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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]

3. Reading doesn't need to be expensive. Here's where to find ...

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   Readers can borrow e-books for free and download them or send them straight to their Kindle. ... Simply search “Free books on Kindle ... Project Gutenberg also contains over 75,000 free e-books.

4. Standard Ebooks - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. ebook - Wikipedia

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   Moreover, numerous e-books are available online free of charge on sites such as Project Gutenberg. [174] For example, all books printed before 1928 are in the public domain in the United States, which enables websites to host ebook versions of such titles for free. [175]

6. Michael S. Hart - Wikipedia

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   Thus, to avoid crashing the e-mail system, he made the e-text available for people to download. This was the beginning of Project Gutenberg as the first digital library. Hart began posting text copies of such classics as the Bible and the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and Mark Twain. As of 1987 he had typed in a total of 313 books in this fashion.

7. Wikisource - Wikipedia

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   Wikisource is an online wiki-based digital library of free-content textual sources operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole; it is also the name for each instance of that project, one for each language. The project's aim is to host all forms of free text, in many languages, and translations.

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. 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 ...