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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:05:46 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 1 of 2

From:         "Michael S. Hart" <HART@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject:      Project Gutenberg Newsletter, Pt. 1 of 2
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*This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for August 31, 1992.*
Our Goal, To Give Away One Trillion Etexts By December 31, 2001

We should be at about 2.8 billion with release of the following
not counting pre-1991 releases:  which are still in the process
of being dug out of our archives, new headers attached, and new
placement in new directories on our fileserver.

The August 1992 Project Gutenberg Etexts are:
Aug 1992 The 1990 US Census (2nd)  (uscen902.xxx)
Aug 1992 The Hackers' Dictionary   (jargn10x.xxx)

This choice was made by popular demand for this date, due to the
massive influx of new students and a new paper publication.  Our
normal choice would be not to release two reference texts in the
same month other than for this demand, which appears to be in an
extreme position at the moment as we are also receiving requests
for zip and area code directories.

Another request we have received is to put the introductory part
of reference works at the end, so that the reference work itself
begins with the main body of the work itself, after the shortest
possible introduction as to how to use it so the instruction set
does not have to be gone past to get to the body each time.  You
are invited to send your suggestions on this.  If we get enough,
we will re-release this file, with the lengthy documentations at
the end of the files.

The remainder of our responses to your letters will be contained
in the Newsletter2, which will have its second experimental run,
but perhaps not its last, in September, as we had a much greater
response than we had anticipated.

*This file is about 400 lines in length, and is about 10Kbytes*
Keep this newsletter, it is your "readme" file for the location
of all material currently posted at the University of Illinois,
[mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu . . . see below details and instructions]
and also contains information on how to retrieve our books from
East Coast, Central and West Coast locations and email and BBS.
       [Try The Bitter Butter Better BBS, (503)-620-0307]
[Try the Land of Garg BBS 1-408-378-5108 in Silicon Valley CA]
        [also via Internet at garg.campbell.ca.us]
  Some of our etexts are available via the Cleveland Freenet.
      You can also call via modem at 1-216-368-3888.
***

[Articles are available in> cd/etext/articles
and so is this current newsletter GUTAUG2.2]
The article SUGGEST.GUT tells how to get going.
***
These current releases are on
mrcnext:  cd etext/etext92
quake.think.com:  cd pub then cd etext91 or cd etext92
simtel20.army.mil:  cd pd1:<msdos.books>
nptn.org:  cd /pub/e.texts/gutenberg then cd etext91 or etext92

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Your donations are needed and appreciated. . .our
work is entirely funded by donations.

(Books from earlier years will available in 1992)
(but not yet:  to be announced, don't ask yet!!!)

    1971 Declaration-Independence  (whenxxxx.xxx)
    1972 Bill of Rights            (billxxxx.xxx)
    1973 U.S. Constitution         (constxxx.xxx)
    1974-1982 The Bible            (biblexxx.xxx)
    1983-1990 Complete Shakespeare (shakesxx.xxx)

(Watch for these entries to be moved below later.
The Bible mentioned above is a different edition
from the one we just posted for Easter, 1992)

 Books currently available on mrcnext (do a dir):

(These 1991 etexts are now in> cd /etext/etext91)

Jan 1991 Alice in Wonderland       (alice29x.xxx)
Feb 1991 Through the Looking Glass (lglass16.xxx)
Mar 1991 The Hunting of the Snark  (snark12x.xxx)
Apr 1991 1990 CIA World Factbook   (world12x.xxx)
May 1991 Moby Dick (From OBI)*     (mobyxxxx.xxx)
Jun 1991 Peter Pan (for US only)** (peter14a.xxx)
Jul 1991 The Book of Mormon        (mormon13.xxx)
Aug 1991 The Federalist Papers     (feder12x.xxx)
Sep 1991 The Song of Hiawatha      (hisong11.xxx)
Oct 1991 Paradise Lost             (plboss11.xxx)
Nov 1991 Aesop's Fables            (aesop11x.xxx)
Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus         (roget11x.xxx)
Dec 1991 Roget's Thesaurus         (roget12x.xxx)
(These two Roget's are not exactly the same)
*Moby Dick is missing Chapter 72
**Please do not download Peter Pan outside the US


(These 1992 etext releases in> cd /etext/etext92)

Jan 1992 Frederick Douglass        (duglas10.xxx)
Jan 1992 O Pioneers!  Willa Cather (opion10x.xxx)
Feb 1992 1991 CIA World Factbook   (world91a.xxx)
Feb 1992 Paradise Lost (Raben)     (plrabn11.xxx)
Mar 1992 Far From the Madding Crowd(crowd13x.xxx)
Mar 1992 Aesop's Fables (Advantage)(aesopa10.xxx)
Apr 1992 Data From the 1990 Census (uscen901.xxx)
Apr 1992 New Etext of Bible (KJV)  (bible10x.xxx)
May 1992 Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy(oedip10x.xxx)
May 1992 Herland (for Mother's Day)(hrlnd10x.xxx)
Jun 1992 The Scarlet Letter        (scrlt10x.xxx)
Jun 1992 Zen & the Art of Internet)(zen10xxx.xxx)
Jul 1992 The Time Machine-HG Wells)(timem10x.xxx)
Jul 1992 The War of the Worlds-HGW)(warw10xx.xxx)
Aug 1992 The 1990 US Census (2nd)  (uscen902.xxx)
Aug 1992 The Hackers' Dictionary   (jargn10x.xxx)


***End of Paper Edition of July 1992 Project Gutenberg Newsletter***

End of Part 1 of 2
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