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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]
Standard Ebooks sources titles from places like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and Wikisource, among others, [3] but differs from those projects in that the goal is to maximize readability for a modern audience, take advantage of accessibility features available in modern e-book file formats, and to streamline updates to the e-books ...
The Kindle Store is an online e-book e-commerce store operated by Amazon as part of its retail website and can be accessed from any Amazon Kindle, Fire tablet, or Kindle mobile app. At the launch of the Kindle in November 2007, the store had more than 88,000 digital titles available in the U.S. store. [ 2 ]
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.
A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. [57] Working with government and research partners in India ( Digital Library of India ) and China , the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to ...
Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only. [3] E-book lending is different from physical book lending. Libraries have always been able to acquire and lend physical books without requiring any special permission from publishers.
Foliate can browse the OPDS feed of Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Feedbooks, and can automatically download royalty free ebooks from these sources. [4] It is also possible to manually add other OPDS sources. Foliate supports speech synthesis using eSpeak, eSpeakNG or Festival, albeit without automatic detection of the content language.
The project's aim is to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations. Originally conceived as an archive to store useful or important historical texts, it has expanded to become a general-content library. The project officially began on November 24, 2003, under the name Project Sourceberg, a play on Project Gutenberg.