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The Gutenberg Project
The Gutenberg Project: Gutenberg has been around since the Internet was very, very young — the Web wasn’t even born yet. It’s an effort to catalog as many free books and texts as possible. Gutenberg has thousands of books from hundreds of authors; all in the public domain, all free. Download, print, and enjoy.
I’m reading “Collective Knowledge: Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace” by Robert Marcus and Beverley Watters and I ran across the origin of the Gutenberg name:
Johannes Gutenberg is given the credit for […] the invention of printing with movable type and for the concept of unlimited reproduction. His first work, known as the Gutenberg Bible, was a 42-line […] bible that appeared about 1456.
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Happy Birthday to Us
Gadgetopia is four today. We kicked things off on August 12, 2002 with this post about The Gutenberg Project. (Check out that URL.) Thanks to everyone for hanging around all these years.
Post #5,000
Uh, well, here we are, I guess. Five thousand posts. Huh. This has been my goal since that first post 1,291 days ago. I posted about The Gutenberg Project back then, back when the site was deanebarker.net. Since then, we've managed to post just under four items a…
Gutenberg Distributed Proofreading Anniversary
5 Years of Distributed Proofreaders: Some good information from Teleread on the fifth anniverysary of Distributed Proofreading over at Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg now hosts more than 16,000 ebooks, but until recently that amount numbered in the hundreds. Part of the enormous growth was caused by a web application written…
Digitize the World
The Great Library of Amazonia: Here's a fantastic article about multiple efforts to catalog all of humankind's published knowledge, from Amazon's Search Inside the Book to Project Gutenberg to the Internet Archive. This stuff gives me goosebumps. The more specific the search, the more rewarding the experience. For instance, I've…
Entry Number 1,000
And here we are folks: in just over a year, we somehow found 1,000 things to talk about. We've come a long way from our first post about The Gutenberg Project (way back when the site was called DeaneBarker.net). Nine-hundred ninety-nine entries later, Gadgetopia seems to be a hit (okay,…
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