[Leica] Project Gutenberg

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

gutenberg is an enormously valuable resource to anyone with an interest 
in the (non-copyrighted) seminal documents of all time.

i've been using it for almost 20 (!) years, but i was stunned to find 
that it's been around since 1971.

"[Gutenberg founder] [Michael] Hart related that after his account was 
created on July 4, 1971, he had been trying to think of what to do with 
it and had seized upon a copy of the United States Declaration of 
Independence 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence>, 
which he had been given at a grocery store on his way home from watching 
fireworks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks> that evening. He 
typed the text into a teletype <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype> 
machine but was unable to transmit it via e-mail 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail>. Thus, to avoid "crashing the 
system", it had to be downloaded individually.  This was the beginning 
of Project Gutenberg."   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart

the free iphone app "stanza" can easily download gutenberg (and other) 
books over the air.

-rei


Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
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