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What is Project Gutenberg?

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What is Project Gutenberg?

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Michael Hart founded Project Gutenberg in 1971. His idea was: anything that can be entered into a computer can be reproduced indefinitely. This led to the concept of entering books into computers and sharing these books with the whole world. These Electronic Texts (E-texts) would be made available in the simplest, easiest to use form. This means “Plain Vanilla ASCII.” Italics, underlines, and bolds would be converted to ASCII. In the same vein, the books selected would be those that appealed to the greatest number of people possible. Due to copyright laws, it is only legal to do this with older books (in general, copyrighted before 1923). As a result, Project Gutenberg is mostly comprised of the “Classics.

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quote: Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world.

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Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive, and distribute cultural works.