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2003/10: The number of books doubled in 18 months, going from 5,000 to 10,000. 2003/12: First DVD, with 9,400 books. 2003: Digitization of 348 books per month. 2003/12: Launching of Distributed Proofreaders Europe by Project Rastko. 2004/01: Launching of Project Gutenberg Europe by Project Rastko. 2004/02: Michael Hart's presentation at UNESCO headquarters, in Paris.
They don't have any quota to fulfill, but it is recommended they do a page per day if possible. It doesn't seem much, but with hundreds of volunteers it really adds up. Blank CDs and DVDs cost next to nothing, as does their burning on a CD or DVD writer. Project Gutenberg sends a free CD or DVD to anyone who asks for it, and people are encouraged to make copies for a friend, a library or a school.
Project Gutenberg has 44 mirror sites in many countries and is looking for new ones. They can be read on a computer or a secondhand PDA costing just a few dollars. Solar-powered PDAs offer a good solution in remote regions and developing countries. Blank CDs and DVDs cost next to nothing, as does their burning on a CD or DVD writer.
Project Gutenberg had 5,000 books online in April 2002 and topped 10,000 in October 2003, when it had a team of 1,000 volunteers around the world making 350 new books available every month. These 10,000 books are also available on DVD for US$1 each. Michael hopes to have a million available by 2015.
Project Gutenberg sends a free CD or DVD to anyone who asks for it, and people are encouraged to make copies for a friend, a library or a school. A new DVD is in preparation. In 2004, Project Gutenberg was in touch with a European project studying how to combine translation software and human translators, somewhat as OCR software is now combined with the work of proofreaders.
Project Gutenberg sent out 15 million books via snail mail in 2007, under the form of CDs and DVDs. Dated July 2006, the latest DVD included 17,000 books. Since 2005, CD and DVD files have also been periodically generated as ISO files to be downloaded and used to make a CD or DVD using a CD or DVD writer. DP processed 11,934 books since its beginnings.
And for those who never had anyone there, for them, he, at least in theory, wanted to be there the way Noppawan had been there for him in his youth. Maybe, he told himself, he would visit the Laotians. He was not sure. Thus, here he was sitting in the restaurant of a guest house watching a pirated DVD on a big screen television and eating his pancakes with maple syrup.
2006/07: 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg. 2006/07: New DVD, with 17,000 books. 2006/11: Launching of the Project Gutenberg News website. 2006/12: 20,000 books in Project Gutenberg. 2006/12: 400 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders Europe. 2006: Digitization of 345 books per month. 2007/03: 10,000 books processed by Distributed Proofreaders.
An impressive result thanks to the relentless work of 1,000 volunteers in several countries. People could request the CD and DVD for free, and were then encouraged to make copies for a friend, a library or a school. An impressive number if we think about all the scanned and proofread pages this number represents.
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