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2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

3. Michael S. Hart - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg. Website. hart.pglaf.org. Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) [1] was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. [1][2][3][4] He published e-books via ARPANET years before the ...

4. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3][4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants ...

5. Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it ...

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   Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...

6. Gutenberg Bible - Wikipedia

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   Gutenberg Bible. Gutenberg Bible of the New York Public Library; purchased by James Lenox in 1847, it was the first Gutenberg Bible to be acquired by a United States citizen. The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42, was the earliest major book printed in Europe using mass-produced metal movable type.

7. Project Gutenberg Canada - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.gutenberg.ca. Project Gutenberg Canada, also known as Project Gutenburg of Canada, is a Canadian digital library founded July 1, 2007 by Dr. Mark Akrigg. [1] The website allows Canadian residents to create e-texts and download books, including those that are otherwise not in the public domain in other countries.

8. Project Gutenberg Australia - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg Australia, abbreviated as PGA, is an Internet site which was founded in 2001 by Colin Choat. It is a sister site of Project Gutenberg, though there is no formal relationship between the two organizations. The site hosts free ebooks or e-texts which are in the public domain in Australia. Volunteers have prepared and submitted ...

9. Standard Ebooks - Wikipedia

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   Standard Ebooks. Standard Ebooks is an open source, volunteer-driven project to create and publish high-quality, fully featured, and accessible e-books of works in the public domain. [1][2] Standard Ebooks sources titles from places like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and Wikisource, among others, [3] but differs from those projects ...