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Distributed Proofreaders Complete Their 10,000th eBook!

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On Friday 9 March, 2007, DP released 15 books in celebration of their 10,000th posting to Project Gutenberg. DP’s 10,000th unique book is; The Annals of the Cakchiquels, by Daniel G. Brinton 20775 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/7/7/20775 ] [Files: 20775.txt; 20775-8.txt; 20775-0.txt; 20775-h.htm] Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 by Charles Franks to support the digitization of […]

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Major Update of Project Gutenberg Newsletter Statistics

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For sometime I’ve been working through the Newsletter Archives doing a manual count on all the ‘posted’ listings, then entering the results into a spreadsheet. I wanted to confirm that all the statistics added up correctly. There was some inconsistencies but I believe that now it is a much more accurate week-by-week, year-by-year account. As […]

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PG Reserved / Pending List

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The following is a listing of all the entries on the Project Gutenberg Reserved/Pending list. These numbers have been reserved for various reason and at present there is no date as to when they will get posted. Reserved / Pending gbnewby 20000 Reserved “The Road Leads On, by Knut Hamsun” 7536 Reserved “The Arabian Nights […]

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The Project Gutenberg Yearly Report for 2006

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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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Modifications to the Count of Project Gutenberg eBooks for 2007

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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 U.S. hits the 20,000 mark!

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During the first few days of December 2006, Project Gutenberg U.S. (including Reserved/Pending) reached the 20,000 mark!This is a fantastic effort from all involved, my congratulations to everyone who helped in reaching this milestone.   — Mike

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