PG Weekly Newsletter: Part 2 (2007-01-10)

Newsletters

From news at pglaf.org Wed Jan 10 20:07:22 2007 From: news at pglaf.org (Project Gutenberg Newsletter) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:07:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701102006390.23675@pglaf.org> GWeekly_January_10_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 10 Jan 2006 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 – – – – […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-01-10)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_01_10.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 10, 2007 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971**** NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. Courier New. Windows NotePad is a good a program to use for viewing. This Weeks News ————— THE PROJECT GUTENBERG YEARLY REPORT FOR 2006 by […]

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The Project Gutenberg Yearly Report for 2006

PG News

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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2.5m Digital Books On One £25,000 Machine

News

A machine that electronically stores 2.5 million books that can then be printed and bound in less than seven minutes is to be launched early next year. It prints in any language and has an upper limit of 550 pages. The ‘Espresso’ will be launched first in several US libraries. The company behind the project […]

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ArcaMax Publishing: eBooks via email

News

ArcaMax Publishing offers free email subscriptions to 700 classic books at http://www.arcamax.com/books.   Upon signing up for an e-mail subscription, the reader receives a chapter a day with the option to read further on the ArcaMax website. The email subscriptions can be adjusted to match the place in the book so the reader can go […]

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ReadPal: Clutter Free Reading

Reading Apps

ReadPal allows you to read PG texts a lot faster, more comfortably and with less glare.You no longer have to print a book to read it with ease and speed. It is completely free for personal use. Visit readpal.com to download.   For your reading pleasure ReadPal is also pre-bundled with a dozen popular PG […]

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Modifications to the Count of Project Gutenberg eBooks for 2007

PG News

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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PG Weekly Newsletter (2007-01-03)

Newsletters

pgweekly_2007_01_03.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, January 03, 2007 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971**** NOTE: Best viewed with a fixed-width font, i.e. Courier New. Windows NotePad is a good a program to use for viewing. This Weeks News ————— ** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * IMPORTANT […]

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PG Newsletter Archives: 2006

Newsletters

Weekly Newsletters pgweekly_2007_01_03_part_2 pgweekly_2007_01_03 pgweekly_2006_12_27_part_2 pgweekly_2006_12_27 pgweekly_2006_12_20_part_2 pgweekly_2006_12_20 pgweekly_2006_12_13_part_2 pgweekly_2006_12_13 pgweekly_2006_12_06_part_2 pgweekly_2006_12_06

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PG Weekly Newsletter: Part 2 (2007-01-03)

Newsletters

From news at pglaf.org Thu Jan 4 13:34:17 2007 From: news at pglaf.org (Project Gutenberg Newsletter) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:34:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701041333140.21245@pglaf.org> GWeekly_January_03_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 03 Jan 2007 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 – – – – […]

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Author Philippa Pearce Dies At 86

News

Children’s author Philippa Pearce, who was responsible for books such as Tom’s Midnight Garden, has died aged 86 after suffering a stroke. The former BBC producer wrote her first novel, Minnow on the Say, in 1955, and her home – a Cambridgeshire mill house – inspired much of her work. Tom’s Midnight Garden, about a […]

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