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A History of Project Gutenberg from 1971-2005

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This article is dedicated to all Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders volunteers on the five continents, who offer us a free library of 16,000 high-quality eBooks, mainly classics of world literature, with a goal of one million eBooks in ten years. This article is also available in French.

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The 500th German Language Book Posted To Project Gutenberg!

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The German-language e-book producing community and the German Team at Distributed Proofreaders proudly present the 500th German e-book at Project Gutenberg! We hope you enjoy it, as well as all the other German books we’ve posted so far, and you will be looking forward to the next 500 books as much as we do! (Die […]

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LibriVox Produces its 1,000th Audio Recording!

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This is a fantastic feat for LibriVox who do great work on producing public domain audio recordings, much of which gets passed to the Project Gutenberg archives. Congratulations to everyone involved! Here is the official press release. LibriVox makes it to 1,000! LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: “http://librivox.org/the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allen-poe/“, […]

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Combined PG projects hit the 25,000th post!

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This last week the combined PG projects hit the 25,000th eBook. The book that was posted is; Audio: The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon 22978 [Audio reading by Carl Vonnoh, III ] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/9/7/22978 ] [Files: 22978-readme.txt; 22978-index.html; 22978-mp3.mp3; 22978-ogg.ogg; 22978-m4b.m4b; 22978-spx.spx ] Thanks to Carl Vonnoh, III and LibriVox (www.librivox.org) This was […]

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PG eBook #20,000 – A Jules Verne Classic

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It may have taken a little while but it is finally here, the 20,000th Project Gutenberg eBook! This eBook number was reserved sometime ago but has now been allocated for the title I’m sure you were all expecting; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. This is a LibriVox audio book recording and […]

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What should be the 25,000th PG eBook?

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There are only 250 eBooks to go before the combined Gutenberg projects reach the quarter century! Project Gutenberg U.S. currently has 22,716, while the unique posts to Project Gutenberg Australia, Europe and Canada have 1,555, 67 & 26 respectively. Add in the 386 PrePrints and we currently have 24,750 total eBooks in the PG archives. […]

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500 and Rising – The Al Haines Milestone

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A short while ago I started a poll to see how many PG e-texts people have read. If the votes can be trusted then there are currently over 36%, pretty spiffy thought I, until I heard the latest from Greg Newby. If you think reading several hundred PG e-texts is quite something then the feat […]

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Project Gutenberg 23.5k Milestone [ASCII Graph Included]

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Project Gutenberg passes another eBooks milestone today, over 23,500 eBooks that have been created by the Project Gutenberg army of volunteers. . . . !!!!!!!My HUGE Congratulations to all the volunteers!!!!!!! This is including over 1500 contributions from Project Gutenberg Australia, and about 500 from Project Gutenberg Europe, but DOES NOT INCLUDE well over 75,000 […]

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Congratulations to PG of Australia on their 1500th eBook

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Congratulations to Project Gutenberg Australia for reaching eBook number #1500. Here are some words from both Colin Choat and Michael Hart. Milestones at Project Gutenberg of Australia Recently we added ebook #1500 to our collection. One does not usually single out a volunteer for mention but it seems appropriate on this occasion. Significantly, the ebook […]

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First Cebuano Language eBook on Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg of the Philippines is happy to announce the release of the first Cebuano Ebook, Larawan: Mga Sugilanon ug Dinalídalí, a collection of short stories by Vicente Rama (1887-1956). Originally, these stories where published in Cebu in 1921. The stories give a humorous glimpse back into the life in Cebu in the early twenties […]

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Distributed Proofreaders Announce 10,000th eBook

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! In a serious move to release eBooks in a number of fields on this momentous occasions, The Distributed Proofreaders have surpassed the great milestone of 10,000 eBooks, long thought to be dividing line between feasibility study and the real thing. Well, Distributed Proofreaders is definitely a real thing in terms of being one of […]

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