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The Ebook Turns 50; FEF Monographs Fund.
On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart made the text of the Declaration of Independence available on the arpanet (which is now the Internet). Although books in digital form certainly existed before that, many of us regard the beginning of Project Gutenberg as the birth of the ebook. We have a bit more than 6 months […]
70,000 Free Ebooks, 1.8 Million Served
70,681 and 1,853,832 as of November 1, 2019, but who’s counting? It’s been a while since we’ve reported on our progress building the free ebook catalog of all free ebook catalogs, but yes, we’ve been busy. Since people ask, here are some statistics. The two biggest components of the catalog are Project Gutenberg (56,986 works) […]
57,000 free GITenberg ebooks are now in Unglue.it
Over the past month, the Free Ebook Foundation’s GITenberg program has rebuilt and refreshed over 57,000 ebooks from Project Gutenberg, and has loaded them into Unglue.it. These books are mostly in the Public Domain. They join our collection of about 7000 open-licensed books that are still in-copyright. As a result of the growth of our […]
Translating the Khasis’ hidden treasure
You probably have never heard of Soso Tham. We certainly hadn’t until a few weeks ago. You’ve probably never even heard of the Khasi people, 1.6 million of whom live in the foothills of the Himalaya. Soso Tham is the best known poet of the Khasi language. If you’ve never heard of the Khasi in the first place, […]
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