Tag: Project Gutenberg
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10 book websites in the early days of the internet
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Thanks to The Internet Archive you can see popular book websites as they were in the beginnings of the world wide web.
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Complete works of classic authors – 15 free ebooks and index files
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Want to have works of Mark Twain or William Shakespeare in one file, and completely for free? Explore Project Gutenberg.
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8 tips and tricks to get the most of Project Gutenberg
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Check out these tips if you want to know how to explore Project Gutenberg more effectively and get books faster.
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10 lively pictures of Michael Hart, the inventor of ebooks
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When you try to google information about Michael Stern Hart, the man who invented a digital book, most articles are obituaries from 2011. This extraordinary tech visionary who devoted his life to ebooks, died on September 6, 2011 – 40 years, 2 months and 2 days after he created the first ebook in the world.…
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On this computer the first ebook in the world was created
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Declaration of Independence, the first ebook in the world, was created by 1971 on Xerox Sigma V computer.
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18 vintage photos and illustrations that show people reading
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A list of wonderful illustrations and photos showing people who read – from times when reading was still a privilege.
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How to find images in public domain ebooks
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In this post you’ll learn a couple of tips on how to find images in the books available online for free. Images from books published a hundred years ago are the same source of inspiration as pictures you can find on Instagram or Imgur. See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=”lists” ] These illustrations, very often made…
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Get new ebooks from Project Gutenberg once a day to your inbox
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Project Gutenberg is our favorite source of free ebooks that have entered public domain. Currently there are over 42 thousand ebooks in several formats, including the ones that are compatible with Kindle (mobi), as well as Nook, Kobo or iBooks (epub). The site offers an RSS feed of books recently added to the catalog or…
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Two less obvious, but increasingly important, benefits of ebooks
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The benefits of ebooks most people talk about are convenience and price. No one discusses convenience – it’s the strongest reason why people decide to add electronic file to a list of formats they consume books. There are a lot of doubts about price. In many cases digital editions are not considerably cheaper than print…
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Robinson Crusoe, edition from 1801, with original illustrations by A. Carse
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Robinson Crusoe, a famous novel by Daniel Defoe, was first published on 25 April, 1719. The book is a fictional autobiography of the main character, who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers, before being rescued. The book was very well received and is often credited as marking the…
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Send ebooks from Project Gutenberg to Google Drive in just one click
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In the middle of December I reported that Project Gutenberg, my favorite site with free public domain ebooks, added a Dropbox integration. Now users can also send books directly to Google Drive – if this is their preferred cloud storage service. All you have to do is to click on a Google Drive button that you…
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Astounding Stories of Super-Science are free on Project Gutenberg
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I’m pleased to share a new set of great books that came into public domain and are available for free from Project Gutenberg. Many people assume that public domain is all about classic literature from XIX century. It’s not true. You can find a lot of much younger publications. Some time ago, I put together 12…