Chinese eBook Collection is on the move!

PG News

Chinese Moves Up! The Chinese collection of eBooks at Project Gutenberg has been increasing steadily and there are now over 300 titles in the archive. The PG Chinese eBook collection has now taken over 5th place in the language lists (excluding English.) Congratulations to everyone involved in producing this collection.

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2008-05-21)

Newsletters

/The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, May 21, 2008/ e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 55 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring! This leaves 4 7/12 years, 18 1/3 seasons, or 55 months. Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on. Chinese Moves Up! Please note the […]

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Volunteers Needed for the Gutenberg Newsletter

PG NewsVolunteers

Back in January we mentioned that there was going to be a Newsletter Team. Unfortunately this will now not happen. Project Gutenberg is therefore putting forward a request for volunteers to help out with the weekly newsletter. Everyone is welcome to participate no matter what your background. Please use our Contact page and let us […]

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Portable Reading: Turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into an eBook reader

NewsReading Apps

Portable Reading offers a service to read books from a library of over 20,000 Gutenberg titles in dozens of languages. Readers can upload their own book and share it with friends. They can also communicate with each other and with authors by writing reviews and annotating individual pages with notes. The reading interface is customizable […]

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Perl or Excel Experts Needed!

PG NewsVolunteers

If there are any experts out there in Perl or Excel, you would be greatly appreciated in helping us with PG statistical numbers; daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. We can provide data, and hopefully you can provide us with weekly, monthly or yearly totals for the Newsletters. If you would like a complete listing of […]

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PG Monthly Newsletter (2008-04-21)

Newsletters

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, April 21, 2008 e-Books Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 56 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring! This leaves 4 2/3 years, 18 2/3 seasons, or 56 months… Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on. HEADLINE NEWS As of today, April […]

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Print Encyclopedias Join Dinosaurs (Part 2)

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In 1985 when Gary Kildall, IBM’s first choice before Bill Gates to design their PC’s operating system a few years earlier, came out with the first electronic encyclopedia, who would figure it would be only a quarter of a century before print encyclopedias faded from the limelight to join vinyl records and dinosaurs? $999 would […]

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Print Encyclopedias Join Dinosaurs (Part 1)

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It’s all over for those hefty paper encyclopedias. No less an authority than The New York Times tells us it is time to “Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias,” that it is all over other than rolling out the last few editions of some last few hard-boiled Luddites who insist on paper encyclopedias, at […]

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Future History: Spacefaring Societies, Resources and Logistics

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I recently updated my Future History: Spacefaring Societies, Resources and Logistics essay, that expands on the Afterwords and References chapters in my e-novel ‘The Universe–or Nothing.’ The novel (2006) is archived in the Project Gutenberg Library Archive Foundation (PGLAF) from where it may be freely downloaded at: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18257 The essay (about 8,000 words and more […]

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PG Canada posts their 100th eBook!

PG News

We’ve just posted the 100th eBook. It’s from 1904, seems not to have been reprinted, and is a very interesting account of Toronto’s legal establishment in the 19th century: it’s a rather spectacular addition to the collection. Here’s the description from the website: 2008/03/25: As our 100th eBook, we’ve chosen this beautifully illustrated history of […]

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Towards A Universal Digital Library: A Few Milestones

HistoryNews

Many of us dream of a universal digital library freely available on the web, i.e. available anywhere and at any time. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and others, we are getting there, at least for the books from public domain. The process began a while ago with a few pioneers – It is […]

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