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Combined PG projects hit the 25,000th post!

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This last week the combined PG projects hit the 25,000th eBook. The book that was posted is; Audio: The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon 22978 [Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/7/22978 ] [Files: 22978-readme.txt; 22978-index.html; 22978-mp3.mp3; 22978-ogg.ogg; 22978-m4b.m4b; 22978-spx.spx ] Thanks to Carl Vonnoh, III and LibriVox (www.librivox.org) This was […]

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PG eBook #20,000 – A Jules Verne Classic

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It may have taken a little while but it is finally here, the 20,000th Project Gutenberg eBook! This eBook number was reserved sometime ago but has now been allocated for the title I’m sure you were all expecting; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. This is a LibriVox audio book recording and […]

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What should be the 25,000th PG eBook?

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There are only 250 eBooks to go before the combined Gutenberg projects reach the quarter century! Project Gutenberg U.S. currently has 22,716, while the unique posts to Project Gutenberg Australia, Europe and Canada have 1,555, 67 & 26 respectively. Add in the 386 PrePrints and we currently have 24,750 total eBooks in the PG archives. […]

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Changes to the Newsletter counting system

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This is only a minor change but should bring the PG count into line with the other gutneberg projects. I am going to start taking the count for the week NOT including the Wednesday of the Newsletter. So, each day is taken as a whole (Wed = 00:00 to 23:59). This weeks count is taken […]

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Anacleto added to the PG ‘Catalog Search Page’

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The search engine, Anacleto. has been added to the PG Catalog Search Page. For full text and/or metadata search (simple and qualified) try the innovative Anacleto engine. Feed-back and suggestions are welcome by the Tesuji staff. Freshness: updated weekly.

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Shakespearean Actors Wanted

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Along with the thousands of text files that Project Gutenberg has to offer there are also many audio recordings. For many people these are great ways to get to know the works of different authors. Recently Michael Hart received a request from Tina Hansen, I notice that your site offers a number of audio books, […]

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500 and Rising – The Al Haines Milestone

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A short while ago I started a poll to see how many PG e-texts people have read. If the votes can be trusted then there are currently over 36%, pretty spiffy thought I, until I heard the latest from Greg Newby. If you think reading several hundred PG e-texts is quite something then the feat […]

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The People Behind Project Gutenberg

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There’s no doubt PG would not be where it is today without Michael Hart and the tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world. As you can imagine, it’s impossible to name every person. What Wiki Team member Ricardo F. Diogo has done is put together a page on the Gutenberg Wiki naming the […]

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Top 100 Honors: Project Gutenberg

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In the issue of PC Magazine, their “Top 100” web sites out of millions lists Project Gutenberg for being one of the best of the best Internet resources. [Update 2017: the linked webpage is no longer available so I’ve removed the link.] Project Gutenberg is among the very oldest electronic information providers in the world […]

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Anacleto Search of Project Gutenberg’s eBooks

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Gutenberg volunteers & other interested folks: Here’s something new to try. It’s a search engine that includes fielded searches, plus text, for the PG content. It enables searching the files (as Google does), and parses the catalog for database-style searches (like our Yahoo search). It’s fresh. Please email Anna Tothfalusi (atothfalusi@tesuji.eu) with any feedback or […]

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PG Canada Live

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On Canada Day 2007 the new Project Gutenberg Canada went live! As one would expect the site multilingual in both English and French. To celebrate their opening they released a “baker’s dozen: thirteen ebooks” which were specially created for the launch. With Canada’s copyright at life+50 years, they will likely be producing some new books […]

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