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Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook
AndrewRUK writes "Earlier today, Project Gutenberg's founder, Micheal Hart, announced that the project has passed the milestone of 10,000 free eBooks available, with the publication of the Magna Carta.Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971, with the aim of "[making] information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." In the 32 years since the project started, over 10,000 books, ranging from the Bible to school textbooks, and from the complete works of Shakespeare to the USA's declaration of independence, have been made freely available to the public by Project Gutenberg."
it is time to read up eh?
I still kind of have issues with ebooks.. I mean, reading is pretty much a tactile thing for me.. I.e. I like the smell of books, I like turning pages..
In other words, it is nice to get away from the computer sometimes and just read..
Though, I congratulate their efforts, it is cool
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
Project Gutenberg etexts come with a header and footer. This header and footer are property of Project Gutenberg. Also, Project Gutenberg is a trademarked name.
If you want to sell Project Gutenberg etexts without paying the Project a licensing fee, you need to strip out the header, footer and references to Project Gutenberg. The public domain part of these etexts is, er, public domain.
Sites that take PG texts and convert them to easy to read format are Black Mask, Gnutenberg, Pluckerbooks, and Raptorbook. This is off the top of my head, there are probably much more.
The Gnutenberg search function is broken AFAIK. Just leave the fields empty and click Search. They've got some beautiful PDFs.
--Branko