Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter

The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter, Sep. 21, 2008
eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since 1971


51 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now say October 11, 2011]

This leaves 4 1/4 years, 17 seasons, or 51 months.

Not to worry.  I will still make predictions further on.



New Project Gutenberg Landmarks


30,000 eBooks:  About The Same As Average Public Libraries!

We are rapidly approaching 30,000 eBooks in the originating
Project Gutenberg collections, as differentiated from those
eBooks originating with other eBook producers located at an
alternate site to the original http://www.gutenberg.org, at
http://www.gutenberg.cc which has over 75,000 eBooks.

We should pass 30,000 before the end of the year, as below.



Chinese Moves Into The Project Gutenberg "Top 5"


We still need more help in cataloging these eBooks, but the
latest 300 or so Chinese eBooks are now in PrePrints.

Anyone who can work in Chinese is encouraged to look into a
directory called /china in PrePrints, or get the .zip file,
from one directory above to get all the files downloaded in
one single command.

http://preprints.readingroo.ms

first one on the list:

/china

.zip of whole bunch is one directory up, get china.zip

The current list, before uploaded these appeared as:

Grand total for today: 26545

22647     English en
  1243     French  fr
   542     German  de
   464     Finnish fi
   357     Dutch   nl
   320     Chinese zh
   252     Portuguese      pt
   201     Spanish es
   155     Italian it

When we get all 307 possible titles online, that will bring
Chinese up to a total of 627, which will place it second of
our non-English languages collection which is approximately
where it should go, given Internet language dispersal.

Believe it or not, Spanish is listed as the third language,
so that's the next goal, to bring Spanish to the "Top 5."

In reference to that goal, I am giving a presentation for a
new combination of Internet efforts called "Both Americas,"
in Buenos Aires early next Spring, followed by what I would
hope will be similar conferences in France and India.




All Time Hottest Request

Looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.

The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the
Poqet computer, etc.

The earliest USB flash drives were Disgo/Dizgo, M-Systems
and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular
in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors
resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.



Requesting A Second Time


We need someone who can do PowerPoint illustrations.

One in particular, building a 3-D box of 1,000 dominoes.



Additional Newsletter Services


In addition, we will provide the PG Canada Newsletter and
totals from PG of Australia, Europe, PrePrints, etc.

These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at:

http://www.gutenberg.cc

Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.


These are the various totals from the ~30,000 at:

http://www.gutenberg.org

and our other Project Gutenberg Sites


Here is the output for the current week:

       day       | cnt
----------------+-----
  Sun 2008-09-14 |  11
  Mon 2008-09-15 |   3
  Tue 2008-09-16 |  12
  Wed 2008-09-17 |   8
  Thu 2008-09-18 |   4
  Fri 2008-09-19 |  11
  Sat 2008-09-20 |  11

Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!



Here are the current language totals
for languages with over 100 eBooks.

Grand total for today: 26570

22670     English en
  1243     French  fr
   542     German  de
   464     Finnish fi
   357     Dutch   nl
   320     Chinese zh  [+307 = 627, moving to #3]]
   253     Portuguese pt
   202     Spanish es
   155     Italian it

Thanks to Greg Newby!


Please tell us your preferences of the following formats:


Current Totals


26,570  Project Gutenberg Under US Copyright Law
  1,693  Project Gutenberg Of Australia        +21
    523  Project Gutenberg of Europe            +8
    164  *Project Gutenberg of Canada          +12 [for Aug]
    684  Project Gutenberg PrePrints          +307
         Note:  Books go in and out of PrePrints
======         PrePrints NOT Included in language totals!!!
29,524  Grand Total
[About as many as the average public library]

eustats
preprints


26,570  09/15/08  PG General Automated Count
  1,693  09/12/08  PG Australia
    523  09/15/08  PG Europe
    684  09/15/08  PG PrePrints
    164  08/12/08  PG Canada
======
29,524  by various automated counts and newsletters


Using the latest number, minus "reserved" method we have:

26,682  09/15/08  PG "Posted" Notes
    -33  "Reserved"
======
26,649

26,592  09/15/08  PG General via Posted-Reserved
  1,693  09/12/08  PG Australia
    522  09/15/08  PG Europe
    684  09/15/08  PG PrePrints
    144  08/12/08  PG Canada
======
29,635  by Posted-Reserved




Note:  There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.


Note:  PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.



///


Here is how we ended 2007

The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161

titles.


The most number of books posted...
  ...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
  ...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
  ...in one month was 477 in November

We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
  78 per week
  11.13 per day

99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system,

bringing us almost to the 2,000 mark.


Here is a small selection of project milestones;

TOTAL "Original Project Gutenberg eBooks" equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library



  * 29,500 on 2008/09/19
  * 29,000 ~~ Calculating
  * 28,500 ~~ Calculating
  * 28,000 ~~ 2008/05/16
  * 27,500 on 2008/04/05
  * 27,000 ~~ 2008/02/29
  * 26,500 on 2008/01/26
  * 26,000 on 2007/12/24
  * 25,000 on 2007/10/12
  * 24,000 on 2007/07/10
  * 23,000 on 2007/04/15

PG-AU
  * 1,600 on 2008/02/08
  * 1,500 on 2007/04/07

PG Canada
  * 100 on 2008/03/25
  * 110 on 2008/04/17




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