so, i see p.g. hit number _forty_thousand_ about 10 days back...
a volume entitled "extinct birds", from 1907, cataloging species
that became extinct "within the last six or seven hundred years".
fitting, since the goners will likely triple in the next 6 or 7 years.
anyway...
i'll still call it 30,000 for a while, because of non-books and dups,
but 30,000 is a good number for volunteers to have accomplished.
so congratulations and thanks to all the folks who worked so hard.
it's too bad that e-books never caught on with the public, so that
project gutenberg could've gotten all the credit that it deserved...
oh, wait... that's right... the boat _did_ sail, but p.g. _missed_it_,
because everyone here was lingering at the x.m.l. dock instead...
oh well, i'm sure you'll get it all sorted out, sooner or later, eh?
-bowerbird
