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PG Canada - *June* news summary
by Michael S. Hart 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Here is the news from PG Canada for June. We published a total of 15 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 340 ebooks. The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months. LANGUAGES: - 13 in English - 2 in French CANADIAN CONTENT - 7 of this month's 15 ebooks were by Canadians or had a connection to Canada. FICTION/NONFICTION - 8 fiction - 7 nonfiction GENRES - 3 novels - 3 books of essays - 2 biographies (one of them an autobiography) - 2 children's books - 2 manuals - 1 book of short stories - 1 book of poetry - 1 book of geography To complement our recent edition of the later volumes of Proust's cycle of novels À la recherche du temps perdu, we published a 1927 set of reviews and articles on Proust by his contemporary Paul Souday (1869-1929). We also published "Sister Teresa" (1909 version) by Irish novelist and art critic George August Moore (1852-1933), and the 1925 edition of his monumental three-part autobiography "Hail and Farewell". Authors new to PGC this month included: Auzias-Turenne, Raymond (1861-1940) [Écrivain et diplomate français] Chase, Alvin Wood (1817-1885) [American physician and entrepreneur] Dunham, Bertha Mabel (1881-1957) [Canadian librarian and novelist] Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) [American novelist] Johnson, Clifton (1865-1940) [American author and photographer] Lindsey, Charles (1820-1908) [Canadian journalist] Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933) [Irish novelist and art critic] Souday, Paul (1869-1929) [Critique littéraire français] Sterrett, Virginia Frances (1900-1931) [American illustrator] Verga, Giovanni (1840-1922) [Italian novelist] *************** Thanks as ever for your support! Mark __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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Extra Edition of the PG Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

I'm sending this out now because I have serious doubts as to whether I will be able to do this very easily when the Newsletter is actually due. This may be the last time on this hard drive that I actually get booted up, and it was pretty much just luck that got me this far. I'll be buying some new computers this week, I hope, with the hopes that I will be more or less back to normal, but right now the thing won't even let me make backups as the USB ports have power, but don't recognize any drives. I'm actually dialed up on the modem right now. If any of you have any suggestions as to the best deals I should be looking at for laptops and netbooks, please let me know, and please cc: gbnewby(a)pglaf.org The Brief News We are rapidly coming up to our 25,000th eBook in English and all suggestions for what title to use are welcome. This should take place next month. In addition, we are coming up on our 30,000th PG eBook of all languages perhaps a month or so after that, so we are also looking for a great eBook in another language to put up as #30,000. We are giving away about 75,000 books per day through the http://www.gutenberg org server, for ~2 million per month and the monthly total was often over 3 million per month, all told over the past 4 years or so. This means we have given away over 100 million books over the past 4 years, just through that one site alone. The World eBook Fair In addition, over these same four years we have sponsored The World eBook Fair along with The Internet Archive, The World Public Library, ebooksabouteverything.org, etc. http://www.worldebookfair.org handed out a million files, just on one day alone, July 4, to start up this 39th year of presenting eBooks on the Internet. Please note: this is less than a million eBooks, as some entries are multi-file in nature. Traffic has since dropped to about half that, with a very healthy 50,000 downloads per day of our "best sellers." In its first year The World eBook Fair gave away nearly a total of 30 million eBooks, and if the averages have been at 25 million over the 4 years, that's a 200 million book total over those two URLs over a 4 year period, or totals somewhere in that range. This does not count all the other sites such as Australia or Canada or PG of Europe, etc. The Current PG Totals I'm not sure I have time right now to fill in everything, with monthly comparisons as I usually do, as I am running mostly on adrenaline right now and will have to stop soon to eat, sleep, shower, etc. Here are the brief reports you can compare to last month: I will also try to get back online after the fact and try to redo a real Newsletter with all info as of July 21st. Here are today's numbers for languages with 200+ eBooks: Grand total for today: 29326 24725 English en 1442 French fr 587 German de 508 Finnish fi 433 Dutch nl 402 Chinese zh 338 Portuguese pt 242 Spanish es 202 Italian it Courtesy of Greg Newby. Here are the weekly totals: day | cnt ----------------+----- Fri 2009-07-10 | 9 Sat 2009-07-11 | 11 Sun 2009-07-12 | 11 Mon 2009-07-13 | 11 Tue 2009-07-14 | 7 Wed 2009-07-15 | 8 Thu 2009-07-16 | 8 Courtesy of Marcello Perathoner We have recently been averaging just under 10 books per day with some very good days that are much better. If we are lucky, we may do 3,500 to 4,000 books for 2009. Not to mention the hundreds of books that have been updated and improved, corrected, etc. Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--June 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 42 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 6 months, 14 seasons or 42 months. Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions. Headline News More eBooks To More People Via More Hardware and Software The 39th year of Project Gutenberg will begin July 4th, 2009-- and we will once again be one of larger sponsors of The World eBook Fair at http://www.worldebookfair.org, which will reach the neighborhood of ~2.5 million eBooks from July 4 to August 4, starting in about two weeks. One of the major developments this year is the advance in the variety of hardware and software methods of reading eBooks in more circumstances, more locations, and, of course, with more eBooks in wider and wider circulation. We will be sending out a special edition of this Newsletter a few weeks from now dedicated to these. Our 25,000th eBook In English Will Be Coming Up Shortly If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc., about how we might commemorate this event, please let us know. We Just Published Our: 200th eBook in Italian 400th eBook in Chinese 500th eBook in Finnish We are coming up on our 250th in Spanish. . .suggestions??? iPhone Acquisition As you know, we try to get one of each of the popular reading devices to test how our eBooks work on them and demonstrate a wide variety of reading options. A friend is updating his iPhone today and I am buying his old one, so we would appreciate any suggestions of which programs we should load to demonstrate the widest variety of readers. Some interesting notes about eBooks of various varieties: National archives reviews purchases of paper materials in digital age Library and Archives Canada has put a moratorium on buying paper documents and books for its collection. Full Story: http://links.cbc.ca/a/l.x?T=jncickgjiekjmplpgobfifjajd&M=36 ... Google Books Improves - http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/18/google-books-improves/ Google Books has released a number of improvements designed to make reading and sharing their material easier. The Books blog, Inside Google Book Search lists seven changes: - embedding and links - From the new toolbar on a Books page you can copy a link to the source or the html necessary to produce an iframe in your blog or web page that will embed the source. - improved search - There's now more context around your search terms, and you can rank your search results by relevance as well as page order. - thumbnail view - More useful, perhaps, where images are involved, you can see an overview in thumbnails of the book you're examining. - drop-down menu - The drop-down menu displays links to the various divisions within the book. - plain text mode - Viewers can turn off the html mode and work simply with plain text. - page turn animation - This feature, invoked by clicking at the bottom of the screen, simulates a more natural progression through the book. - improved book overview - There's more data about the book offered on the overview page. British Library Publishes Online Archive of 19th-Century Newspapers Maev Kennedy The Guardian Thursday 18 June 2009 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/18/ british-library-newspaper-archive-online> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/nknweq> Over two million pages of 19th and early 20th century newspapers go online today, part of the vast British Library collection. The 49 British national and regional titles cover events including the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 "Vague reports have been made of the numbers slain on both sides ... We should not quote them if our silence could prevent the spreading of disastrous intelligence", the Morning Chronicle reported. There was also the banks crisis of 1878, the first FA Cup final in 1872, and the triumph of the music hall star Vesta Tilley in a talent contest. <snip> The site <http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs> holds journals including the True Crime of its day, the Illustrated Police News which covered the Jack the Ripper murders. The British Library worked in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, to create the service. Searches are free, but users can pay to download information. ["Can pay"??? I wonder if that translates into "must pay," unless one is a certain kind of member or the like?] Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. 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. You should notice that we had a very good month, with 100 books done nearly every single week. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at httpwww.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 ~30,000 at httpwww.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites This week: day | cnt ----------------+----- Sun 2009-06-14 | 6 Mon 2009-06-15 | 13 Tue 2009-06-16 | 2 Wed 2009-06-17 | 16 Thu 2009-06-18 | 6 Fri 2009-06-19 | 12 Sat 2009-06-20 | 13 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! Here are the current language totals for languages with 200 or more eBooks. Grand total for today: 29082 24519 English en 1434 French fr 584 German de 505 Finnish fi 423 Dutch nl 402 Chinese zh 329 Portuguese pt 241 Spanish es 200 Italian it Not to mention PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe.... Total increase +287 All Reported Languges and from the previous month. . . . Thanks to Greg Newby! ////// And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [2 months] 29,082 up 283 PG General Automated Count 1,767 up 7 PG of Australia 637 up 6 PG of Europe 2,021 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42],etc. 325 up 36 PG of Canada, End of May. ====== 33,832 up 320 Grand Total Note Without counting PrePrints, we are still over 30,000 and some of the new .lit collection will not make it under our current rules of addition from PrePrints, and would be deleted from PrePrints without moving to other listings. 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 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; 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 Calcuating 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

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PG Canada - *May* news summary (fwd)
by Michael S. Hart 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Here is the news from PG Canada for May. We published a total of 18 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 325 ebooks. The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months. LANGUAGES: - 15 in English - 3 in French GENRES - 7 novels - 4 history books - 2 cookbooks - 1 book of essays - 1 dictionary - 1 book of poetry - 1 personal journal - 1 children's book 8 of this month's ebooks were by Canadians or had a connection to Canada. 9 of this month's titles were fiction, and 9 were non-fiction. April saw the posting of two further titles by the famous English novelist and essayist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), courtesy of Distributed Proofreaders Europe. May was notable for the posting of our first titles by the famous missionary, explorer, historian, and linguist Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859-1938), celebrated in the annals of British Columbia, and of the Canadian historian Ernest Alexander Cruikshank (1854-1939). Authors new to PGC this month included: Bennet, Robert Ames (1870-1954) [American novelist] Bosse, Sara [née Eaton] (1868-1940) [Canadian author] and Watanna, Onoto [Reeve, Winnifred Eaton: née Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954) [Canadian novelist] Boucher-Belleville, Jean-Philippe [Jean-Baptiste] (1800-1874) [Journaliste canadien] Cody, Hiram Alfred (1872-1948) [Canadian priest, novelist, and biographer] Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939) [Canadian historian] Dionne, Narcisse-Eutrope (1848-1917) [Historien, lexicographe et bibliothécaire canadien] Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918) [English novelist and poet] Isle, June (active around 1864) [American children's author] Lighthall, William Douw (1857-1954) [Canadian lawyer, politician, historian, novelist, philosopher, and poet] Monck, Frances Elizabeth Owen (d. 1919) [Irish memoirist] Morice, Adrien-Gabriel (1859-1938) [Missionnaire, explorateur, ethnologue et lexicographe canadien] O'Duffy, Eimar Ultan (1893-1935) [Irish playwright, novelist, and economist] Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English novelist, playwright, and screenplay writer] *************** Thanks as ever for your support! Mark

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PG Canada - *April* news summary
by Michael S. Hart 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Here is the (delayed) news from PG Canada for April. We published a total of 18 ebooks during the month: we have now published a cumulative total of 307 ebooks. The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months. LANGUAGES: - 16 in English - 2 in French GENRES - 9 novels - 2 books of short stories - 1 anthology with introductory essay - 1 autobiography - 1 children's book - 1 biography - 1 history book - 1 dictionary - 1 scientific manual 6 of this month's ebooks were by Canadians or had a connection to Canada. 12 of this month's titles were fiction, 5 were non-fiction, and one was an anthology of fiction with a lengthy introductory essay. April saw the posting of two further titles by the famous English novelist and essayist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), courtesy of Distributed Proofreaders Europe. Authors new to PGC this month included: Abbott-Smith, George (1864-1947) [Canadian theologian and philologist] Bridges, Thomas Charles (1868-1944) [English boys' novelist] Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865) [English novelist and biographer] Lawler, James (1868-1945) [Canadian silviculturist] McArthur, Peter Gilchrist (1866-1924) [Canadian journalist] Niven, Frederick John (1878-1944) [Canadian novelist] Thorpe, James (1876-1949) [English cartoonist] *************** Thanks as ever for your support! Mark

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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 21 May '09

21 May '09

Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, May. 21, 2009 eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971 43 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011] Leaving 3 years 8 months, 14 2/3 seasons or 43 months. Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions. Hottest Predictions Terabyte USB Flash Drives and Petabyte Hard Drives [by 2015 and 2020, respectively] Most public domain books will be eBooks by 2020. Our apologies for no Newsletter on Apr. 21, due to some major hardware difficulties. However, hopefully you will find more than enough here, to make up for lost time. Headline News Project Gutenberg is now referenced by TEI: http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Samples_of_TEI_texts PG Listed in 100 Best Websites for Free Adult Education http://www.onlinedegreeworld.com/blog/2009/ 100-best-websites-for-free-adult-education/ As you may know, the world is approaching totals of 4.5 billon cell phones so Project Gutenberg is making multiple efforts to to reach more readers via this popular medium. While most of those reporting in about seeing Kindles or Sonys in the wild say they have seen none, I am sure most of us have seen people text messaging on their phones, and that means the idea of reading quotations already exists, and reading a whole chapter or a whole book is the very next step. To encourage this we are working with a number of services for the preparation of Project Gutenberg eBooks for cell phones. Please give these a try and let me know how they work for you. http://mobilelibrary.qioo.de or http://www.gioo.de and http://tequilacat.org/dev/br/index-en.html and mobilebooks.org or mobilebooks.net [these should work on any Java enabled phone] I, myself, have just purchased a "new" cell phone that should do both cell and wifi and also includes an SD RAM slot with a larger than average screen, in the hopes of creating a pocket eBook reader doing most of what Kindle and Sony do but with a greater memory capacity and a much lower price and no fees if I use the wifi rather than the cell service to get the books. It is hopefully arriving today and you will hear more later. We have two articles about eBooks for cell phones, etc. and a message from one of our readers on how to read eBooks on Palm and related devices. New Goal Set for Project Gutenberg; ONE BILLION READERS The first goal of Project Gutenberg was simply to reach totals of estimated audiences of 1.5% of the world population, or the total of 100 million people. With the advent of cell phone [mobile phone] access we are now setting our goal at 15% of the world population or 1 billion. Given that there are approximately 4.5 billion cell phones now in service around the world, that means we would have to reach just over 1/5 of all cell phone users to accomplish this. Possible. . .but not likely unless we make it extremely easy! To this end we will be emphasizing eBook reader programs for a wide range of cell phones. Given the estimated 4.5 billion cell phones that we could make eBooks for today, presuming they can all display plain eBooks, and the extremely slow rise in Kindle sales as compared to the iPod, iPhone, Blackberry Curve, and all the others, we should be able to reach more readers than Kindle and Sony combined if we just reach one cell phone user out of a thousand. This has to include many more languages than English, of course, so our effort also has to be multi-lingual, if we are to reach anyone beyond the number of people comfortable enough with English to read our eBooks on their cell phones. As many of you know, we already have well over a thousand book titles in French, followed by lesser numbers in German and the other more popular languages, but not nearly enough to really, sincerely, say we are offering a library in these languages. Once we complete a survey of our Top Ten languages we are down to under 50 books per language. . .it's a start, only a start. Second Article The current rage in the eBook world is mobile readers-- portable devices carrying a hundred or a thousand books for people to read whenever and wherever they like. Such devices range from the smallest MP3 player screen, to the entire range of cell phones, PDA's, etc., to the new larger Kindle 2. The iPod has had eBook reading available since the very first week it was introduced, not to mention the reader applications for the iPhone, for generic MP3 players or any number of cell phones. We are approaching, if we have not already passed, some 4.5 billion active cell phones, United Nations reported early this year [4.2 billion at that time]. If just one cell phone out of a thousand is used for an eBook reader, that is 4.5 million, far exceeding totals for all eBook readers such as Kindle, Sony, Rocketbook, Jetbook, and all the other similar products. Thus, the programs to provide eBook reading services on these various cell phones represents a larger audience, by far, than even the billion plus owners of computers. However, we have to make it EASY for them to read!!! This means making the books easy to get, and easy to do any required reformatting for their screens, if we will not be offering preformatted eBooks for various phones, PDA's, and other devices. From: David Cantrell <david(a)cantrell.org.uk> I like to use eReader to read on my PalmOS phone: http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm To convert Project Gutenberg texts into a suitable format, including re-formatting the text so it flows better on the screen, I wrote some software in Perl. You can download it here: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=projectgutenberg (includes a library and a command-line program 'pg2pdb' and documentation). Or on any modern operating system you should be able to install it and the other libraries it depends on thus: $ cpan Palm::ProjectGutenberg or $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install qw(Palm::ProjectGutenberg)' For those stuck on older machines, I have also made the functionality available through a webby interface here: http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/pg2pdb/ Simply upload a plain text file through the web form, and you'll get back a .PDB file that you can put onto your PDA or phone. A Few Major Projects For Your Consideration 1. Web Pages Designed By And For Our Project Gutenberg Readers. 2. Textbooks Are Becoming A More And More Highly Requested Item. 3. Request To Help Complete Our Collection Of Andrew Lang Books. 4. eBooks On Cellphones: We Have Several Formats You Can Try. 1. Web Pages Designed By And For Our Project Gutenberg Readers. This would include other languages, web pages designed by and for people of various ages from the youngest to the oldest, and, even web pages designed around favorite subjects, favorite authors, or even favorite books or characters. Personally, I would LOVE to see web pages designed for readers at various grade levels and then translated into many languages. 2. Textbooks Are Becoming A More And More Highly Requested Item. As more and more people spend more and more years homeschooling a greater portion of modern kids, they are asking us for more books to help teach any of the various subjects, from reading, writing, and arithmetic, to geography and astronomy, to the dinosaurs, and an enormous number of other subjects. If you ever wanted to pass on your knowledge, now is the time and the place, for books here last forever and cover the world. 3. Request To Help Complete Our Collection Of Andrew Lang Books. Many of you are familiar with the various "Color" Fairy Books, as "The Red Fairy Book," by Andrew Lang, and a host of other colors, but few of us have ever even seen a list of them all, including a surprising number of books relating true events, etc. If you find any Andrew Lang books, Fairy, Animal, True, etc., that we don't have in our collection, please let me know, and we will help in the process of completing this collection. 4. eBooks On Cellphones: We Have Several Formats You Can Try. Let me know if you would like to help us set up our Cellphone pages to bring more eBooks to more people in more of the world. Our All Time Hottest Requests!!!!!!! FLASH RAM I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible. 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. You should notice that we had a very good month, with 100 books done nearly every single week. These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at httpwww.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 ~30,000 at httpwww.gutenberg.org and our other Project Gutenberg Sites This week: day | cnt ----------------+----- Thu 2009-05-14 | 10 Fri 2009-05-15 | 14 Sat 2009-05-16 | 9 Sun 2009-05-17 | 9 Mon 2009-05-18 | 14 Tue 2009-05-19 | 13 Wed 2009-05-20 | 12 Thanks to Marcello Perathoner! Here are the current language totals for languages with over 25 eBooks. Grand total for today: 28,801 [-28,029] up 772 in two months] 24300 English en 1420 French fr 578 German de 498 Finnish fi 418 Dutch nl 400 Chinese zh 322 Portuguese pt 232 Spanish es 194 Italian it 63 Latin la 58 Esperanto eo 55 Swedish sv 54 Tagalog tl 29 Greek el >From March and February. . . . Grand total for today: 28,029 [-27,475 =] up 554 23669 English en 1374 French fr 567 German de 490 Finnish fi 402 Dutch nl 399 Chinese zh 302 Portuguese pt 225 Spanish es 178 Italian it Compared to last month's 27,475 23468 English en 1359 French fr 560 German de 484 Finnish fi 400 Chinese zh 387 Dutch nl 294 Portuguese pt 222 Spanish es 176 Italian it Grand total for today: 27,475 [- 27,188 ] +287 23,277 [ - 23,075 =] +202 English en 1,333 [ - 1,319 =] + 14 French fr 556 [ - 553 =] + 3 German de 480 [ - 476 =] + 4 Finnish fi 392 [ - 377 =] + 25 Chinese zh 370 [ - 361 =] + 9 Dutch nl 287 [ - 267 =] + 20 Portuguese pt 218 [ - 217 =] + 1 Spanish es 169 [ - 164 =] + 5 Italian it Not to mention PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe.... Total increase +287 All Reported Languges and from the previous month. . . . Grand total for today 27,188 [ - 26,867 =] +321 23,075 [ - 22,863 =] + 212 English en 1,319 [ - 1,289 =] + 76 French fr 553 [ - 549 =] + 4 German de 476 [ - 470 =] + 6 Finnish fi 361 [ - 359 =] + 2 Dutch nl 377 [ - 359 =] + 18 Chinese zh 267 [ - 260 =] + 7 Portuguese pt 217 [ - 207 =] + 10 Spanish es 164 [ - 159 =] + 5 Italian it etc.,etc.,etc. Total increase + 321 All Reported Lanugages Thanks to Greg Newby! ////// And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide [2 months] 28,801 up 772 PG General Automated Count 1,760 up 32 PG of Australia 631 up 66 PG of Europe 2,021 up 8 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42],etc. 266 up 44 PG of Canada, Estimated. ====== 33,479 up 922 Grand Total [461/month, two months] >From March 27,475 + 287 PG General Automated Count 1,723 + 6 PG Australia 553 + 13 PG Europe 2,494 + 33 PG PrePrints 202 + 12 PG Canada [Estimated] ====== 32,447 + 349 by various automated counts and newsletters Note Without counting PrePrints, we are still about 30K, and some of the new .lit collection will not make it under our current rules of addition from PrePrints, and would be deleted from PrePrints without moving to other listings. The 307 Chinese eBooks in PrePrints will probably go, as a team of our best Chinese workers says they are not worth a lot more time to work on, etc. 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 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; 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 Calcuating 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

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Testing Project Gutenberg MONTHLY Mailing Lists
by Michael S. Hart 18 May '09

18 May '09

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Free Scanner Shipped in Slovenia
by Michael S. Hart 17 May '09

17 May '09

Do we have any volunteers there? Let me know, scanner will arive. Thanks!!! Michael

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!@! Project Gutenberg Newsletter
by Michael S. Hart 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

We've had some terribly major crashes. The Newsletter list were DESTROYED!!! We are using ANCIENT GREEK BACKUPS!!! This is going out the MONTHLY Newsletter list. If you want to stay on it, you are fine. If not, here are instructions for all our lists, including how to unsubscribe. You asked about subcribing or unsubscribing from one of the Project Gutenberg Newsletters. Please save for reference: This is the information from: www.gutenberg.org/howto/subscribe-howto Please check this site once in a while for updates: Mailing Lists Various mailing lists for Project Gutenberg exist. A brief description of each follows, along with a link to visit or subscribe (or unsubscribe). All lists live at http://lists.pglaf.org, and are moderated except for the discussion lists: * Newsletters, with new eBook listings, calls for assistance, general information, and announcements: + gweekly: Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter. Traffic consists mostly of one weekly newsletter. + gmonthly: Project Gutenberg Monthly newsletter. Traffic consists mostly of one monthly newsletter. * Notification as new eBooks are posted: + posted: receive book postings as they happen, along with other PG related internally-focused discussion (high traffic, over 10 postings per day) * Discussion for active volunteers: + gutvol-d: general unmoderated volunteer discussion (moderate traffic) + gutvol-p: programming volunteers, for software development (light traffic) + gutvol-w: website volunteers, for website development (new list) + glibrary: library help, for physically tracking down books and copyright research. Low traffic, with occasional requests. * Other lists: + gutvol-l: moderated volunteer announcements (light traffic) If you would like to subscribe to a mailing list simply select a mailing list name above. All lists require a password and email confirmation to subscribe as part of the Lyris anti-spam measures. Copyright ? 1971-2004 Project Gutenberg -- All Rights Reserved. Most recently updated: 2004-08-07 16:33:32.

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!@! 4 Weeks: The Big Push, Well Not So Big This Time (fwd)
by Michael Hart 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

As most of you are aware, it is 4 weeks until we complete our 35th year of Project Gutenberg history, and we have about 380 eBooks left to make it to 20,000. This would be about 95 per week. . .we did 82 this week. So it's not such a Big Push as we did to get to 10,000, but a rather smaller push, which is why you haven't heard me say an awfully lot about it. . .things are working out much a closer match to reaching 20,000 on our 35th anniversary than anyone, myself included, would likely have predicted. However, especially since I am planning on taking a week off, right at July 4th, I am best man at my best friend's wedding, I am trying to get as much as possible done before I leave as soon as I can after sending out the Newsletter a week before. I am working on the July 5th Newsletter, and will have it out in a fairly complete manner half a day after the previous one goes out, and am hoping that some of our volunteers will have the wherewithal to update it and send it out July 5th with an entirely up to date revision, that hopefully will hit 20,000. If you have any books that are near completion, but would not be totally through all the various processes, we can put them in the "PrePrints" section now, where perhaps a few people in the next few weeks can help with them. More later, I'm just trying to make it one day at a time right now. . . . Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org

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