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The books are digitized in "text" format, with caps for terms in italic, bold or underlined, so they can be read easily by any machine, operating system or software. Digitization is done by scanning. The book is then proofread twice by two different people, who make any corrections necessary. When the original is in poor condition, as with very old books, it is typed in manually, word by word.
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.
Launched at the same time, The Sheet Music Subproject is dedicated to digitized music sheet. It also contains a few music recordings. Some still pictures and moving pictures are also available. These new collections should take off in the future. The Internet Archive is the backup distribution site and provides unlimited disk space for storage and processing.
But in those days almost nobody really had Internet access at home... We started digitizing rare prints from our own library, and some that were sent in via library loan, in November 1996." ML: "How many digitized texts do you have?"
Fifteen years later, in 2002, 1.44 M is the standard disk and ZIP is the standard compression. The practical file size is about 3 million characters, more than long enough for the average book. The digitized ASCII version of a 300-page novel is 1 M. A bulky book can fit in two ASCII files, that can be downloaded as is or in ZIP format. A few numbers are reserved for "special" books.
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