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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter December 2011
by Greg Newby 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

This is the Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter for December 2011. Well, we missed the November newsletter. There has been an anomaly in our connectivity to www.ibiblio.org, which hosts www.gutenberg.org. This has prevented our updated offline catalog files, GUTINDEX.ALL and others, from being posted in a timely fashion. New eBooks are still being posted daily -- you can see the RSS feed and other listings of new eBooks at www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg volunteer Larry Copenhaver creates the GUTINDEX* offline catalog files, and we have some new, friendlier formats that will be online over the next few days. Stay tuned! Below are extracts from GUTINDEX.ALL, listing our new titles for October and November 2011 (through December 2). As always, huge THANKS go to the many volunteers who have helped to make these eBooks possible! In addition to these new titles, our errata team has diligently gone over and REposted a number of earlier titles. If you want to get involved in producing new Project Gutenberg eBooks, the easiest way to get started is to visit Distributed Proofreaders, at www.pgdp.net GUTINDEX.2011 is a plain text listing of all the eBooks posted to the Project Gutenberg collection between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 with eBook numbers starting at 34807. **** A "C" Following a Project Gutenberg eBook Number Indicates Copyright **** TITLE and AUTHOR ETEXT NO. ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Dec 2011 to 31 Dec 2011 ~ ~ ~ ~ A Treatise on Sheep:, by Ambrose Blacklock 38189 [Subtitle: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases.] Amusement Only, by Richard Marsh 38188 Aviation Engines, by Victor Wilfred Pagé 38187 [Subtitle: Design--Construction--Operation and Repair] The Sailor, by J. C. Snaith 38186 [Illustrator: W. A. Hottinger] Fruits of Philosophy, by Charles Knowlton 38185 [Subtitle: A Treatise on the Population Question] New Method of Horsemanship, by F. Baucher 38184 [Subtitle: Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat.] >From the Thames to the Tiber, by J. Wardle 38183 [Subtitle: or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc.] ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Nov 2011 to 30 Nov 2011 ~ ~ ~ ~ Curious Church Customs, by Various 38182 [Subtitle: And Cognate Subjects] [Editor: William Andrews] A Woman Perfected, by Richard Marsh 38181 An American at Oxford, by John Corbin 38180 Household Education, by Harriet Martineau 38179 An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 38178 1794, by Cooper Willyams [Subtitle: Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K. B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K. B.] The Passionate Elopement, by Compton Mackenzie 38177 The Stronger Influence, by F. E. Mills Young 38176 Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand, by H. C. Adams 38175 [Illustrator: J. Greenaway] Vidyapati Bangiya Padabali, by Vidyapati Thakura 38174 [Subtitle: Songs of the love of Radha and Krishna] [Translator: Ananda Coomaraswamy] American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist, by Annie Heloise Abel 38173 [Subtitle: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy] Atlantic Narratives, by Various 38172 [Subtitle: Modern Short Stories] [Editor: Charles Swain Thomas] Imprudence, by F. E. Mills Young 38171 Grit Lawless, by F.E. Mills Young 38170 The Heath Hover Mystery, by Bertram Mitford 38169 [Illustrator: F. H. Drestier] >From Veldt Camp Fires, by H.A. Bryden 38168 Life Gleanings, by T. J. Macon 38167 Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de France sous Napoléon, 38166 Tome 1/2] [Subtitle: écrits à Sainte-Hélène par les généraux qui ont partagé sa captivité] [Language: French] The Cabin, by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and John Garrett Underhill 38165 [Subtitle: [La barraca]] [Translators: Francis Haffkine Snow and Beatrice M. Mekota] English Book-Illustration of To-day, by Rose Esther Dorothea Sketchley 38164 [Subtitle: Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books] De Ellendigen (Deel 5 van 5), by Victor Hugo 38163 [Language: Dutch] Practical Religion, by John Charles Ryle 38162 [Subtitle: Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers and Privileges of Professing Christians] A Master of Deception, by Richard Marsh 38161 [Illustrator: Dudley Tennant] A Hero of Romance, by Richard Marsh 38160 [Illustrator: Harold Copping] L'Illustration, No. 0021, 22 Juillet 1843, by Various 38159 [Language: French] Die Phantasie in der Malerei, by Max Liebermann 38158 [Language: German] Moderne Probleme der Physik, by H. Sieveking 38157 [Language: German] A Second Coming, by Richard Marsh 38156 Norway, by Beatrix Jungman 38155 [Illustrator: Nico Jungman] Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7), 38154 by Hugo B. Froehlich and Bonnie E. Snow Stars of the Opera, by Mabel Wagnalls 38153 The Girl Scouts Rally, by Katherine Keene Galt 38152 [Subtitle: Rosanna Wins] Kevätkukka, by Mathilda Roos 38151 [Subtitle: Perhetarina] [Language: Finnish] Lettres intimes, by Hector Berlioz 38150 [Language: French] Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters., by Anonymous 38149 [Subtitle: The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776)] [Editor: Sidney L. Gulick] The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of 38148 the Wisconsin, by Rollin D. Salisbury and Wallace W. Atwood St. Peter, His Name and His Office, by Thomas W. Allies 38147 [Subtitle: As set forth in holy scripture] Mr. Punch on the Warpath, by Various 38146 [Subtitle: Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces] [Editor: J. A. Hammerton] [Illustrators: Reginald Cleaver and others] Human, All Too Human, by Friedrich Nietzsche 38145 [Subtitle: A Book for Free Spirits] [Translator: Alexander Harvey] The Mistress of Bonaventure, by Harold Bindloss 38144 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4, by Various 38143 [Subtitle: "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language"] The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence, by Eugène Sue 38142 John Dewey's logical theory, by Delton Thomas Howard 38141 Che cosa è l'amore?, by Alfredo Panzini 38140 [Language: Italian] The History of Cuba, vol. 3, by Willis Fletcher Johnson 38139 Socialism, by John Stuart Mill 38138 Stories of the Badger State, by Reuben Gold Thwaites 38137 The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant, by Alexander Johnstone Wilson 38136 Etain the Beloved and Other Poems, by James Henry Cousins 38135 Beyond, by Henry Seward Hubbard 38134 Jumalan kiitos, pöytä on katettu, by Roderich Benedix 38133 [Subtitle: Huvinäytelmä yhdessä näytöksessä] [Language: Finnish] A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors, by Various 38132 [Subtitle: Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart] On Secret Service, by William Nelson Taft 38131 [Subtitle: Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents] Legends of Loudoun, by Harrison Williams 38130 [Subtitle: An account of the history and homes of a border country of Virginia's Northern Neck] Armenian Legends and Festivals, by Louis A. Boettiger 38129 Memoirs of Leonora Christina, by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt 38128 [Subtitle: Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685] [Translator: F. E. Bunnètt] >From the Oak to the Olive, by Julia Ward Howe 38127 [Subtitle: A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey] Der Untertan, by Heinrich Mann 38126 [Subtitle: Roman] [Language: German] Der zunehmende Mond, by Rabindranath Tagore 38125 [Language: German] Spanish Composition, by Edith J. Broomhall 38124 [Language: Spanish] The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach, by Laura Dent Crane 38123 [Subtitle: Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies] La fabrique de mariages, Vol. II, by Paul Féval 38122 [Language: French] Erkki ja Aino, by Kristofer Janson 38121 [Language: Finnish] Bridge Axioms and Laws, by J. B. Elwell 38120 Kysymysmerkkejä: Kuinka Muikkulan Matin kirkolla kävi, by G. A. Heman 38119 [Language: Finnish] La Duchesse de Chateauroux et ses soeurs, by Edmond de 38118 Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt [Language: French] The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love 38117 and Society, by Upton Sinclair Letters from Rome on the Council, by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger 38116 Book of 50 Pictures, by Anonymous 38115 Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value, by Arthur Glyn Leonard 38114 [Subtitle: A Rational And Pyschological Study] Aatelisrosvo Dubrovskij, by Alexander Pushkin 38113 [Translator: Sassi] [Language: Finnish] Mighty Mikko, by Parker Fillmore 38112 [Subtitle: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales] [Illustrator: Jay Van Everen] English Society, by George Du Maurier 38111 Aucassin & Nicolette, by Eugene Mason 38110 [Subtitle: And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends] [Translator: Eugene Mason] Lecture on Artificial Flight, by Wm. G. Krueger 38109 [Subtitle: Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences] Further Experiences of an Irish R.M., by E. O. Sommerville 38108 and Martin Ross [Illustrator: E. O. Somerville] The Gods, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38107 [Subtitle: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'] Ingersollia, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38106 [Subtitle: Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs] Shakespeare, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38105 [Subtitle: A Lecture] English Secularism, by George Jacob Holyoake 38104 [Subtitle: A Confession Of Belief] Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38103 [Subtitle: Defence by Robert G. Ingersoll, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887] Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul, by Boulanger 38102 Thomas Paine, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38101 [Subtitle: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'] Ancient Faiths And Modern, by Thomas Inman 38100 [Subtitle: A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities] Mistakes of Moses, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38099 Individuality, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38098 [Subtitle: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'] Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley, 38097 by T. H. Huxley Humboldt, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38096 [Subtitle: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'] Heretics And Heresies, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38095 [Subtitle: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'] Letters To Eugenia, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 38094 [Subtitle: Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices] The Christian Religion, by Robert G. Ingersoll 38093 [Subtitle: An Enquiry] The Book Of God, by G. W. Foote 38092 [Subtitle: In The Light Of The Higher Criticism] The Letters of William James, Vol. II, by William James 38091 [Editor: Henry James] Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis, by Various 38090 [Subtitle: read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium] L'Illustration, No. 0020, 15 Juillet 1843, by Various 38089 [Language: French] State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2), by Various 38088 [Subtitle: Political and Social] [Editor: Sir Harry Lushington Stephen] The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound, by Harold Bindloss 38087 The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic, by Ernesto Quesada 38086 A Mere Chance, Vol. 3 of 3, by Ada Cambridge 38085 [Subtitle: A Novel] A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3, by Ada Cambridge 38084 [Subtitle: A Novel] A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3, by Ada Cambridge 38083 [Subtitle: A Novel] Il Libro Nero, by Anton Giulio Barrili 38082 [Subtitle: Leggenda] [Language: Italian] The Inhabitants of the Philippines, by Frederic H. Sawyer 38081 Fædrene æde Druer, by Gustav Wied 38080 [Subtitle: Slægten, Opus 2] [Language: Danish] Orders of Infinity, by Godfrey Harold Hardy 38079 [Subtitle: The 'Infinitärcalcül' of Paul Du Bois-Reymond] Siam, by George B. Bacon 38078 [Subtitle: The Land of the White Elephant as it Was and Is] British Birds in their Haunts, by Rev. C. A. Johns 38077 Our Philadelphia, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell 38076 [Illustrator: Joseph Pennell] An Ambitious Woman, by Edgar Fawcett 38075 [Subtitle: A Novel] Victor Hugo, son oeuvre poétique, by Ernest Dupuy 38074 [Language: French] Thomas Jefferson, by Gilbert Chinard 38073 [Subtitle: The Apostle of Americanism] Wind and Weather, by Alexander McAdie 38072 The Guards Came Through and Other Poems, by Arthur Conan Doyle 38071 The Norwegian Fairy Book, by Clara Stroebe 38070 [Illustrator: George W. Hood] [Translator: Frederick H. Martens] Northwest!, by Harold Bindloss 38069 Essays on Modern Novelists, by William Lyon Phelps 38068 A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts 38067 and Interesting Experiments, by Various [Subtitle: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.] The Adventures of a Grain of Dust, by Hallam Hawksworth 38066 Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing, by Lewis Carroll 38065 Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights, by J. William Lloyd 38064 [Subtitle: Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona] [Translator: Edward Hubert Wood] The Sun's Babies, by Edith Howes 38063 [Illustrator: Frank Watkins] In Mr. Knox's Country, by E. OEnone Somerville and Martin Ross 38062 [Illustrator: E. OEnone Somerville] White Fire, by John Oxenham 38061 [Illustrator: G. Grenville Manton] Out of the Air, by Inez Haynes Irwin 38060 Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu'en 38059 1827, tome III, by Eugène François Vidocq [Language: French] Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu'en 38058 1827, tome II, by Eugène François Vidocq [Language: French] Mémoires de Vidocq, chef de la police de Sureté jusqu'en 38057 1827, tome I, by Eugène François Vidocq [Language: French] Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch, by William Shepard Walsh 38056 [Subtitle: Cartoons, Comments and Poems Published in the London Charivari During the American Civil War (1861-1865)] The history of Herodotus--Volume 1, by Herodotus 38055 [Translator: A. Skalides] [Language: Greek] A Duel, by Richard Marsh 38054 The Coo-ee Reciter, by Various 38053 Reynard the Fox, by John Masefield 38052 [Illustrator: Carton Moorepark] The Tomato, by Paul Work 38051 All (Frightfully Unofficial) about an Old Friend of mine, 38050 by T. C. Gash [Subtitle: What he most probably was. What he most certainly will be and who has done this? Why The Cat.] Louisa May Alcott, by Louisa May Alcott 38049 [Subtitle: Her Life, Letters, and Journals] Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587, by Various 38048 [Editor: Robert S. Rait] Social Value, by B. M. Anderson 38047 [Subtitle: A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive] Business English, by Rose Buhlig 38046 [Subtitle: A Practice Book] Marvels of Scientific Invention, by Thomas W. Corbin 38045 [Subtitle: An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science] The Ascent of the Matterhorn, by Edward Whymper 38044 The Life of Lyman Trumbull, by Horace White 38043 L'Illustration, No. 3661, 26 Avril 1913, by Various 38042 [Language: French] Old Celtic Romances, by Unknown 38041 [Translator: P. W. Joyce] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872, by Various 38040 History of 'Billy the Kid', by Chas. A. Siringo 38039 Fetichism in West Africa, by Robert Hamill Nassau 38038 [Subtitle: Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions] English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8), by Various 38037 [Editor: Francis James Child] Electricity for the 4-H Scientist, by Eric B. Wilson 38036 [Subtitle: Idaho Agricultural Extension Service Bulletin 396, June, 1962] The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II, by Henry James 38035 [Editor: Percy Lubbock] Paul Appell, by Ernest Lebon 38034 [Subtitle: Biographie, Bibliographie Analytique des Écrits] [Language: French] Vergleichende Betrachtungen über neuere geometrische 38033 Forschungen by Felix Klein [Language: German] Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast, by Harry Thom Payne 38032 Cinq années de ma vie, by Alfred Dreyfus 38031 [Subtitle: 1894-1899] [Language: French] The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong, by Lillian Garis 38030 [Subtitle: Peg of Tamarack Hills] Three Little Women, by Gabrielle E. Jackson 38029 [Subtitle: A Story for Girls] The World Masters, by George Griffith 38028 Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy, by Sophie Andreevna Tolstoy 38027 [Translators: S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf] Fridtjof Nansen, by Jacob B. Bull 38026 [Subtitle: A book for the young] [Translator: Mordaunt R. Barnard] Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories 38025 Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales, by Leo Tolstoy [Translator: Leo Wiener] Dwarf Fruit Trees, by F. A. Waugh 38024 [Subtitle: Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada] Memoirs of an American Prima Donna, by Clara Louise Kellogg 38023 Nature and Culture, by Harvey Rice 38022 The Baculum in Microtine Rodents, by Sydney Anderson 38021 The Transgression of Andrew Vane, by Guy Wetmore Carryl 38020 [Subtitle: a novel] An Oregon Girl, by Alfred Ernest Rice 38019 [Subtitle: A Tale of American Life in the New West] [Illustrator: Colista M. Dowling] Girl Scouts in the Rockies, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 38018 Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters, by W. Carew Hazlitt 38017 Chaitanya's Life And Teachings, by Krishna das Kaviraja 38016 [Subtitle: From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita] [Translator: Jadunath Sarkar] De Re Metallica, by Georgius Agricola 38015 [Subtitle: Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556] [Translators: Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover] Government in the United States, by James Wilford Garner 38014 [Subtitle: National, State and Local] Animals of the Past, by Frederic A. Lucas 38013 Ottavia, by Vittorio Alfieri 38012 [Language: Italian] The Epic of Hades, by Lewis Morris 38011 [Subtitle: In Three Books] The Adventures of John Jewitt, by John Rodgers Jewitt 38010 [Subtitle: Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island] The Story of Seville, by Walter M. Gallichan 38009 Mated from the Morgue, by John Augustus O'Shea 38008 [Subtitle: A tale of the Second Empire] Memoir of John Howe Peyton, by Various 38007 [Subtitle: in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton] The Heatherford Fortune, by Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 38006 [Subtitle: a sequel to the Magic Cameo] Psyche, by Louis Couperus 38005 [Illustrator: Dion Clayton Calthrop] [Translator: B. S. Berrington] Vertebrates from the Barrier Island of Tamaulipas, México, 38004 by Robert K. Selander, Richard F. Johnston, B. J. Wilks and Gerald G. Raun] Color Key to North American Birds, by Frank M. Chapman 38003 [Subtitle: with bibiographical appendix] [Illustrator: Chester A Reed] L'Illustration, No. 3661, 26 Avril 1913, by Various 38002 [Language: French] San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams, 38001 by Charles Paul de Kock Bridge; its Principles and Rules of Play, by J. B. Elwell 38000 [Subtitle: with Illustrative Hands and the Club Code of Bridge Laws] Poems, by Arthur Macy 37999 Morals and the Evolution of Man, by Max Simon Nordau 37998 [Translator: Marie A. Lewenz] The American Reformed Cattle Doctor, by George Dadd 37997 Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.), by Elliott Graeme 37996 The Diamond Fairy Book, by Various 37995 [Illustrators: Frank Papé and H. R. Millar] Ini, by Julius von Voß 37994 [Subtitle: Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert] [Illustrator: Franz Joseph Leopold] [Language: German] Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England, 37993 by W. P. Haskett Smith [Illustrator: Ellis Carr] The King of Pirates, by Daniel Defoe 37992 [Subtitle: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar] Der rote Komet, by Robert Heymann 37991 [Subtitle: Wunder der Zukunft. Romane aus dem dritten Jahrtausend. Band 2] [Language: German] Sous La Neige, by Edith Wharton 37990 [Language: French] Lettres d'un voyageur, by George Sand 37989 [Language: French] Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners, by Eliza Leslie 37988 [Subtitle: or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book] Correspondance diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac de La Mothe 37987 Fénélon, Tome Second, by Bertrand de Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon [Subtitle: Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre de 1568 à 1575] [Language: French] L'Imperatore Giuliano l'Apostata, by Gaetano Negri 37986 [Subtitle: Studio storico - Seconda edizione riveduta ed ampliata] [Language: Italian] A Literary History of the Arabs, by Reynold Nicholson 37985 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3, by Various 37984 [Subtitle: "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses"] W. & R. Chambers Selected Catalogue 1892, by Various 37983 [Subtitle: Suitable for Prizes and Presentation] The Golden Link of Friendship, by Various 37982 May Flowers, by Louisa May Alcott 37981 A Day With Longfellow, by Anonymous and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 37980 Under the Shadow of Etna, by Giovanni Verga 37979 [Subtitle: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga] [Translator: Nathan Dole] The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 14, by H. Bolingbroke Mudie 37978 [Language: Esperanto] The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 13, by H. Bolingbroke Mudie 37977 [Language: Esperanto] Dot and Tot of Merryland, by L. Frank Baum 37976 [Illustrator: W. W. Denslow] Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3), by Mary Cholmondeley 37975 Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3), by Mary Cholmondeley 37974 Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3), by Mary Cholmondeley 37973 Sunshine Jane, by Anne Warner 37972 [Illustrator: Harriet Roosevelt Richards] L'Illustration, No. 3660, 19 Avril 1913, by Various 37971 [Language: French] Contemporary One-Act Plays, by B. Roland Lewis, Sir James M. Barrie, 37970 George Middleton, Althea Thurston, Percy Mackaye, Lady Augusta Gregor, Eugene Pillot, Anton Tchekov, Bosworth Crocker, Alfred Kreymborg, Paul Greene, Arthur Hopkins, Paul Hervieu, Jeannette Marks, Oscar M. Wolff, David Pinski, Beulah Bornstead, Hermann Sudermann, and August Strindberg The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María), by Armando Palacio Valdés 37969 [Subtitle: A Realistic Social Novel] [Translator: Nathan Haskell Dole] The Nut Culturist, by Andrew S. Fuller 37968 [Subtitle: A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States] More Portmanteau Plays, by Stuart Walker 37967 Between the Dark and the Daylight, by Richard Marsh 37966 Caesar's Wife, by William Somerset Maugham 37965 [Subtitle: A comedy in three acts] Feminism and Sex-Extinction, by Arabella Kenealy 37964 Miss Arnott's Marriage, by Richard Marsh 37963 Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor, 37962 by William Somerset Maugham He Who Gets Slapped, by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 37961 [Subtitle: A Play in Four Acts] [Translator: Gregory Zilboorg] Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 37960 Vol. 1 of 2, by Elizabeth S. Kite Natural History in Anecdote, by Various 37959 [Subtitle: Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc.] [Editor: Alfred Henry Miles] Stones of the Temple, by Walter Field 37958 [Subtitle: Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church] Man and Nature, by George P. Marsh 37957 [or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action] The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 37956 by Florence A. Thomas Marshall, a.k.a. Mrs. Julian Marshall The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 37955 by Florence A. Thomas Marshall, a.k.a. Mrs. Julian Marshall Maid of the Mist, by John Oxenham 37954 Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life, by Mary Alsop King Waddington 37953 [Subtitle: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904] The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, by Thornton W. Burgess 37952 [Illustrator: Harrison Cady] Vie de Tolstoy, by Romain Rolland 37951 [Language: French] The South American Republics, Part II (of 2), by Thomas C. Dawson 37950 Scarlett of the Mounted, by Marguerite Merington 37949 The Beautiful White Devil, by Guy Boothby 37948 Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 37947 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2, by John Lloyd Stephens Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, 37946 Volume 20. December, 1877, by Various Untersuchungen über die radioaktiven Substanzen, by Marie Curie 37945 [Subtitle: von Marie Curie, übersetzt und mit Litteratur-Ergänzungen versehen von W. Kaufmann] [Translator: Walter Kaufmann] [Language: German] Southern Spain, by A. F. Calvert 37944 [Illustrator: Trevor Haddon] The Pike's Peak Rush, by Edwin L. Sabin 37943 [Subtitle: Terry in the New Gold Fields] A Tale of the Kloster, by Brother Jabez 37942 [Subtitle: A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico] [Illustrator: Frank McKernan] L'Illustration, No. 3659, 12 Avril 1913, by Various 37941 [Language: French] Rübezahl, by Rosalie Koch 37940 [Subtitle: Neue Sammlung der schönsten Sagen und Märchen von dem Berggeiste im Riesengebirge] [Illustrator: P. Mohn] [Language: German] Liquid Drops and Globules, by Chas. R. Darling 37939 [Subtitle: Their Formation and Movements; three lectures delivered to popular audiences] Chinese Poems, by Various 37938 [Translator: Charles Budd] A Wanderer in Paris, by E. V. Lucas 37937 [Illustrator: Walter Dexter] Dopo il veglione o viceversa, by Roberto Bracco 37936 [Language: Italian] Una donna, by Roberto Bracco 37935 [Language: Italian] Non fare ad altri...., by Roberto Bracco 37934 [Language: Italian] Lui lei lui, by Roberto Bracco 37933 [Language: Italian] Le disilluse, by Roberto Bracco 37932 [Language: Italian] Un'avventura di viaggio, by Roberto Bracco 37931 [Language: Italian] The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby, by John Roby 37930 [Subtitle: Author of "Traditions of Lancashire", With A Sketch Of His Literary Life And Character By His Widow] Fenn Masterson's Discovery, by Allen Chapman 37929 [Subtitle: or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise] Gas Burners, by Owen Merriman 37928 [Subtitle: Old and New] The Boy Volunteers with the French Airman, by Kenneth Ward 37927 'As Gold in the Furnace', by John E. Copus 37926 [Subtitle: A College Story] A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State 37925 of Tennessee, by Davy Crockett Forging Ahead in Business, by Various 37924 The Old Debauchees. A Comedy (1732), by Henry Fielding 37923 The Indians' Last Fight, by Dennis Collins 37922 [Subtitle: Or The Dull Knife Raid] The Bath Road, by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper 37921 [Subtitle: History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway] The South American Republics Part I of II, by Thomas C. Dawson 37920 In Accordance with the Evidence, by Oliver Onions 37919 Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park, 37918 by The United States Dept. of the Interior Across the Stream, by Edward Frederic Benson 37917 The Star People, by Gaylord Johnson 37916 Notes on the Book of Genesis, by Charles Henry Mackintosh 37915 Un été dans le Sahara, by Eugène Fromentin 37914 [Language: French] The Gray Phantom, by Herman Landon 37913 The Girls of Central High at Basketball, by Gertrude W. Morrison 37912 [Subtitle: The Great Gymnasium Mystery] The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach, by Margaret Penrose 37911 [Subtitle: In Quest of the Runaways] Homes of American Statesmen, by Various 37910 [Subtitle: With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches] The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea, by Laura Lee Hope 37909 Adeline Mowbray, by Amelia Alderson Opie 37908 [Subtitle: or, The Mother and Daughter] Brave Old Salt, by Oliver Optic 37907 [Subtitle: or, Life on the Quarter Deck] The Whirligig of Time, by Wayland Wells Williams 37906 [Illustrator: J. Henry] The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century, 37905 by Charles Bastide International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851, by Various 37904 The Girl Crusoes, by Mrs. Herbert Strang 37903 [Subtitle: A Story of the South Seas] [Illustrator: N. Tenison] Saulus Tarsolainen, by Mathilda Roos 37902 [Subtitle: Erään sielun historia] [Language: Finnish] Profitable Squab Breeding, by Carl Dare 37901 Passeggiate per l'Italia, Vol. 3, by Ferdinand Gregorovius 37900 [Language: Italian] Life's Minor Collisions, by Frances Warner and Gertrude Warner 37899 The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, by Various 37898 [Subtitle: Volume 7] [Editor: Jared Sparks] Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes 37897 West of the Mississippi, by David Ives Bushnell ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Oct 2011 to 31 Oct 2011 ~ ~ ~ ~ Les derniers paysans - Tome 2, by Émile Souvestre 37896 [Language: French] Sieluntaisteluita, by Mathilda Roos 37895 [Language: Finnish] A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds, 37894 by George H. Lowery [Subtitle: Vol.3 No.2] Oxford and Her Colleges, by Goldwin Smith 37893 The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville, by Alexis De Tocqueville 37892 [Translator: Alexander Teixeira De Mattos] Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland, by Daniel Scott 37891 The Brothers' War, by John Calvin Reed 37890 Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 37889 Vol. I (of 2), by John Lloyd Stephens Charlotte Brontë, by T. Wemyss Reid 37888 [Subtitle: A Monograph] Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2, by Brantz Mayer 37887 [Subtitle: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California] L'Illustration, No. 3658, 5 Avril 1913, by Various 37886 [Language: French] Kolme muskettisoturia, by Alexandre Dumas 37885 [Subtitle: Historiallinen romaani] [Language: Finnish] Folk-Tales of the Khasis, by K. U. Rafy 37884 Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler, by Rev. Gross Alexander 37883 [Subtitle: His Life and Work] Mr. Punch in the Highlands, by Various 37882 [Editor: J. A. Hammerton] [Illustrators: Charles Keene and others] Golden Fleece and The Heros Who Lived Before Achilles, by Padraic Colum 37881 [Illustrator: Willy Pogany] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2, by Various 37880 [Subtitle: "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George"] O culto do chá, by Wenceslau José de Sousa de Morais 37879 [Language: Portuguese] Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, by E. E. Brown 37878 Goody Two Shoes, by Walter Crane 37877 [Illustrator: Walter Crane] Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3, by Viktor Rydberg, Ph.D 37876 [Subtitle: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland] [Translator: Rasmus B. Anderson, LL.D.] Seitsemän päivää keskusasemalla, by Johan Kock 37875 [Language: Finnish] L'Illustration, No. 3657, 29 Mars 1913, by Various 37874 [Language: French] Alone with the Hairy Ainu, by A. H. Savage Landor 37873 [Subtitle: or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands.] The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I, by Various 37872 [Subtitle: December 1, 1850] Dandelion Cottage, by Carroll Watson Rankin 37871 [Illustrator: Mary Stevens] Ruysbroeck, by Evelyn Underhill 37870 De Ellendigen (Deel 4 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37869 [Language: Dutch] Analecta Volume 1, by Angelos Vlahos 37868 [Subtitle: Short stories - social images and studies] [Language: Greek] Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653), by Anne Collins 37867 A Humble Enterprise, by Ada Cambridge 37866 [Illustrator: St. Clair Simmons] Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature, 37865 by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory 37864 of Limitation, by Jesse H. Jones Essex Terraplane Six 1933 Owner's Manual of Information, by Anonymous 37863 Saul of Tarsus, by Elizabeth Miller 37862 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Early Christians] [Illustrator: Andr? Castaigne] Poems - Second Series, by J. C. Squire 37861 Poems - First Series, by J. C. Squire 37860 The Call of the Mountains, by James E. Pickering 37859 [Subtitle: and other Poems] Leaves in the Wind, by A. G. Gardiner 37858 The Haunted Mine, by Harry Castlemon 37857 The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout, by Charles Bradford 37856 [Subtitle: an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle] Climatic Changes, by Ellsworth Huntington 37855 and Stephen Sargent Visher [Subtitle: Their Nature and Causes] Le Poème du Rhône, by Frédéric Mistral 37854 [Subtitle: en XII chants. Texte Provençal et Traduction Française] [Language: French] Present Irish Questions, by William O'Connor Morris 37853 Chimneysmoke, by Christopher Morley 37852 [Illustrator: Thomas Fogarty] L'Illustration, No. 3656, 22 Mars 1913, by Various 37851 [Language: French] Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian 37850 printed books and manuscripts, Henry W. Chandler Il ferro, by Gabriele D'Annunzio 37849 [Language: Italian] Old English Chronicles, by Various 37848 [Editor: J. A. Giles] Maria Stuart Skotlannissa, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37847 [Language: Finnish] Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2, 37846 by Louis Raemaekers [Subtitle: The Second Twelve Months of War] [Illustrator: Louis Raemaekers] A Book of Irish Verse, by William Butler Yeats 37845 [Subtitle: Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats] The Brontë Family, Vol. 2 of 2, by Francis A. Leyland 37844 [Subtitle: with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë] The Brontë Family, Vol. 1 of 2, by Francis A. Leyland 37843 [Subtitle: with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë] Small Horses in Warfare, by Sir Walter Gilbey 37842 Human, All-Too-Human, Part II, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 37841 [Subtitle: A Book For Free Spirits] [Translator: Paul V. Cohn] The South Isles of Aran, by Oliver J. Burke 37840 My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills, by James Johnstone 37839 The Story of Louie, by Oliver Onions 37838 Peter and Polly in Winter, by Rose Lucia 37837 Contes Fantastiques, by Jules Janin 37836 [Subtitle: et Contes Littéraires] [Language: French] Kuningas Richard Kolmas, by William Shakespeare 37835 [Language: Finnish] Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown, by Julia Keese Colles 37834 [Subtitle: With a Chapter on Historic Morristown] The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3), by Various 37833 [Subtitle: A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors] [Translator: Anna S. Bushby] The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3), by Various 37832 [Subtitle: A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors] [Translator: Anna S. Bushby] The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3), by Various 37831 [Subtitle: A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors] [Translator: Anna S. Bushby] Venetsian yö, by Holger Drachmann 37830 [Language: Finnish] Little Man's Family, by J. B. Enochs 37829 [Subtitle: pre-primer] [Illustrator: Gerald Nailor] De Ridders, by Aristofanes 37828 [Language: Dutch] The Open Question, by Elizabeth Robins 37827 [Subtitle: a tale of two temperaments] Daisy, by Miranda Eliot Swan 37826 [Subtitle: the autobiography of a cat] Thirty Years in Australia, by Ada Cambridge 37825 The Wireless Officer, by Percy F. Westerman 37824 [Illustrator: W. E. Wigfull] Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca, 37823 by William E. Duellman and Linda Trueb Amerika, sen löytö, valloitus ja kehitys, by Tyko Hagman 37822 [Language: Finnish] The Woman Who Vowed, by Ellison Harding 37821 [Subtitle: The Demetrian] Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, by Arthur Morrison 37820 Parvenze e sembianze, by Adolfo Albertazzi 37819 [Language: Italian] Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln, by Isacc Newton Arnold 37818 The Cries of London, by John Thomas Smith 37817 [Subtitle: Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times] Herodias, by Gustave Flaubert 37816 [Translator: S. Simiriotis] [Language: Greek] Snowdrift, by James B. Hendryx 37815 [Subtitle: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold] The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines, 37814 by Hezekiah Butterworth [Illustrator: Frank T. Merrill] Martyria, by Augustus C. Hamlin 37813 [Subtitle: or Andersonville Prison] Gentlemen Rovers, by E. Alexander Powell 37812 Rambles with John Burroughs, by Robert John De Loach 37811 Child Verse, by John B. Tabb 37810 [Subtitle: Poems Grave & Gay] A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus 37809 Syrrhophus Cope, by John D. Lynch Carlyon Sahib, by Gilbert Murray 37808 Mountain-Laurel and Maidenhair, by Louisa May Alcott 37807 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, 37806 Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" Les Nuits chaudes du Cap français, by Hugues Rebell 37805 [Language: French] The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, by Robert Bridges 37804 Rocky Mountain Boys, by St. George Rathborne 37803 [Subtitle: Camping in the Big Game Country] The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37802 [Translator: Cecil Fairfax] The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37801 [Translator: Cecil Fairfax] Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37800 L'Illustration, No. 3655, 15 Mars 1913, by Various 37799 [Language: French] L'Illustration, No. 3654, 8 Mars 1913, by Various 37798 [Language: French] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846, 37797 by Various Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909, 37796 by Various The World's Best Books, by Frank Parsons 37795 [Subtitle: A Key to the Treasures of Literature] Old Wine and New, by Joseph Cross 37794 [Subtitle: Occasional Discourses] The Story of Florence, by Edmund G. Gardner 37793 [Illustrator: Nelly Erichsen] England, Canada and the Great War, by Louis-Georges Desjardins 37792 The Snow Queen, by H. C. Andersen 37791 [Translator: Anastasia Chatziarapi] [Language: Greek] Keukenboek, by H. Davidis 37790 [Language: Dutch] Wilde Bob, by Cornelis Johannes Kieviet 37789 [Illustrator: Willem Steelink] [Language: Dutch] Judith Shakespeare, by William Black 37788 [Subtitle: Her love affairs and other adventures] Birds and Man, by W. H. Hudson 37787 The Influence of the Organ in History, by Dudley Buck 37786 [Subtitle: Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University] Cleopatra's Needle, by James King 37785 [Subtitle: A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics] The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South, by Broadus Mitchell 37784 I mesi dell'anno ebraico, by Felice Bachi 37783 [Subtitle: con brevi nozioni di archeologia biblica] [Language: Italian] Life in an Indian Outpost, by Gordon Casserly 37782 Notwithstanding, by Mary Cholmondeley 37781 The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic 37780 Life in the Days of Abbot Samson, by Jocelin de Brakelond Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 6, 1872, by Various 37779 Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851, by Various 37778 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3), by George John Romanes 37777 [Subtitle: Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection] Sodoma e Gomorra, by Pietro Fabiani and Jean Fauconney 37776 [Subtitle: Cronistoria del Libertinaggio attraverso i secoli ed il mondo] [Language: Italian] Etidorhpa or the End of Earth., by John Uri Lloyd 37775 [Subtitle: The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey] [Illustrator: J. Augustus Knapp] Considerations on Religion and Public Education, by Hannah More 37774 A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., by William Henry Whitmore 37773 [Subtitle: Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c.] Pioneer Day Exercises, by the Schoolcraft, Michigan 37772 Ladies' Library Association Le comte de Moret, by Alexandre Dumas 37771 [Language: French] Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness, by Louis Couperus 37770 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos] L'Illustration, No. 3653, 1er Mars 1913, by Various 37769 [Language: French] Mexikon valloitus, by Tyko Hagman 37768 [Subtitle: Kappale Amerikan historiaa] [Language: Finnish] The Phil May Album, by Phil May 37767 Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures, by Unknown 37766 [Translator: George Soulié] Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota, 37765 by John B. Reese and H. B. Reese [Subtitle: Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane] Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works, 37764 by Anonymous [Editors: Gwin J. Kolb and J. E. Congleton] Haschisch, by Oscar A. H. Schmitz 37763 [Subtitle: Erzählungen] [Illustrator: Alfred Kubin] [Language: German] Souvernirs de Charles-Henri Baron de Gleichen, 37762 by Charles-Henri de Gleichen [Language: French] A Damaged Reputation, by Harold Bindloss 37761 L'Illustration, No. 3652, 22 Février 1913, by Various 37760 [Language: French] Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3), by George John Romanes 37759 [Subtitle: Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility] Atlantic Classics, by Various 37758 Côrte na aldeia e noites de inverno (Volume I), 37757 by Francisco Rodrigues Lobo [Language: Portuguese] The Byzantine Empire, by Charles William Chadwick Oman 37756 [Subtitle: Third Edition] Campaign of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, by James Cooper 37755 [Subtitle: April 25-November 11, 1898] A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry, by Hinkley 37754 by Julian Wisner Hinkley Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, 37753 Michigan, 1920, by L. R. Dice and H. B. Sherman [Subtitle: Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109] Poems of London and Other Verses, by John Presland 37752 The Deluge and Other Poems, by John Presland 37751 Guy Fawkes, by William Harrison Ainsworth 37750 [Subtitle: or The Gunpowder Treason] [Illustrator: George Cruikshank] De Ellendigen (Deel 3 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37749 [Language: Dutch] How to Collect a Doctor Bill, by Frank P. Davis 37748 Guerra de razas, by Rafael Conte and José M. Campany 37747 [Subtitle: Negros contra Blancos en Cuba] [Language: Spanish] The Angel of the Gila:, by Cora Marsland 37746 [Subtitle: A Tale of Arizona] Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe, by Richard Doyle 37745 [Subtitle: Drawn from ye Qvick] Recollections and Impressions, by Octavius Brooks Frothingham 37744 [Subtitle: 1822-1890] The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, by Eadweard Muybridge 37743 [Subtitle: Illustrated with the Zoopraxiscope] Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas, by W. L. Minckley 37742 Kankanay Ceremonies, by C. R. Moss 37741 [Subtitle: (American Archaeology and Ethnology)] The Civil War Centennial Handbook, by William H. Price 37740 Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada, by J. Harold Putnam 37739 English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8), by Various 37738 [Editor: Francis James Child] A History of the Republican Party, by George Washington Platt 37737 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2, by Various 37736 [Subtitle: "French Literature" to "Frost, William"] Bird Neighbors, by Neltje Blanchan 37735 [Subtitle: An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes] Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ, by Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D 37734 Émaux et Camées, by Théophile Gautier 37733 [Illustrator: Henri Caruchet] [Language: French] The Emigrant's Lost Son, by Anonymous 37732 [Subtitle: or, Life Alone in the Forest] [Editor: George Henry Wall] [Illustrator: Corbould] Alter Ego, by W. W. Walker 37731 [Subtitle: A Tale] Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire, 37730 by Thomas Coleman [Subtitle: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.] Discourse on Floating Bodies, by Galileo Galilei 37729 [Translator: Thomas Salusbury] South and South Central Africa, by H. Frances Davidson 37728 [Subtitle: A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples] Ovind, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37727 [Subtitle: A Story of Country Life in Norway] [Translators: Silvert Hjerleid and Elizabeth Hjerleid] In God's Way, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37726 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Translator: Elizabeth Carmichael] The Fisher Girl, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 37725 [Translators: Sivert Hjerleid and Elizabeth Hjerleid] For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II), by Gregor Samarow 37724 [Subtitle: A Romance of the Present Time] For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II), by Gregor Samarow 37723 [Subtitle: A Romance of the Present Time] The Hindoos as they Are, by Shib Chunder Bose 37722 [Subtitle: A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal] Krechinsky's Wedding Comedy in three acts--Marriage comedy 37721 in two acts, by Alexander Suhovo-Kobylin and Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol [Language: Greek] La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 2, by Giuseppe Pitrè 37720 [Language: Italian] La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 1, by Giuseppe Pitrè 37719 [Language: Italian] Elias, by Orson F. Whitney 37718 [Subtitle: An Epic of the Ages] Trees Worth Knowing, by Julia Ellen Rogers 37717 Gedichte in Prosa, by Iwan Turgenjeff 37716 [Translator: Th. Commichau] [Language: German] Mother Meg, by Catharine Shaw 37715 [Subtitle: or, The Story of Dickie's Attic] Birket Foster, R. W. S., by Herbert Minton Cundall 37714 [Subtitle: Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work] [Illustrator: Birket Foster] Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the 37713 Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous The Crime of the Congo, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 37712 Astronomical Lore in Chaucer, by Florence M. Grimm 37711 Mavis of Green Hill, by Faith Baldwin 37710 Leo XIII., the Great Leader, by Rev. A. P. Doyle 37709 The Magic Bed, by Hartwell James 37708 [Subtitle: A Book of East Indian Fairy-Tales] [Illustrator: John R. Neill] A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest, 37707 by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves, by John Ronge and Anonymous 37706 [Subtitle: New German-Catholic Chruch] Popery! As it Was and as it Is, by William Hogan 37705 [Subtitle: Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries] Oration On The Life And Services Of Thomas Paine,by Robert G. Ingersoll 37704 About The Holy Bible, by Robert G. Ingersoll 37703 [Subtitle: A Lecture] The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II), by Moncure Daniel Conway 37702 [Subtitle: With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett] The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II), by Moncure Daniel Conway 37701 [Subtitle: With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett] Biblical Extracts, by Robert Cooper 37700 [Subtitle: Or, The Holy Scriptures Analyzed; Showing its Contradictions, Absurdities, and Immoralities] Hell, by Robert G. Ingersoll 37699 [Subtitle: Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation] Reminiscences Of Charles Bradlaugh, by G. W. Foote 37698 Creed And Deed, by Felix Adler 37697 [Subtitle: A Series of Discourses] Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, 37696 Against The Christians, by Thomas Taylor] [Subtitle: Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix] Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries, by William Hogan 37695 [Subtitle: Volumes I. and II., Complete] Reason, The Only Oracle of Man, by Ethan Allen 37694 [Subtitle: Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion] Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues, by John Alberger 37693 Cathedral Cities of Italy, by William Wiehe Collins 37692 The Travelling Companions, by F. Anstey 37691 [Subtitle: a Story in Scenes] The Babes in the Wood, by Anonymous 37690 [Subtitle: May Bells Series] Kolmetoista vuotta Pähkinälinnassa, by Anonymous 37689 [Language: Finnish] A Trooper Galahad, by Charles King 37688 The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer", by Gordon Stables 37687 [Subtitle: Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan] Lincoln, the Politician, by T. Aaron Levy 37686 The Brass Bottle, by F. Anstey 37685 [Subtitle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts] Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among 37684 the loggers, and wild-wood adventure, by John s. Springer [Subtitle: with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick] Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D), by Various 37683 [Editor: Thomas Davidson] Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: 37682 Particularly Including Chemistry, by Joseph Priestley The Teaching of Geometry, by David Eugene Smith 37681 The Myrtle Reed Cook Book, by Myrtle Reed 37680 Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves, by Unknown 37679 Louis XI, by R. Rey 37678 [Subtitle: et Les États Pontificaux de France] [Language: French] The Story of a Life, by J. Breckenridge Ellis 37677 The History of Cuba, vol. 2, by Willis Fletcher Johnson 37676 Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension:, by Louis Marshall Warfield 37675 [Subtitle: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition.] Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General 37674 Sir George Prevost, Bart., by E.B. Brenton [Subtitle: Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review] Ned Wilding's Disappearance, by Allen Chapman 37673 [Subtitle: or, The Darewell Chums in the City] >From School to Battle-field, by Charles King 37672 [Subtitle: A Story of the War Days] [Illustrators: Violet Oakley and Charles H. Stephens] The Panama Canal and its Makers, by Vaughan Cornish 37671 Bible Stories, by Anonymous 37670 In the Arctic Seas, by Francis Leopold McClintock 37669 [Subtitle: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions] Flemish Legends, by Charles de Coster 37668 [Illustrator: Albert Delstanche] [Translator: Harold Taylor] Three Hours after Marriage, by John Gay, 37667 Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland, 37666 by The Ministry of Economic Affairs [Subtitle: June 1922] Wild Wales, by George Borrow 37665 [Subtitle: The People, Laguage & Scenery] The Sins of the Children, by Cosmo Hamilton 37664 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Illustrator: George O. Baker] De Ellendigen (Deel 2 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37663 [Language: Dutch] Seed Thoughts for Singers, by Frank Herbert Tubbs 37662 The War of the Axe, by J. Percy-Groves 37661 [Subtitle: Adventures in South Africa] [Illustrator: John Sch?nberg] Of All Things, by Robert C. Benchley 37660 Vondel's Lucifer, by Joost van den Vondel 37659 [Illustrator: John Aarts] [Translator: Charles Leonard van Noppen] List of Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.'s Publications (1887), by Anonymous 37658 The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott À Becket 37657 [Illustrator: John Leech] Thomas Hart Benton, by Theodore Roosevelt 37656 Bye-a Baby Bunting and Other Rhymes, by Anonymous 37655 Les pianistes célèbres, by Antoine François Marmontel 37654 [Subtitle: silhouettes & médaillons] [Language: French] Sentiment, Inc., by Poul William Anderson 37653 The Nameless Island, by Percy F. Westerman 37652 [Subtitle: A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes] The New Paul and Virginia, by W. H. Mallock 37651 [Subtitle: Positivism on an Island] An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at 37650 Tyburn (1725), by Bernard Mandeville and Malvin R. Zirker Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems, by Eric Mackay 37649 [Illustrator: James Fagan] A Century of Emblems, by G. S. Cautley 37648 The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair, by James Otis 37647 Forest Trees of Illinois, 37646 by George D. Fuller, E. E. Nuuttila, W. R. Mattoon, and R. B. Miller [Subtitle: How to Know Them] Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18), by John Dryden 37645 [Subtitle: Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love] The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 12, by Various 37644 [Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie] [Language: Esperanto] The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 11, by Various 37643 [Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie] [Language: Esperanto] The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 10, by Various 37642 [Editor: H. Bolingbroke Mudie] [Language: Esperanto] In Illud: Omnia mihi tradita sunt a Patre, by Saint Athanasius 37641 by Saint Athanasius Archbishop of Alexandria [Subtitle: A Homily on Matthew 11:27] [Language: Greek] Health, by John Brown 37640 [Subtitle: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People] Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872, by Various 37639 Child of the Regiment, by Anonymous 37638 Los majos de Cádiz, by Armando Palacio Valdás 37637 [Language: Spanish] Charles Lewis Cocke, by William Robert Lee Smith 37636 [Subtitle: Founder of Hollins College] Victor Hugo: His Life and Works, by G. Barnett Smith 37635 Raison et Sensibilité (tome quatrième), by Jane Austen 37634 [Subtitle: ou les deux manièress d'aimer] [Translator: Isabelle de Montolieu] [Language: French] Societies of the Kiowas, by Robert H Lowie 37633 Journal of Entomology and Zoology, by Horace Gunthorp, 37632 Charles P. Alexander and W. A. Hilton [Subtitle: Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919] Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6, 37631 by John Gibson Lockhart Cours Familier de Littérature (Volume 20), by Alphonse de Lamartine 37630 [Subtitle: Un entretien par mois] [Language: French] Novels Volume D, by Alexandros Moraitides 37629 [Language: Greek] Servants of the Guns, by Jeffery E. Jeffery 37628 Lady Barbarina, by Henry James 37627 [Subtitle: The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales] Zoku-Akuma, by Junichiro Tanizaki 37626 [Language: Japanese] Our Old Home, Vol. 2, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 37625 [Subtitle: Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook] Count Brühl, by Jo?zef Kraszewski 37624 [Translator: C. S. de Soissons] The Countess Cosel, by Jo?zef Kraszewski 37623 [Subtitle: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong] [Translator: S. C. de Soissons] Iermola, by Jo?zef Kraszewksi 37622 [Translator: Mrs. M. Carey] The Jew, by Jo?zef Kraszewski 37621 [Translator: Linda da Kowalewska] Kuusi vuotta Siperiassa, by Johannes Granö 37620 [Language: Finnish] Luck at the Diamond Fields, by Dalrymple J. Belgrave 37619 Queens of the French Stage, by H. Noel Williams 37618 Cours Familier de Littérature (Volume 17), by Alphonse de Lamartine 37617 [Subtitle: Un entretien par mois] [Language: French] Cours Familier de Littérature (Volume 16), by Alphonse de Lamartine 37616 [Subtitle: Un entretien par mois] [Language: French] Ocean to Ocean on Horseback, by Willard Glazier 37615 [Subtitle: Being The Story of a Tour in the Saddle From the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns along the Route; and Regions Traversed beyond the Mississippi; together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey.] Jungle Peace, by William Beebe 37614 Search-Light Letters, by Robert Grant 37613 Bill's School and Mine, by William Suddards Franklin 37612 [Subtitle: A Collection of Essays on Education] Christ in the Storm, by Anonymous 37611 [Subtitle: No. 26] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8, by Various 37610 [Subtitle: "Germany" to "Gibson, William"] The Story of Great Inventions, by Elmer Ellsworth Burns 37609 Cours Familier de Littérature (Volume 15), by Alphonse de Lamartine 37608 [Subtitle: Un entretien par mois] [Language: French] Garden Design and Architects' Gardens, by W. Robinson 37607 Left to Ourselves, by Catharine Shaw 37606 [Subtitle: or, John Headley's Promise.] Akuma, by Junichiro Tanizaki 37605 [Language: Japanese] Cours Familier de Littérature (Volume 10), by Alphonse de Lamartine 37604 [Subtitle: Un entretien par mois] [Language: French] The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature, 37603 by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus, 37602 by Linda Trueb and William E. Duellman La fabrique de mariages, Vol. I, by Paul Féval 37601 [Language: French ] The Fight for Constantinople, by Percy F. Westerman 37600 [Subtitle: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula] [Illustrator: W. E. Wigfull] The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel 37599 in the land of Flanders and elsewhere, by Charles de Coster [Illustrator: Albert Delstanche] [Translator: Geoffrey Whitworth] Denis Dent, by Ernest W. Hornung 37598 [Subtitle: A Novel] [Illustrator: Harrison Fisher] Voces Populi, by F. Anstey 37597 American Pomology, by J. A. Warder 37596 [Subtitle: Apples] Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota, 37595 by L. David Mech, L. D. Frenzel, Robert R. Ream, John W. Winship, and P. D. Karns Slægten, by Gustav Wied 37594 [Language: Danish] Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 90, July 19, 1851, by Various 37593 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it, by Francis E. Anstie 37592 Chance in Chains, by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull 37591 [Author a.k.a. Guy Thorne] [Subtitle: A Story of Monte Carlo] [Illustrator: Howard T. Graves] Recuerdos y bellezas de España; Córdoba, by Pedro D. Madrazo 37590 [Illustrator: Francisco Javier Parcerisa] [Language: Spanish] Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures, by Arabella B. Buckley 37589 [Subtitle: A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science] The Island of Gold, by Gordon Stables 37588 [Subtitle: A Sailor's Yarn] [Illustrator: Allan Stewart] The Katipunan, by J. Brecknock Watson 37587 [Author a.k.a. Francis St. Clair] [Subtitle: or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune] Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States, 37586 by Claudia B. Kidwell Novels, Volumes A to D, by Alexandros Moraitides 37585 [Language: Greek] A Crooked Mile, by Oliver Onions 37584 The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, March 1835, by Various 37583 [Editor: George Wightman] The Coast of Adventure, by Harold Bindloss 37582 ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Sep 2011 to 30 Sep 2011 ~ ~ ~ ~ The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens 37581 [Subtitle: A Fairy Tale of Home] [Illustrators: Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer] Catastrophe and Social Change, by Samuel Henry Prince 37580 [Subtitle: Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster] Aufsätze, by Robert Walser 37579 [Illustrator: Karl Walser] [Language: German] The Later Life, by Louis Couperus 37578 [Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos] L'Illustration, No. 3651, 15 Février 1913, by Various 37577 [Language: French] The Golden Hope, by Robert H. Fuller 37576 [Subtitle: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893, 37575 by Various [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Great Inventions and Discoveries, by Willis Duff Piercy 37574 Pencil Sketches, by Eliza Leslie 37573 [Subtitle: or, Outlines of Character and Manners] The Way of Decision, by M. C. Pease 37572 Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37571 of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton [Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte] Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37570 of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton [Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte] La Maison de l'Ogre, by Alphonse Karr 37569 [Language: French] Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851, by Various 37568 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, II, by Hector Berlioz 37567 [Language: French] Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene 37566 ornata ornata Agassiz, by John M. Legler Psychical Miscellanea, by J. Arthur Hill 37565 [Subtitle: Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc.] Christ Going Up to Heaven, by Unknown 37564 [Subtitle: No. 47] A Man of Honor, by George Cary Eggleston 37563 Wrestling and Wrestlers:, by Jacob Robinson and Sidney Gilpin 37562 [Subtitle: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting] "That's me all over, Mable", by Edward Streeter 37561 [Illustrator: G. William Breck] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893, by Various 37560 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Fern Vale (Volume 3), by Colin Munro 37559 [Subtitle: or the Queensland Squatter] A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman 37558 Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2), by A. H. Smith Open Water, by Arthur Stringer 37557 Poems, by Edward Shanks 37556 L'Illustration, No. 3650, 8 Février 1913, by Various 37555 [Language: French] The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp, by Laura Lee Hope 37554 Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2, 1893, 37553 by Various [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, 37552 James, and Dewey, by Delton Loring Geyer Ann Boyd, by Will N. Harben 37551 Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, 37550 by J. Newton Terrill The Beauty, by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow 37549 [Illustrator: Will Grefe] Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851, by Various 37548 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] The Fairies and the Christmas Child, by Lilian Gask 37547 [Illustrator: Willy Pogány] The Female Wits, by Anonymous 37546 [Editor: Lucyle Hook] "Persons Unknown", by Virginia Tracy 37545 [Illustrator: Henry Raleigh] Cupid in Africa, by P. C. Wren 37544 Watt's Songs Against Faults, by Anonymous 37543 Watt's Songs Against Evil, by Anonymous 37542 Sinivuokkoja Suomen salomailta, by Nestor Tanner 37541 [Language: Finnish] The Hearth-Stone, by Samuel Osgood 37540 [Subtitle: Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities] The International Jew, by Henry Ford 37539 [Subtitle: The World's Foremost Problem] Southern War Songs, by Various 37538 [Subtitle: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental] San Francisco in Ruins, by Various 37537 [Editor: A. M. Allison] [Illustrator: J. D. Givens] The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia, 37536 by Fydor Dostoyevsky [Subtitle: with and introduction by Julius Bramont] History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington 37535 National Monument Society, by Frederick Loviad Harvey A travers chants, by Hector Berlioz 37534 [Language: French] Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1-2, by Elizabeth Bonhote 37533 The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson 37532 [Illustrator: Morris Meredith Williams] Theology and the Social Consciousness, by Henry Churchill King 37531 [Subtitle: A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)] The Story of an Ostrich, by Judd Isaacs 37530 [Subtitle: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.] [Illustrator: Edmund Nolcini] The Adventures of Puss in Boots, by Anonymous 37529 [Subtitle: Marks's Edition] Quick Action, by Robert W. Chambers 37528 [Illustrator: Edmund Frederick] Sermons, by J. B. Lightfoot 37527 L'Illustration, No. 3649, 1 Février 1913, by Various 37526 [Language: French] Dvojník. Néticka Nezvánova a Malinký Hrdina, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37525 [Language: Czech] La dette de jeux, by Paul Lacroix 37524 [Language: French] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7, by Various 37523 [Subtitle: "Geoponici" to "Germany"] Kort verhaal van eene aanmerkelijke luchtreis en nieuwe 37522 Planeetontdekking, by Willem Bilderdijk [Language: Dutch] The Broken Bough, by Anonymous 37521 [Subtitle: No. 435, IV. Series] Surnames as a Science, by Robert Ferguson 37520 Curiousities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated 37519 Vol.1, by Thomas Dugdale [Subtitle: Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.] The Butterflys' Ball, by Anonymous 37518 [Subtitle: Mother's Series] The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus, by Elkanah Settle 37517 Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851, by Various 37516 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] In a Mysterious Way, by Anne Warner 37515 [Illustrator: J. V. McFall] Jemima Placid, by Mary Ann Kilner 37514 [Subtitle: or, The Advantage of Good-Nature] Spencer's Philosophy of Science, by C. Lloyd Morgan 37513 [Subtitle: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913] A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family 37512 Colubridae, from Middle America), by John Willman The Child's Story-Book, by Anonymous 37511 [Subtitle: Second Series--No. 4] By Trench and Trail in Song and Story, by Angus MacKay 37510 [Author a.k.a. Oscar Dhu] [Illustrator: William R. McKay] The Cassowary, by Stanley Waterloo 37509 [Subtitle: What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains] The Cochineal, by Anonymous 37508 The Spaniards in Florida, by George R. Fairbanks 37507 [Subtitle: Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565] L'Illustration, No. 3648, 25 Janvier 1913, by Various 37506 [Language: French] A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace 37505 John, D. of Marlborogh, by Daniel Defoe IBM System 360 RPG Debugging Template and Keypunch Card, by Anonymous 37504 Gammer Gurton's Needle, by Mr. S. Mr. of Art 37503 Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II, 37502 by W. P. Haskett Smith and H. C. Hart [Subtitle: Wales and Ireland] [Illustrator: Ellis Carr] In Answer to Prayer, by W. Boyd Carpenter, Theodore L. Cuyler, 37501 John Watson, Knox Little and William Quarrier [Subtitle: The Touch of the Unseen] Het Auteursrecht, by Henri Louis de Beaufort 37500 [Subtitle: in het Nederlandsche en internationale recht] [Language: Dutch] Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, by Henry Foljambe Hall 37499 Stories of Old Kentucky, by Martha Grassham Purcell 37498 The Tour, by Louis Couperus 37497 [Subtitle: A Story of Ancient Egypt] [Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos] Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851, by Various 37496 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Text books of art education, v. 2 of 7, by Hugo B. Froehlich 37495 [Subtitle: Book II, Second Year] The Gospel According To Peter, by Walter R. Cassels 37494 Fast Nine, by Alan Douglas 37493 [Subtitle: or, A Challenge from Fairfield] The Chalice Of Courage, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 37492 [Subtitle: A Romance of Colorado] [Illustrators: Harrison Fisher and J. N. Marchand] Les bijoux indiscrets, by Denis Diderot 37491 [Language: French] The Gray Phantom's Return, by Herman Landon 37490 An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, 37489 Sept. 2nd 1666, by Gideon Harvey Asgard Stories, by Mabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster 37488 [Subtitle: Tales from Norse Mythology] Boy Scouts in the Northwest, by George Harvey Ralphson 37487 [Subtitle: Fighting Forest Fires] The Outdoor Chums on the Lake, by Quincy Allen 37486 [Subtitle: Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island] Boy Scouts in Glacier Park, by Walter Prichard Eaton 37485 [Subtitle: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies] [Illustrator: Fred H. Kiser] The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904, by Various 37484 Sequoia [California] National Park, 37483 by the United States Department of the Interior The Postmaster, by Joseph C. Lincoln 37482 The Tangled Skein, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 37481 Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life, by Charles King 37480 The Debit Account, by Oliver Onions 37479 [Author a.k.a. George Oliver] The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine, by Heinrich Heine 37478 Taking Chances, by Clarence L. Cullen 37477 Jessie Graham, by Mary Jane Holmes 37476 Turkey, by Julius R. Van Millingen 37475 [Subtitle: Peeps at Many Lands] [Illustrator: Warwick Goble] Ystäväni kertomus, by Mathilda Roos 37474 L'Illustration, No. 3647, 18 Janvier 1913, by Various 37473 Zanzibar Tales, by Various 37472 [Subtitle: Told by natives of the East Coast of Africa] [Illustrator: Walter Bobbett] [Translator: George W. Bateman] Mind Amongst the Spindles, by Various 37471 [Editor: Charles Knight] The Great War in England in 1897, by William Le Queux 37470 [Illustrator: Cyril Field] Some Imagist Poets, 1916, by Richard Aldington, 37469 Hilda Doolittle, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, D. H. Lawrence and F. S. Flint [Subtitle: An Annual Anthology] Pastels, by Paul Bourget 37468 [Subtitle: dix portraits de femmes] [Language: French] Daisy Thornton, by Mary J. Holmes 37467 Lost in the Cañon, by Alfred R. Calhoun 37466 [Subtitle: The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887, by Various 37465 Bluebeard, by Clifton Johnson 37464 [Illustrator: Harry L. Smith] The Builders, by Ellen Glasgow 37463 Boating, by W. B. Woodgate 37462 [Illustrator: Frank Dadd] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6, by Various 37461 [Subtitle: "Geodesy" to "Geometry"] Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891, by Various 37460 [Subtitle: Books for Young People] Polly in New York, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37459 [Illustrator: H. S. Barbour] Natalie: A Garden Scout, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37458 Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery, 37457 By Clifton Armstrong Howes Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings, by H. P. Ryder 37456 [Subtitle: How to Knit Them With Plain and Fancy Turnover Tops] The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy, by Mabel Henriette Spielmann 37455 [Illustrators: Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, and Lewis Baumer] The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson, by Laura Dent Crane 37454 [Subtitle: Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow] The Barber of Paris, by Charles Paul de Kock 37453 [Translator: Edith May Norris] The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I, 37452 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rough-Hewn, by Dorothy Canfield 37451 Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie 37450 Vole (Microtus ochrogaster), by Henry S. Fitch Puppets at Large, by F. Anstey 37449 [Subtitle: Scenes and Subjects from Mr. Punch's Show] [Illustrator: J. Bernard Partridge] Comet's Burial, by Raymond Zinke Gallun 37448 Hand-Craft, by John D. Sutcliffe 37447 [Subtitle: The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes] King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; 37446 Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë, by Gordon Bottomley The Lady and Her Horse, by T. A. Jenkins 37445 [Subtitle: Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation] Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster 37444 The Fascinating Boston, by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe 37443 [Subtitle: How to Dance and How to Teach the Popular New Social Favorite] Gulliver's Reizen, by Jonathan Swift 37442 [Subtitle: naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag] [Language: Dutch] The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37441 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37440 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37439 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37438 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37437 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] Verfall und Triumph, Zweiter Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37436 [Subtitle: Versuche in Prosa] [Language: German] Verfall und Triumph, Erster Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37435 [Subtitle: Gedichte] [Language: German] The Motor Maids' School Days, by Katherine Stokes 37434 The Motor Maids Across the Continent, by Katherine Stokes 37433 Short Stories of the New America, by Various 37432 [Subtitle: Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls] [Editor: Mary A. Laselle] Pride and Predjudice, a play, by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye 37431 The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, by Richard Connell 37430 [Subtitle: and other humorous tales] Polly and Her Friends Abroad, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37429 [Illustrator: H. S. Barbour] L'Illustration, No. 3646, 11 Janvier 1913, by Various 37428 [Language: French] Scientific Culture, and Other Essays, by Josiah Parsons Cooke 37427 [Subtitle: Second Edition; with Additions] Whirlpools, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37426 [Subtitle: A Novel of Modern Poland] [Translator: Max A. Drezmal] Within the Rim and Other Essays, by Henry James 37425 Views and Reviews, by Henry James 37424 How We Think, by John Dewey 37423 Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce, 37422 by William Mountfort The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, by Ellen H. Walworth 37421 [Subtitle: The Lily of the Mohawks] Paint Technology and Tests, by Henry A. Gardner 37420 Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch, by Ulrich Frank 37419 [Subtitle: Two Stories of Jewish Life] A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37418 L'Illustration, No. 0018, 1 Juillet 1843, by Various 37417 [Language: French] The Princess of Bagdad, by Alexandre Dumas 37416 [Subtitle: A Play In Three Acts] Trumpeter Fred, by Charles King 37415 [Subtitle: A Story of the Plains] The World Turned Upside Down, by E. C. Clayton 37414 The Duke Decides, by Headon Hill 37413 The Empty Sack, by Basil King 37412 A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37411 Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey 37410 Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, by Arvede Barine 37409 [Subtitle: 1652-1693] The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, 37408 by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard William Blake, by Irene Langridge 37407 [Subtitle: A Study of His Life and Art Work] On the Field of Glory, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37406 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] A Maid at King Alfred's Court, by Lucy Foster Madison 37405 [Illustrator: Ida Waugh] Church History, Vol. 3 of 3, by J. H. Kurtz 37404 [Subtitle: 2nd Edition] [Translator: John MacPherson] Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851, by Various 37403 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Anekdoten, by J. van Lennep 37402 [Subtitle: Vermakelijke anekdoten, en historische herinneringen] [Language: Dutch] Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37401 [Language: French] The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37400 The Executioner's Knife, by Eugène Sue 37399 [Subtitle: Or Joan of Arc] [Translator: Daniel De Leon] Edgar Saltus: The Man, by Marie Saltus 37398 Weird Stories, by Edgar Alan Poe 37397 [Language: Greek] The Strange Story Book, by Mrs. Andrew Lang 37396 [Editor: Andrew Lang] [Illustrator: H. J. Ford] Novels, Volume B, by Alexandros Moraitides 37395 [Language: Greek] Fifty Years of Golf, by Horace G. Hutchinson 37394 Aumolan emäntä, by J. A. Bergman 37393 [Subtitle: Novelli] [Language: Finnish] 'Green Balls', by Paul Bewsher 37392 [Subtitle: The Adventures of a Night-Bomber] Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre, by Anonymous 37391 [Subtitle: A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre on the night of December 5th, 1876] My Memoirs, by Marguerite Steinheil 37390 Chlorination of Water, by Joseph Race 37389 Tobacco Leaves, by W. A. Brennan 37388 [Subtitle: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers] Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, by John Donne 37387 Cultus Arborum, by Anonymous 37386 [Subtitle: Phallic Tree Worship] Embryology, by Gerald R. Leighton 37385 [Subtitle: The Beginnings of Life] Ma vie musicale, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 37384 [Translator: Ely Halpérine-Kaminsky] [Language: French] The Argentine Republic, by Anonymous 37383 Los cursos, by Pierre-Eugène Veber 37382 [Translator: José A. Luengo] [Language: Spanish] Snowdrop and Other Tales, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 37381 [Illustrator: Arthur Rackham] The Student's Mythology, by Catherine Ann White 37380 [Subtitle: A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies] Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851, by Various 37379 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] The Secret Toll, by Paul Thorne and Mabel Thorne 37378 Ueber die Wirkung des Nordsee-Bades, by F. W. Beneke 37377 [Subtitle: Eine physiologisch-chemische Untersuchung] [Language: German] Wang the Ninth, by Putnam Weale 37376 [Subtitle: The Story of a Chinese Boy] Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill 37375 and The Fairy Bride, by Patrick Buchan The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle, by Charles Bradlaugh 37374 Indian Scout Talks, by Charles A. Eastman 37373 [Subtitle: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls] In the Russian Ranks, by John Morse 37372 [Subtitle: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland] The Triumph of Music, by Madison Julius Cawein 37371 [Subtitle: And Other Lyrics] The Relations of Science and Religion, by Henry Calderwood 37370 [Subtitle: The Morse Lecture, 1880] Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2), by John P. Kennedy 37369 [Subtitle: A Legend of St. Inigoe's] The Right to Privacy, by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis 37368 Verses of Feeling and Fancy, by W. M. MacKeracher 37367 Vacation Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37366 Sonnets and Other Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37365 The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling 37364 [Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling] Making Up with Mr. Dog, by Albert Bigelow Paine 37363 [Subtitle: Hollow Tree Stories] [Illustrator: J. M. Cond?] Beautiful Bulbous Plants, by John Weathers 37362 [Subtitle: For the Open Air] Pan Michael, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37361 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey.] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] Object: matrimony, by Montague Glass 37360 Motor Truck Logging Methods, by Frederick Malcolm Knapp 37359 [Subtitle: Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12] Determinism or Free-Will?, by Chapman Cohen 37358 Annie o' the Banks o' Dee, by Gordon Stables 37357 In Touch with Nature, by Gordon Stables 37356 [Subtitle: Tales and Sketches from the Life] Born to Wander, by Gordon Stables 37355 [Subtitle: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures] [Illustrator: W. Cheshire] Condensation of Determinants, Being a New and Brief Method 37354 for Computing their Arithmetical Values, by Lewis Carroll [Author a.k.a. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Stories of Great Musicians, by Kathrine Lois Scobey 37353 and Olive Brown Horne Daphnis and Chloe, by Longos 37352 [Language: Greek] Contemporary Socialism, by John Rae 37351 Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence, 37350 by Theodore H. Eaton Varjojen kautta, by Mathilda Roos 37349 [Subtitle: Nykyajan kuvaus] [Language: Finnish] The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, by Constance Cary Harrison 37348 [Illustrator: Rosina Emmet] Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How, 37347 by Frederick Douglas How Mortmain, by Arthur Cheny Train 37346 The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon, by Alexander Maclaren 37345 Four Years in France, by Henry Digby Beste 37344 [Subtitle: or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith] Caught by the Turks, by Francis Yeats-Brown 37343 Medieval English Literature, by William Paton Ker 37342 [Subtitle: Home University of Modern Knowledge #43] Count Frontenac, by William Dawson LeSueur 37341 [Subtitle: Makers of Canada, Volume 3] The Clan Fraser in Canada, by Alexander Fraser 37340 [Subtitle: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering] 'Midst the Wild Carpathians, by Mór Jókai 37339 [Translator: R. Nisbet Bain] The Crime Doctor, by Ernest William Hornung 37338 [Illustrator: Frederick Dorre Steele] My Lord Duke, by E. W. Hornung 37337 Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21, 37336 by Alexander Leighton Brenda's Bargain, by Helen Leah Reed 37335 [Subtitle: A Story for Girls] [Illustrator: Ellen Bernard Thompson] Näkymättömiä teitä, by Mathilda Roos 37334 [Subtitle: Runoelma elämästä] [Language: Finnish] The Little Red Foot, by Robert W. Chambers 37333 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 37332 [Subtitle: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time] [Illustrator: Ethel Franklin Betts] Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front, by E. W. Hornung 37331 Aileen Aroon, A Memoir, by Gordon Stables 37330 [Subtitle: With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites] The Domestic Cat, by Gordon Stables 37329 Medical Life in the Navy, by Gordon Stables 37328 O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas, by Gordon Stables 37327 Turkish and Other Baths, by Gordon Stables 37326 [Subtitle: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity] [Illustrator: Messrs Allen] Harry Milvaine, by Gordon Stables 37325 [Subtitle: The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy] Mrs. Bindle, by Hebert Jenkins 37324 [Subtitle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles] Poems on Golf, by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society 37323 Music-Study in Germany, by Amy Fay 37322 [Subtitle: from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay] Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, 37321 Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude, by John Harrison Tiny Luttrell, by Ernest William Hornung 37320 L'Illustration, No. 0017, 24 Juin 1843, by Various 37319 [Language: French] Helena, by Arvid Järnefelt 37318 [Subtitle: Romaani] [Language: Finnish] Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, 37317 in Colorado, by Phillip M. Youngman De Ellendigen (Deel 1 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37316 [Language: Dutch] The Boy's Book of Heroes, by Helena Peake 37315 The Bradys After a Chinese Princess, by Francis Worcester Doughty 37314 [Subtitle: The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco] The Standard Galleries - Holland, by Esther Singleton 37313 Egmont, by J. W. von Goethe 37312 [Subtitle: Viisinäytöksinen murhenäytelmä] [Language: Finnish] John Woolman's Journal, by John Woolman 37311 The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water, by Carolyn Judson Burnett 37310 [Subtitle: Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal] Violins and Violin Makers, by Joseph Pearce 37309 [Subtitle: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin.] The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2), by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37308 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia.] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures, 37307 by Carolyn Judson Burnett [Subtitle: Shirley Willing to the Rescue] Les Précurseurs, by Romain Rolland 37306 [Language: French] Roman d'Eustache le moine, by Francisque Michel 37305 [Subtitle: pirate fameux du XIIIe siècle publié pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit de la bibliothèque royale] [Language: French] Those Dale Girls, by Frank Weston Carruth 37304 The Girls of Central High on the Stage, by Gertrude W. Morrison 37303 [Subtitle: The Play That Took The Prize] An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, by William Stephens 37302 The Whale and the Grasshopper, by Seumas O'Brien 37301 [Subtitle: And other Fables] [Illustrator: Robert McCraig] Henry James, by Rebecca West 37300 Talks to Freshman Girls, by Helen Dawes Brown 37299 Garcia the Centenarian And His Times, by M. Sterling Mackinley 37298 [Subtitle: Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science] Beknopte geschiedenis van het vaderland, by J. A. Wijnne 37297 [Language: Dutch] Samboe; or, The African Boy, by Mary Ann Hedge 37296 Soft Candy for Bees, by Dr. Burton N. Gates 37295 The Red Cross Barge, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 37294 The Divine Adventure Volume IV, by Fiona Macleod 37293 Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, by Various 37292 [Editor: Dwight L. Moody] The Heroes of the School, by Allen Chapman 37291 [Subtitle: or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin] The life and teaching of Karl Marx, by M. Beer 37290 Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs, by Anne Warner 37289 [Illustrator: H. M. Brett] Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century, 37288 by Henry Chandlee Forman Dr. Gregory B. 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And, huge thanks to the many eBook producers and other volunteers who made these new eBooks possible. *****A 'C' Following a Project Gutenberg eBook Number Indicates Copyright**** Title and Author Etext No. ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Sep 2011 to 30 Sep 2011 ~ ~ ~ ~ The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens 37581 [Subtitle: A Fairy Tale of Home] [Illustrators: Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, John Leech, and Edwin Landseer] Catastrophe and Social Change, by Samuel Henry Prince 37580 [Subtitle: Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster] Aufsätze, by Robert Walser 37579 [Illustrator: Karl Walser] [Language: German] The Later Life, by Louis Couperus 37578 [Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos] L'Illustration, No. 3651, 15 Février 1913, by Various 37577 [Language: French] The Golden Hope, by Robert H. Fuller 37576 [Subtitle: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893, 37575 by Various [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Great Inventions and Discoveries, by Willis Duff Piercy 37574 Pencil Sketches, by Eliza Leslie 37573 [Subtitle: or, Outlines of Character and Manners] The Way of Decision, by M. C. Pease 37572 Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37571 of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton [Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte] Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession 37570 of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2), by Lady Anne Hamilton [Subtitle: Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte] La Maison de l'Ogre, by Alphonse Karr 37569 [Language: French] Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851, by Various 37568 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, II, by Hector Berlioz 37567 [Language: French] Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene 37566 ornata ornata Agassiz, by John M. Legler Psychical Miscellanea, by J. Arthur Hill 37565 [Subtitle: Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc.] Christ Going Up to Heaven, by Unknown 37564 [Subtitle: No. 47] A Man of Honor, by George Cary Eggleston 37563 Wrestling and Wrestlers:, by Jacob Robinson and Sidney Gilpin 37562 [Subtitle: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting] "That's me all over, Mable", by Edward Streeter 37561 [Illustrator: G. William Breck] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893, by Various 37560 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Fern Vale (Volume 3), by Colin Munro 37559 [Subtitle: or the Queensland Squatter] A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman 37558 Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2), by A. H. Smith 37557 not ready 37556 not ready L'Illustration, No. 3650, 8 Février 1913, by Various 37555 [Language: French] The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp, by Laura Lee Hope 37554 Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2, 1893, 37553 by Various [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, 37552 James, and Dewey, by Delton Loring Geyer Ann Boyd, by Will N. Harben 37551 Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, 37550 by J. Newton Terrill The Beauty, by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow 37549 [Illustrator: Will Grefe] Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 88, July 5, 1851, by Various 37548 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] The Fairies and the Christmas Child, by Lilian Gask 37547 [Illustrator: Willy Pogány] The Female Wits, by Anonymous 37546 [Editor: Lucyle Hook] "Persons Unknown", by Virginia Tracy 37545 [Illustrator: Henry Raleigh] Cupid in Africa, by P. C. Wren 37544 Watt's Songs Against Faults, by Anonymous 37543 Watt's Songs Against Evil, by Anonymous 37542 Sinivuokkoja Suomen salomailta, by Nestor Tanner 37541 [Language: Finnish] The Hearth-Stone, by Samuel Osgood 37540 [Subtitle: Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities] 37539 not ready Southern War Songs, by Various 37538 [Subtitle: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental] San Francisco in Ruins, by Various 37537 [Editor: A. M. Allison] [Illustrator: J. D. Givens] The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia, 37536 by Fydor Dostoyevsky [Subtitle: with and introduction by Julius Bramont] History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington 37535 National Monument Society, by Frederick Loviad Harvey A travers chants, by Hector Berlioz 37534 [Language: French] Bungay Castle: A Novel. v. 1-2, by Elizabeth Bonhote 37533 The Scottish Fairy Book, by Elizabeth W. Grierson 37532 [Illustrator: Morris Meredith Williams] Theology and the Social Consciousness, by Henry Churchill King 37531 [Subtitle: A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.)] The Story of an Ostrich, by Judd Isaacs 37530 [Subtitle: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme.] [Illustrator: Edmund Nolcini] The Adventures of Puss in Boots, by Anonymous 37529 [Subtitle: Marks's Edition] Quick Action, by Robert W. Chambers 37528 [Illustrator: Edmund Frederick] Sermons, by J. B. Lightfoot 37527 L'Illustration, No. 3649, 1 F?vrier 1913, by Various 37526 [Language: French] Dvojník. Néticka Nezvánova a Malinký Hrdina, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37525 [Language: Czech] La dette de jeux, by Paul Lacroix 37524 [Language: French] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7, by Various 37523 [Subtitle: "Geoponici" to "Germany"] Kort verhaal van eene aanmerkelijke luchtreis en nieuwe 37522 Planeetontdekking, by Willem Bilderdijk [Language: Dutch] The Broken Bough, by Anonymous 37521 [Subtitle: No. 435, IV. Series] Surnames as a Science, by Robert Ferguson 37520 Curiousities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated 37519 Vol.1, by Thomas Dugdale [Subtitle: Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.] The Butterflys' Ball, by Anonymous 37518 [Subtitle: Mother's Series] The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus, by Elkanah Settle 37517 Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851, by Various 37516 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] In a Mysterious Way, by Anne Warner 37515 [Illustrator: J. V. McFall] Jemima Placid, by Mary Ann Kilner 37514 [Subtitle: or, The Advantage of Good-Nature] Spencer's Philosophy of Science, by C. Lloyd Morgan 37513 [Subtitle: The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913] A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family 37512 Colubridae, from Middle America), by John Willman The Child's Story-Book, by Anonymous 37511 [Subtitle: Second Series--No. 4] By Trench and Trail in Song and Story, by Angus MacKay 37510 [Author a.k.a. Oscar Dhu] [Illustrator: William R. McKay] The Cassowary, by Stanley Waterloo 37509 [Subtitle: What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains] The Cochineal, by Anonymous 37508 The Spaniards in Florida, by George R. Fairbanks 37507 [Subtitle: Comprising the notable settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565] L'Illustration, No. 3648, 25 Janvier 1913, by Various 37506 [Language: French] A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace 37505 John, D. of Marlborogh, by Daniel Defoe IBM System 360 RPG Debugging Template and Keypunch Card, by Anonymous 37504 Gammer Gurton's Needle, by Mr. S. Mr. of Art 37503 Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II, 37502 by W. P. Haskett Smith and H. C. Hart [Subtitle: Wales and Ireland] [Illustrator: Ellis Carr] In Answer to Prayer, by W. Boyd Carpenter, Theodore L. Cuyler, 37501 John Watson, Knox Little and William Quarrier [Subtitle: The Touch of the Unseen] Het Auteursrecht, by Henri Louis de Beaufort 37500 [Subtitle: in het Nederlandsche en internationale recht] [Language: Dutch] Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, by Henry Foljambe Hall 37499 Stories of Old Kentucky, by Martha Grassham Purcell 37498 The Tour, by Louis Couperus 37497 [Subtitle: A Story of Ancient Egypt] [Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos] Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851, by Various 37496 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Text books of art education, v. 2 of 7, by Hugo B. Froehlich 37495 [Subtitle: Book II, Second Year] The Gospel According To Peter, by Walter R. Cassels 37494 Fast Nine, by Alan Douglas 37493 [Subtitle: or, A Challenge from Fairfield] The Chalice Of Courage, by Cyrus Townsend Brady 37492 [Subtitle: A Romance of Colorado] [Illustrators: Harrison Fisher and J. N. Marchand] Les bijoux indiscrets, by Denis Diderot 37491 [Language: French] The Gray Phantom's Return, by Herman Landon 37490 An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, 37489 Sept. 2nd 1666, by Gideon Harvey Asgard Stories, by Mabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster 37488 [Subtitle: Tales from Norse Mythology] Boy Scouts in the Northwest, by George Harvey Ralphson 37487 [Subtitle: Fighting Forest Fires] The Outdoor Chums on the Lake, by Quincy Allen 37486 [Subtitle: Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island] Boy Scouts in Glacier Park, by Walter Prichard Eaton 37485 [Subtitle: The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies] [Illustrator: Fred H. Kiser] The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904, by Various 37484 Sequoia [California] National Park, 37483 by the United States Department of the Interior The Postmaster, by Joseph C. Lincoln 37482 The Tangled Skein, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy 37481 Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life, by Charles King 37480 The Debit Account, by Oliver Onions 37479 [Author a.k.a. George Oliver] The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine, by Heinrich Heine 37478 Taking Chances, by Clarence L. Cullen 37477 Jessie Graham, by Mary Jane Holmes 37476 Turkey, by Julius R. Van Millingen 37475 [Subtitle: Peeps at Many Lands] [Illustrator: Warwick Goble] Ystäväni kertomus, by Mathilda Roos 37474 L'Illustration, No. 3647, 18 Janvier 1913, by Various 37473 Zanzibar Tales, by Various 37472 [Subtitle: Told by natives of the East Coast of Africa] [Illustrator: Walter Bobbett] [Translator: George W. Bateman] Mind Amongst the Spindles, by Various 37471 [Editor: Charles Knight] The Great War in England in 1897, by William Le Queux 37470 [Illustrator: Cyril Field] Some Imagist Poets, 1916, by Richard Aldington, 37469 Hilda Doolittle, John Gould Fletcher, Amy Lowell, D. H. Lawrence and F. S. Flint [Subtitle: An Annual Anthology] Pastels, by Paul Bourget 37468 [Subtitle: dix portraits de femmes] [Language: French] Daisy Thornton, by Mary J. Holmes 37467 Lost in the Cañon, by Alfred R. Calhoun 37466 [Subtitle: The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887, by Various 37465 Bluebeard, by Clifton Johnson 37464 [Illustrator: Harry L. Smith] The Builders, by Ellen Glasgow 37463 Boating, by W. B. Woodgate 37462 [Illustrator: Frank Dadd] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6, by Various 37461 [Subtitle: "Geodesy" to "Geometry"] Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891, by Various 37460 [Subtitle: Books for Young People] Polly in New York, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37459 [Illustrator: H. S. Barbour] Natalie: A Garden Scout, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37458 Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery, 37457 By Clifton Armstrong Howes Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings, by H. P. Ryder 37456 [Subtitle: How to Knit Them With Plain and Fancy Turnover Tops] The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy, by Mabel Henriette Spielmann 37455 [Illustrators: Arthur Rackham, Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, and Lewis Baumer] The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson, by Laura Dent Crane 37454 [Subtitle: Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow] The Barber of Paris, by Charles Paul de Kock 37453 [Translator: Edith May Norris] The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I, 37452 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Rough-Hewn, by Dorothy Canfield 37451 Aspects of Reproduction and Development in the Prairie 37450 Vole (Microtus ochrogaster), by Henry S. Fitch Puppets at Large, by F. Anstey 37449 [Subtitle: Scenes and Subjects from Mr. Punch's Show] [Illustrator: J. Bernard Partridge] Comet's Burial, by Raymond Zinke Gallun 37448 Hand-Craft, by John D. Sutcliffe 37447 [Subtitle: The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes] King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; 37446 Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë, by Gordon Bottomley The Lady and Her Horse, by T. A. Jenkins 37445 [Subtitle: Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation] Cookery for Little Girls, by Olive Hyde Foster 37444 The Fascinating Boston, by Alfonso Josephs Sheafe 37443 [Subtitle: How to Dance and How to Teach the Popular New Social Favorite] Gulliver's Reizen, by Jonathan Swift 37442 [Subtitle: naar Lilliput en Brobdingnag] [Language: Dutch] The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37441 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37440 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37439 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37438 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5), by Fanny Burney 37437 [Subtitle: or, Female Difficulties] Verfall und Triumph, Zweiter Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37436 [Subtitle: Versuche in Prosa] [Language: German] Verfall und Triumph, Erster Teil, by Johannes R. Becher 37435 [Subtitle: Gedichte] [Language: German] The Motor Maids' School Days, by Katherine Stokes 37434 The Motor Maids Across the Continent, by Katherine Stokes 37433 Short Stories of the New America, by Various 37432 [Subtitle: Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls] [Editor: Mary A. Laselle] Pride and Predjudice, a play, by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye 37431 The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, by Richard Connell 37430 [Subtitle: and other humorous tales] Polly and Her Friends Abroad, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy 37429 [Illustrator: H. S. Barbour] L'Illustration, No. 3646, 11 Janvier 1913, by Various 37428 [Language: French] Scientific Culture, and Other Essays, by Josiah Parsons Cooke 37427 [Subtitle: Second Edition; with Additions] Whirlpools, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37426 [Subtitle: A Novel of Modern Poland] [Translator: Max A. Drezmal] Within the Rim and Other Essays, by Henry James 37425 Views and Reviews, by Henry James 37424 How We Think, by John Dewey 37423 Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce, 37422 by William Mountfort The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, by Ellen H. Walworth 37421 [Subtitle: The Lily of the Mohawks] Paint Technology and Tests, by Henry A. Gardner 37420 Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch, by Ulrich Frank 37419 [Subtitle: Two Stories of Jewish Life] A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37418 L'Illustration, No. 0018, 1 Juillet 1843, by Various 37417 [Language: French] The Princess of Bagdad, by Alexandre Dumas 37416 [Subtitle: A Play In Three Acts] Trumpeter Fred, by Charles King 37415 [Subtitle: A Story of the Plains] The World Turned Upside Down, by E. C. Clayton 37414 The Duke Decides, by Headon Hill 37413 The Empty Sack, by Basil King 37412 A Primer of Assyriology, by Archibald Henry Sayce 37411 Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey 37410 Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle, by Arvede Barine 37409 [Subtitle: 1652-1693] The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, 37408 by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard William Blake, by Irene Langridge 37407 [Subtitle: A Study of His Life and Art Work] On the Field of Glory, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37406 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] A Maid at King Alfred's Court, by Lucy Foster Madison 37405 [Illustrator: Ida Waugh] Church History, Vol. 3 of 3, by J. H. Kurtz 37404 [Subtitle: 2nd Edition] [Translator: John MacPherson] Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851, by Various 37403 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] Anekdoten, by J. van Lennep 37402 [Subtitle: Vermakelijke anekdoten, en historische herinneringen] [Language: Dutch] Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Massé, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37401 [Language: French] The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, by Simon Tyssot de Patot 37400 The Executioner's Knife, by Eugène Sue 37399 [Subtitle: Or Joan of Arc] [Translator: Daniel De Leon] Edgar Saltus: The Man, by Marie Saltus 37398 Weird Stories, by Edgar Alan Poe 37397 [Language: Greek] The Strange Story Book, by Mrs. Andrew Lang 37396 [Editor: Andrew Lang] [Illustrator: H. J. Ford] Novels, Volume B, by Alexandros Moraitides 37395 [Language: Greek] Fifty Years of Golf, by Horace G. Hutchinson 37394 Aumolan emäntä, by J. A. Bergman 37393 [Subtitle: Novelli] [Language: Finnish] 'Green Balls', by Paul Bewsher 37392 [Subtitle: The Adventures of a Night-Bomber] Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre, by Anonymous 37391 [Subtitle: A thrilling personal experience! Brooklyn's horror. Wholesale holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre on the night of December 5th, 1876] My Memoirs, by Marguerite Steinheil 37390 Chlorination of Water, by Joseph Race 37389 Tobacco Leaves, by W. A. Brennan 37388 [Subtitle: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers] Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, by John Donne 37387 Cultus Arborum, by Anonymous 37386 [Subtitle: Phallic Tree Worship] Embryology, by Gerald R. Leighton 37385 [Subtitle: The Beginnings of Life] Ma vie musicale, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 37384 [Translator: Ely Halpérine-Kaminsky] [Language: French] The Argentine Republic, by Anonymous 37383 Los cursos, by Pierre-Eugène Veber 37382 [Translator: José A. Luengo] [Language: Spanish] Snowdrop and Other Tales, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 37381 [Illustrator: Arthur Rackham] The Student's Mythology, by Catherine Ann White 37380 [Subtitle: A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies] Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851, by Various 37379 [Subtitle: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] [Editor: George Bell] The Secret Toll, by Paul Thorne and Mabel Thorne 37378 Ueber die Wirkung des Nordsee-Bades, by F. W. Beneke 37377 [Subtitle: Eine physiologisch-chemische Untersuchung] [Language: German] Wang the Ninth, by Putnam Weale 37376 [Subtitle: The Story of a Chinese Boy] Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill 37375 and The Fairy Bride, by Patrick Buchan The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle, by Charles Bradlaugh 37374 Indian Scout Talks, by Charles A. Eastman 37373 [Subtitle: A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls] In the Russian Ranks, by John Morse 37372 [Subtitle: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland] The Triumph of Music, by Madison Julius Cawein 37371 [Subtitle: And Other Lyrics] The Relations of Science and Religion, by Henry Calderwood 37370 [Subtitle: The Morse Lecture, 1880] Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2), by John P. Kennedy 37369 [Subtitle: A Legend of St. Inigoe's] The Right to Privacy, by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis 37368 Verses of Feeling and Fancy, by W. M. MacKeracher 37367 Vacation Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37366 Sonnets and Other Verse, by W. M. MacKeracher 37365 The Second Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling 37364 [Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling] Making Up with Mr. Dog, by Albert Bigelow Paine 37363 [Subtitle: Hollow Tree Stories] [Illustrator: J. M. Cond?] Beautiful Bulbous Plants, by John Weathers 37362 [Subtitle: For the Open Air] Pan Michael, by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37361 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey.] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] Object: matrimony, by Montague Glass 37360 Motor Truck Logging Methods, by Frederick Malcolm Knapp 37359 [Subtitle: Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12] Determinism or Free-Will?, by Chapman Cohen 37358 Annie o' the Banks o' Dee, by Gordon Stables 37357 In Touch with Nature, by Gordon Stables 37356 [Subtitle: Tales and Sketches from the Life] Born to Wander, by Gordon Stables 37355 [Subtitle: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures] [Illustrator: W. Cheshire] Condensation of Determinants, Being a New and Brief Method 37354 for Computing their Arithmetical Values, by Lewis Carroll [Author a.k.a. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Stories of Great Musicians, by Kathrine Lois Scobey 37353 and Olive Brown Horne Daphnis and Chloe, by Longos 37352 [Language: Greek] Contemporary Socialism, by John Rae 37351 Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence, 37350 by Theodore H. Eaton Varjojen kautta, by Mathilda Roos 37349 [Subtitle: Nykyajan kuvaus] [Language: Finnish] The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book, by Constance Cary Harrison 37348 [Illustrator: Rosina Emmet] Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How, 37347 by Frederick Douglas How Mortmain, by Arthur Cheny Train 37346 The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon, by Alexander Maclaren 37345 Four Years in France, by Henry Digby Beste 37344 [Subtitle: or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith] Caught by the Turks, by Francis Yeats-Brown 37343 Medieval English Literature, by William Paton Ker 37342 [Subtitle: Home University of Modern Knowledge #43] Count Frontenac, by William Dawson LeSueur 37341 [Subtitle: Makers of Canada, Volume 3] The Clan Fraser in Canada, by Alexander Fraser 37340 [Subtitle: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering] 'Midst the Wild Carpathians, by Mór Jókai 37339 [Translator: R. Nisbet Bain] The Crime Doctor, by Ernest William Hornung 37338 [Illustrator: Frederick Dorre Steele] My Lord Duke, by E. W. Hornung 37337 Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21, 37336 by Alexander Leighton Brenda's Bargain, by Helen Leah Reed 37335 [Subtitle: A Story for Girls] [Illustrator: Ellen Bernard Thompson] Näkymättömiä teitä, by Mathilda Roos 37334 [Subtitle: Runoelma elämästä] [Language: Finnish] The Little Red Foot, by Robert W. Chambers 37333 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett 37332 [Subtitle: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time] [Illustrator: Ethel Franklin Betts] Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front, by E. W. Hornung 37331 Aileen Aroon, A Memoir, by Gordon Stables 37330 [Subtitle: With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites] The Domestic Cat, by Gordon Stables 37329 Medical Life in the Navy, by Gordon Stables 37328 O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas, by Gordon Stables 37327 Turkish and Other Baths, by Gordon Stables 37326 [Subtitle: A Guide to Good Health and Longevity] [Illustrator: Messrs Allen] Harry Milvaine, by Gordon Stables 37325 [Subtitle: The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy] Mrs. Bindle, by Hebert Jenkins 37324 [Subtitle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles] Poems on Golf, by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society 37323 Music-Study in Germany, by Amy Fay 37322 [Subtitle: from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay] Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, 37321 Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude, by John Harrison Tiny Luttrell, by Ernest William Hornung 37320 L'Illustration, No. 0017, 24 Juin 1843, by Various 37319 [Language: French] Helena, by Arvid Järnefelt 37318 [Subtitle: Romaani] [Language: Finnish] Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, 37317 in Colorado, by Phillip M. Youngman De Ellendigen (Deel 1 van 5), by Victor Hugo 37316 [Language: Dutch] The Boy's Book of Heroes, by Helena Peake 37315 The Bradys After a Chinese Princess, by Francis Worcester Doughty 37314 [Subtitle: The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco] The Standard Galleries - Holland, by Esther Singleton 37313 Egmont, by J. W. von Goethe 37312 [Subtitle: Viisinäytöksinen murhenäytelmä] [Language: Finnish] John Woolman's Journal, by John Woolman 37311 The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water, by Carolyn Judson Burnett 37310 [Subtitle: Exciting Adventures on a Summer Cruise Through the Panama Canal] Violins and Violin Makers, by Joseph Pearce 37309 [Subtitle: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin.] The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2), by Henryk Sienkiewicz 37308 [Subtitle: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia.] [Translator: Jeremiah Curtin] Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures, 37307 by Carolyn Judson Burnett [Subtitle: Shirley Willing to the Rescue] Les Précurseurs, by Romain Rolland 37306 [Language: French] Roman d'Eustache le moine, by Francisque Michel 37305 [Subtitle: pirate fameux du XIIIe siècle publié pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit de la bibliothèque royale] [Language: French] Those Dale Girls, by Frank Weston Carruth 37304 The Girls of Central High on the Stage, by Gertrude W. Morrison 37303 [Subtitle: The Play That Took The Prize] An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, by William Stephens 37302 The Whale and the Grasshopper, by Seumas O'Brien 37301 [Subtitle: And other Fables] [Illustrator: Robert McCraig] Henry James, by Rebecca West 37300 Talks to Freshman Girls, by Helen Dawes Brown 37299 Garcia the Centenarian And His Times, by M. Sterling Mackinley 37298 [Subtitle: Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science] Beknopte geschiedenis van het vaderland, by J. A. Wijnne 37297 [Language: Dutch] Samboe; or, The African Boy, by Mary Ann Hedge 37296 Soft Candy for Bees, by Dr. Burton N. Gates 37295 The Red Cross Barge, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 37294 The Divine Adventure Volume IV, by Fiona Macleod 37293 Thoughts for the Quiet Hour, by Various 37292 [Editor: Dwight L. Moody] The Heroes of the School, by Allen Chapman 37291 [Subtitle: or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin] The life and teaching of Karl Marx, by M. Beer 37290 Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs, by Anne Warner 37289 [Illustrator: H. M. Brett] Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century, 37288 by Henry Chandlee Forman -- Greg Newby Dr. Gregory B. 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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Jun. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about TWO WEEKS The World eBook Fair will end. Be sure to download your choices from the millions, and millions of items available. REQUEST FOR VOLUNTEERS!!! We finished that last two CIA Factbooks!!! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO START ON OLDE PAPER COPIES!!!!!!! We would like to start an almanac project, more details will be forthcoming. Please forgive me for send this out a day early, but it is somewhat in doubt as whether I will be here tomorrow as we are having an ever increasing heat wave and I may try to get out of here as much as possible and I'm also due for a virtual appearance at my mother's birthday... number 99, so I will have lots of things on my mind. Is anyone familiar with an eBook program named CALIBRE? We've heard some great things about it as per indexing, format conversion, etc? We would love for more people to try it out and give us some feedback on this and other conversion programs. Update: It appears that Amazon will now continue to sell eBooks in greater numbers than paper books for the foreseeable future. . .does anybody know if there was a blip in the numbers where paper books outsold eBooks again??? AMAZON eBOOKS OUTSELL ALL THEIR PAPER BOOKS!!! "As further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment,Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books -- hardcover and paperback -- combined." http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH /gaming.gadgets/05/19/kindle.outsells.books/index.html?hpt=Sbin "It's the Year of the eBook!!!" Update: Not just the original story as reported below, but it's now appearing The Barnes & Noble online stores are also selling more eBooks than paper books. Even the professional pundits are now on board with the new catch phrase: "It's the Year of the eBook." This may or may not be highly complimentary, as we know just how much they all seem to copy each other, without a bit of research to corroborate or enhance the story. However, it would be nice if they mentioned birthday 40 for eBooks, if you had a chance to mention it to them. "Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly -- we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. According to the Association of American publishers eBook sales for March were just about 2.5 times [in dollars] what they were in March, 2010. I suppose the next be milestone in this area will be if a large physical bookstore actually sells more e-things than paper books: eBooks, digital movies, music, etc. Recent Milestones: We are just about to reach 300 eBooks in Italian!!! We have passed 1800 eBooks in French!!! This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" More and more reports say eBooks are outpacing paper in various retail markets and that doesn't even measure in the free eBooks being handed out all over the world. Project Gutenberg has reached the 100,000 eBook mark via 40,000+ internally created eBooks and 75,000 via donated materials from other eLibraries, and subtracting ~15,000 to account for duplications. It would take just under 1.5% of the world population to receive the average one of these eBooks for Gutenberg to have already given away TEN TRILLION eBOOK!!!!!!! 1.5% of the world population is over 100 million people. 100,000 eBooks times 100 million people is ten trillion. 18 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] [The next scheduled Rapture is now October 25 presuming we survive October 11th.] Leaving 1 year, 6 months, 6 seasons, or 18 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 4 months, 1 1/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Jun. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 18 Months. June 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 4 Months -10 days. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER THIS COMING MONTH!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 1 month of events celebrating our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next three months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before More About Copyright Extensions Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 40,000 titles the past months and will have even more during our 40th year celebration, and 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, and we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for about $15. 2020 We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! If you want free new places to put your eBooks just let me know!!! Will be at self.gutenberg.org Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTENBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. 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Most recent figures: date | downloads ------------+----------- 2011-06-20 | 120364 2011-06-21 | 126140 2011-06-22 | 122952 2011-06-23 | 120381 2011-06-24 | 111197 2011-06-25 | 114085 2011-06-26 | 127579 2011-06-27 | 129923 2011-06-28 | 120525 2011-06-29 | 117064 2011-07-01 | 107993 2011-07-02 | 124645 Last month's downloads 2011-06-03 | 112305 2011-06-04 | 116981 2011-06-05 | 119609 2011-06-06 | 127878 2011-06-07 | 130354 2011-06-08 | 186085 2011-06-09 | 167116 2011-06-10 | 170721 2011-06-11 | 165808 2011-06-12 | 181385 2011-06-13 | 151851 2011-06-14 | 117570 Previous month's downloads: 2011-05-13 | 127387 2011-05-14 | 120404 2011-05-15 | 138014 2011-05-16 | 137670 2011-05-17 | 140161 2011-05-18 | 137006 2011-05-19 | 139049 2011-05-20 | 130262 We might get close to giving away 50 million eBooks this year, just from that one site. and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to June 20 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2011-07-13 | 7 Thu 2011-07-14 | 11 Fri 2011-07-15 | 9 Sat 2011-07-16 | 9 Sun 2011-07-17 | 21 Mon 2011-07-18 | 3 Tue 2011-07-19 | 10 Weekly total = 60 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2011-06-14 | 9 Wed 2011-06-15 | 11 Thu 2011-06-16 | 7 Fri 2011-06-17 | 10 Sat 2011-06-18 | 6 Sun 2011-06-19 | 9 Mon 2011-06-20 | 9 Weekly total = 61 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2011-05-14 | 9 Sun 2011-05-15 | 11 Mon 2011-05-16 | 8 Tue 2011-05-17 | 10 Wed 2011-05-18 | 21 Thu 2011-05-19 | 10 Fri 2011-05-20 | 8 Weekly total = 77 Week up to April 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2011-04-14 | 10 Fri 2011-04-15 | 4 Sat 2011-04-16 | 11 Sun 2011-04-17 | 6 Mon 2011-04-18 | 10 Tue 2011-04-19 | 11 Wed 2011-04-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to March 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-03-14 | 5 Tue 2011-03-15 | 5 Wed 2011-03-16 | 9 Thu 2011-03-17 | 9 Fri 2011-03-18 | 10 Sat 2011-03-19 | 5 Sun 2011-03-20 | 12 Weekly total = 55 [Low due to moving sites] Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. July 20th 1 30768 English en 2 1834 French fr 3 776 German de 4 592 Finnish fi 5 536 Dutch nl 6 516 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 308 Spanish es 9 291 Italian it 10 147 Greek el June 21st 1 30492 English en 2 1817 French fr 3 771 German de 4 588 Finnish fi 5 534 Dutch nl 6 514 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 305 Spanish es 9 289 Italian it 10 144 Greek el May 21st Grand total for today: 36085 1 30258 English en 2 1794 French fr 3 762 German de 4 582 Finnish fi 5 525 Dutch nl 6 513 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 285 Italian it 10 137 Greek el April 21st Grand total for today: 35836 1 30051 English en 2 1780 French fr 3 758 German de 4 578 Finnish fi 5 522 Dutch nl 6 511 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 278 Italian it 10 130 Greek el and 11 78 Latin la 12 73 Esperanto eo moving up. March 21st Grand total for today: 35542 1 29814 English en 2 1761 French fr 3 751 German de 4 572 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 300 Spanish es 9 270 Italian it 10 128 Greek el February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] July 20th Grand totals for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance, and doing this Newsletter one day earlier than usual.] 36,701 up from 36,392 up 309 PG General Automated Count 1,972 -- from 1,972 up 0 PG of Australia!!! 777@ up from 777@ up@ 0@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,018 up from 2,017 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 821 up from 808 up 13 PG of Canada ===== 41,512 UP from 41,289 UP 323 Grand Total [Off by 0] June 21st Grand totals for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 36,392 up from 36,085 up 307 PG General Automated Count 1,972 -- from 1,972 up 0 PG of Australia!!! [My prev. error] 777@ up from 771@ up@ 6@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,017 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 808 up from 791 up 17 PG of Canada!!! ===== 41,289 UP from 40,865 UP 320 Grand Total [Off by 4] May 21st Grand totals for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 36,085 up from 35,836 up 249 PG General Automated Count 1,972 -- from 1,957 up 15 PG of Australia!!! 771@ up from 767@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,017 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 791 up from 774 -- 17 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,865 UP from 40,584 UP 273 Grand Total [Off by 10] [I must be blind this morning, I can't find the error!] April 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,836 up from 35,542 up 294 PG General Automated Count 1,957 -- from 1,924 up 33 PG of Australia!!! 767@ up from 763@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,009 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 774 up from 753 up 21 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,584 UP from 40,228 UP 356 Grand Total [Off by 0] March 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count 1,924 -- from 1,915 -- 9 PG of Australia 763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 40,228 UP from 39,897 UP 331 Grand Total [Off by 0] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg **** PS A bonus for all of those who have read this far: Apple reported profits doubled in the last quarter to $7.31 billion from total revenues of $28.57, making ~25% profits, based on high sales of iPhones and iPads. Comments from Steve Jobs: We're thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent." "Right now, we're very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall."

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Jun. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about TWO WEEKS!!! Is anyone familiar with an eBook program named CALIBRE? We've heard some great things about it as per indexing, format conversion, etc? We would love for more people to try it out and give us some feedback on this and other conversion programs. Headline News!!! Project Gutenberg of Canada Posts 800th eBook!!! A History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1923) Harold Adams Innes [Canadian political economist] Congratulations!!! New Domain Names Approved: Nearly Anything Goes!!! Check current news for big ICANN Singapore meeting. This new is just out, details still coming in. . .. Update: It appears that Amazon will now continue to sell eBooks in greater numbers than paper books for the foreseeable future. . .does anybody know if there was a blip in the numbers where paper books outsold eBooks again??? AMAZON eBOOKS OUTSELL ALL THEIR PAPER BOOKS!!! "As further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment,Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books -- hardcover and paperback -- combined." http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH /gaming.gadgets/05/19/kindle.outsells.books/index.html?hpt=Sbin "It's the Year of the eBook!!!" Update: Even the professional pundits are now on board with the new catch phrase: "It's the Year of the eBook." This may or may not be highly complimentary, as we know just how much they all seem to copy each other, without a bit of research to corroborate or enhance the story. However, it would be nice if they mentioned birthday 40 for eBooks, if you had a chance to mention it to them. "Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly -- we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. According to the Association of American publishers eBook sales for March were just about 2.5 times [in dollars] what they were in March, 2010. Recent Milestones: We are just about to reach 300 eBooks in Italian!!! We have passed 1800 eBooks in French!!! We finished that last two CIA Factbooks!!! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO START ON OLDE PAPER COPIES!!!!!!! We would like to start an almanac project, more details will be forthcoming. We just passed 30,000 internally created English eBooks on April 14, only six weeks after passing 40,000 total. We just passed the 300 eBook mark for Spanish eBooks. For the first few months starting on Christmas Day, the reports indicated we would be giving away 50 million or so eBooks this year, but two things have intervened: 1. Things slowed down when the weather got nice. 2. Our reporting program has had a few hiccoughs. [Anyone want to try working with the raw data?] A week after our 40,000th eBook our founder recorded an interesting milestone. . .is one million years old!!! In binary. . . . This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" More and more reports say eBooks are outpacing paper in various retail markets and that doesn't even measure in the free eBooks being handed out all over the world. Project Gutenberg has reached the 100,000 eBook mark via 40,000+ internally created eBooks and 75,000 via donated materials from other eLibraries, and subtracting ~15,000 to account for duplications. It would take just under 1.5% of the world population to receive the average one of these eBooks for Gutenberg to have already given away TEN TRILLION eBOOK!!!!!!! 1.5% of the world population is over 100 million people. 100,000 eBooks times 100 million people is ten trillion. 18 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] [The next scheduled Rapture is now October 25 presuming we survive October 11th.] Leaving 1 year, 6 months, 6 seasons, or 18 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 4 months, 1 1/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Jun. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 18 Months. June 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 4 Months -10 days. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER THIS COMING MONTH!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 1 month of events celebrating our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next three months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before More About Copyright Extensions Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 40,000 titles the past months and will have even more during our 40th year celebration, and 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, and we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for about $15. 2020 We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! If you want free new places to put your eBooks just let me know!!! Will be at self.gutenberg.org Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTENBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. 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The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] [I'm doing this one a little early, 7AM] Various totals from the ~40,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org WARNING: The program that sends these has been a little flaky recently so be be advised that not all days are here, nor are the totals all made from quite the same parameters, it would appear. If anyone would care to help me update the process that handles these figures please email hart(a)pglaf.org Most recent figures: 2011-06-03 | 112305 2011-06-04 | 116981 2011-06-05 | 119609 2011-06-06 | 127878 2011-06-07 | 130354 2011-06-08 | 186085 2011-06-09 | 167116 2011-06-10 | 170721 2011-06-11 | 165808 2011-06-12 | 181385 2011-06-13 | 151851 2011-06-14 | 117570 Previous month's downloads: 2011-05-13 | 127387 2011-05-14 | 120404 2011-05-15 | 138014 2011-05-16 | 137670 2011-05-17 | 140161 2011-05-18 | 137006 2011-05-19 | 139049 2011-05-20 | 130262 We might get close to giving away 50 million eBooks this year, just from that one site. and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2011-06-14 | 9 Wed 2011-06-15 | 11 Thu 2011-06-16 | 7 Fri 2011-06-17 | 10 Sat 2011-06-18 | 6 Sun 2011-06-19 | 9 Mon 2011-06-20 | 9 Weekly total = 61 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2011-05-14 | 9 Sun 2011-05-15 | 11 Mon 2011-05-16 | 8 Tue 2011-05-17 | 10 Wed 2011-05-18 | 21 Thu 2011-05-19 | 10 Fri 2011-05-20 | 8 Weekly total = 77 Week up to April 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2011-04-14 | 10 Fri 2011-04-15 | 4 Sat 2011-04-16 | 11 Sun 2011-04-17 | 6 Mon 2011-04-18 | 10 Tue 2011-04-19 | 11 Wed 2011-04-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to March 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-03-14 | 5 Tue 2011-03-15 | 5 Wed 2011-03-16 | 9 Thu 2011-03-17 | 9 Fri 2011-03-18 | 10 Sat 2011-03-19 | 5 Sun 2011-03-20 | 12 Weekly total = 55 [Low due to moving sites] Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. June 21st 1 30492 English en 2 1817 French fr 3 771 German de 4 588 Finnish fi 5 534 Dutch nl 6 514 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 305 Spanish es 9 289 Italian it 10 144 Greek el Please note that #10 will soon be 150, #9 will soon be 300, #4 soon to be 600. May 21st Grand total for today: 36085 1 30258 English en 2 1794 French fr 3 762 German de 4 582 Finnish fi 5 525 Dutch nl 6 513 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 285 Italian it 10 137 Greek el April 21st Grand total for today: 35836 1 30051 English en 2 1780 French fr 3 758 German de 4 578 Finnish fi 5 522 Dutch nl 6 511 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 278 Italian it 10 130 Greek el and 11 78 Latin la 12 73 Esperanto eo moving up. March 21st Grand total for today: 35542 1 29814 English en 2 1761 French fr 3 751 German de 4 572 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 300 Spanish es 9 270 Italian it 10 128 Greek el February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] June 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 36,392 up from 36,085 up 307 PG General Automated Count 1,972 -- from 1,972 up 0 PG of Australia!!! [My prev. error] 777@ up from 771@ up@ 6@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,017 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 808 up from 791 up 17 PG of Canada!!! ===== 41,259 UP from 40,865 UP 320 Grand Total [Off by 4] May 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 36,085 up from 35,836 up 249 PG General Automated Count 1,972 -- from 1,957 up 15 PG of Australia!!! 771@ up from 767@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,017 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 791 up from 774 -- 17 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,865 UP from 40,584 UP 273 Grand Total [Off by 10] [I must be blind this morning, I can't find the error!] April 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,836 up from 35,542 up 294 PG General Automated Count 1,957 -- from 1,924 up 33 PG of Australia!!! 767@ up from 763@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,009 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 774 up from 753 up 21 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,584 UP from 40,228 UP 356 Grand Total [Off by 0] March 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count 1,924 -- from 1,915 -- 9 PG of Australia 763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 40,228 UP from 39,897 UP 331 Grand Total [Off by 0] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg ****

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21 May '11

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--May. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about 50 days!!! Headline News!!! AMAZON eBOOKS OUTSELL ALL THEIR PAPER BOOKS!!! "As further proof of how digital media dominate today's entertainment,Amazon announced Thursday that its customers now buy more e-books for its Kindle device than all print books -- hardcover and paperback -- combined." http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH /gaming.gadgets/05/19/kindle.outsells.books/index.html?hpt=Sbin "It's the Year of the eBook!!!" "Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books. We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly -- we've been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years," according to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. According to the Association of American publishers for March were just about 2.5 times [in dollars] what they were in March, 2010. Recent Milestones: We are just about to reach 300 eBooks in Italian!!! We are now even closer than to 1800 eBooks in French!!! We finished that last two CIA Factbooks!!! We would like to start an almanac project, more details will be forthcoming. We just passed 30,000 internally created English eBooks on April 14, only six weeks after passing 40,000 total. We just passed the 300 eBook mark for Spanish eBooks. A week after our 40,000th eBook our founder recorded an interesting milestone. . .is one million years old!!! In binary. . . . This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" More and more reports say eBooks are outpacing paper in various retail markets and that doesn't even measure in the free eBooks being handed out all over the world. Project Gutenberg has reached the 100,000 eBook mark via 40,000+ internally created eBooks and 75,000 via donated materials from other eLibraries, and subtracting ~15,000 to account for duplications. It would take just under 1.5% of the world population to receive the average one of these eBooks for Gutenberg to have already given away TEN TRILLION eBOOK!!!!!!! 1.5% of the world population is over 100 million people. 100,000 eBooks times 100 million people is ten trillion. 19 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 1 year, 7 months, 6 1/3 seasons, or 19 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 5 months, 1 2/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Apr. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 20 Months. April 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 6 Months -10 days. I suppose I should mention that today is supposed to be The Rapture, at 6PM local time, wherever you are, and I guess a rolling earthquake is supposed to hit then. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER THIS COMING MONTH!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 1 month to go before our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next three months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before More About Copyright Extensions Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 40,000 titles this past month and will have even more during our 40th year celebration, and 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, but we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for about $15. 2020 We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! If you want free new places to put your eBooks just let me know!!! Will be at self.gutenberg.org Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTENBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. We are also working on a new mirror in Spain!!! PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. The ideal piece around which to center this collection is one of the 8 megabyte USBs. The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] [I'm doing this one a little early, 7AM] Various totals from the ~40,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org Previous week's downloads: 2011-05-13 | 127387 2011-05-14 | 120404 2011-05-15 | 138014 2011-05-16 | 137670 2011-05-17 | 140161 2011-05-18 | 137006 2011-05-19 | 139049 2011-05-20 | 130262 We might get close to giving away 50 million eBooks this year, just from that one site. and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2011-05-14 | 9 Sun 2011-05-15 | 11 Mon 2011-05-16 | 8 Tue 2011-05-17 | 10 Wed 2011-05-18 | 21 Thu 2011-05-19 | 10 Fri 2011-05-20 | 8 Weekly total = 77 Week up to April 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2011-04-14 | 10 Fri 2011-04-15 | 4 Sat 2011-04-16 | 11 Sun 2011-04-17 | 6 Mon 2011-04-18 | 10 Tue 2011-04-19 | 11 Wed 2011-04-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to March 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-03-14 | 5 Tue 2011-03-15 | 5 Wed 2011-03-16 | 9 Thu 2011-03-17 | 9 Fri 2011-03-18 | 10 Sat 2011-03-19 | 5 Sun 2011-03-20 | 12 Weekly total = 55 [Low due to moving sites] Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. May 21st Grand total for today: 36085 1 30258 English en 2 1794 French fr 3 762 German de 4 582 Finnish fi 5 525 Dutch nl 6 513 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 285 Italian it 10 137 Greek el April 21st Grand total for today: 35836 1 30051 English en 2 1780 French fr 3 758 German de 4 578 Finnish fi 5 522 Dutch nl 6 511 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 278 Italian it 10 130 Greek el and 11 78 Latin la 12 73 Esperanto eo moving up. March 21st Grand total for today: 35542 1 29814 English en 2 1761 French fr 3 751 German de 4 572 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 300 Spanish es 9 270 Italian it 10 128 Greek el February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] May 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 36,085 up from 35,836 up 249 PG General Automated Count 1,974 -- from 1,957 up 17 PG of Australia!!! 771@ up from 767@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,017 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 791 up from 774 up 17 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,867 UP from 40,584 UP 273 Grand Total [Off by 10] [I must be blind this morning, I can't find the error!] April 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,836 up from 35,542 up 294 PG General Automated Count 1,957 -- from 1,924 up 33 PG of Australia!!! 767@ up from 763@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,009 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 774 up from 753 up 21 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,584 UP from 40,228 UP 356 Grand Total [Off by 0] March 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count 1,924 -- from 1,915 -- 9 PG of Australia 763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 40,228 UP from 39,897 UP 331 Grand Total [Off by 0] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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21 Apr '11

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Apr. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! Just about 100 days!!! Please note that scans of the last two years of: The CIA World Factbook are available in PrePrints!!! http://preprints.readingroo.ms Recent Milestones: We just passed 30,000 internally created English eBooks on April 14, only six weeks after passing 40,000 total. We just passed the 300 eBook mark for Spanish eBooks. A week after our 40,000th eBook our founder recorded an interesting milestone. . .is one million years old!!! In binary. . . . For those of you interested in the Canadian election in a short while and in the copyright implications: HOW CANADIANS CAN HELP THE FREE EBOOK CAUSE DURING THE FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN By Mark Akrigg, Project Gutenberg Canada BACKGROUND The election is now less than two weeks away, and copyright issues have been notable by their absence from the campaign. This is partly because there is actually a large degree of consensus between the political parties represented in the Commons. Part of this consensus is very good. For example, none of these parties are in favour of increasing the general Life+50 copyright duration -- this is a consensus that we certainly share. And in fact we can congratulate the parties on their policy. Part of this consensus is not good at all, because it is a consensus which the parties share, but not the public. Bill C-32 in the last parliament proposed extensions to the copyrights on certain photographs and audio recordings. And I'm not aware that any of the opposition parties have spoken out against them. This lack of discussion is shocking, because we know (see further below) that the Canadian public is absolutely opposed to copyright extensions. So what we need to do is educate our politicians, so that they learn that in the eyes of their constituents, giving away part of the public domain is like selling off part of Banff National Park. We wish the political consequences of damaging the Public Domain to be so enormous that no party will consider it even for a moment. By constantly reinforcing this message, we make it more likely that no further damage will be done to our beloved Public Domain. WHAT YOU CAN DO At election time it is easier to talk to politicians and their supporters than at any other time of the year. And it is far more likely that phone calls and emails will be answered. I say this from experience. Here are three points you might want to make when you speak to a candidate or canvassers, or when phoning a party's office in your riding, or writing an email to this office asking for clarification of a party's position. (1) No copyright extensions. Not now, not ever! (And free trade agreements should be about free trade. They shouldn't be about other countries telling us that because their governments have extended copyrights, the Canadian government should take similar nonsensical action.) (2) A "Safe Harbour" provision so that we can use works more than 75 years old where the life dates of the authors are not known. (3) A resolution to the mess caused by the destruction of the simple 50-year copyright rule for photographs the last time the Copyright Act was revised in the late nineties. If you would like background on these three points, have a look at the submission I made on the last parliament's copyright bill: http://gutenberg.ca/documents/Mark_Akrigg_Bill_C-32_brief.pdf Have a look as well at the submission by the Canadian Council of Archives: http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/copyright/BillC-32Brief_Jan 2010_CdnCouncillofArchives_EN.pdf The CCA's submission mentions the question of special penalties for bypassing Technical Protection Measures (essentially, anticopying software). Bill C-32 proposed making it illegal to bypass these locks. The opposition parties wish to make it legal when the actual use made of the copyright material is itself perfectly legal. (It could be asked: why were digital locks mentioned at all? Either something is legal, or it is not. What difference does it make whether or not a digital lock is involved?) Our viewpoints are those of the public. In the government's 2009 public Copyright Consultation, there were an astounding 5,520 submissions in favour of shorter copyright terms or against extending copyright terms, and 5 submissions that favoured extending copyright terms, or were opposed to shortening them: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4946/125/ The price of liberty continues to be eternal vigilance. Thank you as always! Mark Akrigg Project Gutenberg Canada This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" More and more reports say eBooks are outpacing paper in various retail markets and that doesn't even measure in the free eBooks being handed out all over the world. Project Gutenberg has reached the 100,000 eBook mark via 40,000+ internally created eBooks and 75,000 via donated materials from other eLibraries, and subtracting ~15,000 to account for duplications. It would take just under 1.5% of the world population to receive the average one of these eBooks for Gutenberg to have already given away TEN TRILLION eBOOK!!!!!!! 1.5% of the world population is over 100 million people. 100,000 eBooks times 100 million people is ten trillion. 20 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 1 years 8 months, 6 2/3 seasons, or 20 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 6 months, 2 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Apr. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 20 Months. April 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 6 Months -10 days. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER NEXT 3!!! MONTHS!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 3 months to go before our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next three months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before More About Copyright Extensions Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 40,000 titles this past month and will have even more during our 40th year celebration, and 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, but we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for about $15. 2020 We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! If you want free new places to put your eBooks just let me know!!! Will be at self.gutenberg.org Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTENBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. 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The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~40,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week Up to April 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2011-04-14 | 10 Fri 2011-04-15 | 4 Sat 2011-04-16 | 11 Sun 2011-04-17 | 6 Mon 2011-04-18 | 10 Tue 2011-04-19 | 11 Wed 2011-04-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to March 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-03-14 | 5 Tue 2011-03-15 | 5 Wed 2011-03-16 | 9 Thu 2011-03-17 | 9 Fri 2011-03-18 | 10 Sat 2011-03-19 | 5 Sun 2011-03-20 | 12 Weekly total = 55 [Low due to moving sites] Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. April 21st Grand total for today: 35836 1 30051 English en 2 1780 French fr 3 758 German de 4 578 Finnish fi 5 522 Dutch nl 6 511 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 302 Spanish es 9 278 Italian it 10 130 Greek el and 11 78 Latin la 12 73 Esperanto eo moving up. March 21st Grand total for today: 35542 1 29814 English en 2 1761 French fr 3 751 German de 4 572 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 300 Spanish es 9 270 Italian it 10 128 Greek el February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] April 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,836 up from 35,542 up 294 PG General Automated Count 1,957 -- from 1,924 up 33 PG of Australia!!! 767@ up from 763@ up@ 4@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,017 up from 2,009 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 774 up from 753 up 21 PG of Canada!!! ===== 40,584 UP from 40,228 UP 356 Grand Total [Off by 0] March 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count 1,924 -- from 1,915 -- 9 PG of Australia 763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 40,228 UP from 39,897 UP 331 Grand Total [Off by 0] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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by Michael S. Hart 21 Mar '11

21 Mar '11

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Mar. 21, 2011 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2011!!!!!! We Now Have Exactly 300 eBooks in Spanish!!! We Reached 40,000 Internally Created eBooks on March 1! We Should Reach 30,000 eBooks in English This Month! We Are Still Giving Away nearly 1,000,000 Books A Week Just From One Single Site: Downloaded Books from http://www.gutenberg.org [Please note the date is off due to moving, but we still managed to give away more eBooks this month than last month, even though the systems were down at least twice. Probably would have been somewhat lower except for extra generated by "Read An eBook Week!" 2011-03-13 129,778 last 7 days 964,156 last 30 days 4,141,776 Downloaded Books 2011-02-20 2011-02-20 135,034 last 7 days 920,027 last 30 days 4,124,685 As we listed the previous months: Downloaded Books 2010-12-20 yesterday 124,464 last 7 days 852,824 last 30 days 3,657,360 Downloaded Books 2011-01-20 2011-01-20 139,316 last 7 day 991,641 last 30 days 4,440,451 Please note the serious increase!!! I can only presume this is due to an extraordinary big holiday gift giving, and something to expect yearly in the near future. Wow!!! This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" 21 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 1 years 9 months, 7 seasons, or 21 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 7 months, 2 1/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Feb. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 21 Months. Feb 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 7 Months -10 days. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER NEXT 3!!! MONTHS!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 6 months to go before our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next three months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support Listed Below In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Improved Support For Our Project Gutenberg Volunteers As a tribute to our volunteers we would like to make an extraordinary effort to thank them for all their effort over these four decades with a program to make the work less onerous and more easy to do. If you, or anyone you know, has any suggestions, of how we can make the work go more smoothly, more easily, and improve things for our volunteers in any manner, please answer this Newsletter and let us know. As one particular part of this program I would like for us to create a new kind of "Blue-washers" group for the specific purpose of helping our volunteers with problem areas specific to them. i.e. some volunteers just have one or two specific production areas at which they balk at certain procedures that are insisted upon and that's all the prevents them from being *perfect volunteers.* If any of you are willing to help me help them overcome such problem areas, I would be extremely grateful!!! Sometimes these are a simple as helping someone who has their margins counted in millimeters instead of inches, or who simply can't get their mind quite wrapped around certain details our post production people insist upon; other times it might just be a language gap where these volunteers don't quite have the same command of English as those who are trying to teach them. If you feel you have the ability to make up for some of these or other small difficulties that are all the keep some of our volunteers from really taking off, you will be more than welcome. Thank you so much!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks PS The term "Blue-washers" is a combination of terms: "Blue Pencil" is the publisher/editor term for comments to writers about how to improve various article, essay, or even book length submissions. "Whitewasher" is a term I invented long ago to name the people who supported me in my Project Gutenberg efforts after I realized I could not continue being the last of the editors to see each and every book and to put these all online myself after about #4,000. NB Two people, including our CEO tried to help me with this this for about a month at a time, but each said it not something they ever wanted to do again. So, kudos, and plenty of them, to those who are willing to be last in the lineup to take the ultimate responsibility of an eBook's final content, format and appearance!!! However we should add that Greg Newby and I have always championed the fact that some of our volunteers should/ would/could be able to have their eBooks published with no interference from anyone else, rules or not, with an exception for obvious spelling and formatting errors. We have always had a few such volunteers that we took a personal hand in helping through the process, for those various reasons listed above, or many others. We have some who submit perhaps one book per month, and others that take a year or longer between books. Please let me know if you are willing to help. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 39,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, but we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for $15. I bought terabye pocket drives over the holidays $99@. I just bought a somewhat larger "terabyte pocket drive" for $50 over the counter. Larger is a relative term in this case, it's still pocket-sized, but just requires a doubly larger pocket and the weight is noticeable and a "wall wart" power supply is required, so _I_ should NOT think the term "pocket-sized would be appropriate but I bought it anyway, sight unseen, due to misunderstanding or being misled by the advertizing. Still, it's no larger and not much heavier than a book, and it will hold 2.5 million such books in .zip format. Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took, and how hard it would be to fill it up. Google wouldn't even announce its "invention" of eBooks for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn't have 10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade. We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! 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There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! 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The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~40,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to March 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-03-14 | 5 Tue 2011-03-15 | 5 Wed 2011-03-16 | 9 Thu 2011-03-17 | 9 Fri 2011-03-18 | 10 Sat 2011-03-19 | 5 Sun 2011-03-20 | 12 Weekly total = 55 [Low due to moving sites] Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. March 21st Grand total for today: 35542 1 29814 English en 2 1761 French fr 3 751 German de 4 572 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 300 Spanish es 9 270 Italian it 10 128 Greek el February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] March 21st Grand total for today: [Totals are down just a bit because of site maintenance] 35,542 up from 35,246 up 296 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 763@ up from 761 up@ 2@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved/Site Down 753 up from 727 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 40,219 UP from 39,897 UP 322 Grand Total [Off by 0] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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It's The Year of the eBook!
by Michael S. Hart 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

It's The Year of the eBook! Project Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all eBook libraries, announced today they have put number 40,000 of internally produced free eBooks online as of March 1st. This raises their grand total to 100,000, as they receive a number of eBooks from other producers worldwide. These figures even subtract 15,000 for various duplications. If you have a Kindle, set your browser to: http://bit.ly/gutmagic to partake of these eBooks free of charge. If you have an iPad just search the various book features for "Project Gutenberg." Before buying an eReader you might want to check that the Project Gutenberg library is available to get you started on the path to building your own collection for free. People who are already comfortable with browsers can surf to the following sites and download Gutenberg's eBooks: http://www.gutenberg.org and http://www.gutenberg.cc The first site has most of the 40,000 eBooks created from the Project Gutenberg volunteers around the world and has eBooks in 60 languages in a variety of formats, and has a site that's very user friendly to cellphones, iPods, etc. The second site has eBooks in .pdf format, 100+ languages are represented, and also includes some 15,000 from those at the first site. You can also do searches for Project Gutenberg of Canada, Australia and Europe, for even more free eBooks. You can also do such searches for specific eBooks. This comes just in time for "Read An eBook Week," running from March 6-12!!! http://www.ebookweek.com By the way, the 40,000th eBook was pretty much a tie of a handful of books coming in from Canada, another coming in from Romania, and yet another coming from Poland. However, the Canadians seem to have edged everyone out in fact with: Neighbours (1922) [Novel. In rural Canada, your neighbours are important.] by Robert James Campbell Stead (1880-1959) Canadian Poet and Novelist Contact Information: Michael S. Hart hart(a)pglaf.org Dr. Greg Newby gbnewby(a)pglaf.org

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--Feb. 21, 2010 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 If you find errors please send them to errors(a)pglaf.org The 40th Anniversary of PG eBooks is July 4, 2010!!!!!! We Should Reach 39,900 Internally Created eBooks Today! 100 To Go To #40,000 SPECIAL EVENTS COMING UP!!! READ AN eBOOK wEEK IS MARCH 6-12: Details at: http://www.ebookweek.com PG UP FOR 40,000TH INTERNALLY CREATED eBOOK IN 40 YEARS As you will see from the the figures presented below it appears we will produce our 40,000th internally created eBook sometime in the next month. At 10 eBook per day, this could possibly be ready for READ AN eBOOK WEEK!!! We Are Giving Away More eBooks!!! We Averaged about 140,000 eBooks handed out per day for the period since Christmas Day, but just now is falling below that average for the past week. If we do manage to continue with an average of ~137,000 http://www. gutenberg.org May Hand Out 50 MILLION Books during the the year. Our output of eBooks from http://www.gutenberg.org is a 2011 average of ~140,000/day up from ~120,000 in 2010. This seems to be fairly constant increase, after a week of over one million starting on Christmas Day. If we continue to average 140,000 per day this year, we will give away OVER 50 MILLION eBOOKS at this one site! But, things appear to have slowed down a bit this week: Downloaded Books 2011-02-20 2011-02-20 135,034 last 7 days 920,027 last 30 days 4,124,685 As we listed the previous months: Downloaded Books 2010-12-20 yesterday 124,464 last 7 days 852,824 last 30 days 3,657,360 Downloaded Books 2011-01-20 2011-01-20 139,316 last 7 day 991,641 last 30 days 4,440,451 Please note the serious increase!!! I can only presume this is due to an extraordinary big holiday gift giving, and something to expect yearly in the near future. Wow!!! This Really Is "The Year of the eBook!!!" PROJECT GUTENERG MILESTONES We reached nearly 39,900 eBooks early today. We will reach 100,000 total PG eBooks with 75,000 from http://www.gutenberg.cc [Subtracting ~15,000 for duplication] 22 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 1 years 10 months, 7 1/3 seasons, or 22 months. [OR Leaving 0 years, 8 months, 2 2/3 seasons. . ..] [All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.] Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions, such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021], and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the same time. Current long range prediction for drives: 1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte= enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion books of 1 million characters each. >From Feb. 21, 2011 to December 21, 2012 is 22 Months. Feb 21, 2011 to October 11, 2011 is 8 Months -10 days. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED OVER NEXT 4 MONTHS!!! We need more volunteers for these projects with about 6 months to go before our 40th birthday. . . . My own particular project is proofreading Alice to some level of perfection and I'd love it if 100 people would read Alice along with me in the next six months! So far we have a couple proofreading Alice, and we need some for Sherlock Holmes and for Pride and Prejudice. So far we have one volunteer working on each of these. We need some vol who can use COMP/DIFF related programs such as WDIFF, etc., to note differences between eBooks. Several Major New Projects Are In The Works. . . . Right now looking for volunteers to fine tooth comb PG eBooks of Alice In Wonderland, Through Looking-Glass & Hunting Of The Snark for errors!!! See #7 below. Also during this last two weeks before the US election is the last time for two years you can ask politicians about their stance on copyright and possibly get a lot more than either silence or "I don't know." 40th Year Special Projects!!! We have several special projects we will be starting on or around July 4, and if you have a project you like to work on, why not send us a note and see if we can get a team of volunteers to help. Our newest project is to solicit suggestions where this project should be in it's 50th year. Suggestions are: 1. Make it more obvious that PG wants error messages-- how to write them, where to send them, etc. 2. Make it more obvious that PG will send DVD's so the people who have to pay by the megabyte can use PG. 3. An extensive library of human read audiobooks. 4. Please make it more obvious how to do PG eBooks for Kindle, Sony, nook, and other eReaders. 5. More current books under Creative Commons licenses. More apps for cellphones. A model to encourage new writers to share their work in the same spirit. Showcase how people who used to be on the bad sides of various digital divides enjoyed and benefitted. 6. Please add more bookshelves, particularly one to do eBooks from each country and make sure each one has at least one eBook to show how it can be done. 7. Proofread the Top 100 or so downloaded books to the point where we they approach perfection. So right now I'd like as many volunteers as possible to let me know they would like like to proofread Top Tens. New Ways To Keep Up With Project Gutenberg Want to keep up with the latest posts to Project Gutenberg? There are two ways to do so: Subscribe to our RSS feed at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/today.rss Follow our Twitter feed at: http://www.twitter.com/gutenbooks To receive our latest dual-layered DVD containing nearly 30,000 eBooks, about the same number of books as average U.S. public libraries contain please surf to: http://gutenberg.org/cdproject Only email cd2010(a)pglaf.org if you have a problem with the web-based request form. More New Projects We Listed Before Pro-Active Information About New Copyright Extensions As many of you know, just 5 years ago or so Australia's Parliament voted a resolution to resist those copyright extensions that had recently taken place in the US, EU, and other locations, but only a few years later tumbled into line after a few rounds of economic warfare levied upon them by The Mouse or other long copyright holders. Something on the same order appears to be happening for copyrights in Canada, so please keep an eye out and let us know what you see. What many of you may not remember is how the copyrights were extended in the U.S. in 1998 and 1976 without even anything like the publicity in Australia or recently in Canada where it appears they might be the first country to actually resist such economic warfare efforts. If you don't think this deserves the term "warfare" and that it is really not such, perhaps you should consider that the 1998 U.S. Copyright Act was passed at the same time as President Clinton's impeachment bill was passed and done behind closed doors in a "voice vote" where it was not recorded who voted which way. Many people have asked why President Clinton could have been impeached when it would so obviously fail with far more votes missing that would have made it interesting. What they do NOT do is answer that question by listing, even with just a short list, the other bills that their special interests got passed, hidden behind smokescreen politics created by the impeachment. This is very powerful political maneuvering, and should be brought to light, even if it cannot be stopped. Perhaps there is time enough to shed light on these new bills coming up to continue the ad infinitum extensions of copyright that have changed the U.S. from having the shortest copyright terms to having the longest in those 89 years from 1909 to 1998 when U.S. copyright extended from 42 years maximum with rewnewals to 95 years and no renewal required. . .even though 92% of all books would never be renewed via the simple paperwork and the small nominal fee that was required. If nothing is done to dissuade Congress from doing this The Supreme Court has already given them the power from their point of view to extend as long as they want, and that makes permanent copyright of Mickey Mouse a given, and everything else of that era along with it including Winnie The Pooh [1928 and 1926, respectively.] The new current U.S. copyrights already date back to 1923 so it is obvious that Disney has the powerful vested interest required to keep the lobbying pressure on Congress. It should be noted that in The Supreme Court case lists of Eldred v Ashcroft [originally set as Hart v Reno] it was the Disney representative who got the best seats as Eric Eldred was confined to the back row as Rosa Parks, who won her case, and didn't have to sit in the back of the bus, but had to sit in the back of the courtroom. Hopefully there is time enough and interst enough to do something to bring attention to this matter before vote time for the next such copyright extension. If they pass another such extension, the odds are we'll have no more public domain books for Project Gutenberg. [Apologies for any rough spots here, or not enough good new materials, Greg and I have been on the road a week, and are just getting back into the swing of things.] More About The New Volunteer Support Listed Below In our 40th year of Project Gutenberg, we would like to provide more alternatives for eBook production and also for eBook distribution. For added eBook production alternatives, we should also need some decent supervisors to provide assistance to a new type of volunteer group[s], as well as to insure an eBook is quite readable upon release. Obviously our distribution via our web sites or DVDs is going to continue, and perhaps our volunteers will have an interest in handing out DVDs, as well as pointing to our various download sites. Improved Support For Our Project Gutenberg Volunteers As a tribute to our volunteers we would like to make an extraordinary effort to thank them for all their effort over these four decades with a program to make the work less onerous and more easy to do. If you, or anyone you know, has any suggestions, of how we can make the work go more smoothly, more easily, and improve things for our volunteers in any manner, please answer this Newsletter and let us know. As one particular part of this program I would like for us to create a new kind of "Blue-washers" group for the specific purpose of helping our volunteers with problem areas specific to them. i.e. some volunteers just have one or two specific production areas at which they balk at certain procedures that are insisted upon and that's all the prevents them from being *perfect volunteers.* If any of you are willing to help me help them overcome such problem areas, I would be extremely grateful!!! Sometimes these are a simple as helping someone who has their margins counted in millimeters instead of inches, or who simply can't get their mind quite wrapped around certain details our post production people insist upon; other times it might just be a language gap where these volunteers don't quite have the same command of English as those who are trying to teach them. If you feel you have the ability to make up for some of these or other small difficulties that are all the keep some of our volunteers from really taking off, you will be more than welcome. Thank you so much!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks PS The term "Blue-washers" is a combination of terms: "Blue Pencil" is the publisher/editor term for comments to writers about how to improve various article, essay, or even book length submissions. "Whitewasher" is a term I invented long ago to name the people who supported me in my Project Gutenberg efforts after I realized I could not continue being the last of the editors to see each and every book and to put these all online myself after about #4,000. NB Two people, including our CEO tried to help me with this this for about a month at a time, but each said it not something they ever wanted to do again. So, kudos, and plenty of them, to those who are willing to be last in the lineup to take the ultimate responsibility of an eBook's final content, format and appearance!!! However we should add that Greg Newby and I have always championed the fact that some of our volunteers should/ would/could be able to have their eBooks published with no interference from anyone else, rules or not, with an exception for obvious spelling and formatting errors. We have always had a few such volunteers that we took a personal hand in helping through the process, for those various reasons listed above, or many others. We have some who submit perhaps one book per month, and others that take a year or longer between books. Please let me know if you are willing to help. Timeline Events As you can see in our Grand Total figures below we have just passed 39,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn't sound like much, but we are on track right now to do around 4,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 140,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org ~4.5 million eBooks per month or ~50 million per year! In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for $15. I bought terabye pocket drives over the holidays $99@. I just bought a somewhat larger "terabyte pocket drive" for $50 over the counter. Larger is a relative term in this case, it's still pocket-sized, but just requires a doubly larger pocket and the weight is noticeable and a "wall wart" power supply is required, so _I_ should NOT think the term "pocket-sized would be appropriate but I bought it anyway, sight unseen, due to misunderstanding or being misled by the advertizing. Still, it's no larger and not much heavier than a book, and it will hold 2.5 million such books in .zip format. Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took, and how hard it would be to fill it up. Google wouldn't even announce its "invention" of eBooks for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn't have 10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade. We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and 2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which should be the default by then. However, the rules will likely have been changed again, and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for the purpose of preserving and protecting: "The Digital Divide." New Project Gutenberg Web Pages Please note TWO new Project Gutenberg web pages below-- new features, new search engines, etc. Please test and make comments, suggestions, etc. We have yet another Project Gutenberg Web Page coming! If you want free new places to put your eBooks just let me know!!! Request: 1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of: The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection. Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars each for for volumes 2 & 6. GENERATION CHANGE I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country, and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is: PROJECT GUTENBERG!!!!!!! "Generation Change" is available from: http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com Help create the "http://m.gutenberg.org" web pages!!! We are working on making all our eBooks optimized to do their best on iPads, iPhones, iPods, cellphones and PDA devices, and to do our web pages to the same degree. Let us know if you have any of these and can test them, or would like to optimize for any other devices. There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers, in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading, and everything else on such mobile devices. More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites such as "m.gutenberg.org" In Our Own News Bin New Project Gutenberg Web Pages We have two new Project Gutenberg web sites up for testing. I think you will find some interesting additional searching and expanded lists of other eBook sites worth trying out: http://gutenberg.trulymail.com and another new effort at: http://domainunltd.weebly.com/ Details: The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold. I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them. And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out, producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first round of proofreading on texts I deliver. People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help in going through the process from start to finish. Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book are also very welcome. Marc D'Hooge marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com APPROACHING NEWS. . . . ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS, DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS! THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!! Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!! Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S. In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years. Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!! When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would NOT extend copyrights. Really. However, just three years later, under economic warfare from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled to the pressure and gave in. The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position-- and while some tell me they have enough signatures from those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that they, too, crumble before it is over. I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!! Further Information As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928], start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills that are designed to go into effect before anything can happen to those two copyrights. As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort, successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid as a result an additional $200 million for the right to another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the effective date of 1978. As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross. Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018. Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see. Why? Even during the election just before the last extension I went to ask televised press conference questions on a new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing." I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask the same question in 2015 they will get that answer. Or non-answer. >From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first viewing premise [except public stations]. We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries-- cable products showing up on network television and the opposite direction as well. What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the allowed buyer of NBC? If you think programming won't leak over: Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC. Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons. Anyone remember Reboot? I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and I fear that all of them underestimate the power working to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description. However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft." Welcome To Our Newest PG Mirror. . .In Africa!!! Continent: Africa Nation: Namibia Location: Windhoek Provider: Polytechnic of Namibia Url: http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na Url: http://ftp.polytechnic.edu.na/pub/gutenberg The mirror is updated thrice daily. PROJECT GUTENBERG TAG CLOUD We invite interested persons to visit a tag cloud visualization and search system at www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This is updated weekly, from the Project Gutenberg catalog. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. The ideal piece around which to center this collection is one of the 8 megabyte USBs. The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the Poqet computer, etc. The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles. We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash," for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under. Thank you, Mate! POWERPOINT We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations. One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes. Additional Newsletter Services In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.cc Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages. The Project Gutenberg Statistical Report [As of about noon Central Daylight Time] Various totals from the ~39,000+ at http://www.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites Week up to February 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2011-02-14 | 16 Tue 2011-02-15 | 10 Wed 2011-02-16 | 4 Thu 2011-02-17 | 11 Fri 2011-02-18 | 13 Sat 2011-02-19 | 9 Sun 2011-02-20 | 3 Weekly total = 66 Week up to January 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2011-01-14 | 7 Sat 2011-01-15 | 20 Sun 2011-01-16 | 7 Mon 2011-01-17 | 11 Tue 2011-01-18 | 4 Wed 2011-01-19 | 8 Thu 2011-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 68 Week up to December 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-12-14 | 7 Wed 2010-12-15 | 13 Thu 2010-12-16 | 11 Fri 2010-12-17 | 1 Sat 2010-12-18 | 8 Sun 2010-12-19 | 12 Mon 2010-12-20 | 8 Weekly total = 60 Week up to November 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-11-14 | 14 Mon 2010-11-15 | 11 Tue 2010-11-16 | 10 Wed 2010-11-17 | 9 Thu 2010-11-18 | 12 Fri 2010-11-19 | 4 Sat 2010-11-20 | 11 Weekly total = 71 Week up to October 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-10-14 | 10 Fri 2010-10-15 | 18 Sat 2010-10-16 | 10 Sun 2010-10-17 | 9 Mon 2010-10-18 | 15 Tue 2010-10-19 | 10 Wed 2010-10-20 | 10 Weekly total = 77 [Note: last two months were often much lower] Week up to September 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Tue 2010-09-14 | 10 Wed 2010-09-15 | 4 Thu 2010-09-16 | 7 Fri 2010-09-17 | 12 Sat 2010-09-18 | 5 Sun 2010-09-19 | 7 Mon 2010-09-20 | 19 Weekly total = 64 Week up to August 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2010-08-14 | 8 Sun 2010-08-15 | 9 Mon 2010-08-16 | 7 Tue 2010-08-17 | 7 Wed 2010-08-18 | 7 Thu 2010-08-19 | 5 Fri 2010-08-20 | 5 Weekly total = 48 [Lots of people on vacation] Week up to July 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-07-14 | 9 Thu 2010-07-15 | 21 Fri 2010-07-16 | 6 Sat 2010-07-17 | 6 Sun 2010-07-18 | 6 Mon 2010-07-19 | 5 Tue 2010-07-20 | 9 Weekly total = 62 Week up to June 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2010-06-14 | 15 Tue 2010-06-15 | 10 Wed 2010-06-16 | 17 Thu 2010-06-17 | 20 Fri 2010-06-18 | 20 Sat 2010-06-19 | 17 Sun 2010-06-20 | 35 Weekly total = 134 Week up to May 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2010-05-14 | 8 Sat 2010-05-15 | 20 Sun 2010-05-16 | 7 Mon 2010-05-17 | 7 Tue 2010-05-18 | 12 Wed 2010-05-19 | 25 Thu 2010-05-20 | 19 Weekly total = 88 week up to Apr. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2010-04-14 | 14 Thu 2010-04-15 | 11 Fri 2010-04-16 | 12 Sat 2010-04-17 | 19 Sun 2010-04-18 | 12 Mon 2010-04-19 | 19 Tue 2010-04-20 | 7 Weekly total = 94 week up to Mar. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-03-14 | 9 Mon 2010-03-15 | 16 Tue 2010-03-16 | 11 Wed 2010-03-17 | 12 Thu 2010-03-18 | 16 Fri 2010-03-19 | 6 Sat 2010-03-20 | 11 Weekly total = 81 Week up to Feb. 21 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2010-02-14 | 5 Mon 2010-02-15 | 12 Tue 2010-02-16 | 10 Wed 2010-02-17 | 16 Thu 2010-02-18 | 11 Fri 2010-02-19 | 4 Sat 2010-02-20 | 4 Weekly total = 62 Week up to Jan. 21st: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2010-01-14 | 8 Fri 2010-01-15 | 13 Sat 2010-01-16 | 16 Sun 2010-01-17 | 8 Mon 2010-01-18 | 12 Tue 2010-01-19 | 5 Wed 2010-01-20 | 11 Weekly total = 73 Previous Month 12/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Mon 2009-12-14 | 11 Tue 2009-12-15 | 4 Wed 2009-12-16 | 4 Thu 2009-12-17 | 10 Fri 2009-12-18 | 7 Sat 2009-12-19 | 7 Sun 2009-12-20 | 9 Previous month: 11/09 day | cnt ----------------+----- Sat 2009-11-14 | 6 Sun 2009-11-15 | 4 Mon 2009-11-16 | 6 Tue 2009-11-17 | 9 Wed 2009-11-18 | 3 Thu 2009-11-19 | 6 Fri 2009-11-20 | 5 Weekly total = 39 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner for these figures! /// Here are the current language totals for languages with 100 or more eBooks. February 21st Grand total for today: 35246 1 29549 English en 2 1747 French fr 3 743 German de 4 569 Finnish fi 5 516 Dutch nl 6 510 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 269 Italian it 10 125 Greek el January 21st Grand total for today: 34931 1 29295 English en 2 1723 French fr 3 730 German de 4 563 Finnish fi 5 513 Dutch nl 6 505 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 299 Spanish es 9 266 Italian it 10 122 Greek el December 21st Grand total for today: 34616 1 29054 English en 2 1709 French fr 3 724 German de 4 551 Finnish fi 5 508 Dutch nl 6 494 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 298 Spanish es 9 262 Italian it 10 110 Greek el Grand total for today: 34291 November 21st 1 28791 English en 2 1685 French fr 3 718 German de 4 544 Finnish fi 5 501 Dutch nl 6 488 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 297 Spanish es 9 255 Italian it 10 108 Greek el Grand total for today: 33980 October 21st 1 28548 English en 2 1664 French fr 3 713 German de 4 540 Finnish fi 5 497 Dutch nl 6 473 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 296 Spanish es 9 253 Italian it 10 102 Greek el Grand total for today: 33676 September 21st 1 28304 English en 2 1652 French fr 3 706 German de 4 534 Finnish fi 5 493 Dutch nl 6 467 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 294 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it 10 100 Greek el August 21st 1 28047 English en 2 1633 French fr 3 701 German de 4 532 Finnish fi 5 487 Dutch nl 6 460 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 292 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it Please note: 10 97 Greek el July 21st Grand total for today: 33108 1 27832 English en 2 1617 French fr 3 692 German de 4 531 Finnish fi 5 482 Dutch nl 6 456 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it June 21st Grand total for today: 32841 1 27597 English en 2 1605 French fr 3 685 German de 4 529 Finnish fi 5 481 Dutch nl 6 450 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 244 Italian it May 21st Grand total for today: 32366 1 27176 English en 2 1598 French fr 3 680 German de 4 527 Finnish fi 5 479 Dutch nl 6 433 Portuguese pt 7 405 Chinese zh 8 287 Spanish es 9 242 Italian it Apr 21st Grand total for today: 31975 26832 English en 1590 French fr 674 German de 526 Finnish fi 476 Dutch nl 424 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 284 Spanish es 236 Italian it N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language, up to the top two, of course, tied for third. What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running? Mar 21st Grand total for today: 31616 26540 English en 1568 French fr 662 German de 524 Finnish fi 472 Dutch nl 410 Portuguese pt 405 Chinese zh 283 Spanish es 235 Italian it Feb. 21st Grand total for today: 31234 26241 English en 1557 French fr 647 German de 521 Finnish fi 470 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 395 Portuguese pt 275 Spanish es 234 Italian it Jan. 21st Grand total for today: 30935 25995 English en 1547 French fr 628 German de 518 Finnish fi 459 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 391 Portuguese pt 274 Spanish es 230 Italian it Compared to the last month: Grand total 25757 English en 1520 French fr 618 German de 515 Finnish fi 453 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 376 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 220 Italian it Compared to previous month's: Grand total for today: 30399 25587 English en 1498 French fr 614 German de 515 Finnish fi 451 Dutch nl 404 Chinese zh 371 Portuguese pt 268 Spanish es 218 Italian it Previous increases: +214 +205 +254 +281 +294 +287 All Reported Languges Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe Thanks to Greg Newby! /// >From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf] February 21st Grand total for today: 35,246 up from 34,931 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 761@ up from 756 up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 727 up from 701 up 26 PG of Canada ===== 39,897 UP from 39,556 UP 341 Grand Total [Off by 0] January 21st Grand total for today: 34,931 up from 34,616 up 315 PG General Automated Count 1,915 -- from 1,915 -- 0 PG of Australia 756@ up from 749@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 701 up from 678 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,556 UP from 39,218 UP 333/334 Grand Total [Off by 1] December 21st Grand total for today: 34,616 up from 34,291 up 325 PG General Automated Count 1,915 up from 1,890 up 25 PG of Australia 749@ up from 742@ up 7@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 678 up from 660 up 18 PG of Canada ===== 39,218 UP from 38,850 UP 368/368 Grand Total [Off by 0] November 21st Grand total for today: 34,291 up from 33,980 up 311 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,890 up 0 PG of Australia 749@ up from 736@ up 13@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 660 up from 639 up 21 PG of Canada ===== 38,850 UP from 38,518 UP 332 Grand Total [Off by 0] October 21st Grand total for today: 33,980 up from 33,676 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,890 up from 1,871 up 19 PG of Australia 736@ up from 728@ up 12@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,009 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 639 up from 619 up 20 PG of Canada ====== 38,518 UP from 38,175 UP 343 Grand Total [Off by 0] September 21st Grand total for today: 33,676 up from 33,372 up 304 PG General Automated Count 1,871 up from 1,870 up 1 PG of Australia 728@ up from 723@ up 5@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,009 up from 2,008 up 1 PG PrePrints, Reserved 619 up from 598 up 21 PG of Canada ====== 38,175 UP from 37,848 UP 327 Grand Total @ Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: August 21st Grand total for today: 33,372 up from 33,108 up 264 PG General Automated Count 1,870 up from 1,866 up 4 PG of Australia 723@ up from 719@ up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 598 up from 576 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,848 up from 37,588 UP 260 Grand Total Please note we have have been asked to presume all PG Europe entries are being included in the top line. However, I hope we will eventually hear this is not the case and grand total figures are somewhere in between: This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,571 up from 38,277 up 294 Grand Total [off by 2] [41 entries are still listed as reserved, and the automated count still seems to have missed about 100 completed eBooks but I'm leaving both of those out for the moment.] July 21st Grand total for today: 33,108 up from 32,841 up 257 PG General Automated Count 1,866 up from 1,854 up 12 PG of Australia 719@ up from 716 up 3@ PG of Europe [REVISED!!!] 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 576 up from 558 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 37,588 DN from 37,977 DN 489 Grand Total This WOULD have appeared as follows under the old system: 38,277 up from 37,977 up 292 Grand Total [off by 2] As above: Please note that the Project Gutenberg of Europe entries have apparently all been fed to general Project Gutenberg counting systems, though I was originally told they were not due to an apparently different copyright system. However I am told now that they all were selected to work under US copyright. I will continue to research this and make updates. I think I made an error here, beyone the "off by 2" so if you figure this out better, please let me know. Right now I'm just taking people's word for all this and will have to make future updates and announcements, but give these weeks included the start of our 40th year, I wanted to made a change at this time for recording purposes of this year. June 21st Grand total for today: 32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count 1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation] 716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada ====== 37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total May 21st Grand totals for today: 32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation] 712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost 1!] Apr 21st Grand totals for today: 31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count 1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???] 704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada ====== 37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total[off by 1] 700th PGEu eBook Posted!!! Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours. Mar 21st Grand totals for today: 31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada ====== 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total Feb 21st Grand totals for today: 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 July: 14 (Title 349 to 362) Aug: 16 (Titles 363 to 378) Sep: 17 (Titles 379 to 395) Oct: 13 (Titles 396 to 408) Nov: 9 [up to November 21] Dec: 19[up to December 21] ====== 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335 Jan 21st Grand totals for today: 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved 42? 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada Posted #400 on October 10 ====== 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368 Previous month: 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations] 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2] Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg. Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian. /// Here is how we ended 2009 day | cnt ----------------+----- Wed 2009-12-30 | 9 Thu 2009-12-31 | 12 Fri 2010-01-01 | 6 Sat 2010-01-02 | 10 Sun 2010-01-03 | 2 Mon 2010-01-04 | 21 Tue 2010-01-05 | 5 Weekly Total 65 December 21, 2009 Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Austr. 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month /// Here is how we ended 2008 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] [202 up to December, no current report] 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111] ====== ====== 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints] Here is how we ended 2007 The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles. The most number of books posted... ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May) ...in one month was 477 in November We averaged 338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year] 78 per week 11.13 per day 99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark. Here is a small selection of project milestones; 100 eBooks in Greek as of September, 2010 TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about the number of books in the average U.S. public library 32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints] [And presuming 3 after official count] 32,000 on Calculating 31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints] 30,000 on 20081021 29,500 on 20080919 29,000 ~~ Calculating 28,500 ~~ Calculating 28,000 ~~ 20080516 27,500 on 20080405 27,000 ~~ 20080229 26,500 on 20080126 26,000 on 20071224 25,000 on 20071012 24,000 on 20070710 23,000 on 20070415 PG-AU 1,700 on 20081010 1,600 on 20080208 1,500 on 20070407 PG Canada 175 on 20080930 100 on 20080325 110 on 20080417 /// Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 40th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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!@! Read an E-Book Week 2011
by Michael S. Hart 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:42:40 -0600 From: RitaT <r.toews(a)shaw.ca> To: Rita <r.toews(a)shaw.ca> Subject: Read an E-Book Week 2011 This year Read an E-Book Week celebrates the anniversary of the first e-book. Yes, it's been 40 years since Michael S. Hart created the first e-book - a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Hart joins with Read an E-Book Week as we celebrate from March 6-12th. It is now time to update the website with the 2011 partners and we would like to see your name listed. To participate as a partner we ask the following: a) a free (or deeply discounted) e-book easily accessible for visitors to your website. Please do not redirect visitors to another website for the download. b) a Read an E-Book Week banner prominently displayed (not part of a rotation) on your site, linked back to http://www.ebookweek.com The banner should stay in place until the end of the event. In turn, we will place a link to your website on our partners page. This link will stay in place for a year. You will note there are websites listed at the top of the list with an icon. These sites have made a donation, or assisted with the upkeep of the Read an E-Book website. Banners for the event can be found at http://www.ebookweek.com/ebook_banners.html Feel free to resize them for your website. We can also create custom banners if you wish. A limited number of advertising spots are available on the website. Happy anniversary e-books! Read an E-Book Week

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