Thank YOU Project Gutenberg!

Michael Hart <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:03:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Here are just SOME of the Thank You notes we received recently:

[Names and email addresses included only wit specific permission]

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From: Bruce J. Veazie  <[email protected]>
You folks are doing yeoman's work there at gutenberg.net. I've done some
proofing for gutenberg over the last several years and downloaded
I-don't-know-how-many books. But you dedicated ones are, I believe,
helping to preserve a heritage.   Thank YOU.


Here is salute to your contribution to the world of knowledge:
From India where we from our Vedas (knowledge) we believe that
knowledge is eternal without an origin nor an end. Your Project
Gutenberg has given us an example case to this belief.
n srinivasan <[email protected]>


From: Stephanie Sedik <[email protected]>
Bless you and Project Gutenberg.
Youth Services Department
Highland Park Public Library, IL


From: Bob Hammond <[email protected]>
Thank you for your vision.
This message is from an old and impoverished Australian who
can now read the great works of literature. My best wishes.


Thanks for the great work that you guys are doing.

My hommage to Project Gutenberg [translation]

From: BRIAN STROMSOE <[email protected]>
I just ran across Project Gutenberg again (just a cursory look before)
and downloaded a book my father read when he was a 10 year old boy.
It brought back a lot of memories for him and me.


Thanks for the tremendous amount of etexts which PG has made available.


I think Project Gutenberg is an awesome idea!
From: Joo Kim <[email protected]>


Thanks for what you have done with gutenberg.
A most impressive project!  Not TO mention a
contribution to the education of the whole world!
Ken Meece <[email protected]>


I think that what you started is one of the greatest things going.
Thanks for the ideal and good luck.
tommy corley


I think you're really onto something. Good work!
I really do think that you are engaged in a noble pursuit.
Your project stands to do what the Gutenberg's press did.
Make knowledge accessible.
Roderick Seudath [[email protected]]


Thank you for your wonderful Gutenberg Project, good writing,
like good art should be free and available to everyone.


Kyle Jackson <[email protected]>
Subject: Thank you for PG!
I just wanted to say thank you for what you are doing.  I have
downloaded many, many, etexts from you, and there is no way I could have
bought them all.  Please keep it up. . . .


I want to congratulate you on the work done so far, as well as
the work from all of the volunteers who have made Project Gutenberg
possible. I, for one, greatly appreciate it. Especially where I am.
[Trinidad and Tobago] Taran Rampersad <[email protected]>?

I really appreciate this.
Chris Henry <[email protected]>

I think your gutenberg ebook project is great!
peggy dobbins, phd
artist and sociologist
<[email protected]>


Thanks once more for all the great books!!!
Oliver Walden <[email protected]>


The CD project is plenty cool.  PG is great,
but having it in your pocket takes it to another level.
It inspired me to spend some time today at
http://texts01.archive.org/dp/


Truly, PG the CD project, and Distributed Proofreading are great ideas.
They are exemplary uses of the power of the internet to have many hands
make light work, and then to have many more hands share the wealth.
Andrew Tannenbaum <[email protected]>


"Thank you for making volumes of amazing literature available to the public."
Tamara Grivicic <[email protected]>

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Please accept my own Thank You along with these. . . .


Michael


Michael S. Hart
<[email protected]>
Project Gutenberg
Principal Instigator
"*Internet User ~#100*"
Prof. of Electronic Text


As of August 25 we are over 10/11 of the way to 10,000 eBooks!!!:

Your download should include ~9125+ free eBooks from Project Gutenberg at:

http://gutenberg.net

That means there are ~875- left to go until we get to #10,000!


Next week, hopefully about 70 more!

We are currently running at about 95% of Moore's Law growth.
Perhaps YOUR contribution will bring us up to 100%!!!

Please send us your suggestions!

Hand out free copies!


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