Gutenberg Project

Thursday, September 22. 2005

Project Gutenberg is a fabulous project that actually delivers on the promise of computers and digitalization. Thousands of books are available, and they're books you want to read. I've found many authors, Isabella Bird and Theodore Roosevelt to name two, that I enjoy reading or want to read.

Posted by Sam Chapman Jr. in Books and Stuff at 18:37 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Google has a project to scan and convert to text all the books in several different major libraries. A British authors' group filed a lawsuit against them this week, saying their project is in violation of copyright laws.

#1 Bill Gates on 2005-09-22 18:45 (Reply)

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