![]() Gutenberg intends to hold the event annually. Gutenberg itself had about 20,000 titles available, and several large e-book collections - such as the World eBook Library - lent their titles for the monthlong fair, adding up to more than 330,000 books in 100 languages. ![]() Project Gutenberg is a 35-year-old nonprofit foundation whose thousands of volunteers type or scan books into the project's computers, making them available for free downloading. ``We passed a million about 1 this morning," Newby said yesterday afternoon by phone from Anchorage. ![]() The fair began Tuesday, and already more than 1.5 million books have been downloaded, said Gregory Newby, Gutenberg's volunteer CEO. That seems to be the lesson of the first few days of the World eBook Fair, a one-month experiment in free downloadable books produced by Illinois-based Project Gutenberg. If you give books away, especially online, readers will snap them up. ~SD World eBook Fair tops 1.5m free downloads in first few daysīy David Mehegan, Globe Staff | July 8, 2006 I just downloaded one that i had been trying to find for free for over a year ( Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph, by TE Lawrence) Here is the link you need stock up for your summer reading. ![]() Here is a wonderful opportunity on acquiring E-Books. ![]()
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