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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. 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. 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 ...

5. Distributed Proofreaders Canada - Wikipedia

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   Distributed Proofreaders Canada (DP Canada) is a volunteer organization that transfers books into electronic format and releases them as public domain books in formats readable by electronic devices.

6. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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   The first e-books were in plain text (.txt) format, supplied for free by the Project Gutenberg community, but the format itself existed before e-books. The plain text format doesn't support DRM or formatting options (such as different fonts, graphics or colors).

7. List of digital library projects - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Wikisource - Wikipedia

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   The project was originally called Project Sourceberg during its planning stages (a play on words for Project Gutenberg). [2] In 2001, there was a dispute on Wikipedia regarding the addition of primary-source materials, leading to edit wars over their inclusion or deletion. Project Sourceberg was suggested as a solution to this.

9. Distributed Proofreaders - Wikipedia

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   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]