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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 ...
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.
Project Gutenberg (Chinese: 無雙; also released as The Counterfeiter in the United Kingdom) is a 2018 Hong Kong–Chinese action film [6] written and directed by Felix Chong, and starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok. Filming began on 15 May 2017 [7] and the film was theatrically released on 30 September 2018 in China and on 4 October 2018 in ...
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.
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]
The Gutenberg Museum is one of the oldest museums of printing in the world, located opposite the cathedral in the old part of Mainz, Germany. It is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of printing from movable metal type in Western Europe. The collections include printing equipment and examples of printed materials from many cultures.
Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors, known as Wikipedians, through a model of open collaboration. It is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [ 10] Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia.
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer, trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character Doctor Dolittle. [ 1] The fictional physician to talking animals, based in an English village, first appeared in illustrated letters to his children which Lofting sent ...