The Gutenberg Project
In this post, the author discusses the Gutenberg Project, focusing on its mission to make literary works freely accessible online. The post highlights the project’s extensive collection of texts, the technological and organizational efforts behind it, and its impact on literature and education. The author reflects on the importance of digitizing classic works to preserve cultural heritage and promote reading in the digital age.
Generated by Azure AI on June 24, 2024The Gutenberg Project: Gutenberg has been around since the Internet was very, very young – the Web wasn’t even born yet. It’s an effort to catalog as many free books and texts as possible. Gutenberg has thousands of books from hundreds of authors; all in the public domain, all free. Download, print, and enjoy.
I’m reading “Collective Knowledge: Intranets, Productivity, and the Promise of the Knowledge Workplace” by Robert Marcus and Beverley Watters and I ran across the origin of the Gutenberg name:
Johannes Gutenberg is given the credit for […] the invention of printing with movable type and for the concept of unlimited reproduction. His first work, known as the Gutenberg Bible, was a 42-line […] bible that appeared about 1456.