The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Jan. 21, 2009
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971
We are going to post an immediate transcript of Obama's
inaugural speech, which is going to make for a Tuesday,
and possibly a Wednesday, of major proportions.
So. . . .
I'm expecting a rather busy day the 20th, 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.
OK. . .that worked out and we have already had postings
of several versions of the speech with several more for
release in the near future.
Give The World eBooks in 2009!!!
47 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
Leaving 3 years 11 months, 15 2/3 seasons or 47 months.
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions.
New Project Gutenberg Landmarks and Headlines
We added our 44th US Presidential Inaugual Speech.
Our Chinese eBook Library reached 400 titles overnight.
Project Gutenberg on Twitter
In a further step to creating a PG community beyond the core
Gutenberg
websites, we have setup a Project Gutenberg account at twitter.com.
http://twitter.com/GutenbergNews
Any news or interesting info we come across relating to PG will get
its
140 character Twitter announcement, so keep us posted.
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 dropped nearly 500 eBooks!!!
Of course they are still there, just "retired,"
So let us know if you want to try finishing any of those.
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
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.
We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash,"
for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample
of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under.
Thank you, Mate!
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
httpwww.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
These are the various totals from the ~30,000 at
httpwww.gutenberg.org
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
This week:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-01-14 | 10
Thu 2009-01-15 | 5
Fri 2009-01-16 | 3
Sat 2009-01-17 | 5
Sun 2009-01-18 | 9
Mon 2009-01-19 | 11
Tue 2009-01-20 | 12
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 50 eBooks.
Grand total for today: 27755
23468 English en
1359 French fr
560 German de
484 Finnish fi
400 Chinese zh
387 Dutch nl
294 Portuguese pt
222 Spanish es
176 Italian it
62 Latin la
55 Esperanto eo
54 Tagalog tl
50 Swedish sv
and some from last month
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 the previous 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
27,755 up 280 PG General Automated Count
1,728 up 5 PG of Australia
565 up 12 PG of Europe
2,013 DOWN 481 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42],etc.
222 up 20 PG of Canada, Estimated.
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32,283 DOWN 164 due to PrePrints and Reserved fixes
[However, we will be replacing the missing 448 or so,
which are still available to work on, with 2,000 more
of Prof. Mao's Chinese eBooks, etc., in PrePrints.]
>From last month
27,475 + 287 PG General Automated Count
1,723 + 6 PG Australia
553 + 13 PG Europe
2,494 + 33 PG PrePrints
202 + 12 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 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
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32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
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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