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- duggtodeath, on 11/15/2009, -27/+180WHY ISN'T THIS ABOUT STEVE GUTENBERG?!
- zokvicds, on 11/15/2009, -7/+102This is almost as old as movable type itself...
- Jaime2000, on 11/15/2009, -1/+80Wow, I would have thought everyone on Digg already knew about this. Anyways, be sure to also try http://manybooks.net/ & http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Or, if you want a more comprehensive list, this page has got you covered:
http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks - mysedai, on 11/15/2009, -4/+63Well, I didn't know about it, so I'm glad somebody posted it, and I'll bet I'm not the only one.
It was, what thirty seconds of your life to click on the link and realize you'd been there before, then you probably spent twice that long posting comments whose sole purpose was to say, "Look, I already knew this... I'm the king of the internet!"
Quit yer bitchin'. - jrm125, on 11/15/2009, -32/+70Why is this front page? This isn't even close to new.
And I'm pretty sure people are aware of it already. At first I thought it was one of the fake Digg ads. - joculator, on 11/15/2009, -0/+24One of my favorite places charities....I paypal them $20 once in a while...also librivox.com for free audio books.
- ThinkExist, on 11/16/2009, -0/+21"money-grubbing Google"? That is an unfair characterization. Google did the best it could but was met by great resistance by the WGA and other corporate lobbyists. Frankly what google did was a great(legal) step in the right direction.
In the realm of Corporate "money-grubbing' monsters, Google is not an enemy, but an ally. - theorwells, on 11/15/2009, -14/+35I would hope that Gutenberg is the Once - And Future King, instead of the money-grubbing Google (see the New stories about Copyrights, Books, and Google)....
- salinungatha, on 11/15/2009, -0/+18The stonecutters made Steve Gutenburg a star, and the NoHomers unmade him.
- duggtodeath, on 11/15/2009, -4/+22Just imagine how far behind we would be without the proliferation of Police Academy.
- Detritus, on 11/15/2009, -0/+16Seriously... what a missed opportunity.
- kupocake, on 11/15/2009, -0/+16http://librivox.org/
Not a .com. - nudedos, on 11/15/2009, -6/+21I miss Steve Guttenberg. :(
- Jaime2000, on 11/15/2009, -3/+18Yeah, because everyone in the planet has a DSL/Cable connection, including the people in third world countries who might most benefit from having all the public domain books available at their fingertips.
/s in case you missed it. - diggdong, on 11/15/2009, -0/+11I've used this site for years. Finally a list I can digg.
- bitweever, on 11/16/2009, -0/+9You know how Digg users typically quip that a post is 'older than the Internet'? Well, in this case, they're not that far off (from Wikipedia):
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. - Mujokan, on 11/15/2009, -2/+11Dugg for outside-the-box submission idea.
Random recommendation: Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley. Funny parodies of a bunch of famous people like Bertrand Russell, D.H. Lawrence, Ottoline Morrell, at a country house for the weekend around 1920. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1999 - Greengoo, on 11/15/2009, -1/+9<--- This is you. This is the joke ------>
It's obvious now how you missed it. - ssahmad, on 11/15/2009, -1/+9I love it how some people's tech literacy does not encompass all forms of literacy and are just finding out about Project Gutenburg (and calling it Gutenburg Project).
- Hellahulla, on 11/15/2009, -1/+9Helps to remind people occasionally that it's there for all.
- SreyaNotfilc, on 11/15/2009, -0/+7I wasn't aware of this at all. Seriously. Seems like an awesome idea and now the site is added to my favorites.
- joebob613, on 11/16/2009, -0/+7you guys didn't like Short Circuit?!
- acephreak, on 11/15/2009, -6/+12I liked Police Academy.
- clotho98, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5One of my favorite spots on the internet!
- jshriver, on 11/15/2009, -0/+5Checkout http://librivox.org/ as well. Volunteer readers of public domain books for free audio books. Love the collection of Grimm Brothers stories, amazing work. Setting up a basic audio setup now to start recording my own and help the cause.
- chadsexingtime, on 11/15/2009, -1/+6a quick google turns out that Steve Guttenberg, is, in fact, still alive.
Who knew - detcade, on 11/15/2009, -1/+5What about the Nook?
- TheCollective00, on 11/15/2009, -0/+4This comment is a bookmark =D
- adamhada, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3I thought this was a project to get Steve Gutenbergs career back off the ground... Damn
- candre23, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3+1 for Librivox. Awesome stuff.
- Icupnimpn2, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3http://feedbooks.com/
...Taps into Gutenberg and other sources for free books in multiple formats that can be selected and downloaded over whispernet (for you Kindle users). Their Kindle Download Guide is really awesome... just point your Kindle browser to feedbooks.com and look for the link. It's an indexed list of all titles available to date, with mini author bios and book descriptions, etc. You can click on a title and have it download directly. The formatting is generally better than loading up a text file or etc from Gutenberg, and the interface is handy.
Plus, you can use their system to subscribe to RSS feeds for blogs, newspapers, etc for the Kindle without paying Amazon for the privilege (though you do have to click a link each day to manually update). Not sure about their offerings for other devices, but I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this site. - DraxusD, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3I missed it.
- Jaime2000, on 11/15/2009, -6/+9I recall my teacher praising Google books for "trying to upload all books in existence," and I remember thinking that Project Gutenberg was superior because it had a 4 decade headstart and uploaded texts with no added frills as plain .txt files.
- GRVeee2, on 11/16/2009, -1/+4/s in case you missed it.
- morrislevy, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3This site is so old. In fact, another top story just said Project Gutenberg originally began in 1971 with the Declaration of Independence. Dugg for the content and the popularity it deserves, however, not because it is something I have never heard of before. However, I enjoy the premise of the article submission, because Project Gutenberg deserves all the money Google Books has (or used to have).
- Miamisun, on 11/15/2009, -0/+3Three Men and A Baby was a comedic gem.
- pdrap, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3@andyroo316 Right now, 764 people think that a project to put the worlds literature into an open format free to anyone, for the good of the world, is worthy of front-paging Digg.
So who died and made you Kevin Rose? Damn, sorry Kevin, that didn't come out right. - candre23, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3The Nook supports epub and pdf without conversion.
- ssahmad, on 11/15/2009, -4/+6Johannes Gutenberg was the most influential man who ever lived in the last millenium. Because of his popularization of the printing press, people no longer had depend on scribes to reproduce books. Just imagine how far behind we would be without the proliferation of something as simple as a book.
- Catsmeat, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2For some reason I was thinking about this song when I woke up this morning, only to see it referenced on digg a hour later. Freaky!
- godzilla8nj, on 11/15/2009, -0/+2Might as well put a plug in for Calibre for ebook management too.
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ - mogdor, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3These fake digg ads really piss me off. I'm all for monetizing traffic, but why be deceptive like that? It's obvious now that ad revenues are a higher priority than providing a good experience for visitors, and as a loyal viewer since 2005 I've lost some respect for them.
- DMCer, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2"see the New stories about Copyrights, Books, and Google"
Um, no, but nice try. See new stories about publishers, the WGA, and lawyers vs. Google is more like it. - andyroo316, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2If they're able to ignore ".com" and ".net" (etc) submissions, I'm sure they'd be able to ignore ".com/index.html" and ".com/index.php" (etc) submissions, too.
- GTKarber, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3@andyroo316 Digg is for anything that gets dugg, in my opinion.
- mpn401, on 11/15/2009, -1/+3This is so old news that they refer to "Palm organizers" as if they were anything still relevant.
- navghtivs, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I got 90% of my e-books from Gutenberg, since 1995.
- Jaime2000, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1If you are going to pirate books, 4shared is much better than mininnova for the purpose.
http://www.4shared.com/ - ssahmad, on 11/16/2009, -2/+3@mbonzo531
I didn't say he invented it, his system is what we all owe our debt to because it was a heck of a lot better than China's. Your wiki knowledge is no match for my actual knowledge :P -
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