This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August-September 2025
CONTENTS
* Video about Three AI Initiatives
* New Dyslexia-Friendly Reader Available from Howard Forge Press
* Chat with an AI About Books
* Join Distributed Proofreaders
* Find Project Gutenberg on social media
* New eBook Listings from August-September 2025
* Video about Three AI Initiatives
Here's a 19-minute online presentation Professor Ilana Kingsley made for the Pacific Northwest Library Association annual conference.
It’s about three artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives that PG has undertaken in the past couple of years. First is the audiobooks, followed by browsing categories & book summaries. Also a bonus application that is rather neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXD7rUMyzc4
* New Dyslexia-Friendly Reader Available from Howard Forge Press
From Dr. Greg Buhrman <gbuhrman(a)gmail.com>:
Hi everyone, I made this reading tool for my daughter, who is dyslexic,
because she doesn't like to read and I wanted her to read my book. It works
great and she loves it. I think everyone should read, and I am interested
in lowering the barriers to reading for everyone. You just load any plain
text (.txt) file and you can adjust font type (including OpenDyslexic),
font size, line spacing, text color, and background color. The adjustment
tools are very intuitive sliders and should be good for young and old
readers. The reader runs entirely in your browser—no installation and no
internet connection are required after downloading. You can try it
immediately using our Live Demo or download a copy to use offline:
Live Demo:
https://gbuhrman.github.io/dyslexia-friendly-reader/HFP-Dyslexia-Friendly-R…
Download ZIP:
https://github.com/gbuhrman/dyslexia-friendly-reader/archive/refs/heads/mai…
This tool is free for personal and educational use under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial license.
Powered by Howard Forge Press
* Chat with an AI About Books
Thanks to https://bringthebooktolife.com/ you can have a focused discussion with an artificial intelligent tool about two of Project Gutenberg's beloved books.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
You can ask questions and engage in dialog at a detailed level for these books. For example, you could ask about the significance of the Queen in Alice. You could discuss the plot and characters from Frankenstein.
This is an experimental tool that is intended to showcase how human readers can have a dialog about literature with an AI tool.
More details about the approach may be found here:
https://bringthebooktolife.com/about-us
* 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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* New eBook Listings from August-September 2025
Please see the "GUTINDEX.ALL" or "GUTINDEX.2025" files on the Offline Catalogs page of https://www.gutenberg.org for these listings.
