enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg

   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]

3. Michael S. Hart - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart

   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.

4. Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle

   Kindle 8 displaying the title page of an e-book from Project Gutenberg Amazon's upgrade of the standard Kindle was released on June 22, 2016, in both black and white colors ($80 ad-supported, $100 no ads).

5. Google Books - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books

   Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

6. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

   Comparison of e-book formats. The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books. The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [ a ] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats.

7. Open Library - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Library

   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 ...

8. Calibre (software) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software)

   calibre-ebook.com. Calibre is a cross-platform free and open-source suite of e-book software. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats.

9. Distributed Proofreaders - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Proofreaders

   Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors. As of July 2024, the site had digitized 48,000 titles. [2][3][4][5]