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• Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 661
  Historian Robert Darnton , the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books , a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case . While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not ...
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• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 661
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
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• The Pilgrims, Famine, and the End of Feudalism

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  " . . . it well appeared the famine must still ensue . . ." [i] Famine stalked The Pilgrims the first years. But their conquest of famine helped end old world feudalism. I suggest the reader access the Project Gutenberg online edition of Governor William Bradfords Of Plymouth Plantation.[ii], for the original ...
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• Project Gutenberg Project (& Challenge!)

  
  dria.org — Authority: 120
  Like reading? Want to support a good cause? Welcome to the Project Gutenberg Project*! If you’ve never heard of it, Project Gutenberg ( Wikipedia page ) is an almost entirely volunteer-driven effort to digitize, archive, and distribute “cultural works” (mostly books). It was established in 1971 and now ...
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• FreeKindleBooks.org for fans of Dickens, Twain and other public domain writers: Easy Kindle book downloads

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 661
  How to download free books directly via your Kindle’s built-in Web browser? Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized right now for devices with small screens and slow browsers. And free download guides—with links to public domain books—are not as easy and convenient to use ...
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• Wattpad is now a Project Gutenberg affiliate

  
  Watt'sup — Authority: 112
  We are very excited to announce that Wattpad is now one of Project Gutenberg’s affiliates . Founded in 1971 by visionary Michael Hart to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks, Project Gutenberg is the first and still one of the largest and most well-known collections of free ebooks. Project ...
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• Project Gutenberg #7

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  The Home Book of Verse, edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Also by Mr Stevenson: Poems of American History at Google.
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• Project Gutenberg #6

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  Essays in English Literature: 1780-1860 , George Saintsbury, 1890 Through Russian Snows : A Story of Napoleons Retreat From Moscow, G.A. Henty, 1902 Astounding Stories magazine, April 1931
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• Nameplate fun

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  Ive spend odd moments working on a blog redesign in drupal. Heres a possible nameplate centered on a funny bird I found in an old book at Project Gutenberg; the font is Windsor, which I discovered via the inimitable Andrew Cusack . The notion of putting a large thingamajig between the words came from Mr Cusacks ...
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• A taste for books

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  Bibliomania at Project Gutenberg: a resource page.
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• Project Gutenberg #5

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies : Household Methods of Preparation - US Department of Agriculture, 1917 Bulfinchs Mythology - an 1881 compilation of three earlier works by Thomas Bulfinch: The Age of Fable The Age of Chivalry Legends of Charlemagne
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• Project Gutenberg #4

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  Rhymes Old and New , 1900 The Talisman (a Waverly novel) - Sir Walter Scott
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• Project Gutenberg #3

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  How to form a library , 1886 Riders of the purple sage , 1912, Zane Grey Traditional nursery songs of England , with illustrations, 1843
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• Project Gutenberg #2

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  English as she is spoke , or, a jest in sober earnest, by Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca, On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music , by Camille Saint-Saëns, 1915 A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into ...
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• Project Gutenberg #1

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 127
  I subscribe to Project Gutenbergs daily rss feed of new books , so I think Ill post a few interesting ones here each day. Benjamin Franklin : A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago - American Pioneers and Patriots Series The Fifth-Dimension Tube : A Complete Novelette - ...
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• Interview with Michael Hart

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 661
  Project Gutenberg News has an interview with the Project’s founder, Michael Hart . Here’s one of the questions asked by interviewer Andrea Kobeskzo: You’ve achieved a lot toward the cause of digitizing public works. Do you feel that one achievement stands out above the rest? One thing was just keeping ...
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• Spooky Halloween stories 2009

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 127
  Last year’s selection of Spooky stories for Halloween was great fun, so we’re back this year with more. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is one of the creepiest short stories I’ve read, with parts that remind me of those disturbing modern Japanese horror flicks. Absolutely one of my ...
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• Ligeia, pumpkins, y gatos

  
  a chronology of stupidity — Authority: 116
  high winds and cold weather doesnt sound like San Diego but it has been like this the past two days and i am immensely happy about it! i finally get to wear a sweater for the 1st time in about 8 months... and the weather matches the October Halloweenesque mood so Ive running some of those infamous October errands ...
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