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On May 10th, 2008, 496 books were completed, 653 books were in progress and 91 books were being proofread. As stated in the Project Gutenberg FAQ, "the public domain is the set of cultural works that are free of copyright, and belong to everyone equally", i.e. that books that can be digitized to be freely available on the internet.

2007/04: 1,500 books in Project Gutenberg of Australia. 2007: Digitization of 338 books per month. 2008/03: 100 books in Project Gutenberg of Canada. 2008/04: 25,000 books in Project Gutenberg. 2008/05: 500 books in Project Gutenberg Europe. *All the stats below are the main Project Gutenberg stats. = A Few Milestones 1,000 books in August 1997. 2,000 books in May 1999.

I give it to show how remarkably close the contest was carried on, and how the tide of favour ebbed and flowed: 1st day Denison, 260; Ewart, 248. 2nd day Denison, 583; Ewart, 568. 3rd day Denison, 930; Ewart, 918. 4th day Denison; 1320; Ewart, 1308. 5th day Denison, 1700; Ewart, 1688. 6th day Denison, 2020; Ewart, 2008. 7th day Denison, 2186; Ewart, 2215. The number of freemen who voted was 4401.

It is 2008 and he, sometimes Adagio and sometimes Nathaniel or various nicknames, still doesn't even have a consistent label for himself. Not even a consistent name has stuck on him all these 18 years; and the half hour that he has sat in the library there is that same mental numbness of all other previous half hours. It is numbness as empty as a pit in the mouth from an extracted tooth.

DP Europe was available in 12 languages in April 2004 and 22 languages in May 2008. The long-term goal is 60 languages and 60 linguistic teams representing all the European languages. When it gets up to speed, DP Europe will provide books for several national and/or linguistic digital libraries, for example Projet Gutenberg France for France.

May 6, 2007: 89,841 files downloaded in the day; 697,818 files downloaded in the week; 2,995,436 files downloaded in the month. May 8, 2008: 115,138 files downloaded in the day; 714,323 files downloaded in the week; 3,055,327 files downloaded in the month. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ Project Gutenberg / Catalog: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

It lived in Case No. 2008, and I accordingly took at once to sitting in Row B, where for the last dozen years or so I have sat ever since. The first thing I have done whenever I went to the Museum has been to take down Frost's Lives of Eminent Christians and carry it to my seat.

January 2004: 25 languages. July 2005: 42 languages. December 2006: 50 languages. April 2008: 55 languages. = Main Languages = Downloads From ibiblio.org *ibiblio.org is the main downloading site. The downloads of mirror sites are not included here. July 31, 2005: 37,532 files downloaded in the day; 243,808 files downloaded in the week; 1,154,765 files downloaded in the month.

And we probably are only a few years away from a storage disk capable of holding all the print media of our planet. What about documents other than text? As of December 2006, there are 367 computer-generated audio books and 132 human-read audio books. The number of human-read books should greatly increase over the next few years. There were 412 books in May 2008.

So far, in April 2008, 25,000 high-quality books were available for free. Let us give the last word to Michael, whom I asked in August 1998: "What is your best experience with the internet?" His answer was: "The notes I get that tell me people appreciate that I have spent my life putting books, etc., on the internet. Some are quite touching, and can make my whole day."