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Project Gutenberg News — April 2026
by Project Gutenberg 03 Apr '26

03 Apr '26

Project Gutenberg News — April 2026 *-Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them.-* Contents - Math at Project Gutenberg - 300th Anniversary of “Shakespeare Restored” - 100th Anniversary of Harper Lee - 504 Gateway Timeouts - New Releases at Gutenberg.org - March 2026 - Links Math at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg has long had an interest in mathematics, perhaps because of its timelessness. This interest has been expressed in many ways, though perhaps some of them were misguided in retrospect. For example we published “texts” consisting of digits of π. To be fair, commercial publishers produced *printed* volumes of π! At that time, there wasn’t even a good way to represent the character for “π” on the internet! <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50> Our books used little images of math equations, which was the best that could be done at the time but didn’t scale. Later we started to distribute texts composed using TeX (pronounced “teck”), the typesetting program created by mathematician Donald E. Knuth; these are currently the only books for which we publish as PDF files. Today, the state of the art has advanced so that we can correctly represent mathematics using MathML. It’s been a lot of work to update our processes and our source files, while at the same time not leaving behind users of older devices. This work is far from finished, but we’re very proud of the progress and we wanted to give you a taste of what we’re doing. The set of books entitled “Principia Mathematica” written by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell has been chosen to test the workflow of such books and to demonstrate updated accessibility features (WCAG) as well. Principia Mathematica, the landmark work in formal logic, was first published in three volumes in 1910, 1912 and 1913. Written as a defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is reducible to logic), the book was instrumental in developing modern mathematical logic. An interesting review of the unique and thrilling (from our point of view!) author’s notation is discussed at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pm-notation/> In accordance with the principles set out above, Principia Mathematica (Vol. 1 of 3) and Principia Mathematica (Vol. 2 of 3) are already posted at PG. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78050> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78255> More titles, already published by PG, such as “The Foundations of Geometry” by David Hilbert, “Calculus Made Easy” by Silvanus P. Thompson, among others, need to be updated, generating corresponding HTML and EPUB versions. On the other hand, new titles are coming up: “Curiosa Mathematica” (Vols 1 & 2) by Charles L. Dodgson (*aka* Lewis Carroll) and “A simplified presentation of Einstein's unified field equations” by Tullio Levi-Civita. Development is underway as improved books require improved software, tools like m2svg and ebookmaker. m2svg is a command-line tool to process text files which include LaTex math formulae. It converts formulae into a representation of the math in three different ways: svg images, inline svg, or MathML. Ebookmaker is the tool used for format conversion at Project Gutenberg. <https://github.com/DistributedProofreaders/ppmath> <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/ebookmaker> With all of the planned enhancements, we hope that more of these pragmatic books will become available in the public domain and published by Project Gutenberg. These books are invaluable resources for scholars and students. Happy 300th birthday to Shakespeare Restored! April 5, 1726 was the publication in London of Lewis Theobald’s “Shakespeare Restored, or A Specimen of the Many Errors As Well Committed as Unamended by Mr Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet; Designed Not only to correct the said Edition, but to restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions ever yet published.” <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Theobald> In this book, Theobald attacked Pope's Shakespeare edition for smoothing verse and missing textual errors. When Pope issued a revised edition in 1728, he quietly adopted most of Theobald's corrections while publicly claiming to have taken only about twenty-five words — and accused Theobald of withholding information! Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Lewis Theobald is available at PG: <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16346> Happy 100th birthday to Harper Lee! April 28, 1926 saw the birth of Harper Lee, best known as the author of *To Kill a Mockingbird*. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, Lee achieved literary notoriety with a single book, then proceeded to publish sparingly. Her additional works, though few, have been the subject of considerable attention and worthwhile debate. *To Kill a Mockingbird* is not on Project Gutenberg. It’s locked away until 2056 under US copyright law. The estate of Harper Lee, who died in 2016, sued many local theaters to shut down their productions of a licensed theatrical version. Atticus Finch might have something to say about that! Meanwhile, generations of students have read the novel in classrooms, unaware that their well-thumbed, hand-me-down paperbacks are restricted by copyright law. < https://www.arl.org/blog/to-kill-a-mass-market-paperback-and-access-to-know… > Happily, Project Gutenberg offers a broad range of works that are *referenced* in Lee’s novel, texts that illuminate its intellectual backdrop and cultural milieu. From legal treatises to adventure tales, these public domain volumes are a click or tap away, ready to enrich the reader’s understanding without so much as a licensing fee or a user account. - *Blackstone’s Commentaries* by Sir William Blackstone - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30802> - *Bulfinch’s Mythology* by Thomas Bulfinch - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4928> - The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16780> - *Ivanhoe* by Sir Walter Scott - <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/82> - *The Pickwick Papers* by Charles Dickens - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/580> - *The Rover Boys* series by Edward Stratemeyer - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1626> - *Tarzan* series by Edgar Rice Burroughs - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tarzan> - *Tom Swift* series by Edward Stratemeyer - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Tom+swift> One tantalizing gap remains: - *The Gray Ghost* by Robert F. Schulkers - < https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=seckatary+hawkins> *The Gray Ghost* is a favorite of Scout and Jem. Although a copyrighted version of this story was published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2016, we don’t have a digitized version of the original 1921 or 1926 texts, which would be in the Public Domain and available to Project Gutenberg. 504 Gateway Timeouts Thanks to the amazing support we receive from the folks at iBiblio, the Project Gutenberg website is able to deliver a truly enormous amount of content - these days it’s not unusual to deliver 4 million ebooks in a single day. Unfortunately, a lot of that goes to abusive scraping bots run on behalf of *hundreds* of AI companies. Despite a number of measures in place to slow these bots (so far without needing to force users to fill out captchas) occasionally the system is overwhelmed. When that happens, you may encounter a “504 Gateway Timeout” page when trying to use Project Gutenberg. Please be aware that we’re doing our best to deal with this problem. *Here’s a secret*: often, you can try our not-ready-for-prime-time server by replacing “www” in our domain name with “dev”. And, *not a secret*: you can download the text from ALL of our books (10 gigabytes) with a single click from our “feeds” directory: <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds/> New Releases at Gutenberg.org - March 2026 In the last month PGLAF added another 258 new public domain eBooks to the PG catalog. Of these 183 were added by PGDP. Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped to make these new titles freely available to the world. The month’s eBooks are listed here (the list was getting too long for the newsletter!): <https://gutenberg.org/newsletter/202603.html> A selection of this month’s notable and interesting titles: - The mysterious Mr. Quin <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78084/> - Agatha Christie - 1066 and all that <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/> - Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman - Peter Pan <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78131/> - J. M. Barrie - Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78142/> - Anna Botsford Comstock - Art and the human spirit <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78154/> - Edward Howard Griggs - Strong poison <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78157/> - Dorothy L. Sayers - Murder at the vicarage <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78220/> - Agatha Christie - Many inventions <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78240/> - Rudyard Kipling - The age of the Earth <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78241/> - Arthur Holmes - The Mudfog papers, etc. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78245/> - Charles Dickens - Wild volatile-oil plants and their economic importance <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78246/> - Frank Rabak - Principia mathematica, vol. 2 (of 3) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78255/> - Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell - A brief outline of the history of libraries <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256/> - Justus Lipsius - A city milk and cream contest as a practical method of improving the milk supply <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78261/> - Clarence Bronson Lane and Ivan C. Weld - Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 [of 7] <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78263/> - John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley - It's time something happened <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78266/> - Arthur Doyle - Psychopathology and politics <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78273/> - Harold D. Lasswell - Under the big top <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78288/> - Courtney Ryley Cooper - Ukrainian folk songs <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78295/> - Humphrey Kowalsky - Two hundred recipes for making salads, with thirty recipes for dressings and sauces <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78314/> - Olive M. 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Project Gutenberg Newsletter - March
by Project Gutenberg 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Project Gutenberg News March 2026 *—Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them.—* Contents - Message from the Executive Director: Accessibility at Project Gutenberg - International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month - Christine de Pizan - 100th Anniversary of “The Blue Castle” - Finances - New Releases for February 2026 - Top 10 eBooks downloaded for the month of February - Links - Find Project Gutenberg on Social Media Message from the Executive Director: Accessibility at Project Gutenberg Both Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders have long worked to make our ebooks accessible to users with vision impairments. Our accessibility roadmap was launched over 15 years ago, when Distributed Proofreaders published these guidelines: https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Accessibility_Recipes In 2023 we completed a two-year-long effort to convert all 70,000 books in our collection to HTML5 and EPUB3. These formats allow for accessibility metadata, as found today in all our EPUB3 files. Last year we rolled out a refined website design with many attributes to improve accessibility and enable people to enjoy our books using screen readers or refreshable braille displays. We still have a lot of work to do. In 2024 we took a census of the images in our books and found that our collection has more than 400,000 images without the appropriate “alt text” needed to make the books more accessible. Many technologists believe that machine vision systems will someday come to the rescue, but so far, even the most powerful AI systems produce descriptions that are often humorously mystifying or imaginative. Here’s an example image and the description returned by Anthropic’s Opus model. The image you see below is accurate, it is simply a black line, used as a section break in a book. [picture]: ————————————————————————— [AI description]: “The image shows a close-up view of a grey wolf standing in a grassy field. The wolf has thick grey fur, pointed ears, and is looking directly at the camera with its golden eyes. A shallow depth of field keeps the background blurred while the wolf’s face is in sharp focus.” [My description]: “A horizontal black line.” But it’s not just images that can be a barrier to accessibility. With a little help from experts at the Library of Congress, I worked on Project Gutenberg’s version of “Winnie-the-Pooh”. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098 I really enjoyed the process of describing each of the 116 drawings so that the description fit the narrative of the story. Each description was like solving a little puzzle. There was some inaccessible text in the scene where Kanga is jumping up and down, and the text jumps with her! But with the jumping text rendered as three separate lines with awkward spacing, a screen reader would make the text incomprehensible. It wasn’t hard to fix in the HTML. This year, we have even more motivation to make our books verifiably accessible. April 2026 marks the start of the “Web and Mobile Application Accessibility Rule” which falls under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This rule requires any publicly funded school or library to have documentation that any digital resource they offer is either accessible or that there is a plan in place to make it accessible. (Wikipedia short link to “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” / “WCAG referenced by law”) https://w.wiki/7g3Z In December, the PGLAF board approved an effort to take PG’s accessibility to a new level and start documenting books so that schools and libraries can use them without worries about legal compliance. I hope to be able to tell you more about that second part soon. Before I took the Executive Director job at Project Gutenberg, I was leading the Free Ebook Foundation’s effort to develop a tool called “AltPoet” that will enable creation and editing of alt text for images in the Project Gutenberg catalog, with the help of AI systems. This effort is being moved into Project Gutenberg. Creating alt text requires some training and a different set of skills from the proofreading and HTML formatting work that Distributed Proofreaders and Project Gutenberg have done so well at. I’m hoping that people who care about accessibility and have a knack for describing things will try out AltPoet. If you have any interest in helping with this project, I invite you to email me at eric(a)pglaf.org. Put the word “AltPoet” in the email subject line. Either way, thank you for supporting Project Gutenberg! International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month International Women’s Day is celebrated annually during the week of 8 March. It commemorates the fight for women’s equality and liberation along with the women’s rights movement. Women’s History Month is the annual celebration of the contributions and achievements that women have made. It is celebrated throughout the month of March each year. To celebrate these observations, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Some samples are given below. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706 - “Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections Upon Some Opinions in Natural Philosophy” (1664) by Margaret Cavendish: she criticized Descartes, Hobbes, and mechanical philosophy and argued that Nature is organic, not mechanical. - “Eléments de la philosophie de Neuton: Mis à la portée de tout le monde” (1738) by Voltaire and Émilie du Châtelet: she translated into French, and wrote an extensive commentary on Isaac Newton’s “Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica”. - “Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal” and “Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France” are biographical encyclopedia series written by Mary Shelley for Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia in the 1830s. Shelley’s approach combined biographical narrative with literary criticism; emphasized personal lives and psychological portraits; explored how historical and social contexts shaped creativity; feminist perspective on women writers and the constraints they faced. - “The Mechanism of the Heavens” (1831) by Mary Sommerville: She translated Laplace’s work (Mécanique Céleste) from algebra into common language. “On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences” (1834): she employed an interdisciplinary approach to understanding nature. - “Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage”, Esq. by Menabrea, translated by Ada Lovelace (1843): her added notes are important in the early history of computers, especially since Note G described, in complete detail, a method for calculating a sequence of Bernoulli numbers using the Analytical Engine, which might have run correctly had it ever been built. Lovelace is often considered the first computer programmer. - “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not” (1859) and are influential works by Florence Nightingale: it was written for ordinary women managing household health and aimed to educate the public about disease prevention and health maintenance. “Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and in War” (1858): she advocated systematic reform of military medical services. - “Recherches sur les substances radioactives” (1903) by Marie Curie: she described the discovery and isolation of radium and polonium. “La radiologie et la guerre” (1921): she showed an advanced field of medical imaging and proposed a model for future medical emergency response. - “The Desert and the Sown” (1907) by Gertrude Lowthian Bell: she provided detailed ethnographic and political information on the Arab world which was later used by the British government for Middle East policy. - “Stellar atmospheres: A contribution to the observational study of high temperature in the reversing layers of stars” (1925) by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: she demonstrated that spectral differences among stars result primarily from temperature differences, not compositional differences, and stars are composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium, contrary to prevailing belief that stars had Earth-like composition. Christine de Pizan An interesting article was published by Marie Lebert: Christine de Pizan, a medieval woman writer, was the first professional woman writer in Europe and the first feminist writer. https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/women-writers-translators/ Christine de Pizan (1364–1430), an Italian-French court writer, was the first woman to make a living from her writing in a male-dominated world. Writing enabled her to provide for her family following the death of her husband and father. A prolific author of poetry, novels, and biographies in vernacular French, she is best known for The Book of the City of Ladies. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26608 Happy 100th Anniversary! of “The Blue Castle”, a novel by L. M. Montgomery Almost all editions of The Blue Castle lack dust jackets, and the true first edition does not have any illustration at all on the front boards. It was added after Montgomery had commented, “Not so pretty. A plain cover.” We have added the beautiful castle illustration to the cover of the ebook in tribute to her. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67979 Finances January was an very good month for user donations to Project Gutenberg. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Those donations brought our fiscal year (July-June) deficit down to about $10,000, with a clear path to break-even by June. New Releases for February 2026 February 1 - Belchamber <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77826/> - Howard Overing Sturgis - Portuguese bibliography <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77831/> - Aubrey F. G. Bell - Natural history, lore and legend <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77830/> - F. Edward Hulme - There's not a bathing suit in Russia & other bare facts <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77828/> - Will Rogers - Apró bűnök <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77825/> - Cécile Tormay - Plain Jane and pretty Betty <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77832/> - May Hollis Barton - Poems from Punch, 1909-1920 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77833/> - - Screen acting <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77829/> - Mae Marsh - The story of the universe. Volume 3 (of 4) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77827/> - Esther Singleton February 2 - White buildings <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77837/> - Hart Crane - Microbe hunters <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77842/> - Paul De Kruif - The mystery road <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77836/> - E. Phillips Oppenheim - Primitive art <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77834/> - Franz Boas - The Countess Fanny <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77839/> - Marjorie Bowen - A cowboy detective <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77835/> - Charles A. Siringo - An essay on hasheesh <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77838/> - Victor Robinson - Collected poems of Clarence Edwin Flynn, second series <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77843/> - Clarence Edwin Flynn - Vers le cœur de l'Amérique <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77841/> - Charles Wagner - The seals and whales of the British seas <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77840/> - Thomas Southwell February 3 - Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77850/> - Albert Einstein and Karl Scheel - Chronicles of a pioneer school from 1792 to 1833 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77854/> - Elizabeth C. Barney Buel - Country rambles in England <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77852/> - J. L. Knapp - Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan français), Tome 1 (de 3): le pays, les peuples, les langues <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77844/> - Maurice Delafosse - Moussorgsky <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77855/> - M. Montagu-Nathan - Nourmahal, an Oriental romance. Vol. 1 of 3 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77851/> - Michael J. Quin - Onnellinen mies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77849/> - Poul Levin - Michelangelo élete <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77857/> - Romain Rolland - Tim <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77847/> - Howard Overing Sturgis - Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan français), Tome 2 (de 3): l'histoire <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77845/> - Maurice Delafosse - The war of Antichrist with the Church and Christian civilization <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77856/> - George F. Dillon - Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan français), Tome 3 (de 3): les civilisations <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77846/> - Maurice Delafosse - Defending his flag <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77848/> - Edward Stratemeyer February 4 - The starry skies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77859/> - Agnes Giberne - The Yangtze Valley and beyond <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77853/> - Isabella L. Bird - The curse of the painted cliffs <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77862/> - W. C. Tuttle - Old Rough the miser <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77858/> - Lily F. Wesselhoeft - Technique of modern tactics <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77863/> - P. S. Bond and Michael Joseph McDonough - The story of a Hessian <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77860/> - Lucy Ellen Guernsey - Maud Marian, artist <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77861/> - Eglanton Thorne February 5 - The psychology of Jung <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77864/> - James Oppenheim and E. Haldeman-Julius - Through the sun in an airship <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77867/> - John Mastin - Tour en fer de 300 mètres de hauteur <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77865/> - Gustave Eiffel et al. - Loup-Garou <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77868/> - Wallace West - Eau de morgue <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77869/> - Arthur T. Harris - Memorials of old Nottinghamshire <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77866/> - Everard L. Guilford and P. H. Ditchfield - Talkies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77870/> - Eddie Cantor February 6 - Journey to a woman <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77871/> - Ann Bannon - Mexico in den ereignißvollen Jahren 1832 und 1833 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77872/> - Carl Christian Becher - The marriage of Susan <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77875/> - Helen Reimensnyder Martin - Arany mesekönyv <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77874/> - Elek Benedek - The mystery at Lilac Inn <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77873/> - Carolyn Keene February 7 - The Druid Path <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77880/> - Marah Ellis Ryan - Life of George Washington, volume 4 of 5 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77882/> - Washington Irving - History of the Woman's Temperance Crusade <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77878/> - Annie Wittenmyer - Petit manuel de la femme supérieure <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77876/> - Gerard de Beauregard - Old Mexico and her lost provinces <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77881/> - William Henry Bishop - The barge of haunted lives <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77879/> - J. Aubrey Tyson - Is sex necessary? <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77883/> - James Thurber and E. B. White - Hota-Leenan poika <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77877/> - Pentti Haanpää February 8 - Prophezeiungen <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77888/> - Max Kemmerich - An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators, vol. 1 of 4 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77886/> - David Henry - The autobiography of a seaman (volume 2 of 2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77890/> - Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald - Het beloofde land <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77885/> - Ina Boudier-Bakker - Im Kampf um die Ideale, die Geschichte eines Suchenden <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77887/> - Georg Heinrich Bonne - Gesammelte Schriften von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1/10) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77889/> - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77891/> - Wolfgang Golther - The Pacific Coast scenic tour <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77884/> - Henry T. Finck February 9 - The conquest of happiness <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77894/> - Bertrand Russell - Lo Rector de Vallfogona <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77898/> - Frederic Soler i Hubert - Vile bodies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77900/> - Evelyn Waugh - Opinions sur le roman <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77899/> - René Boylesve - Hot Music <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77893/> - Vic Whitman - Masquerades <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77896/> - Shane Leslie - Red oleanders <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77892/> - Rabindranath Tagore - The hermit of Turkey Hollow <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77895/> - Arthur Cheney Train - Bettina's best desserts <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77897/> - Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron - Puck in pasture <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77901/> - E. MacKinstry February 10 - Deutsche Märchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77905/> - Jacob Grimm et al. - In the day's work <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77910/> - Daniel Berkeley Updike - L'hôte inconnu <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77908/> - Maurice Maeterlinck - Meidän Jeremias <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77909/> - Alpo Noponen - Manhood <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77903/> - Clement Wood and E. Haldeman-Julius - "Moo-oo-oo-oo!" <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77902/> - Laurence Donovan - Pagine di storia letteraria <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77906/> - Giosuè Carducci and Giuseppe Lipparini - Les voyageurs français dans l'Orient européen <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77907/> - Nicolae Iorga - Théâtre <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77904/> - Honoré de Balzac February 11 - Campaign diary of a French officer <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77912/> - Lieutenant René Nicolas - The story of the universe. 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I wish him the best, although I have no idea what "prayers" are or would do. - Much thanks to Greg and what he has done for PG. - This is a project that has quietly influenced my career and life as well as the lives and technology and careers of many others. - Greg Newby has also been serving generously as Editor for the Open Grid Forum for many years, guiding many groups through the process of creating the many public documents available at https://ogf.org/documents and lately contributing to uploading standards ready for broader adoption to other standards developing organizations. We appreciate these contributions deeply and also wish to convey our deep thanks and regards. - Thank you @gbnewby I am really grateful for your generous work. - I know @gbnewby from his time as CTO of #ComputeCanada during a time where we went from having thirty-plus #HPC clusters of various sizes in >20 data centres to having only four big systems in as many data centres. My thoughts go out to Greg and his family and I wish them all the strength they need in such a difficult time! From readers of the Globe and Mail obituary <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> - Thank you for this obituary of Mr. Newby. I've used the Project Gutenberg website many times. It's the important result of a noble ambition. - Faustus - What a legacy of accomplishment Greg Newby leaves us. Project Gutenberg is an amazing contribution to humanity. - T. Stewart2 Comments via Hacker News <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> - I'm shocked and saddened to hear this. Greg was a deep source of knowledge and support as I started and shepherded Standard Ebooks. He was generous with his time and experience, and unbelievably patient with me, some guy he had never heard of or met before who was just another cold-email in what must have been an endless stream in his inbox. We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity, and kindness. The world has lost a champion of both literature and the free web. - acabal - RIP. Project Gutenberg and IMSLP are two of my favourite websites. Every January, when new works enter the public domain, I go and download a bunch of books and sheet music. HN readers, let's not forget to donate to these websites that keep the Internet worth surfing. - Mastazi - Please also accept my condolences and best wishes - I've known Greg since the earliest HOPE conventions. - rsync - Every year, Project Gutenberg becomes a little closer to giving us access to every book worth reading, often in multiple editions and languages. It’s a treasure. - sevensor - Genuinely saddened by this. I had Dr. Newby for a Linux admin class in college in the late 90s and it was one of the courses that got me interested in systems administration. I remember him as patient, kind, and enthusiastic about open-source and the possibilities Linux represented for changing the Internet. - Castillar76 - I am very sad to hear this. Greg was my mentor during my first internship at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks Alaska back in the very early 2000s. - JoeMattie - I met Greg when I was an undergraduate at Syracuse University and he was earning his PhD. I helped out a bit with some of the graphics programming for his thesis. Greg was a class act, always patient and kind. It was super helpful to me when I went to UIUC for graduate schools and he showed up as a faculty member there; he knew how to get access to campus resources and was more willing to help me than faculty in my own department. He was a model. RIP. - razeh - Met him at HAL 2001, volunteered together a bit there. I think he was heading the speakers herald team I was part of. First encounter with the hacker conference scene, he guided me wisely. Patient and kind indeed. He's the reason I kept going around European hacking / free software events. I owe him cultural discoveries, long lasting friendships and tech partnerships. Very saddened by this news. So far the thread is full of similar interactions with him. That person changed so many lives, by his contributions to culture and technology but more importantly (?) because he had tremendous impacts on the lives of many people he took time to interact with. I know that these threads are always full of "this recently deceased people made the world a better place". I lived with him 4 days 24 years ago so I can't say I knew him...but I know I wouldn't be writing this about more "famous" people I interacted with. So long, and thanks for all the fish. - karmabahh - Greg Newby was also very actively involved in the production of the HOPE Conference. If there's a broadcast tonight, Off The Hook (AKA The Hacker Radio Show) show on WBAI (99.5 FM in NY) and wbai.org will almost certainly be in his honor. -ethangnawl - I will cherish his email response to me when I emailed PG about a donation issue a few years ago and he helped resolve the situation. I remain grateful to PG for their amazing work. RIP Greg. - abawany - I did some volunteer work with/for Greg a lifetime ago. He will be missed, and the world is a better place due to his work. - toomuchtodo - Well that's a bummer, not even terribly old. I never met the guy but I love Gutenberg. Back before I had any money it was always this constant force that would be guaranteed to provide something entertaining. - tombert - Sad. I grew up in Champaign-Urbana and remember attending a talk he was giving about Prairienet. - Bobanrocky - RIP. Thanks for making this world a tiny bit better - gyc Via various social media platforms <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> - Greg was always incredibly kind and supportive of everyone and made HOPE so welcoming. Absolutely a real one. What a loss. - alreadyburnt - Greg was always kind at HOPE and, when not running around like mad (because being staff at a con is like that) was always both pleasant and fun to talk to. I always made sure to thank him at the end of every HOPE I went to. - virtualadept - It's hard to believe it's been only two years since Emmanuel and Kyle went up to Yukon to assist Greg in a dog sledding competition. A good reminder to take nothing for granted. RIP to a great one. - D…_spawner126 - My heart bleeds for the loss of Mr. Newby. Sadly, I never got the honor to meet him. He was an inspiration to myself & many others! May he never be forgotten for all the great work he has done on this planet. R.I.P. Greg - digitalwatch_tower - Thank you all. Project Gutenberg is a heritage for humanity. - Marco Bolognini - I love love love your project. Thank you, Dr. Newby. May you rest in peace. -Eugene Abramchuk - RIP. It's sad when relatively young people die. - Marko Tosevski - Project Gutenberg gives me access to old books not available through my local library's inner-library-loan system. Thank you all for giving me such a wonderful digital library. -Karen Martin - I worked with Dr. Newby at the University of Illinois. He mentored a great many people. He taught a class on how to set up information services--including how to set up and configure NCSA HTTPD. This wasn't taught in the CS department at the time, so many CS students came over to Library Science to learn about it. - Todd Markle - Thank you for the Gutenberg texts made available to everyone. -Catherine Diamond - The real Internet heroes. - Miklos Kallo - We owe him a great debt. - Anna Kamaralli - Used your books for years perhaps decades. Incredible results! Thank you for all your years of work and accomplishments. - Brian L Altonen - Greg led the document preparation process for @OpenGridForum for nearly two decades and helped in many ways from small to large in getting the majority of the publications in https://ogf.org/documents reviewed by the community and published for the betterment of the community. He was a tremendous contributor and friend, and he will be missed. - OpenGridForum - The entire @openlibrary.org team would like to express our deep sadness at the loss of our friend Greg Newby who, for years, has seeded @ gutenberg.org with public good, open access values worth continuing to follow. Thank you for your beautiful contributions. You are missed. -Brewster Kahle - Thank you, Greg, your accomplishments on Project Gutenberg were substantial, good natured, and selfless. Following our good friend Michael Hart on the vision of having all books available in all languages, the PG set was the starting point for every ereader, every AI project, every digital humanities project. - I remember him as the guy who insisted fries with mustard are great. He was kind of right & kind of wrong because mayonnaise & mustard was better . Ofc also introduced me into the world of public domain (e)-books & Gutenberg project. Will make some fries with mustard in his honour. My condolences to his friends & family - We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. - Internet Archive - Lots of online public-good projects don't outlast their founders. I'm grateful for Greg Newby's leadership of Project Gutenberg, which has been crucial for sustaining the project for years both before and after Michael Hart's passing. Now I mourn Greg's own passing, and wish the best for Eric Hellman and the Project Gutenberg board, volunteers, and contributors to keep providing free, accessible literature online for many more years to come. - John Mark Ockerbloom - We join others in mourning the loss of Dr. Greg Newby, Project Gutenberg’s leader. We are indebted to @gutenberg.org 's essential and historic role to make published materials available online and to Greg's leadership for helping digital libraries evolve and thrive throughout the decades. -HathiTrust - Thank you Dr. Newby, for leading Project Gutenberg so thoughtfully. You have left us with the gift of abundance, and we are better read and informed for it. May your memory be even more of a blessing than it already is. - This is just gut-wrenching! I know @gbnewby from his time as CTO of #ComputeCanada during a time where we went from having thirty-plus #HPC clusters of various sizes in >20 data centres to having only four big systems in as many data centres. My thoughts go out to Greg and his family and I wish them all the strength they need in such a difficult time! From Eric (PG's Executive Director) <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> I thought about Greg this morning. I ran a 5K race called the "Penguin Pace". I came in 7th (of 12) in my age group. It was 8°F at the start. In my running club there are people who have run umpteen marathons (I've run one) and folks who do triathlons and ultramarathons. One friend recently did a 100-miler. I used to brag to them that I knew a guy who ran ARCTIC ULTRAS!!! That was Greg. Arctic ultramarathons are multi-day races where you have to pull your gear on a sled behind you so that you can stop and rest without freezing to death. After Greg had to quit halfway one time due to frostbite, he tried the next year and finished! Compared to that, my race was a balmy walk in the park. Thank you Greg, for pulling Project Gutenberg for so long and doing it so well. A new feature: ARK linking <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> Archival Resource Keys <https://arks.org/> (ARKs) serve as persistent identifiers, or stable, trusted references for information objects. Among other things, they aim to be web addresses (URLs) that don’t return 404 Page Not Found errors. End users, especially researchers, rely on ARKs for long term access to the global scientific and cultural record. Since 2001 some 15.3 billion ARKs have been created by over 1700 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government agencies, and vendors. In January, Project Gutenberg joined the world of ARKs. This means that if you know Project Gutenberg's number for a book, for example, "Pride and Prejudice" is # 1342, You can use that number from any ARK resolving system. So, for example, while you would normally use the url https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 to get the book's landing page, you can also use https://www.gutenberg.org/ark:/64303/1342. Now that's not very interesting. But because ARKs can be resolved by any ARK resolver, you can also use https://n2t.net/ark:/64303/1342 or if you want to use the resolver in France, https://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/64303/1342. (64303 is the number that identifies Project Gutenberg) Greg Newby decided that Project Gutenberg should support ARKs, because of the potential benefit of preserving PG content into the future, because ARK is a free and open system, unlike, for example ISBN. We had a test version running last summer, but there were snags putting it into production, and then other things happened. Project Gutenberg has a long history of innovation and support for free and open systems that help to preserve its content, and ARK implementation is a continuation of that tradition. Our Finances and New Address <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> This past week, we sent emails or letters to about 200 donors of $100 or more, which can be used for tax purposes. If you don't receive yours within a week and need a letter, please email donate(a)gutenberg.org. As you must know, Project Gutenberg is a dynamic, impactful organization that does amazing work sending out over a million free ebooks a day. It has a small budget (which we hope to grow!) financed mostly by small donations from over a thousand users, ranging from the 5 dollar bill we recently received in the mail from a schoolgirl in East Setauket, NY to *slightly* larger donations. We've posted our recently-filed IRS Form 990 <https://www.gutenberg.org/about/pglaf.html#tax_status> return for our fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 on the website. It shows donation income of $117,756 (not bad!) and a deficit of *-23,397* (not good). On the bright side, donations for the current fiscal year are up by ~30% over last year (very good!). The closure of our Salt Lake City office will save us a lot of money. (sad, but necessary.) If you want to send us paper mail, the address is: Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation 41 Watchung Plaza #516 Montclair NJ 07042 New Releases at Gutenberg.org — January 2026 <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/in…> In the last month PGLAF added another 233 new public domain eBooks <https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite/blob/dev/site/newsletter/20…> to the PG catalog. Of the new books, 146 were added by PGDP. Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped to make these new titles freely available to the world. January 1 - Lost over Greenland <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77606/> - Richard H. Stone - The Maltese falcon <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77600/> - Dashiell Hammett - "The Daily Graphic" special war cartoons, no. 1 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77594/> - Daily graphic (London, England) - Tom Swift and his big dirigible <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77599/> - Victor Appleton - Maza of the Moon <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77596/> - Otis Adelbert Kline - Buckin' the air <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77592/> - Bud La Mar - The documents in the case <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77601/> - Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace - The great airport mystery <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77595/> - Franklin W. Dixon - The hills of the dead <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77603/> - Robert E. Howard - Signs, omens and superstitions <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77597/> - Astra Cielo - Le livre de Olivier de Castille et de Artus d'Algarbe <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77593/> - Filipe Camuz - The hidden staircase <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77602/> - Carolyn Keene - Kings of the night <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77604/> - Robert E. Howard - The Moon of Skulls <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77605/> - Robert E. Howard - Picturesque views on the river Wye, from its source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its junction with the Severn below Chepstow <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77598/> - Samuel Ireland January 2 - A brand new world <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77608/> - Ray Cummings - Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz — Mitteilungen Band XVI, Heft 1–2 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77607/> - Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz - A winter holiday <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77609/> - Bliss Carman January 3 - Courses of study in library science <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77611/> - Reginald Gordon Williams - Valuable cooking receipts <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77612/> - Thomas J. Murrey - The color of space <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77610/> - Charles R. Tanner January 4 - Le disciple <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77617/> - Paul Bourget - Lost city <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77613/> - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace - Varastaiteilija <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77616/> - E. W. Hornung - La arlesiana <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77614/> - Alphonse Daudet - Fenn és lenn <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77615/> - Ferenc Herczeg - Joulu-yön tarina <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77618/> - Larin-Kyösti - Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77619/> - Thomas Woodhouse and Peter Kilgour January 5 - Három mester <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77620/> - Stefan Zweig - Magnolia Flower <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77621/> - Zora Neale Hurston - Impressions of great naturalists <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77622/> - Henry Fairfield Osborn - Evening songs <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77623/> - Vítězslav Hálek January 6 - Rupert Godwin <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77631/> - M. E. Braddon - The earliest historical relations between Mexico and Japan <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77632/> - Zelia Nuttall - La venuta dei Normanni in Sicilia nella poesia e nella leggenda <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77626/> - Michele Catalano - La détresse des Harpagon <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77628/> - Pierre Mille - Mariners catalans célebres <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77624/> - Lluís Maria Soler y Puig - Die Brücke im Dschungel <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77625/> - B. Traven - Further nonsense verse and prose <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77627/> - Lewis Carroll and Langford Reed - Kék mesekönyv <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77629/> - Elek Benedek - An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77630/> - Mrs. Fulhame January 7 - The clue of the silver key <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77643/> - Edgar Wallace - The troubadours <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77644/> - Francis Hueffer - Peter makes good, and stories of other dogs <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77634/> - Gertrude Thomas - Servants and service <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77633/> - Ruth Lamb - Kuoleman voittaja <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77639/> - Franz Werfel - Kahden tulen välissä <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77640/> - Frans Talaskivi - Mornings in Mexico <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77641/> - D. H. Lawrence - Az ördög <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77642/> - Ferenc Molnár - Kansojen historia 2 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77635/> - Carl Gustaf Grimberg - Life among the ants <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77638/> - Vance Randolph and E. Haldeman-Julius - Sonnets from a prison camp <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77636/> - Archibald Allan Bowman - Napoleon and Josephine <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77637/> - Walter Geer January 8 - The friends, and other stories <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77648/> - Stacy Aumonier - Oberland <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77646/> - Dorothy M. Richardson - A vörös malom <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77650/> - Ferenc Molnár - Från Washingtons salonger och hvardagslif m. m. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77645/> - F. U. Wrangel - Aamusta iltaan <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77649/> - Reino Rauanheimo - Soldiers unmasked <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77647/> - William Addleman Ganoe January 9 - Joan's handful <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77651/> - Amy Le Feuvre - Asoka's alibi <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77653/> - Talbot Mundy - Shades of Davy Crockett <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77662/> - Theodore Pratt - The Táin <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77663/> - Mary A. Hutton and John Patrick Campbell - Afterglow <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77657/> - Julia C. R. Dorr - The Swedes on the Delaware, 1638-1664 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77652/> - Amandus Johnson - Young man with a trumpet <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77664/> - Frank Belknap Long - The cybernetic kid <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77658/> - John Jakes - Grandma's lie soap <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77659/> - Robert Abernathy - Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 1 of 2 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77660/> - Luís de Camões and Lady Isabel Burton - Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 2 of 2 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77661/> - Luís de Camões and Lady Isabel Burton - The forbidden zone <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77655/> - Mary Borden - Szegedi parasztok és egyéb urak <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77654/> - István Tömörkény - Plotting the short story <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77656/> - Seymour Cunningham Chunn - The man who had spiders <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77665/> - Roger D. Aycock January 10 - How glands affect personality <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77671/> - Grace Kinckle Adams and E. Haldeman-Julius - A magyarságért <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77669/> - Jenő Rákosi - Mon curé chez les riches <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77666/> - Clément Vautel - Diminutive dramas <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77668/> - Maurice Baring - Der Teufelsschlosser <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77667/> - Adele Gaus-Bachmann - Kynäelmiä IV <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77670/> - Kaarlo Hemmo January 11 - The giant, and other nonsense verse <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77672/> - Albert W. Smith - Confessions of an anarchist <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77674/> - W. C. Hart - Agar Halfi the mystic <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77673/> - Roland Filkin - Atoms and electrons <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77675/> - J. W. N. Sullivan January 12 - Dentologia <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77677/> - Solyman Brown - Legends of the conquest of Spain <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77685/> - Washington Irving - Lyrics selected from the works of A. Mary F. Robinson <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77682/> - A. Mary F. Robinson - De oudheidkenner <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77684/> - Walter Scott - The Trent affair <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77681/> - Thomas L. Harris - The big town <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77676/> - Ring Lardner - Yiddish short stories <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77680/> - Isaac Goldberg and E. Haldeman-Julius - Die Zelle und die Gewebe (Vol. 1/2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77678/> - Oscar Hertwig - My tussle with the devil, and other stories <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77686/> - O. Henry - Obstipation <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77683/> - Thomas Charles Martin - Die Zelle und die Gewebe (Vol. 2/2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77679/> - Oscar Hertwig January 13 - Jerry Todd and the rose-colored cat <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77687/> - Leo Edwards - The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77691/> - Alexander Russell - Battles of the nineteenth century, vol. 1 of 7 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77688/> - Archibald Forbes et al. - Lord Lister No. 0040: De valsche spoorwegdief <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77693/> - Kurt Matull and Theo von Blankensee - Isten igájában II. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77695/> - József Nyirő - The sword decides <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77689/> - Marjorie Bowen - A bold bad butterfly <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77690/> - Oliver Herford - Outward bound <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77696/> - Sutton Vane - Isten igájában I. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77694/> - József Nyirő - Motion pictures, January-June 1977 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77697/> - Library of Congress. Copyright Office - Spanish colonial literature in South America <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77692/> - Bernard Moses January 14 - Entstehung und Ausbreitung der Alchemie, mit einem Anhange <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77700/> - Edmund O. von Lippmann - A greater than Napoleon <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77699/> - Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart - Molly Gavin's own cookbook <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77698/> - Molly Gavin - Ueber den Umgang mit Menschen <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77701/> - Freiherr von Adolf Knigge January 16 - Yes and no, Volume 2 (of 2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77720/> - Marquess of Constantine Henry Phipps Normanby - Queer people <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77709/> - Basil Thomson - Disarm! Disarm! <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77705/> - Bertha von Suttner - La pédagogie d'un saint <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77712/> - A. Auffray - Life of George Washington, volume 3 of 5 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77704/> - Washington Irving - A dictionary of scientific terms <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77721/> - Leo Markun and E. Haldeman-Julius - Capital punishment among the Jews <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77702/> - David de Sola Pool - The conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77710/> - Moorfield Storey and Marcial Primitivo Lichauco - Yes and no, Volume 1 (of 2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77719/> - Marquess of Constantine Henry Phipps Normanby - Ruben and Ivy Sên <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77722/> - Louise Jordan Miln - The story of Mary Jones and her Bible <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77715/> - Mary E. Ropes - Final exam <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77718/> - Jr. Sam Merwin - A little child's wreath <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77707/> - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman - The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538, Volume 1 (of 2) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77706/> - Madeleine Hope Dodds and Ruth Dodds - Kansojen historia 3 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77713/> - Carl Gustaf Grimberg - Wanda <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77708/> - Juliusz Rawicz Przyjemski - The Cohansey tea-fight <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77716/> - Lucy Ellen Guernsey - Racconti poetici <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77714/> - Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - Passage to anywhere <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77717/> - Jr. Sam Merwin - Hämärän huoneen arvoitus <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77711/> - Edgar Wallace - Recuerdos de un anciano <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77703/> - Antonio Alcalá Galiano January 17 - Popular lectures on scientific subjects <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77725/> - Hermann von Helmholtz - Korpinäkyjä 2 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77724/> - Larin-Kyösti - Jungle days <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77723/> - William Beebe January 18 - A hattyú <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77726/> - Ferenc Molnár - The book of ice-cream <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77728/> - W. W. Fisk - The kedge-anchor <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77729/> - William N. Brady - Kolme <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77730/> - Elina Vaara et al. - Cinderella <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77727/> - John R. Neill - Szinház <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77731/> - Ferenc Molnár - Tulta ja tuhkaa <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77732/> - Iris Uurto January 19 - Les incertitudes de l'heure présente <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77734/> - Gustave Le Bon - Color problems <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77736/> - Emily Noyes Vanderpoel - The progress meatless cook book <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77733/> - Carlotta M. Lake - Halveksittu mies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77740/> - Lauri Haarla - Crab, shrimp, and lobster lore <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77735/> - William Barry Lord - The rat trap <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77737/> - William Le Queux - A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77741/> - Benjamin Moseley - Viaszfigurák <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77739/> - Cécile Tormay January 20 - Through Siberia <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77742/> - Henry Lansdell - Songs of the unblind Cupid <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77744/> - J. Wm. Lloyd - Drie Harten <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77745/> - Jack London - The Oxford book of Portuguese verse <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77746/> - Aubrey F. G. Bell - Duval's artistic anatomy <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77743/> - Mathias Duval and Andrew Melville Paterson - A daughter of Heth <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77747/> - William Black January 21 - Contes tendres <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77748/> - André Theuriet - A brief bibliography of books in English, Spanish and Portuguese, relating to the republics commonly called Latin American, with comments <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77738/> - Peter H. Goldsmith January 22 - Megállt az óra <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77751/> - Cécile Tormay - Doubly false <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77750/> - Ann S. Stephens - Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77752/> - W. H. Wyman - West of Fifth <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77749/> - Catharine Brody January 23 - Lysistrata <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77760/> - Laurence Housman and Aristophanes - A jó tündér <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77758/> - Ferenc Molnár - The population problem <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77753/> - A. M. Carr-Saunders - El espejo de la muerte <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77759/> - Miguel de Unamuno - Lefty o' the training camp <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77754/> - Burt L. Standish - Bookbinding self taught <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77757/> - Ben Davidson and E. Haldeman-Julius - The magnificent profession <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77756/> - Theodore L. Thomas - The wandering Jew <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77755/> - Moncure Daniel Conway January 24 - A bit of rough road <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77761/> - Amy Le Feuvre - The Christmas child <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77767/> - Nora Archibald Smith - The wild heart <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77766/> - Emma-Lindsay Squier - Monsieur D'Or <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77765/> - John Louis Haney - Tom Gillies <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77762/> - Mrs. George Gladstone - Soap bubbles <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77764/> - Max Simon Nordau - Lignum-vitae <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77763/> - Samuel J. Record January 25 - By the deep sea <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77774/> - Edward Step - Marshal of Sundown <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77768/> - Jackson Gregory - La fugitive <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77770/> - Rabindranath Tagore - Kansojen historia 4 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77778/> - Carl Gustaf Grimberg - Münchhausen unter den Ziegen <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77772/> - Karl Leberecht Immermann - Freedom of speech <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77769/> - Jr. Zechariah Chafee - Abafi <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77780/> - báró Miklós Jósika - Of the making of a book <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77776/> - - The Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77777/> - Eduard Zeller - Sworn to silence <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77775/> - Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller - Lord Lister No. 0041: Een weddenschap zonder winner <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77779/> - Kurt Matull and Theo von Blankensee - Haamulinna <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77773/> - Eino Railo - Ukrainian literature <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77771/> - Clarence Augustus Manning January 26 - Ruhtinattaria <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77786/> - Eduard von Keyserling - Vainon ajoilta <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77787/> - Hilja Tamminen - The eyes of Max Carrados <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77788/> - Ernest Bramah - Aussterbende Tiere <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77785/> - Kurt Floericke - The peyote cult <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77791/> - Weston La Barre - Blunders in behaviour corrected <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77781/> - Observer of men and things - Conversation <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77793/> - J. Frank Davis - Islam and the Divine comedy <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77789/> - Miguel Asín Palacios - Mylord et Mylady <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77790/> - Brada - The gateway to China <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77783/> - Mary Ninde Gamewell - The story of the Pennsylvania Germans <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77784/> - William Beidelman - Black magic <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77782/> - Marjorie Bowen - The story of the universe. Volume 2 (of 4) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77792/> - Esther Singleton January 27 - Theodosia Ernest <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77796/> - A. C. Dayton - Ambulancing on the French front <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77797/> - Edward R. Coyle - A picture of Stirling <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77794/> - Robert Chambers - The voyage of the Norman D. <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77795/> - Barbara Newhall Follett January 28 - Willie and Lucy at the sea-side <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77801/> - Agnes Giberne - Old House of Fear <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77800/> - Russell Kirk - No enemy <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77802/> - Ford Madox Ford - The mission-box <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77799/> - Lucy Ellen Guernsey - Secrets of Crewe House <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77798/> - Campbell Stuart - Matabele land and the Victoria Falls <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77803/> - Frank Oates and C. G. Oates - The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77804/> - Charles Fletcher Lummis January 29 - The coast guardsman <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77810/> - W. E. Carlton - The mainsprings of Russia <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77805/> - Maurice Baring - Master tales of mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77811/> - Various and Francis J. Reynolds - All God's chillun got wings, and Welded <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77808/> - Eugene O'Neill - The Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth century <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77806/> - Martha Pike Conant - Verses <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77809/> - Christina Georgina Rossetti - Gods of the lightning; Outside looking in <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77807/> - Maxwell Anderson et al. - Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77814/> - Charles H. Sternberg - Enon rahat <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77813/> - Théodore Barrière - Master tales of mystery, Volume 2 (of 3) <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77812/> - Various and Francis J. Reynolds January 30 - The book of Enoch the Prophet <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77815/> - - Bully McGrane <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77816/> - Ernest Haycox - Escape and fantasy <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77817/> - G. Rostrevor Hamilton - Select letters of Christopher Columbus <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77820/> - Christopher Columbus - Theory and practice of the confessional <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77819/> - Caspar E. Schieler and Herman J. 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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January 2026
by John Guagliardo 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2026 — Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them. — == CONTENTS == * Note from the new Executive Director * Milestones for 2025 * Report of PG’s Social Media Activity for 2025 * Happy Public Domain Day 2026 * Legal News: eBook Lending and Copyright * News about eBooks * PG AI Large Scale Audiobook Synthesis Using LLMS and Text-To-Speech * Top 10 eBooks downloaded for the month of December * Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal * Recent PG Releases * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on Social Media == Note from the New Executive Director == Happy Public Domain Day! People may state that books published in 1930 have "fallen" into the US Public Domain, or that they have lost copyright "protection". This is not quite correct. Rather, books published in 1930 have been FREED of copyright restrictions. They have ASCENDED into the public domain and into the embrace of organizations like Project Gutenberg. They now belong to ALL of us, and we need to take care of them for future generations. On October 21, Project Gutenberg lost its longtime leader, Greg Newby, to pancreatic cancer. I agreed to step up as Acting Executive Director so that Project Gutenberg could continue the mission that had become Greg's life work: to serve and preserve public domain books so all of us can use and enjoy them without restrictions. Although I've been doing development work for Project Gutenberg for the past 8 years, I did not really understand what Greg's job entailed, or how many tasks he had been juggling. Three months in, I'm still discovering mysterious-to-me aspects of the organization. In the past three months Project Gutenberg has proven to be resilient; we took a heavy blow and managed to keep going. I've been amazed at the dedication and talent of the many volunteers behind Project Gutenberg and our sister organization, Distributed Proofreaders. And at the large number of donors who make the organization financially viable and sustainable. So as of 2026, with your support, I'm continuing as Executive Director. — Eric Hellman, Executive Director, Project Gutenberg and PGLAF == Milestones for 2025 == Monthly Contributions: Volunteers maintained a steady output. In 2025, Project Gutenberg added over 2,000 new eBooks, consistent with its typical rate of 30 to 50 new items added weekly. Self-Publishing Success: The Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Portal, an author-led community, saw steady activity with over 100 new titles submitted monthly by contemporary authors looking to share their work freely. MARC Records Restored: Library metadata records (MARC) became fully available again in 2025, aiding academic libraries in integrating Project Gutenberg titles into their own systems. In July 2025, Project Gutenberg announced the addition of new high-speed mirror sites hosted by Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. Maintained by the ODU Computer Science Systems Group, these mirrors enhance global redundancy for the collection. Intelligent Discovery: In collaboration with Empathy.ai, Project Gutenberg introduced AI-driven book summaries and browsing categories were added to book landing pages to help readers discover new works. AI Book Interaction: Project Gutenberg partnered with Empathy.ai to launch experimental models allowing users to chat with an AI about books and search the catalog using natural language. In honor of Greg, we added a special dedication to him on our home page starting in October, along with a supporting page and we supported the creation of a page at Wikipedia. - <https://www.gutenberg.org/about/newby.html> - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_B._Newby> == Report of PG’s Social media activity in 2025 == The Facebook page has about 101,000 followers and received over 1 million views in the past year, with 18,000 reactions. The audience is primarily US-based (53%), evenly split between male and female, mostly aged 35-54. The most-viewed post, regarding Greg's passing, had 86,000 views. Follower growth was at 1% year-over-year. On Mastodon we have 28,012 new followers (total of 63,126 followers so far), 1,752 new posts and the most popular post (Happy Public Domain Day) was boosted 549 times. We also reached the top #64 of the most followed Mastodon accounts. On Bluesky we have 5,800 followers since this account was created, 2,100 posts and the most popular post this year (The Mathilda Effect - The Missing Heroines of Science) was boosted 516 times. A new account was created at Reddit (u/ProjectGutenberg) to support the r/projectgutenberg subreddit. == Happy Public Domain Day 2026 == In December the eBook community geared up for Public Domain Day on January 1, 2026, when thousands of works published in 1930 (plus sound recordings from 1925) enter the U.S. public domain. This means unrestricted access for remixing, adapting, and distributing—including free eBook editions. Many famous books and characters from 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain. This also means they can be legally digitized and shared by Project Gutenberg without copyright restrictions. Digital libraries and projects have been previewing releases. Classic Literature and Thrillers The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: This novel introduced the world to the famous detective Sam Spade. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A masterpiece of American literature. The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie: This was the first novel to feature the beloved character Miss Marple. Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes: The first novel published by this famous poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham: A popular social satire of the London literary world. The Castle by Franz Kafka: The first English translation of this famous existentialist work. Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams: The first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Children’s Books and Young Adult Classics The Nancy Drew Series: The first four books, Including The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, The Bungalow Mystery, and The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene, will enter the public domain. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper: The famous 1930 version of the story with illustrations by Lois Lenski. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome: The first book in the classic series about children having adventures in the English Lake District. The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter: One of the final books published in her famous animal series. The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth: It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1931. Poetry and Plays Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot: A major long-form poem. Private Lives by Noël Coward: A famous and witty comedy play. The Bridge by Hart Crane: A famous modernist epic poem. Famous Characters & Icons Mickey Mouse Comics: The very first daily comic strips featuring Mickey Mouse from 1930 will become free to use. Betty Boop: Her first cartoon appearance in the short film Dizzy Dishes becomes public domain. Pluto: Mickey’s dog (first named Rover) made his debut in 1930. Blondie: The famous comic strip featuring Blondie and Dagwood first appeared in September 1930. Internet Archive's Free Digital Library Expansion: The Internet Archive is set to unlock free eBook downloads of over 100,000 scanned 1930 volumes starting January 1, 2026, alongside audio and video remixes. In a December 1 announcement, they launched the Public Domain Film Remix Contest, inviting creators to produce short films from 1930-era public domain works (entries due March 2026). eBook access emphasizes searchable PDFs and EPUB conversions for titles like The Maltese Falcon. - <blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/> HathiTrust Adds 78,000+ Digital Items: In a December 16, 2025 post, HathiTrust revealed plans to release over 78,000 digitized 1930 books into full public view, including high-res scans convertible to eBooks via their tools. A dedicated 1930 Publications Collection goes live January 1, with global access to 57,000 additional titles from Canada/Australia (1899–1900). Users can download EPUBs or read online; some previews are already available through their Copyright Review Program. - <www.hathitrust.org/press-post/coming-in-january-public-domain-day-2026/> Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain: The annual roundup notes no major legal hurdles this year, boosting indie eBook creators. Articles from December 7 and 20 highlight remix potential, like “podifying” Nancy Drew or AI-narrating As I Lay Dying. Expect a surge in platforms like Project Gutenberg adding these titles by mid-January. These releases democratize access, especially for Project Gutenberg e-readers. - <web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/> == Legal News: eBook Lending and Copyright == Hachette vs The Internet Archive The primary legal news revolves around the long-running lawsuit Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. The Internet Archive, which challenged the practice of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). CDL allows libraries to digitize physical books they own and lend digital versions on a one-to-one basis (one digital loan per physical copy owned), mimicking traditional library lending. In March 2023, a U.S. District Court ruled against the Internet Archive, finding CDL did not qualify as fair use. In December 2024, the Internet Archive announced it would not pursue further appeals (e.g., to the Supreme Court), effectively ending the case. This is a setback for open digital access advocates: CDL was promoted as extending traditional library lending to the digital age. The loss weakens alternatives to publisher-controlled licensing, limiting options for free/unrestricted digital access (especially for older or niche titles). - <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive> Amazon to begin selling DRM-free eBooks In December 2025, Amazon announced changes allowing DRM-free self-published eBooks in open formats (EPUB/PDF) starting January 2026, potentially easing some lending/friction issues for indie authors. - <kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GDDXGH9VR22ACM8U> Anti-ownership in the eBook economy Scholarly articles and reports in 2025 highlight the "anti-ownership" eBook economy and calls for fairer library terms. This case represents a major victory for publishers' rights but a setback for open digital access advocates. Libraries may increasingly rely on licensed platforms like OverDrive/Libby for eBook lending. The "anti-ownership" eBook economy refers to the current system in the digital book market where consumers and institutions (like libraries) typically do not truly own eBooks they "purchase." Instead, they acquire limited licenses to access them. This contrasts sharply with physical books, where buyers gain full ownership rights, including the ability to resell, lend freely, donate, or read without tracking under doctrines like the First Sale Doctrine in copyright law. Organizations like IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations), ReadersFirst, and #eBookSOS campaign advocates for principles like respecting copyright exceptions in licenses, allowing preservation/reformatting, and enabling interlibrary loans. Proposed Legislation: Proposals for state-level mandates on reasonable terms, or federal updates to exceptions for libraries/archives (e.g., Section 108 of the Copyright Act). - <www.authorsalliance.org/2025/06/30/> == News about eBooks == eBook News: The Digital Renaissance of the Public Domain The landscape of digital literature has reached a pivotal milestone this year. As we celebrate the dawn of 2026, the arrival of "Public Domain Day" has once again sparked a surge of interest in the platforms that preserve and polish our shared cultural heritage. While the publishing industry often focuses on the latest bestsellers, a dedicated ecosystem of volunteer-driven projects is ensuring that the "Great Conversation" of human history is more accessible, and more beautiful, than ever before. The Academic Powerhouse: HathiTrust A massive scholarly weight to the digital library landscape is HathiTrust (hathitrust.org) Founded as a non-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries, it now preserves over 19 million digitized items. For Public Domain Day 2026, HathiTrust is opening access to more than 78,000 items published in 1930. Unlike casual repositories, HathiTrust serves a dual mission of preservation and advanced research, offering specialized services like the Accessible Text Request Service for users with print disabilities and tools for large-scale data analysis. It stands as a critical bridge between the world’s research libraries and the public. The New Standards of Quality Leading the charge in digital aesthetics is Standard eBooks (standardebooks.org. Far from the cluttered, poorly formatted files often associated with free downloads, this project treats the public domain with the reverence of a high-end boutique. On Public Domain Day 2026, the site added 20 new titles from 1930 to its catalog, each featuring professional typography, "curly" quotes, and custom covers sourced from period-appropriate fine art. "Standard Ebooks isn't just about hosting files; it's about creating editions that people actually want to read on modern devices," says the project’s mission statement. By focusing on "libre" and DRM-free content, they provide a high-fidelity alternative for ereader enthusiasts who refuse to compromise on design. A Voice for the Classics While Standard Ebooks masters the visual, LibriVox continues to dominate the auditory realm. As of late 2024, the volunteer-driven powerhouse surpassed 20,000 free audiobooks. The project’s strength lies in its sheer human scale; thousands of volunteers worldwide record everything from Shakespeare to Austen in over 49 languages. For students, the visually impaired, and the growing "commuter class" of listeners, LibriVox remains the premier ad-free archive of the human voice. Bridging the Accessibility Gap Navigating the vast sea of public domain content is made easier by platforms like Loyal Books (loyalbooks.com) and ManyBooks (manybooks.net) Loyal Books (formerly Books Should Be Free) has become a household name for families and casual readers. By hosting over 7,000 titles and offering both streaming audio and downloadable eBooks in one place, they simplify the user experience. Their mobile app has successfully brought the classics into the "on-the-go" lifestyle of the 2020s. Meanwhile, ManyBooks has grown into a massive digital library of over 50,000 titles. It serves as a unique hybrid in the literary world, sitting at the intersection of the past and the future. While it offers an exhaustive collection of classics across every imaginable genre, from sci-fi to philosophy, it also provides a platform for modern self-publishing authors. This creates a living continuum where the giants of literature share digital shelf space with the voices of tomorrow. A Shared Cultural Heritage Together, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Standard eBooks, LibriVox, Loyal Books, and ManyBooks, provide a robust infrastructure for the preservation of thought. In an era where digital subscriptions and "rented" content have become the norm, these projects stand as a reminder that the world’s greatest stories belong to everyone. As 2025 comes to an end, and we move deeper into the 21st century, the wisdom of the 19th and 20th remains just a click, or a play button, away. — By John Guagliardo, PG Newsletter Staff, January 1, 2026 == PG AI Large Scale Audiobook Synthesis Using LLMS and Text-To-Speech == Project Gutenberg's Large-Scale AI Audiobook Synthesis Initiative: Project Gutenberg, joins a groundbreaking collaboration with MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester, and Microsoft. The goal was to dramatically expand access to literature by automatically converting thousands of text-based e-books into high-quality audiobooks using AI-driven technologies. This isn't just about technology—it's about discovery. These audiobooks empower visually impaired readers, language learners, busy parents sharing stories with children, and anyone craving the magic of oral tradition on the go. 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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for December 2025
by John Guagliardo 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2025 — Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them. — == CONTENTS == * Illustration of Greg Newby and Michael Hart * In the News about eBooks for November 2025 * Legal News: eBook Lending and Copyright * Anticipation Builds for Public Domain Day 2026 * Top 100 eBooks downloaded for the month of November * PG AI Audiobooks Coming Soon! * Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal * Recent PG Releases * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on Social Media == Celebrating Greg Newby in Illustration == On behalf of all of us at PGLAF, we sincerely appreciate the illustrated likeness of Michael Hart and Gregory Newby. Note about the illustration, illustrator Denis Renard, and publication by Marie Lebert. > link: <https://marielebert.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/denis-renard/> == In the news about eBooks for November 2025 == Key eBook news items and trends as November 2025 include: AI and Copyright Lawsuits: There is news about publisher OverDrive suing OpenAI over AI training data and related copyright issues, a significant development for authors concerned about intellectual property rights. Audiobook Growth: The rise in consumer demand for audiobooks means entrepreneurial authors and publishers are embracing an "audio-first" trend, seeking to leverage advances against audio rights while potentially self-publishing eBooks separately. Spotify has expanded audiobook access for Premium subscribers in five additional European countries. == Legal News: eBook Lending and Copyright == A significant legal development in late 2024 involved the Internet Archive's legal battle over its digital lending practices. The organization decided not to appeal a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that found its "controlled digital lending" (CDL) model, which involved lending scanned digital copies of physical books, was not a "fair use" under copyright law. The case, Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, was a closely watched dispute involving major publishers and had a significant impact on how libraries approach digital lending of copyrighted materials. AI and Copyright Tensions: Mid-November saw heated debates on X about AI training data, with authors accusing OpenAI of scraping books (including public domain ones) without consent. A related lawsuit gained traction, potentially affecting how AI models handle free eBooks. November's X conversations about PG had some trending, with users recommending Gutenberg for classics like Dracula and Meditations. A viral thread noted how public domain status means "no fees, no licenses," sparking eBook recommendation lists. == Anticipation Builds for Public Domain Day 2026 == In November 2025, the primary focus in public domain eBooks news centered on the impending Public Domain Day on January 1, 2025, when thousands of works from 1929 (plus 1924 sound recordings) entered into the U.S. public domain. This event has generated significant buzz among digital libraries, authors, and readers, with platforms like Project Gutenberg and Standard eBooks preparing free eBook releases. Discussions emphasized how these additions will enrich free digital collections, allowing unrestricted sharing, adaptation, and remixing of classics. Here's a breakdown of the Major Works Entering the Public Domain: These titles, now free for eBooks distribution and adaptation, include literary heavyweights from the late 1920s. Highlights featured in November: Ernest Hemingway’s, A Farewell to Arms, Iconic war novel; expected to see new eBooks editions and adaptations. Virginia Woolf’s, A Room of One's Own. Feminist essay; poised for fresh digital annotations and audiobooks. William Faulkner’s, The Sound and the Fury. Modernist masterpiece; highlights the "Roaring '20s" cultural wave entering free access. Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery. Early detective story; boosts mystery genre. Dashiell Hammett’s, The Maltese Falcon. Hardboiled noir classic; anticipated for graphic novel and eBook remixes. Other notables include All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and early Tintin comics by Hergé. Sound recordings like George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue == Top 10 eBooks downloaded for the month of November == Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (303,221) Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (119,658) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (85,862) The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (76,744) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (73,678) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (65,938) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (63,702) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (57,775) Middlemarch by George Eliot (53,818) A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (53,757) == PG AI Audiobooks coming soon! == The next-generation of PG audiobooks is coming soon. There will likely be two audiobooks per book (one male and one female). Feedback and demand have been positive. We are looking forward to continuing this collaboration. The team of talented, and bright collaborators, have recently made some great progress on a v2 version of the open audiobook collection. They have been working on for the past few months to expand the collection to all 70K books, through the use of LLMs to automatically determine what should be read aloud and what should not be. Unlike the previous effort, which involved a lot of manual cleaning effort, this new effort will automate that with a series of LLM prompts so that we can automatically read things more like a human would. The AI audiobooks use some newer speech models to generate recordings, and tackle the issue of male and female voices. == Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal == Free Public Access to Create and Distribute eBooks via the Project Gutenberg Self Publishing system. 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(English) 671 pages; Saturday, November 29, 2025 PG #77363 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77363> Adrift on the Amazon, Miller, Leo (English) 286 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77361 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77361> American medicinal barks, Henkel, Alice (English) 61 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77360 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77360> Letters of John Huss, written during his exile and imprisonment, Bonnechose, Émile de (English) 248 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77359 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77359> A lady's cruise in a French man-of-war [1882], Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica (English) 397 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77356 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77356> Household words, no. 330, July 19, 1856: A weekly journal, Dickens, Charles (editor) (English) 48 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77354 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77354> Historia de la instrucción pública en Puerto Rico hasta el año de 1898, Coll y Toste, Cayetano (Spanish) 212 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77353 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77353> Ten years in a Portsmouth slum, Dolling, Robert R. (English) 318 pages; Friday, November 28, 2025 PG #77351 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77351> Bacchus; or, Wine To-day and To-morrow, Shand, P. Morton (English with French) 96 pages; Thursday, November 27, 2025 PG #77340 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77340> The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, vol 6 of 11, Hobbes, Thomas (English) 540 pages; Wednesday, November 26, 2025 PG #77338 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77338> Leben und Taten des scharfsinnigen Edlen Don Quijote von la Mancha 1 {Fraktur}, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Übers.: Tieck) (German) 379 pages; Wednesday, November 26, 2025 PG #77337 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77337> Hecuba and Other Plays, Euripides; Michael Wodhull [tr.] (English) 288 pages; Wednesday, November 26, 2025 PG #77336 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77336> Poems: Scots and English, Buchan, John (English with Scots) 107 pages; Tuesday, November 25, 2025 PG #77335 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77335> El proceso, Franz Kafka (Spanish) 385 pages; Tuesday, November 25, 2025 PG #77334 <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77334> Green Thursday: Stories, Peterkin, Julia M. 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Project Gutenberg Newsletter for November 2025
by John Guagliardo 04 Nov '25

04 Nov '25

PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2025 — Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them. — == CONTENTS == * Greg Newby, in Memoriam * Note From the Acting Executive Director * Recent releases * Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media == In Memoriam: Greg Newby == On October 21, 2025, Dr. Greg B. Newby left us a great legacy of optimism as well as a deep sorrow for our loss. Earlier this year Greg was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. He entered hospice care in August as treatments were unable to push the cancer to remission. He died surrounded by loved ones at his home in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. Greg began working with Michael Hart in the fall of 1991, contributing eBooks #41 and #59 together with his wife, Ilana. 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Project Gutenberg newsletter for October 2025
by John Guagliardo 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

PROJECT GUTENBERG NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2025 - Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them. - == CONTENTS == * PGLAF CEO Greg Newby’s Medical Status * Eric Hellman appointed interim director of PGLAF * Welcome to the PGLAF Board: Robert Tonsing * Anyone can Help Make New eBooks! * More About Project Gutenberg: Writings and Podcasts * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media * Recent releases * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media == PGLAF CEO Greg Newby’s Medical Status == Greg has worked on Project Gutenberg since 1991, and directed the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) as CEO since its founding in 2000. Greg has been the guiding hand of Project Gutenberg, and PGLAF, along with helping to launch Distributed Proofreaders, for more than 30 years. 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Project Gutenberg newsletter for August-September 2025
by Greg Newby 03 Sep '25

03 Sep '25

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. * Find Project Gutenberg on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg Facebook news feed of new eBooks: https://www.facebook.com/gutenberg.new Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org Mastodon news feed of new eBooks: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gutenbergorg.bsky.social Thanks to the Project Gutenberg Social Media Team for keeping these feeds interesting! * 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.

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Project Gutenberg newsletter for July 2025
by Greg Newby 04 Jul '25

04 Jul '25

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for July 2025 CONTENTS * Project Gutenberg turns 54! * New Mirror Site: Old Dominion Universitya * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media * Project Gutenberg turns 54! On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart had the idea of using a computer to read and enjoy literature. This innovation led to the creation of Project Gutenberg, which continues to thrive today. You can read more about the history of Project Gutenberg in our 50th anniversary writeup: https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/50years.html * New Mirror Site: Old Dominion Universitya Project Gutenberg's collection is resilient to accidents or mischief, and one of the ways we have done this is to make it easy for sites to have a copy of all the collection. We welcome Old Dominion University, in Norfolk Virginia, with new Project Gutenberg mirrors: https://mirror.cs.odu.edu/gutenberg-epub/ https://mirror.cs.odu.edu/gutenberg/ The list of known operational mirrors is here: https://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL * 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. * Find Project Gutenberg on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg Facebook news feed of new eBooks: https://www.facebook.com/gutenberg.new Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org Mastodon news feed of new eBooks: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gutenbergorg.bsky.social Thanks to the Project Gutenberg Social Media Team for keeping these feeds interesting!

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Project Gutenberg newsletter for April-June 2025
by Greg Newby 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for April-June 2025 CONTENTS * Empathy.ai seeks testers of Project Gutenberg-focused AI * Library records (MARC) are now available again * Join Distributed Proofreaders * Find Project Gutenberg on social media * New eBook Listings from March-May 2025 * Empathy.ai seeks testers of Project Gutenberg-focused AI Project Gutenberg has had interests in how modern artificial intelligence tools might be helpful for different situations. Within the past year, Project Gutenberg has added AI-generated book summaries and browsing categories for almost every book - you can see these on any book's landing page. Recently, we have been collaborating with Empathy.ai. They have some AI models that are intended to help people with finding books, asking questions about books, and searching the Project Gutenberg catalog. The model is available here: http://projectgutenberg.generativeai.empathy.ai They would appreciate any feedback, especially failures or surprises. It's common for AI models to "hallucinate" incorrect details, and it's also common for models to not find the right answer to a question. If you can identify these or other failures, it can help to improve the model. For the curious, here are technical details of the models: https://huggingface.co/empathyai Contact Empathy.ai via their website to share any feedback: https://empathy.ai/ * Library records (MARC) are now available again MARC is the lingua franca of library catalogs. It is a way of representing data about items like books. The data about items is known as metadata. Thanks to a partnership with the Free Ebook Foundation, Project Gutenberg metadata are available as a downloadable MARC file. Project Gutenberg’s MARC records, like the collection and most of its titles, are freely available. Libraries and others are encouraged to incorporate Project Gutenberg into their collections, in order to make Project Gutenberg’s titles more widely available at little or no cost. Note that the MARC metadata include all of the textual titles, but not non-textual titles such as audio, maps, and data sets. Metadata for those other items are available in the XML/RDF metadata described elsewhere on this page. To read more about the initiative to create the MARC records, including links to the software, issue reporting, and more, see this announcement from the Free Software Foundation: https://ebookfoundation.org/pgmarc.html. To access Project Gutenberg's MARC records, find information here: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html. * 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. * Find Project Gutenberg on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/project.gutenberg Facebook news feed of new eBooks: https://www.facebook.com/gutenberg.new Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org Mastodon news feed of new eBooks: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gutenbergorg.bsky.social Thanks to the Project Gutenberg Social Media Team for keeping these feeds interesting! * New eBook Listings from March-May 2025 Please see the "GUTINDEX.ALL" or "GUTINDEX.2025" files on the Offline Catalogs page of https://www.gutenberg.org for these listings.

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