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Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter

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


I'm expecting a rather busy day the 21st, so I am doing
as much of the Newsletter half a day early as possible,
so be forewarned, some of the numbers may be a day late
or early, depending on how you look at things.


Happy Holidays!!!

Give The World eBooks in 2009!!!


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

This leaves 4 years. 16 seasons, or 48 months.

Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions.



New Project Gutenberg Landmarks and Headlines




The new goal is to put Spanish into our Top 5 list.

I desperately need some Spanish speaking people to help me!



We also officially passed 32,000 original Project Gutenberg
eBooks this past month, including all our usual listings.

This means the original Project Gutenberg editions now list
as many titles as the average U.S. public library.


Please note that PrePrints now has nearly 2,500 eBooks!!!

Well worth looking into:

http:www.preprints.readingroo.ms

We could use someone to write a piece about PrePrints.

We also need more help with the Chinese eBooks there.



The News In More Detail



The times are changing, and we can either lead or follow.


If we don't lead in the field of Chinese eBooks we follow--
and we are starting a Project Gutenberg of Chinese, for all
who may wish to get in on the ground floor.

Believe it or not, Spanish is listed as the third language,
with regard to its use on the entire Internet so that's the
next goal, to bring Spanish to out 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 a similar conference in France.  India has had
one or more problems with getting an actual invitation sent
to me, and since their current conference will be over less
than a month from now, I will not be able to attend even if
such an invitation is issue at the last moment unless it is
of such an unusual nature that I can't turn it down and may
have to interrupt another trip I have now scheduled during,
and including the same period, the coming month.

This is the second time a conference hosted by people I had
contact with in India has not worked out due to inabilities
to get things organized in a manner that does not cost me a
great deal of time and money, neither of which I have great
amounts of to invest in any but the wisest of manners.

I BRING THIS UP AGAIN BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HEARD MUCH LATELY!

HENCE MY NEED FOR ASSISTANCE WITH SPANISH!!!


I fear the conference in France may be headed the direction
it was headed in last year, much as did the other one I had
mentioned above, but right now I can't say for sure that it
is either going to actually happen, or that I may speak.

Something I should mention about possible conferences

If all the plans are not made, tickets purchased, arranged,
etc., so that I can at least expect to break even on trips,
at least one month in advance, the odds of my attending the
conference fall very rapidly to zero.  So far the only ones
keeping up their end of the bargain are the Both Americas
hosting the conference in Buenos Aires, so that appears the
only conference I am certain to attend in six months.

AND NOW THERE ARE DOUBTS ABOUT THAT!!!


Greg Newby and I have made an attempt to set up one of few,
very few, conference appearances with a joint presentation,
but we haven't heard a word back from that one either, so I
won't even mention it at the moment.

Project Gutenberg just doesn't have the money for us to get
to conferences where we would lose money in the process.




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I am looking for the earliest flash RAM possible.

The very earliest were PCMCIA cards, such as used for the
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The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems
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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.

You should notice that we had a very good month, with 100
books done nearly every single week.


These totals do NOT include 75,000+ at

httpwww.gutenberg.cc

Where there are eBooks representing over 100 languages.



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

httpwww.gutenberg.org

and our other Project Gutenberg Sites


This week:

       day       | cnt
----------------+-----
  Sun 2008-12-14 |   6
  Mon 2008-12-15 |   5
  Tue 2008-12-16 |   9
  Wed 2008-12-17 |   6
  Thu 2008-12-18 |   8
  Fri 2008-12-19 |   7
  Sat 2008-12-20 |  10


Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!



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



Grand total for today: 27,475 [- 27,188 ] +287

23,277 [ - 23,075 =] +202  English en
  1,333 [ -  1,319 =] + 14  French  fr
    556 [ -    553 =] +  3  German  de
    480 [ -    476 =] +  4  Finnish fi
    392 [ -    377 =] + 25  Chinese zh
    370 [ -    361 =] +  9  Dutch   nl
    287 [ -    267 =] + 20  Portuguese pt
    218 [ -    217 =] +  1  Spanish es
    169 [ -    164 =] +  5  Italian it

Not to mention PrePrints, Canada, Australia, Europe....

Total increase       +287      All Reported Languges


and from last month. . . .


Grand total for today 27,188 [ - 26,867 =] +321

23,075 [ - 22,863 =] + 212   English en
  1,319 [ -  1,289 =] +  76   French  fr
    553 [ -    549 =] +   4   German  de
    476 [ -    470 =] +   6   Finnish fi
    361 [ -    359 =] +   2   Dutch   nl
    377 [ -    359 =] +  18   Chinese zh
    267 [ -    260 =] +   7   Portuguese pt
    217 [ -    207 =] +  10   Spanish es
    164 [ -    159 =] +   5   Italian it

etc.,etc.,etc.

Total increase       + 321     All Reported Lanugages


Thanks to Greg Newby!

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And From Project Gutenberg Sites Worldwide


27,475  +   287  112008  PG General Automated Count
  1,723  +     6  111808  PG Australia
    553  +    13  102108  PG Europe
  2,494  +    33  102108  PG PrePrints
    202  +    12  110908  PG Canada  [Estimated]
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32,447  +   349  by various automated counts and

newsletters


Note  Without counting PrePrints, we are still about 30K,
and some of the new .lit collection will not make it under
our current rules of addition from PrePrints, and would be
deleted from PrePrints without moving to other listings.

The 307 Chinese eBooks in PrePrints will probably go, as a
team of our best Chinese workers says they are not worth a
lot more time to work on, etc.

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
   32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
                      [And presuming 3 after official count]
   32,000 on Calcuating
   31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
   30,000 on 20081021
   29,500 on 20080919
   29,000 ~~ Calculating
   28,500 ~~ Calculating
   28,000 ~~ 20080516
   27,500 on 20080405
   27,000 ~~ 20080229
   26,500 on 20080126
   26,000 on 20071224
   25,000 on 20071012
   24,000 on 20070710
   23,000 on 20070415

PG-AU
   1,700 on 20081010
   1,600 on 20080208
   1,500 on 20070407

PG Canada
   175 on 20080930
   100 on 20080325
   110 on 20080417




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