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=-=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=[ WEEK #42-2006, PROGRESS REPORT ]=-=-==-=-=-==-=-=-=-=
Today Is Day #295/364, 2006
This Completes Week #42 and Month #09.75
70 Days/10 Weeks To Go [We get 52 Wednesdays this year]
TOTALS
19,576 [+48] Project Gutenberg U.S. [NOT Including PG Australia]
1,308 [+ 7] Australian eBooks [NOT Included in above line]
352 [+ 0] Gutenberg Europe [NOT Included in above lines]
378 [+ 1] PG PrePrint Site [NOT Included in above lines]
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21,614 [+56] GRAND TOTAL
8,310 Books to go to #30,000
~16.1% of the way from 20,000 to 30,000
[Our production year begins/ends 1st Wednesday of the month/year]
RESERVED/PENDING
55 - Reserved/Pending Count
2006 STATISTICS:
3,469 New eBooks [at all four sites]
Averaging ~356 eBooks per month!!! [Includes: PGAu, PGEu and PrePrints]
All four sites combined are averaging 83 eBooks per week in 2006.
* 56 New eBooks This Week
* 48 New eBooks Last Week
* 172 New eBooks This Month [Oct]
PROGRESS REPORT (Including Distributed Proofreaders)
In the 42 weeks of this year, we have produced 3469 new eBooks.
It took us from 07/71 to 10/02 to produce our FIRST 3469 eBooks!!!
That's 42 WEEKS as Compared to ~31 Years!!!
17,405 eBooks this week last year
4,206 New eBooks in last 12 Months [Incl. PGAu, PGEu & PrePrints]
Monthly Averages:
* 356 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:
* 3469 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
18,549 New eBooks since the start of 2001,
that's ~266 eBooks per Month for ~69.50 Months.
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SNAIL MAIL (DVD & CD)
Over 15 million eBooks have been sent out via snail mail!!!
DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS:
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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.
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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.
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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
378 [+1] at Daily PrePrints
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THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE
25,000 eBooks are listed via The Online Books Page
NOTE: 6,300 of these are from PG.
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Maha-bharata, by Anonymous 19630
[Subtitle: The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse]
[Translator: Romesh Dutt]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/3/19630 ]
[Files: 19630.txt; 19630-8.txt; 19630-h.htm]
Venajan historia 1878-1918, by Alfred von Hedenstrom 19629
[Translator: V. Malinen]
[Language: Finnish]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/2/19629 ]
[Files: 19629-8.txt]
The Siouan Indians, by W.J. McGee 19628
[Subtitle: A Preliminary Sketch, Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau
of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1893-1894,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 153-204]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/2/19628 ]
[Files: 19628.txt; 19628-8.txt; 19628-0.txt; 19628-pdf.pdf;
19628-tei.tei; 19628-h.htm; 19628-page-images.zip ]
The Dairyman's Daughter, by Legh Richmond 19615
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19615 ]
[Files: 19615.txt; 19615-h.htm]
(David Price writes: For those wishing to know: Legh Richmond(1772-1927)
was curate at Brading on the Isle of Wight (England) when he met Elizabeth
Wallbridge, the daughter of a poor local dairyman. Elizabeth had recently
undergone a religious conversion and some of her letters to Legh are
contained in the book. Legh's account of Elizabeth was published after her
death and became a best-seller. Readers of George Borrow (see Lavengro in
Project Gutenberg) will know that a lot of his story revolves around "The
Dairyman's Daughter" and may not be aware that the latter was a real book.
Project Gutenberg now has both books.)
The Dark Forest, by Hugh Walpole 19614
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19614 ]
[Files: 19614.txt; 19614-8.txt; 19614-h.htm]
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7), by Adolph Harnack 19613
[Translator: Neil Buchanan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19613 ]
[Files: 19613.txt; 19613-8.txt; 19613-h.htm]
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7), by Adolph Harnack 19612
[Translator: Neil Buchanan]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19612 ]
[Files: 19612.txt; 19612-8.txt; 19612-h.htm]
Der goldene Spiegel, by Jakob Wassermann 19611
[Subtitle: Erzahlungen in einem Rahmen]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19611 ]
[Files: 19611-8.txt; 19611-0.txt; 19611-h.htm]
Selections from Previous Works, by Samuel Butler 19610
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/1/19610 ]
[Files: 19610.txt; 19610-h.htm]
[Subtitle: and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals]
(David Price writes: For those wishing to know: Samuel Butler provides
a selection from his previous books (as published by 1884). There's
Erewhon, Fair Haven, Life and Habit etc. He also adds new material on
evolution and a short poem at the end. Butler took the opportunity to
rewrite some passages and so the text in this book doesn't always match
the originals.)
The Rise of the Democracy, by Joseph Clayton 19609
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19609 ]
[Files: 19609.txt; 19609-8.txt; 19609-h.htm; ]
The Story of the Other Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke 19608
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19608 ]
[Files: 19608.txt; 19608-h.htm]
The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp, by Laura Lee Hope 19607
[Subtitle: Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19607 ]
[Files: 19607.txt; 19607-h.htm]
Collections from Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in 1881, by Stevenson 19606
[Title: Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the
Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in 1881]
[Subtitle: Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing
Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594]
[Author: James Stevenson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19606 ]
[Files: 19606-8.txt; 19606-0.txt; 19606-h.htm]
A Book of Quaker Saints, by Lucy Violet Hodgkin 19605
[Author AKA: Mrs. John Holdsworth]
[Illus.: F. Cayley-Robinson]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19605 ]
[Files: 19605.txt; 19605-8.txt; 19605-h.htm; ]
Louis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest, by Anonymous 19604
[Subtitle: Sa vie, son proces, sa mort]
[Editor: La Presse]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19604 ]
[Files: 19604-8.txt; 19604-h.htm]
The Arena, Vol. 4, No. 20, July, 1891, ed. by B.O. FLower 19603
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19603 ]
[Files: 19603.txt; 19603-8.txt; 19603-h.htm]
Rembrandt, by Estelle M. Hurll 19602
[Subtitle: A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the
Painter with Introduction and Interpretation]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19602 ]
[Files: 19602.txt; 19602-8.txt; 19602-0.txt; 19602-h.htm]
Frank and Andy Afloat, by Vance Barnum 19601
[Subtitle: The Cave on the Island]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19601 ]
[Files: 19601.txt; ]
Jerome Cardan, by William George Waters 19600
[Subtitle: A Biographical Study]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/6/0/19600 ]
[Files: 19600.txt; 19600-8.txt; 19600-h.htm]
Troublous Times in Canada, by John A. Macdonald 19599
[Subtitle: A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19599 ]
[Files: 19599.txt]
How to Live, by Irving Fisher and Eugene Fisk 19598
[Subtitle: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19598 ]
[Files: 19598.txt; 19598-8.txt; 19598-0.txt; 19598-h.htm]
National Character, by N. C. Burt 19597
[Subtitle: A Thanksgiving Discourse Delivered November 15th, 1855,
in the Franklin Street Presbyterian Church]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19597 ]
[Files: 19597.txt; 19597-h.htm]
Charles Fourier, by August Bebel 19596
[Subtitle: Sein Leben und seine Theorien]
[Language: German]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19596 ]
[Files: 19596-8.txt; 19596-h.htm]
Essays on Various Subjects, by Hannah More 19595
[Subtitle: Principally Designed for Young Ladies]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19595 ]
[Files: 19595.txt; 19595-8.txt; 19595-h.htm]
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I (of IV), by W. Grant Hague 19594
[Subtitle: A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and
Better Babies]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19594 ]
[Files: 19594.txt; 19594-8.txt; 19594-h.htm]
The Third Violet, by Stephen Crane 19593
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/5/9/19593 ]
[Files: 19593.txt; 19593-8.txt; 19593-h.htm; ]
Frank and Fearless, by Horatio Alger Jr. 19592
[Subtitle: or The Fortunes of Jasper Kent]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19592 ]
[Files: 19592.txt; 19592-h.htm]
De Decamerone van Boccaccio, by Giovanni Boccaccio 19591
[Translator: J. K. Rensburg]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19591 ]
[Files: 19591-8.txt; 19591-h.htm]
Tom Slade's Double Dare, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh 19590
[Illustrator: R. Emmett Owen]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/9/19590 ]
[Files: 19590.txt; 19590-8.txt; 19590-h.htm]
Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage, by Richard Field 19589
[Title: A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest
Indian Voyage]
[Subtitle: Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto
Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19589 ]
[Files: 19589.txt; 19589-8.txt; 19589-h.htm]
La poste par pigeons voyageurs, by Prudent Rene-Patrice Dagron 19588
[Subtitle: Souvenir du siege de Paris]
[Language: French]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19588 ]
[Files: 19588-8.txt; 19588-h.htm]
The Christmas Kalends of Provence, by Thomas A. Janvier 19587
[Subtitle: And Some Other Proven.al Festivals]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19587 ]
[Files: 19587.txt; 19587-8.txt; 19587-h.htm]
The Simpkins Plot, by George A. Birmingham 19586
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19586 ]
[Files: 19586.txt; 19586-8.txt; 19586-h.htm; ]
De Wereld voor de schepping van den mensch, Nicolas Camille Flammarion 19585
[Editor: Boudewijn Casper Goudsmit]
[Language: Dutch]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19585 ]
[Files: 19585-8.txt; 19585-h.htm]
Analysis of Antient Mythology, Volume II (of VI), by Jacob Bryant 19584
[Title: A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Vol. II]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19584 ]
[Files: 19584.txt; 19584-8.txt; 19584-0.txt; 19584-h.htm]
Audio: A Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman 19583
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19583 ]
[Files: 19583.txt; 19583-mp3.mp3; 19583-ogg.ogg; 19583-m4b.m4b;
19583-spx.spx ]
Audio: Amendments to the United States Constitution, by US Government 19582
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
(Note: see also #19581, a different recording)
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19582 ]
[Files: 19582.txt; 19582-mp3.mp3; 19582-ogg.ogg; 19582-m4b.m4b;
19582-spx.spx ]
Audio: Amendments to the United States Constitution, by US Government 19581
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
(Note: see also #19582, a different recording}
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19581 ]
[Files: 19581.txt; 19581-mp3.mp3; 19581-ogg.ogg; 19581-m4b.m4b;
19581-spx.spx ]
Audio: An International Episode, by Henry James 19580
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/8/19580 ]
[Files: 19580.txt; 19580-mp3.mp3; 19580-ogg.ogg; 19580-m4b.m4b;
19580-spx.spx ]
Audio: American Indian Fairy Tales, by William Trowbridge Larned 19579
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19579 ]
[Files: 19579.txt; 19579-mp3.mp3; 19579-ogg.ogg; 19579-m4b.m4b;
19579-spx.spx ]
Audio: A Ballad of John Silver, by John Masefield 19578
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19578 ]
[Files: 19578.txt; 19578-mp3.mp3; 19578-ogg.ogg; 19578-m4b.m4b;
19578-spx.spx ]
Audio: Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 19577
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19577 ]
[Files: 19577.txt; 19577-mp3.mp3; 19577-ogg.ogg; 19577-m4b.m4b;
19577-spx.spx ]
Audio: Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery 19576
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19576 ]
[Files: 19576.txt; 19576-mp3.mp3; 19576-ogg.ogg ; 19576-m4b.m4b;
19576-spx.spx ]
Audio: Anne of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery 19575
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19575 ]
[Files: 19575.txt; 19575-mp3.mp3; 19575-ogg.ogg; 19575-m4b.m4b;
19575-spx.spx ]
Audio: Andersen's Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen 19574
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19574 ]
[Files: 19574.txt; 19574-mp3.mp3; 19574-ogg.ogg; 19574-m4b.m4b;
19574-spx.spx ]
Audio: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll 19573
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19573 ]
[Files: 19573.txt; 19573-mp3.mp3; 19573-ogg.ogg; 19573-m4b.m4b ;
19573-spx.spx ]
Audio: Absolute Surrender, by Andrew Murray 19572
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19572 ]
[Files: 19572.txt; 19572-mp3.mp3; 19572-ogg.ogg; 19572-m4b.m4b;
19572-spx.spx ]
Audio: A Noiseless Patient Spider, by Walt Whitman 19571
[Human-read audio ebook provided by Librivox]
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/5/7/19571 ]
[Files: 19571.txt; 19571-mp3.mp3; 19571-ogg.ogg; 19571-m4b.m4b;
19571-spx.spx ]
=-=-=-=[ 7 NEW EBOOKS AT PROJECT GUTENBERG OF AUSTRALIA ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Oct 2006 For Australia, Henry Lawson [060790xx.xxx] 1308A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607901.txt or .zip
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607901h.html]
Oct 2006 Redemption Cairn, Stanley G Weinbaum [060789xx.xxx] 1307A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607891.txt or .zip
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607891h.html]
Oct 2006 How to be a Hermit, Will Cuppy [060788xx.xxx] 1306A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607881.txt or .zip
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607881h.html]
Oct 2006 Madam Sara, by Robert Eustace and L T Meade [060787xx.xxx] 1305A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607871.txt or .zip
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607871h.html]
Oct 2006 Worms of the Earth, Robert E Howard [060786xx.xxx] 1304A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607861.txt or .zip
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607861h.html]
Oct 2006 Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary, Hugh Lofting[060785xx.xxx] 1303A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607851.txt or .zip]
Oct 2006 Doctor Dolittle's Circus, Hugh Lofting [060784xx.xxx] 1302A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607841.txt or .zip]
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After lengthy delays resulting from security concerns, the United States has begun issuing passports equipped with RFID tags. The tags, which transmit data including the passport holder's photo and signature, are susceptible to illicit scanners that "skim" the information from unsuspecting individuals, according to those opposed to e-passports. The U.S. State Department said it has implemented measures to address security concerns, including a metallic mesh woven into the cover of the passport that "makes it nearly impossible to access the chip when the book is closed." Additionally, starting this week, all U.S. points of entry will have equipment to read and process information in e-passports issued by the more than two dozen countries in the Visa Waiver Program. All of those countries issue e-passports, and visitors from those nations are not required to obtain a visa to enter the United States. Critics said U.S. authorities have not addressed the problems associated with e-passports. Kevin Mahaffey of security firm Flexilis wrote a report indicating that despite the mesh in the cover, the passports can still be read if they are open "even a fraction of an inch."
A judge in Illinois has rejected a petition by e360 Insight to force the closure of the Internet domain of antispam company Spamhaus. Last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Spamhaus to pay e360 Insight $11.7 million in damages for blacklisting the company, which keeps users of Spamhaus's antispam list from accepting messages from the e360 Insight domain.
Following that ruling, e360 Insight asked the court to suspend the spamhaus.org domain, but Judge Charles Kocoras rejected that request. Blocking the Spamhaus domain, he said, would prevent the company from engaging in activities that the court considers legitimate and would be unduly severe.
Results from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) indicate generally poor performance on the organization's new test, the ICT Literacy Assessment Core Level. ETS introduced the test to measure how information literate and computer savvy students are. The test was administered to volunteers at 44 institutions, including high schools and two- and four-year colleges. Of the roughly 3,000 college students and 800 high school students who took the test, only 13 percent were deemed information literate. Officials from ETS noted that because the test is new, the results are not authoritative or thorough but indicate important trends. In general, they said, students could identify relatively credible information from databases and knew that information from .com Web sites is likely to be less reliable than information from a .gov or .edu site. Students generally could not, however, discern bias in online content and were overly willing to trust suspect material.