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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-09-12)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_09_12.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 12, 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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Harry Potter to go digital?

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In an articel found on The Independent on Sunday website, it seems that the Harry Potter titles could officially go digital; A source close to Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter novels, said the company was also keen to adapt literary works to the new technology. May people believe that J.K.Rowling should already have […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-09-05)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_09_05.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, September 5, 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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The Mobile Library releases classic and modern literature for cellphones

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German developer QiOO Interactive hosts the ‘Mobile Library’ – a service that brings classic books as well as modern literature to JAVA™-enabled cellphones. The portfolio ranges from Aristotle over Mark Twain to such extraordinary authors as Algernon Blackwood. As the founder Thomas Lucka states the Mobile Library will continue to release high quality books in […]

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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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-08-29)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_08_29.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter for Wednesday, August 29, 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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First Book receives $1 Million Donation

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First Book is a site that aims to help literacy by giving children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first books. This week Publishers Weekly reported on this very generous donation from Random House. Flexing its philanthropic muscle, Random House is making a multiyear $1-million donation to First Book, the national […]

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PG Branded books at The Mobile Library

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Die Handybibliothek (The Mobile Library) now has some PG branded books (in English) available on their website. These are FREE books availbe in the JAR and JAD formats. With the later you can download them “over the air”. It would be great if anyone with a WAP enabled phone could check them out and let […]

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The People Behind Project Gutenberg

PG News

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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