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Shakespearean Actors Wanted

Along with the thousands of text files that Project Gutenberg has to offer there are also many audio recordings. For many people these are great ways to get to know the works of different authors. Recently Michael Hart received a request from Tina Hansen, I notice that your site offers a number of audio books, […]

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PG eBook Translators Required

Michael Hart, our founder, is looking for people who are willing to translate Project Gutenberg eBooks in and out of: English French Spanish Dutch Portuguese Italian and any other languages you might like to include.

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Michael Hart wants IBM Memory Key’s

Michael Hart is looking for one of the original “IBM Memory Keys” that have evolved into our current RAMsticks, USBsticks, etc., or even the UK version that existed before that. It doesn’t have to be functional…he just wants it for comparison purposes. Please contact Michael at hart@pglaf.org if you might be able to provide one.

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Project Gutenberg TV Personality Needed

A four part series on the history of reading currently in production is looking for a Project Gutenberg volunteer to participate. Ideally, this individual has had a long involvement with Project Gutenberg, has uploaded vast numbers of books, speaks passionately about the role of books in society and the need for universal access to texts […]

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Reviews/Recommendations for PG e-texts Wanted

Due to the incredible success of the “Trench on Words” review, which went straight into the Top-Ten of our “Most Popular” listings, we’d like to encourage more reviews and commentary materials on Project Gutenberg. If you know of any public domain reviews or if you wish to write your own review/recommendation on any of the […]

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Our Distributed Proofreaders Need…

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

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

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

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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Project Gutenberg Needs DVD Burners

So far we have sent out 15 million eBooks via SnailMail! We currently have access to a dozen DVD burners. If you have a DVD burner and are interested in lending a hand, please email Aaron Cannon (cannona@fireantproductions.com). We can set you up with images, or snail you these DVD’s for you to copy. You […]

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