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Project Gutenberg Newsletter October 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October 2024

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Help with Social Media

From one of our great social media volunteers:

“I wonder if someone is willing to back me up at Mastodon (@gutenberg_org), only when it’s needed. Mastodon is a fediverse platform similar to others social media. Only 2-3 posts a day are enough for this purpose. You can take a look at our account here https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org.”

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter September 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September 2024

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Scribble, for authors and aspiring authors

From Torrey Butler:

In 2016, I began writing my first book. Foreign territory at the time because I didn’t have a clue where to start. Everyone I sought out for help either gave me the run around, tried to offer illegitimate services, or flat out didn’t care to help me along the way. Despite the adversity & uncertainty, I pushed through, publishing my first book 4-years later in 2020. This disparity is what millions of people are faced with. In today’s literary world, many talented voices with a story to tell are silenced, as they struggle to find the adequate support where their voice can be heard and appreciated.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter August 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August 2024

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Help Wanted

Got programming skills? Web development skills?

Can you help with finding problems in current Project Gutenberg eBooks, or figuring out problems when automatic conversion fails.

Project Gutenberg welcomes specific suggestions or fixes, as well as people to join the team working on day-to-day operations.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter June 2024

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June 2024

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Give Freely browser extension to make donations to Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg has signed up with Give Freely to provide options for readers to generate donations of funds. Give Freely has a mission and philosophy that emphasizes transparency and accountability.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter 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

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for 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

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for 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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