Ebook founder dies
Michael S. Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg passed away on 6 September. Hart, born in 1947, started Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitisation of the US Declaration of Independence, which Hart made available to other computer users at the University of Illinois - creating what was arguably the first "eBook".
Project Gutenberg was founded to distribute copyright-free eBooks free of charge. Currently, it offers more than 36,000 eBooks for download in variety of formats. Tens of thousands more eBooks are available through the project's network of national affiliates and other partners (works sometimes lapsing into public domain at different times in different jurisdictions).
Project Gutenberg's mission statement explains: "The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
"This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away...
Obituary on Project Gutenburg by Dr. Gregory B. Newby.
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Electronic books to read online. Free without subscriptions.
Alex - a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Bartleby Library - publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge.
Bibliomania - Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts and Study Guides.
Books On-Line - A Directory of over 35,000 books that are posted on the net and available for downloading at no charge.
Carrie, an Electronic Library - Hosted by the University of Kansas, contains pointers to full text books online as well as a small collection of texts focusing on history, politics, and Kansas.
Classics Archive - Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites.
Free Booknotes.com - a comprehensive guide to free book notes, free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 1600 books, plays, and poems.
Gale Literary Index - Index to Contemporary Authors; Something About the Author, etc.
Hypertexts @ the University of Virginia - Alphabetical access to authors and works focusing on early American literature and history.
Literary Resources on the Net - a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.
NASA Technical Reports - It's mission is to collect, archive, and disseminate NASA aerospace information, and locate domestic and international STI pertinent to NASA's missions and Strategic Enterprises.
National Digital Library - The Library of Congress collection of American memory documents.
Networked Digital Library of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Norton Poets Online - Information about poets and books of poetry. Some poems can be found here.
Norton Topics Online - ongoing project that at present includes more than 150 fully edited texts, ranging from the Middle Ages through the Victorian Period.
Online Books - index includes more than 20,000 English works in various formats.
Online Literature Library - On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature.
Open Thesis - A searchable thesis & dissertation database, which helps increase the availability and utility of these important documents.
Pink Monkey - Free Study guides
Poetry Archives - A collection of thousands of classical poems.
Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts), a total of 6267 eBooks.
Spark Notes - Cliff Notes like study guides
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