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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

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for 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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Project Gutenberg Newsletter November-December 2022

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for November-December 2022

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In memoriam: Harry Hilton

Project Gutenberg learned only recently of the death of Dr. Harry Hilton. Dr. Hilton was a Board member of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which operates Project Gutenberg.

Dr. Hilton was a long-time mentor and friend to Project Gutenberg and its founder Michael S. Hart. When PGLAF was first formed in the year 2000, he was one of the inaugural board members and remained an active member until shortly before his death.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter September-October 2022

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September-October 2022

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“A tribute to librarians, heroes of modern times”

Project Gutenberg contributor Marie Lebert has partnered with illustrator Denis Renard on a new eBook that is a tribute to librarians.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter June-August 2022

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June-August 2022

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51 Years of eBooks

July 4 2022 was the 51st anniversary of the invention of eBooks by Michael Hart. You can read all about this in our 50-years celebration page from 2021,https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html

You can still read the world’s first eBook created for reading pleasure and sharing, the US Declaration of Independence. Find it online athttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter March-May 2022

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March-May 2022

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Dictionary of famous translators of the past

Project Gutenberg contributor, biographer and translator Marie Lebert has a new resource of possible interest to newsletter readers. This is a new free online dictionary in three languages in the Community Texts of the Internet Archive.

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter December 2021 - February 2022

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 2021-February 2022

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The Bookwise.io website

Of potential interest to some Project Gutenberg newsletter readers:

“Bookwise.io is a new website designed to make reading online a seamless and beautiful experience. It’s a full-featured ebook reader in your browser - it saves reading progress, keeps notes, etc. The site runs on a new super-simple human-readable markup format for books called dot Book. Please give Bookwise a try and - even better - get in touch withrichard@bookwise.io richard@bookwise.io for more info. Visit: www.bookwise.io

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Project Gutenberg Newsletter September-November 2021

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for September-November 2021

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A short history of eBooks in 20 drawings

If you are interested in how Project Gutenberg fits into the history of eBooks, you might enjoy viewing this online eBook:

A short history of eBooks in 20 drawings
https://archive.org/details/history-ebooks-drawings

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