A Guardian Netbytes article on the Project Gutenberg archives

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Peruse the world’s best public library Jack Schofield wrote this nice little article for the Guardian website yesterday. He talks about the project archives, volunteering and includes a nice little quote from the site about preservation. Here is the article in full; If you fancy a good read, Project Gutenberg has more than 22,000 books […]

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The 500th German Language Book Posted To Project Gutenberg!

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The German-language e-book producing community and the German Team at Distributed Proofreaders proudly present the 500th German e-book at Project Gutenberg! We hope you enjoy it, as well as all the other German books we’ve posted so far, and you will be looking forward to the next 500 books as much as we do! (Die […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2008-01-09)

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pgweekly_2008_01_09.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, Janurary 9, 2008 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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End of 2007 PG Statistics

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Another year is over for Project Gutenberg and as always it has been a busy one. Although we started out a little slow we had a great charge in the last few months, yet again our volunteers posted over four thousands new titles. We hit some impressive milestones along the way and also welcomed some […]

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2008: Predictions, Hopes and Fears

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Every year I write my predictions, hopes and fears, but this year I think we can all agree that these predictions cross boundaries, concern advances, and declines, in both the technology and social world orders that are far beyond anything I previously predicted. This year’s predictions include “personal libraries” on “personal computers” to rival the […]

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PG Newsletter Archives: 2007

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2008-01-02)

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pgweekly_2008_01_02.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, Janurary 2, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Visit www.pg-news.org to read these news items. * […]

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R.I.P. Robert Marquardt, PG-SF Bookshelf Creator

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Robert Marquardt, PG’s wiki sysop, died this morning [2007/12/29]. His work must remain unfinished and questions to him will remain unanswered. This was his last will. This info was added by his brother Rolf Marquardt today at PG’s wiki. Robert joined Project Gutenberg in December 2006 to create the Science Fiction Bookshelf. He has completed […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-12-26)

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pgweekly_2007_12_26.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, December 26, 2007 ****eBooks Readable by Both Humans and Computers since July 4, 1971**** http://www.gutenberg.org NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, e.g. Courier New. Windows Notepad is a good a program to use for viewing. NEWS HEADLINES ————– Our little automated daily report didn’t come in […]

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Amazon Kindle eBook Reader

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The Amazon Kindle is not only the latest E-Ink book reader to hit the market it also one with the highest profiles. A couple of the biggest differences of the Kindle over other readers such as the Sony Reader (PRS-505) and the Cybook Gen3, are that the Kindle has wireless connectivity and a mini-keyboard. This […]

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Library World Records

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I wonder what libraries have the highest circulation, and how many times their average books circulate, and things like that.Are these the kinds of things you consider? The Loneliness of the Unread Books I recall learning in Library School that the averages for circulation are around six times during the whole lifespan a book spends […]

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