17 March 2003

Project Gutenberg

An oblique reference was made to Project Gutenberg by aland in a comment really innovative on the trollyd sound system.

For more information on PG see my Project Gutenberg favourites page.

He mentions 1,000 books on a CD. This was a giveaway CD that PG produced last year at an College American Football game [attendance: 100,000], hence “The Million Book Giveaway”. I have a copy of the ISO image which hesitate to put on because of bandwidth issues [gz of 640Mb CD image about 250Mb].

I am however more than happy to burn a CD [which will work on Linux, Apple and other [I believe there are other] OSes] for the cost of a blank CD [approx 20p].

If you’d like a good proportion of pre-1923 classic literature [and much much more], let me know and I’ll burn you one.

Originally posted on burngreave.net.

posted by pault at 23:44, 17 March 2003 | books , community
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Just reading up on some of this lately, was interesting.

posted by Allison at 16:19, 17 August 2004