[gmonthly] Project Gutenberg Newsletter June-July 2014
This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for June-July 2014
CONTENTS
* Happy birthday to Project Gutenberg!
* The BookLand project
* Offline catalog update & impact
* Bookshelves still undergoing revitalization
* New eBook listings from May & June 2014
* Happy birthday to Project Gutenberg!
On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart created the first electronic book. This
was the United States Declaration of Independance, available online at
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
As the United States celebrates the 238th year since its founding, now
is a great time to look at the 1350 or so words that launched a
nation.
* The BookLand project
BookLand (www.book-land.ro) is a year-long mobile book fair throughout
Romania. In 2014 it is aiming to visit and talk to 300,000 high
school students in 23 cities. BookLand offers free access to eBooks
in constant pursuit of making lecture a relaxing habit. Their
Web site has a section for free eBooks.
www.book-land.ro
* Bookshelves still undergoing revitalization
The Bookshelf section has had significant updates (as mentioned
in May). Please take a look:
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf
* Offline catalog update & impact
In April 2014, some updates to the format of the XML/RDF offline
catalog replaced the older format. This has rendered two services
temporarily unable to get updates from the latest eBooks:
- MARC-format records provided by Adelaide University
- The custom CD/DVD ISO maker
We hope both services will be updating again soon. Meanwhile, the ISO
maker has been having difficulties for several months with sometimes
failing to create a viable ISO image (this is the format for a
collection suitable for copying to a CD or DVD disc). We hope to make
progress on this soon.
* New eBook listings from May & June 2014
~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Jun 2014 to 30 Jun 2014 ~ ~ ~ ~
TITLE and AUTHOR ETEXT NO.
The German Lieutenant and Other Stories, by August Strindberg 46107
[Subtitle: The German Lieutenant; Over-Refinement;
"Unwelcome;" Higher Aims; Paul and Peter;
A Funeral; The Last Shot]
[Translator: Claud Field]
The Scottish Parliament, by Robert S. Rait 46106
[Subtitle: Before the Union of the Crowns]
No Posting 46105
The Girl in Industry, by D. J. Collier 46104
Germany's Vanishing Colonies, by Gordon Le Sueur 46103
An American Girl in Munich, by Mabel W. Daniels 46102
[Subtitle: Impressions of a Music Student]
Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume II, by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi 46101
[Language: Italian]
Vita di Andrea Doria, Volume I, by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi 46100
[Language: Italian]
The Vitality of 'Mormonism', by James E. Talmage 46099
[Subtitle: An Address]
In the Name of Liberty, by Owen Johnson 46098
[Subtitle: A Story of the Terror]
Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles, by Oliver Hogue 46097
[Subtitle: Descriptive Narratives of the More
Desperate Engagements on the Gallipoli Peninsula]
Sonia Married, by Stephen McKenna 46096
Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke, by Henry Francis Brooke 46095
[Subtitle: Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry
Brigade Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan,
from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880]
The Romance of Modern Mechanism, by Archibald Williams 46094
[Subtitle: With Interesting Descriptions in
Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery
and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate
Scientific Instruments]
Secrets of the Sword, by César Lecat de Bazancourt 46093
[Illustrator: Frederick Henry Townsend]
[Translator: Charles Felix Clay]
A Little Pilgrimage in Italy, by Olave M. Potter 46092
[Illustrator: Yoshio Markino]
The Octoroon, by Dion Boucicault 46091
[Subtitle: or, Life in Louisiana; A Play in Five acts]
Lancashire Sketches, by Edwin Waugh 46090
[Subtitle: Third Edition]
Mesék és regék, by Mór Jókai 46089
[Language: Hungarian]
Stories of Exile, by Various 46088
[Editor: Rossiter Johnson]
[Subtitle: Ethan Brand; The Swans of Lir;
A Night in a Workhouse; The Outcasts of
Poker Flat; The Man Without a Country;
Flight of a Tartar Tribe]
Drawings of Rossetti, by T. Martin Wood 46087
Der lebende Leichnam, by Leo N. Tolstoi 46086
[Subtitle: Drama in sechs Akten (zwölf Bildern)]
[Language: German]
The Boy Allies with Pershing in France, by Clair W. Hayes 46085
[Subtitle: Over the Top at Chateau Thierry]
The Secret Life , by Elizabeth Bisland 46084
[Subtitle: Being the Book of a Heretic]
[...]
The Lake of Geneva, by Joseph E. Morris 45560
The Pansy Magazine, February 1886, by Various 45559
[Editor: Pansy (Mrs. G. R. (Isabella) Alden)]
The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, 45558
by David Lathrop
Green Eyes, by Roy J. Snell 45557
Pappina, the Little Wanderer, by Katherine Wallace Davis 45556
[Subtitle: A Story of Southern Italy]
Picture Posters, by Charles Hiatt 45555
[Subtitle: A Short History of the Illustrated Placard with Many
Reproductions of the Most Artistic Examples in all Countries]
[Illustrators: Various]
Doctor Birch and His Young Friends, by M. A. Titmarsh 45554
The Lulu Alphabet, by Anonymous 45553
[Illustrator: Anonymous]
The Old Market-Cart, by Mrs. F. B. Smith 45552
[Illustrator: Anonymous]
Aunt Affable's Story of Old Mother Bantry and her Cat, by Anonymous 45551
[Subtitle: Illustrated]
Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Tome 3, by René Chateaubriand 45550
[Language: French]
The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte, by Edith Janice Craine 45549
