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."

Comments

Re:e-reader hardware?

[zenofjazz]

I prefer the palm pilot, myself... smaller than a paperback, long battery life, and very readable backlightable screen... And there are freeware apps that will allow you to take Gutenberg eTexts and convert them for your Palm.
How much text can you stuff in 8Mb?
2 full copies of the bible..
or
all of shakespeare
or
LOTS and lots of good fiction.
-Jazz