Project Gutenberg Milestone

Michael Hart <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.announce.weekly
Message-ID <LYRIS-1741493-3727243-2003.07.31-12.09.03--gclegaw-gweekly#[email protected]>
Just a moment ago I received official word that we reached 8,889 eBooks.


This puts us 8/9 of the way to our original goal of 10,000 free eBooks!


Here are two graphical representations of today's spot in history:


Imagine the 10,000 books have been separated into 9 stacks of 1,111 each,
we have just now completed 8 stacks leaving just 1 stack to go:

GRAND TOTAL LEAVING
One Left To #10,000

   _____                     BOOKS DONE!!!
  (__9__(  9,999
   _____
  (__8__(  8,889
   _____                     _____                      BOOKS TO GO!!!
  (__7__(  7,777            (__7__(   7,777
   _____                     ______
  (__6__(  6,666            (__6__(   6,666
   _____                     _____
  (__5__(  5,555            (__5__(   5,555
   _____                     _____
  (__4__(  4,444            (__4__(   4,444
   _____                     _____
  (__3__(  3,333            (__3__(   3,333
   _____                     _____
  (__2__(  2,222            (__2__(   2,222
   _____                     _____                      _____
  (__1__(  1,111            (__1__(   1,111            (__1__(   1,111

GRAND TOTAL LEAVING
One Left To #10,000          BOOKS DONE!!!              BOOKS TO GO!!!


*****

                                                 Nov/Dec, 2003  *10K>12/03 10K
                                               October, 2003  *9500>10/3 9,500
                                            August 14, 2003  *9,000>8/03 9,000
Number of eBooks by Date    * = Estimated
                                                July 31, 2003 8,889>7/03 8,889
                                               July 21, 2003  8,750>7/03 8,750
                                              July 4, 2003   8,500>7/03  8,500
                                            May 20, 2003    8,000>5/03   8,000
                                                           7,500>3/03    7,500
                                                          7,000>1/03     7,000
                                                         6,500>12/02     6,500
                                                        6,000 >9/02      6,000
                                                       5,500 >7/02       5,500
                                                      5,000 >4/02        5,000
                                                     4,500 >2/02         4,500
                                                    4,000>10/01          4,000
                                                  3,500 >5/01            3,500
                                                3,000 >12/00             3,000
                                             2,500 > 8/00                2,500
                                         2,000 >12/99                    2,000
                                    1,500 >10/98                         1,500
                               1,000 >8/97                               1,000
                            500 >4/96                                      500
              100 >12/93                <<<December 10, 1993               100
10 > 12/90                                                                  10
YR 1990/1991/1992/1993/1994/1995/1996/1997/1998/1999/2000/2001/2002/2003 ^####


My HUGE Thanks To ALL Those Who Have Helped With Project Gutenberg!!!


Michael

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