Project Gutenberg Newsletter May 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May 2024

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New eReader platform: proLibro

In April, Project Gutenberg met with the executives at CogniLore for a demo of their eReader platform called proLibro. Among the free eBooks available through the application were a selection of popular titles from Project Gutenberg. CogniLore showed how the content could be “brought to life” by interactive features and functionalities such as annotations, advanced searching, favourites, text to speech, and more.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter April 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April 2024

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A new blog highlights Project Gutenberg eBooks

Martin K.’s new blog, “The Gutenberg Gazette,” offers reviews and summaries of some of Project Gutenberg’s newest releases. This may be of interest to anyone seeking something great to read from the latest selections.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter March 2024

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Join Distributed Proofreaders

Visit https://www.pgdp.net to learn about how to help create some of Project Gutenberg’s forthcoming eBooks. Proofreading a page a day is easy, fun, and a great way to help bring literature to the world. There are many different roles for the different steps involved in digitizing a printed book to make a Project Gutenberg eBook. Beginners are welcome, and there is an online tutorial to get started.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter January-February 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January-February 2024

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Audiobook listening app

Gutenberg_AWP is a web app with enhanced accessibility features for searching and listening to the audiobooks made possible by the collaboration between Project Gutenberg, Microsoft and MIT.

From Gutenberg_AWP’s author, Jim Luther:

I was excited to learn this past fall about the collaboration to convert 4,840 texts from the Project Gutenberg collection to audiobooks. The audiobook project page ( https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html) has all 4,840 books on it as well links to many popular podcast sites where these audiobooks can be found and played.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter December 2023

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Project Gutenberg’s audiobooks

Last month we mentioned being listed in the TIME “Top 100 Inventions of 2023” for our collaboration with Microsoft to make free computer-generated audiobooks.

Here is more information about the audiobooks at Project Gutenberg is involved with. You can find this information on the main page of https://www.gutenberg.org:

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter October-November 2023

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October-November 2023

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TIME recognizes Project Gutenberg’s audiobook collaboration

Project Gutenberg was recognized by TIME for our work with Microsoft (and MIT and Google) on some new automatically-generated audiobooks:

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6324762/project-gutenberg-open-audiobook-collection/

This is the main page to get started with these new audiobooks:

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter July-September 2023

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for July - September 2023

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Video: The Big Four

Thanks to Joshua and Laura for work on a new YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoKUX5a7T0Y

This 5-minute video tells the story of the Agatha Christie book, The Big Four. You can find the book in the Project Gutenberg collection:

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter June 2023

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June 2023

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Project Gutenberg is on Mastodon social media

You can find @gutenberg_org on Mastodon. Mastodon is a social media platform that allows anyone to join without cost. Different Mastodon servers form the Fediverse, to easily enable people joining via different organizations to exchange messages. Mastodon gives people better control over their news feed than commercial social media platforms.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter May 2023

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Videos about Project Gutenberg eBooks

Thanks to Joshua & Laura for guiding a new YouTube video providing the back-story of A.A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh.”

You can find the 5-minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWZxwuam5Iw

The Project Gutenberg eBook is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter January-April 2023

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January-April 2023

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Apologies for not sending a 2023 newsletter until April 2023. It’s been a busy time with Project Gutenberg, and I have incredible gratitude for all the volunteers with Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders who maintain our pace of new content.

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