Text To Speech

News

Dolphin Producer is a new software package which will convert a text document into a fully synchronized text and audio DTB at the push of a single button. The DTB can then be played back using Dolphin’s EaseReader software player – which is included in Dolphin Producer.   The DTB can also be played back […]

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Free Internet Reference Site

News

LivingInternet.com provides a 700-odd page reference about the Internet “to provide living context and perspective to this most technological of human inventions”, and has received input from many people that helped build the Internet. It currently receives about 3 thousand visitors a day, many from educational institutions. Now in its 7th year of operation.   […]

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General Catalog of Old Books and Authors

News

http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm which now indexes 24,000 books available free online, including all PG(US) & PG(Aus)’s books, along with some basic date information about them and their authors where you can find more. Plus many books not available on line, a good place to search for books by specific authors who you are interested in. For information […]

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Experimental Online Reader

PG News

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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Internet Archive Invitation

News

We have been invited to peruse the various eBook collections of the Internet Archive for potential Project Gutenberg eBooks. http://www.archive.org   Don’t worry, many of the numbers listed are out of date, but you should get all the files when you pass through to the original sites. Click on “texts” to get started, feel free […]

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Google and YouTube…the Truth

News

While nearly every media outlet is once again filled with press releases from Google and YouTube, you probably have not heard much about the fact that Google tried competing with YouTube and never really got their program running — hence the $1.65 billion takeover of YouTube.   It would appear that Google has been sucked […]

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Electronic Trading Surpasses Mercantile Exchange Pit Trading

News

Last Thurs might have been the first day on the CME where there were more commodities traded via electronic trading than on the actual floor of the exchange. CME = Chicago Mercantile Exchange [Various single commodities had done this before, not sure if a grand total of all trade had been a majority electronic before]

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Our Distributed Proofreaders Need…

Volunteers

Please visit the site: http://www.pgdp.net for more information about how you can help a lot by simply proofreading just a few pages per day, or more. If you have a book that has been scanned, but not yet run through OCR (optical character recognition) or proofed, and you would like the Distributed Proofreaders to work […]

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Project Gutenberg Is Seeking Legal Beagles

Volunteers

Project Gutenberg is seeking (volunteer) lawyers. We have regular need for intellectual property legal advice (both US and international) and other areas. Please email Project Gutenberg’s CEO, Greg Newby: gbnewby@pglag.org if you can help. This is much more important than many of us realize!

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Graphics for PG website and publicity materials

Volunteers

Project Gutenberg is seeking graphics we can use for our Web pages and publicity materials. If you have original graphics depicting Project Gutenberg themes, please contribute them! To see some of what we have now, please see: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/images

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Turn eBooks into MP3

Volunteers

We’re building a team to read our eBooks into MP3 files for the visually impaired and other audio book users. Let us know if you’d like to join this group. More information at www.gutenberg.org/audio

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