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Thanks from Troop 309 Temecula

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Greetings,We’ve now read most all the Gutenberg online Boy Scout books and related teen and pre-teen adventure books at our campouts.Great stuff, we just wish you posted more. Thanks again for a wonderful service. We also received much benefit from the book on knots. I’ve also read all of Dumas’ books from your site. Love […]

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PG Nomination for Educated Earth Website Donations

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Ben Lovatt, the owner of the humanitarian science/technology website EducatedEarth, wrote to PG with the following statement. We raise money in donations (in addition to 10% of our profits) and give them to a different organization every month. To decide which organization should receive the money, we have our members give us suggestions on companies […]

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Project Gutenberg feature in Red Hat Magazine

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Free as in, well, free. At least, that’s what the folks at Project Gutenberg believe. They work hard to make as many literary (in a very broad sense of the term) works as possible available in a variety of formats, languages, and media to as many people as possible. They are guided by similar principles […]

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Project Runeberg: Proofreading Activity Graphs

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Since you seldom hear anything from Project Runeberg, you might have concluded that we’re dead now. But this is wrong. Even though less books are added, we still have people actively proofreading the pages we scanned before. Compared to PGDP.net, our system is more wiki-like (less workflow oriented) and our volunteer proofreaders can jump to […]

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Michael Hart Interviewed on NPR about Digital Libraries

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This coming weekend an interview with Michael Hart about Digital Libraries will be broadcast on NPR [National Public Radio]. In this interview he was also joined by Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive) and Michael Keller (Librarian of Stanford). Michael specifically talks about wearing Digital Libraries on a necklace, Terabyte hard drives and creating a Billion […]

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PG-AU to start a Monthly Newsletter

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Project Gutenberg of Australia is starting a monthly newsletter which will include details of postings for the month, together with occasional articles relating to the PGofAustralia site. To subscribe go to; http://gutenberg.net.au/news-form.html

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Page images (.PNG) uploaded to PG website

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Recently Joshua Hutchinson has been uploading eBook pages images (as PNG format) to the PG website. For example; The page images of Spacehounds of IPC, by Edward Elmer Smith are in the folder; http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/8/5/20857/20857-page-images/ The “system” used to number page images is as follows; Covers (front and back) and the illustrated inside covers and marked […]

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New York Times article mentioning PG

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Though I don’t read Finnish, Portuguese or Icelandic, it is of some comfort to know that hundreds of books in these languages are now stored on my computer. They are in good company. Just as I am not likely ever to read “Hattu Yksinaytoksinen Huvinaytelma” by Alfhild Agrell, so, too, will I probably never work […]

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Congratulations to PG of Australia on their 1500th eBook

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Congratulations to Project Gutenberg Australia for reaching eBook number #1500. Here are some words from both Colin Choat and Michael Hart. Milestones at Project Gutenberg of Australia Recently we added ebook #1500 to our collection. One does not usually single out a volunteer for mention but it seems appropriate on this occasion. Significantly, the ebook […]

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Project Gutenberg TV Personality Needed

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A four part series on the history of reading currently in production is looking for a Project Gutenberg volunteer to participate. Ideally, this individual has had a long involvement with Project Gutenberg, has uploaded vast numbers of books, speaks passionately about the role of books in society and the need for universal access to texts […]

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First Cebuano Language eBook on Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg of the Philippines is happy to announce the release of the first Cebuano Ebook, Larawan: Mga Sugilanon ug Dinalídalí, a collection of short stories by Vicente Rama (1887-1956). Originally, these stories where published in Cebu in 1921. The stories give a humorous glimpse back into the life in Cebu in the early twenties […]

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