Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

Newby, Gregory B., 1965-2025· 2 chapters· 4,606 words

Project Gutenberg creates and freely distributes electronic books (eBooks). This document offers elements of the story of Project Gutenberg’s methods and practices for creating those eBooks, and the surrounding procedures for making them as widely available as possible. Projec...

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1. Part 1

Project Gutenberg creates and freely distributes electronic books (eBooks). This document offers elements of the story of Project Gutenberg’s methods and practices for creating...

2. Part 2

For HTML, EPUB and MOBI, pairs of files are generated: one with images, and one without. The set of files without images is intended to be friendlier to readers with limited ban...