weekly_2006_october_18.txt
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=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=[ WEEK #41-2006 REPORT ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
TOTALS
19,528 [+45] Project Gutenberg U.S. [NOT Including PG Australia]
1,301 [+ 2] Australian eBooks [NOT Included in above line]
352 [+ 0] Gutenberg Europe [NOT Included in above lines]
377 [+ 1] PG PrePrint Site [NOT Included in above lines]
[+48] By hand count
============
21,561 [+48] GRAND TOTAL
We are ~16% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000
RESERVED/PENDING
43 - Only ~42 Numbers Left On Our Reserved Numbers List. This Used to be well
over 100!
2006 STATISTICS:
3,413 New eBooks [at all four sites]
Averaging ~359 eBooks per month!!! [Includes: PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints]
All four sites combined are averaging 83 eBooks per week in 2006.
* 48 New eBooks This Week
* 68 New eBooks Last Week
* 116 New eBooks This Month [Oct]
PROGRESS REPORT (Including Distributed Proofreaders)
In the first 09.50 months of this year, PG produced 3,413 new eBooks.
It took us from Jul 1971 to Sep 2002 to produce our first 3,413 eBooks!
That's 41 WEEKS as Compared to ~31 Years!!!
17,353 eBooks this week last year
4,208 New eBooks in last 12 Months [Incl. PGAu, PGEu & PrePrints]
Monthly Averages:
* 359 per month in 2006
* 266 per month in 2005 [Counting 216 PGEu]
* 248 per month in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 336 per month in 2004
* 355 per month in 2003
* 203 per month in 2002
* 103 per month in 2001
Yearly Totals:
* 3413 New eBooks in 2006 (Passed 2005 total in 3/4 year)
* 3186 New eBooks in 2005 [Counting 216 PGeu]
* 2970 New eBooks in 2005 [Not Counting PGEu]
* 4049 New eBooks in 2004
* 4164 New eBooks in 2003
* 2441 New eBooks in 2002
* 1240 New eBooks in 2001
18,493 New eBooks since the start of 2001,
that's ~266 eBooks per Month for ~69.50 Months.
NOTES:
Project Gutenberg Australia total does NOT include PGAu eBooks posted at the
U.S. site: www.gutenberg.org
We have several counting methods, and they often differ by several books that we
have to hunt down by hand to reconcile. There is also some duplication between
these various collections. Volunteers will need to take these duplications into
account.
The totals for the four collections are eBooks that originated as created,
edited, proofread, formatted, etc., by Project Gutenberg and its 50,000
volunteers, while the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center with 100,000+ books
contains entire eBook collections from 125+ eLibraries so the production
statistics given here are for some 20,000+ eBooks created by the various teams
of Project Gutenberg volunteers, for which we share the responsibility of
maintaining. The Consortia Center eBooks were and are the responsibility of the
donating eLibraries, and we would be happy to forward any suggestions for
correction to those eLibraries, but those eBooks must be edited by the donating
parties, as per their requests.]
=-=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=[ OTHER STATISTICS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
SNAILMAIL (DVD & CD)
Over 15 million eBooks have been sent out via snailmail!!!
DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS:
9,243 [+35] at Distributed Proofreaders
The Distributed Proofreaders started production in October 2000 and
currently has over 36,000 volunteers.
For more complete DP statistics, visit:
http://www.pgdp.net/c/stats/stats_central.php
NOTE: PGDP mostly included in US eBooks
NOTE: PGEU has its own Distributed Proofreaders whose total closely matches
their grand total.
PGCC - PROJECT GUTENBERG CONSORTIA CENTER REPORT
137,142 eBooks at PGCC
The PGCC collection at http://www.gutenberg.cc has doubled in size from the
listings below, but we don't have exactly matching collection sizes yet for a
new breakdown.
There are ~185,000 separate downloadable files, and presuming 45% are reduntant
or are required at the level of more than one file per book:
The number of individual eBooks now is about 100,000.
Thus the grand total of eBooks at Project Gutenberg is 21,000+ created by
Project Gutenberg volunteers, and 100,000 donated from over 125 other
eLibraries, to create a downloadable library of 100,000+ eBooks plus 80,000
donated from over 100 other eLibraries, to create a downloadable library of
100,000+ eBooks.
PGCC's current eBook and eDocument Collections listings of 18 collections with
this week's listing as:
[This list is being updated as the moment, you can get the entire list on the
collections pages at gutenberg.cc]
Alex-Wire Tap Collection, 2,036 HTML eBook Files
Black Mask Collection, 12,000 HTML eBook Files
The Coradella Bookshelf Collection, 141 eBook Files
DjVu Collection, 272 PDF and DJVU eBook Files
eBooks@Adelaide Collection, 27,709 eBook Files
Himalayan Academy, 3,400 HTML eBook Files
Internet Archive ~30,000 eBook Files [In Progress]
Literal Systems Collection, 68 MP3 eBook Files
Logos Group Collection, ~34,000 TXT eBook Files
Poet's Corner Poetry Collection, 6,700 Poetry Files
Project Gutenberg Collection, 15,035 eBook Files
PGCC Chinese eBook Collection ~300 eBook files (Note Name Change)
Renascence Editions Collection, 561 HTML eBook Files
Swami Center Collection, 78 HTML eBook Files
Tony Kline Collection, 223 HTML eBook Files
Widger Library, 2,600 HTML eBook Files
CIA's Electronic Reading Room, 2,019 Reference Files
=======Grand Total Files======= ~137,142 Total Files ========
Average Size of the Collections 8,067.18 Total Files
DAILY PREPRINTS
377 at Daily PrePrints
Stats available at: http://preprints.readingroo.ms
Please note that sometimes it takes a few weeks for entire collections to fully
appear in the PrePrints Section, thus the count sometimes jumps by a large
number when the files are eventually completed and added in. Also note that the
PrePrint files are just that, PrePrints, and thus may move later to other
locations, including the main collection or The Project Gutenberg Consortia
Center, etc. For example, on June 14, 200 WAP compatible cell phone eBooks
appeared, and will likely be moved to other collection points later.
The entire process of working out the details just to send them to the PrePrints
Section took well over a month.
Even with the speeded up process of the PrePrints Section, it still takes a
certain amount of time to collect and put such a large collection online in a
proper manner.
THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE
25,000 eBooks are listed via The Online Books Page
NOTE: 6,300 of these are from PG.
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
22,284 entries at IPL
The Internet Public Library (IPL) had a similar listing to The Online Books Page
which is now in limbo. If anyone knows what is happening with the IPL, please
let us know. Inquiries, made months ago, and again recently, have not turned up
any current information.
You can try a new IPL service at:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
It would appear that The Internet Public Library ended its first incarnation
with about 22,284 entries, which has now been surpassed by the Online Books
Page.
We are still looking for more Internet Public Library info.
=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
:: During the past week the following ebooks were manually updated and reposted
with the indicated filenames and transferred into the corresponding new
directories:
Thelma, by Marie Corelli 3823
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/2/3823 ]
[Files: 3823.txt; 3823-8.txt; 3823-h.htm]
:: Please note the following additional changes, corrections, improvements:
None this week.
-=-=-=-=[ 45 NEW U.S. EBOOKS ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Van Dyck, by Estelle M. Hurll 19570
[Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The
Painter With Introduction And Interpretation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19570 ]
[Files: 19570.txt; 19570-8.txt; 19570-0.txt; 19570-h.htm]
The Guests Of Hercules, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson 19569
[Illustrator: M. Leone Bracker and Arthur H. Buckland]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19569 ]
[Files: 19569.txt; 19569-8.txt; 19569-h.htm]
The Religious Situation, by Goldwin Smith 19568
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19568 ]
[Files: 19568.txt]
No Refuge but in Truth, by Goldwin Smith 19567
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19567 ]
[Files: 19567.txt]
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith, by Robert Patterson 19566
[Subtitle: Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19566 ]
[Files: 19566.txt; 19566-8.txt; 19566-h.htm]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony, Laura Lee Hope 19565
[Illustrator: Thelma Gooch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19565 ]
[Files: 19565.txt; 19565-h.htm]
The Pirates' Who's Who, by Philip Gosse 19564
[Subtitle: Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates
And Buccaneers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19564 ]
[Files: 19564.txt; 19564-8.txt; 19564-h.htm]
Eline Vere, by Louis Couperus 19563
[Subtitle: Een Haagsche roman]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19563 ]
[Files: 19563-8.txt; 19563-h.htm]
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia, by L. Muhlbach 19562
[Translator: F. Jordan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19562 ]
[Files: 19562.txt; 19562-8.txt; 19562-h.htm]
The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, by Laura Lee Hope 19561
[Subtitle: The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19561 ]
[Files: 19561.txt; 19561-h.htm]
Applied Eugenics, by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson 19560
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/6/19560 ]
[Files: 19560.txt; 19560-8.txt; 19560-h.htm]
Story of Orestes, by Richard G. Moulton 19559
[Subtitle: A Condensation of the Trilogy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19559 ]
[Files: 19559.txt; 19559-8.txt]
Poesie inedite Vol. II, by Silvio Pellico 19558
[Language: Italian]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19558 ]
[Files: 19558-8.txt]
Musical Portraits, by Paul Rosenfeld 19557
[Subtitle: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19557 ]
[Files: 19557.txt; 19557-8.txt; 19557-h.htm]
Kalevala katsottuna kaunotieteen kannalta, by Julius Krohn 19556
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19556 ]
[Files: 19556-8.txt]
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm, by Laura Lee Hope 19555
[Illustrator: Florence England Nosworthy]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19555 ]
[Files: 19555.txt; 19555-h.htm]
Dick Lionheart, by Mary Rowles Jarvis 19554
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19554 ]
[Files: 19554.txt; 19554-h.htm]
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, by John Dee 19553
[Subtitle: And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts]
[Editor: James Orchard Halliwell (AKA Halliwell-Phillipps)]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19553 ]
[Files: 19553-8.txt; 19553-0.txt; 19553-h.htm]
The Plattsburg Manual, by O.O. Ellis and E.B. Garey 19552
[Subtitle: A Handbook for Military Training]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19552 ]
[Files: 19552.txt; 19552-8.txt; 19552-0.txt; 19552-h.htm]
Alice in Wonderland, by J.C. Gorham 19551
[Subtitle: Retold in Words of One Syllable]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19551 ]
[Files: 19551.txt; 19551-8.txt; 19551-h.htm]
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon, Robert A. Sterndale 19550
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/5/19550 ]
[Files: 19550.txt; 19550-8.txt; 19550-h.htm]
The Mind of the Child, Part II, by W. Preyer 19549
[Subtitle: The Development of the Intellect, International Education
Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.]
[Translator: H.W. Brown]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19549 ]
[Files: 19549.txt; 19549-8.txt; 19549-h.htm]
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2, by George Hoar 19548
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19548 ]
[Files: 19548.txt]
Obed Hussey, by Various 19547
[Subtitle: Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap]
[Editor: Follett L. Greeno]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19547 ]
[Files: 19547.txt; 19547-8.txt; 19547-h.htm]
De beklimming van den Fuji-yama, by J. Philipson-Radersma 19546
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19546 ]
[Files: 19546-8.txt; 19546-h.htm]
Op de Faroer, by Anna See 19545
[Subtitle: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19545 ]
[Files: 19545-8.txt; 19545-h.htm]
Wat tante Dora vertelde, by H. D. Jacobi 19544
[Illustrator: Freddy Langeler]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19544 ]
[Files: 19544-8.txt; 19544-h.htm]
Memorias de un vigilante, by Jose S. Alvarez (AKA Fray Mocho) 19543
[Language: Spanish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19543 ]
[Files: 19543-8.txt; 19543-h.htm]
Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, Feb 1844, Vol. 23, Nbr. 2 19542
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19542 ]
[Files: 19542.txt; 19542-8.txt; 19542-h.htm]
Marigold Garden, by Kate Greenaway 19541
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19541 ]
[Files: 19541.txt; 19541-h.htm]
La Tosca, by Victorien Sardou 19540
[Subtitle: Drame en cinq actes]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/4/19540 ]
[Files: 19540-8.txt; 19540-h.htm]
The Stowaway Girl, by Louis Tracy 19539
[Illustrator: Nesbit Benson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19539 ]
[Files: 19539.txt; 19539-8.txt; 19539-h.htm]
The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz, by Frank Fowler 19538
[Subtitle: Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19538 ]
[Files: 19538.txt; 19538-8.txt; 19538-h.htm]
Punky Dunk and the Gold Fish, by Anonymous 19537
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19537 ]
[Files: 19537.txt; 19537-h.htm]
Le pacha trompe ou Les deux ours, by Ernest Doin 19536
[Subtitle: Piece comique en un acte]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19536 ]
[Files: 19536-8.txt; 19536-h.htm]
George Bernard Shaw, by Gilbert K. Chesterton 19535
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19535 ]
[Files: 19535.txt; 19535-8.txt; 19535-h.htm]
Russia, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers, ed. by Singleton 19534
[Editor: Esther Singleton]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19534 ]
[Files: 19534.txt; 19534-8.txt; 19534-h.htm]
Stories of Great Inventors, by Hattie E. Macomber 19533
[Subtitle: Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19533 ]
[Files: 19533.txt; 19533-h.htm]
Sol de Inverno, by Antonio Feij 19532
[Subtitle: ultimos versos : 1915]
[Contributor: Luis Magalhaes]
[Language: Portuguese]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19532 ]
[Files: 19532-8.txt]
Punky Dunk and the Mouse, by Anonymous 19531
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19531 ]
[Files: 19531.txt; 19531-h.htm]
Strix, by Svend Fleuron 19530
[Subtitle: Die Geschichte eines Uhus]
[Translator: Mathilde Mann]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/3/19530 ]
[Files: 19530-8.txt; 19530-0.txt; 19530-h.htm]
Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems, by Henry Hart Milman 19529
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/2/19529 ]
[Files: 19529.txt; 19529-8.txt; 19529-0.txt; 19529-h.htm]
Sixty Years of California Song, by Margaret Blake-Alverson 19528
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/2/19528 ]
[Files: 19528.txt; 19528-8.txt; 19528-h.htm]
The Yukon Trail, by William MacLeod Raine 19527
[Subtitle: A Tale of the North ]
[Illustrator: George Ellis Wolfe ]
[Language: English ]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/5/2/19527 ]
[Files: 19527.txt; 19527-8.txt; 19527-h.htm; ]
Stand by for Mars!, by Carey Rockwell 19526
[Illustrator: Louis Glanzman]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/2/19526 ]
[Files: 19526.txt; 19526-h.htm]
-=-=-=-=[ 2 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Oct 2006 The Rising of the Court, Henry Lawson [060783xx.xxx] 1301A
[Title: The Rising of the Court and Other Sketches in Prose and Verse]
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607831.txt or .zip]
Oct 2006 The Letters of Rachel Henning, Rachel Henning [060782xx.xxx] 1300A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607821.txt or .zip
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