The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter 2nd April 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
We have now completed 7549 ebooks!!!
In this issue of the Project Gutenberg Monthly newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) Monthly eBook update:
Updates/corrections
New U.S. eBooks
New books From PG Australia
3) News
4) Mailing list information
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1) Editorial
Hello,
Hooray, Yippee! and general cheering. Well done people, you did it!!!!
PG hit 7500 earlier this week and special congratulations to PGOz who
also hit the big 200 this week.
Happy and peaceful reading,
Alice (newsletter at schiffwood.co.uk - If you hit reply, the mail you
send does not reach me and disappears into the ether.)
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2) Monthly eBook update
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= [ Here Are The Updated Listings For This Past Month ] =
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RESERVED count: 39
Last month the Total Count was 7,276, including 176 at PG of Australia.
This month we added 273 (incl. 31 Aus.).
TOTAL COUNT as of today, Wed 04/02/03: 7,549 (incl. 208 Aus.).
=-=-=-=[ CORRECTIONS, REVISIONS AND NEW FORMATS ]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and
prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as
well as a new eBook number.
--Please note the following changes, corrections and improvements:
The following entry in the GUTINDEX was incorrect, and is being
replaced:
Feb 1998 Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb [shlmbxxx.xxx]1185
(Note: this eBook was correctly posted as #1286)
The correct entry for #1185 is as follows:
Feb 1998 Conflict Between Religion and Science, by Draper [hcbrsxxx.xxx]1185
[Full Title: History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science]
[Author: John William Draper]
(Note: the above eBook was incorrectly posted as #6938; that eBook
number is being recycled.)
The following is being re-indexed to correct the full title ("Crime",
not "Times"):
Oct 2004 John Wilkes Booth, by George Alfred Townsend [jwbthxxx.xxx]6628
[Full title: The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth]
The following is being re-indexed to correct the author's name
(Benjamin Disraeli, not Benjamim Disraeili):
Feb 2003 Sybil, or the Two Nations, by Benjamin Disraeli [sybilxxx.xxx]3760
The following is being re-indexed to correct author's last
name ("Henty", not "Henry"):
Nov 2004 By Pike and Dyke, Dutch Republic, by Henty [#11][bpikexxx.xxx]6952
The following have been re-posted in new formats as indicated:
Nov 2004 Why We are at War, by Woodrow Wilson [whwarxxx.xxx]6870
[HTM in whwar10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 1999 The Club of Queer Trades, by G. K. Chesterton/GKC8[tcoqtxxx.xxx]1696
[HTM in tcoqt10h.htm/.zip]
Oct 1999 Penguin Island, by Anatole France [pngwnxxx.xxx]1930
[HTM in pngwn10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 2004 When a Man Comes to Himself, by Woodrow Wilson[#3][mnhslxxx.xxx]5078
[HTM in mnhsl10
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