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Distributed Proofreaders Announce 10,000th eBook

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! In a serious move to release eBooks in a number of fields on this momentous occasions, The Distributed Proofreaders have surpassed the great milestone of 10,000 eBooks, long thought to be dividing line between feasibility study and the real thing. Well, Distributed Proofreaders is definitely a real thing in terms of being one of […]

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DP PRESS RELEASE: DP Releases 10,000th Book

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Today the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (DP) posted a package of texts that takes us over 10,000 completed titles. I’m very proud of our community of volunteers who have accomplished this fantastic number. The 10K package (listed below) showcases the wide range of our volunteers’ interests and talents. There are examples of a number of […]

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Distributed Proofreaders Complete Their 10,000th eBook!

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On Friday 9 March, 2007, DP released 15 books in celebration of their 10,000th posting to Project Gutenberg. DP’s 10,000th unique book is; The Annals of the Cakchiquels, by Daniel G. Brinton 20775 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/7/20775 ] [Files: 20775.txt; 20775-8.txt; 20775-0.txt; 20775-h.htm] Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of […]

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Major Update of Project Gutenberg Newsletter Statistics

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For sometime I’ve been working through the Newsletter Archives doing a manual count on all the ‘posted’ listings, then entering the results into a spreadsheet. I wanted to confirm that all the statistics added up correctly. There was some inconsistencies but I believe that now it is a much more accurate week-by-week, year-by-year account. As […]

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PG Reserved / Pending List

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The following is a listing of all the entries on the Project Gutenberg Reserved/Pending list. These numbers have been reserved for various reason and at present there is no date as to when they will get posted. Reserved / Pending gbnewby 20000 Reserved “The Road Leads On, by Knut Hamsun” 7536 Reserved “The Arabian Nights […]

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The Project Gutenberg Yearly Report for 2006

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Last year we first started counting PGEu and PrePrints but I never got an accurate listing of the duplications from a PGEU listing and the overall totals. Our new editor has it much more accurately figured out since he started and will start accounting for these duplications next week. Expect the grand total to drop […]

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Modifications to the Count of Project Gutenberg eBooks for 2007

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On the second Wednesday of 2007 the Project Gutenberg Newsletter will start another official year of recording the progress of an attempt to create a world public library on the Internet.This is because Project Gutenberg runs on a weekly schedule from the first Wednesday of each year to the first Wednesday of a new year, […]

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Gutenberg News 2006

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December 30, 2006: Project Gutenberg’s website is now available in Portuguese. This is the first full version of the documentation in a language other than English. Other versions are welcome. October 1, 2006: Another month of the WorldEBookFair. During October 2006, about 1/2 million free eBooks are available. Sponsored by the World eBook Library, Project […]

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PG U.S. hits the 20,000 mark!

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During the first few days of December 2006, Project Gutenberg U.S. (including Reserved/Pending) reached the 20,000 mark!This is a fantastic effort from all involved, my congratulations to everyone who helped in reaching this milestone.   — Mike

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Experimental Online Reader

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There is an experimental online reader available. Start from any bibliographic record page, e.g.   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4300   Basically this paginates the .txt file and remembers your last position in a cookie so you can later resume reading where you left off. Please test it. It should work with any book that has a text file […]

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Gutenberg News 2005

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December 13, 2005: Robert Sheckley, one of the few authors represented with copyrighted works at Project Gutenberg, died December 9 at age 77 in Poughkeepsie. According to a New York times obituary, Sheckley “is considered one of science fiction’s seminal humorists, and a precursor to Douglas Adams“; but “a better comparison might be to Kafka, […]

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