pgmonthly_2008_09_16.txt
The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Sep. 21, 2008
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51 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012
[some now say October 11, 2011]
This leaves 4 1/4 years, 17 seasons, or 51 months.
Not to worry. I will still make predictions further on.
New Project Gutenberg Landmarks
30,000 eBooks: About The Same As Average Public Libraries!
We are rapidly approaching 30,000 eBooks in the originating Project Gutenberg
collections, as differentiated from those eBooks originating with other eBook
producers located at an alternate site to the original
http://www.gutenberg.org, at http://www.gutenberg.cc which has over 75,000
eBooks.
We should pass 30,000 before the end of the year, as below.
Chinese Moves Into The Project Gutenberg "Top 5"
We still need more help in cataloging these eBooks, but the latest 300 or so
Chinese eBooks are now in PrePrints.
Anyone who can work in Chinese is encouraged to look into a directory called
/china in PrePrints, or get the .zip file, from one directory above to get all
the files downloaded in one single command.
http://preprints.readingroo.ms
first one on the list:
/china
.zip of whole bunch is one directory up, get china.zip
The current list, before uploaded these appeared as:
Grand total for today: 26545
22647 English en
1243 French fr
542 German de
464 Finnish fi
357 Dutch nl
320 Chinese zh
252 Portuguese pt
201 Spanish es
155 Italian it
When we get all 307 possible titles online, that will bring Chinese up to a
total of 627, which will place it second of our non-English languages
collection which is approximately where it should go, given Internet language
dispersal.
Believe it or not, Spanish is listed as the third language, so that's the next
goal, to bring Spanish to the "Top 5."
In reference to that goal, I am giving a presentation for a new combination of
Internet efforts called "Both Americas,"
in Buenos Aires early next Spring, followed by what I would hope will be
similar conferences in France and India.
All Time Hottest Request
Looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.
The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc.
The earliest USB flash drives were Disgo/Dizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed
by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their
snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.
Requesting A Second Time
We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.
One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.
Additional Newsletter Services
In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of
Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.
These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at:
http://www.gutenberg.cc
Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.
These are the various totals from the ~30,000 at:
http://www.gutenberg.org
and our other Project Gutenberg Sites
Here is the output for the current week:
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Sun 2008-09-14 | 11
Mon 2008-09-15 | 3
Tue 2008-09-16 | 12
Wed 2008-09-17 | 8
Thu 2008-09-18 | 4
Fri 2008-09-19 | 11
Sat 2008-09-20 | 11
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 100 eBooks.
Grand total for today: 26570
22670 English en
1243 French fr
542 German de
464 Finnish fi
357 Dutch nl
320 Chinese zh [+307 = 627, moving to #3]]
253 Portuguese pt
202 Spanish es
155 Italian it
Thanks to Greg Newby!
Please tell us your preferences of the following formats:
Current Totals
26,570 Project Gutenberg Under US Copyright Law
1,693 Project Gutenberg Of Australia +21
523 Project Gutenberg of Europe +8
164 *Project Gutenberg of Canada +12 [for Aug]
684 Project Gutenberg PrePrints +307
Note: Books go in and out of PrePrints
====== PrePrints NOT Included in language totals!!!
29,524 Grand Total
[About as many as the average public library]
eustats
preprints
26,570 09/15/08 PG General Automated Count
1,693 09/12/08 PG Australia
523 09/15/08 PG Europe
684 09/15/08 PG PrePrints
164 08/12/08 PG Canada
======
29,524 by various automated counts and newsletters
Using the latest number, minus "reserved" method we have:
26,682 09/15/08 PG "Posted" Notes
-33 "Reserved"
======
26,649
26,592 09/15/08 PG General via Posted-Reserved
1,693 09/12/08 PG Australia
522 09/15/08 PG Europe
684 09/15/08 PG PrePrints
144 08/12/08 PG Canada
======
29,635 by Posted-Reserved
Note: There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in
circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note: PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
///
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161
titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system,
bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL "Original Project Gutenberg eBooks" equals about the number of books in
the average U.S. public library
* 29,500 on 2008/09/19
* 29,000 ~~ Calculating
* 28,500 ~~ Calculating
* 28,000 ~~ 2008/05/16
* 27,500 on 2008/04/05
* 27,000 ~~ 2008/02/29
* 26,500 on 2008/01/26
* 26,000 on 2007/12/24
* 25,000 on 2007/10/12
* 24,000 on 2007/07/10
* 23,000 on 2007/04/15
PG-AU
* 1,600 on 2008/02/08
* 1,500 on 2007/04/07
PG Canada
* 100 on 2008/03/25
* 110 on 2008/04/17
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