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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 ...
Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) [1] was an American author, best known as the inventor of the e-book and the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet.
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.
Project Gutenberg (Chinese: 無雙; also released as The Counterfeiter in the United Kingdom) is a 2018 Hong Kong–Chinese action film [6] written and directed by Felix Chong, and starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok. Filming began on 15 May 2017 [7] and the film was theatrically released on 30 September 2018 in China and on 4 October 2018 in ...
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[ a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [ 2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread ...
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.
The Prophet at Wikisource. The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese - American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. [ 1] It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work.
Liber Vagatorum at Project Gutenberg Liber Vagatorum ( Latin for 'Book of Vagabonds'), also known as The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars with a Vocabulary of Their Language in English, [a] is an anonymously written book first printed in Pforzheim , southwestern Germany, probably either in 1509 or 1510.