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51 Years of eBooks
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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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Dictionary of famous translators of the past
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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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“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.iorichard@bookwise.io for more info. Visit: www.bookwise.io”
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August 2021
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David Widger, 1932-2021
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David Widger, 1932-2021
Dr. David Widger was a long-time volunteer with Project Gutenberg. He was one of the earliest members of the production team, and was active from approximately 2000-2020.
As an lifelong learner and lover of books, Dr. Widger was able to contribute greatly to the Project Gutenberg collection. He created new eBooks, often from his own library. As a production team member, he would perform the quality controls and final updates to new eBooks, before they were published by Project Gutenberg.
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May 2021
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“Crossed out” eBook ad wins CLIO Awards bronze medal
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“Crossed out” eBook ad wins CLIO Awards bronze medal
Congratulations to “the community.” This is a marketing firm that worked with Project Gutenberg to develop a print campaign that shows visually how much more of a story may be found in a book, than in a movie or similar adaptation of the book.
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April 2021
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A year of anniversaries
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A year of anniversaries
July 4 2021 will mark 50 years since Michael Hart’s creation of the first eBook, The US Declaration of Independence (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1).
As with essentially all other great inventions, there is a pre-history, as well as important events afterwards. Here’s an article that tells part of the broader story:
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January-March 2021
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Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights
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Richard Burton’s Arabian Nights
January saw the posting of the 17th and final volume of Richard Burton’s famous Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night – a “plain and literal translation” of the Arabian Nights. This massive, heavily footnoted series of entertaining but very-adult tales was considered scandalous when originally published. Congratulations to Project Manager, BookBuff, Post-Processor, okrick, and all the many volunteers who worked on this important series of books.
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October-December 2020
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Dr. David Widger was the longest-serving member of the Project Gutenberg production team. The team is known as the “whitewashers,” after the famous scene in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer. He is stepping back from his high level of activity, and retiring as a whitewasher.