 + 349 by various automated counts and
newsletters
Note Without counting PrePrints, we are still about 30K, and some of the new
.lit collection will not make it under our current rules of addition from
PrePrints, and would be deleted from PrePrints without moving to other
listings.
The 307 Chinese eBooks in PrePrints will probably go, as a team of our best
Chinese workers says they are not worth a lot more time to work on, etc.
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in
circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161
titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system,
bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in
the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calcuating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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