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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] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in ...

3. 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.

4. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Project Gutenberg: Download 20,000 free books to your ... - AOL

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   This not-for-profit initiative has compiled electronic versions of over 20,000 books, including virtually any classic Project Gutenberg: Download 20,000 free books to your smartphone or PDA Skip ...

6. Free Kindle Books on Amazon - AOL

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   Get free Kindle books on Amazon's site for the top 100 paid and free Kindle books. Note, stick to the right column only if you want freebies. The left column is for top paid Kindle books, though ...

7. Project Gutenberg Canada - Wikipedia

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   Project Gutenberg Canada, also known as Project Gutenburg of Canada, is a Canadian digital library founded July 1, 2007 by Dr. Mark Akrigg. 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.

8. Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it ...

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   June 24, 2024 at 8:35 AM. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was ...

9. Standard Ebooks - Wikipedia

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   Standard Ebooks is an open source, volunteer-driven project to create and publish high-quality, fully featured, and accessible e-books of works in the public domain. [ 1][ 2] 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 ...