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Revision as of 22:40, 11 July 2007
Description
From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
Links
- Main site: http://www.projectgutenberg.org
- Affiliate: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
Languages
- English: Many many books
- Portuguese: A few hundred books
- Spanish: A few hundred books
- Arabic: Few to none
- Current list of languages and sizes: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Size
There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
Formats
- Formats materials are currently in
- Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from curent packaging)
Curator Info
Group: Literature
Group coordinator: None
Contributing groups and their curators: Project Gutenberg, John Guagliardo
Allottable size
Assessment
Scope (subjects, ages, other)
Completeness (comprehensiveness for given topic and audience)
Multilingualism (specifically es, pt, en, ar)
Quality (incl. suitability for audience)
Freeness (license and format)
Comments, Tags, and Ratings
XO
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