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Sunday, June 5, 2016

SUNDAY REVIEW / WHAT IS PROJECT GUTENBERG?

Johannes Gutenberg is the inventor of the moveable type printing press in the mid-1400s
Editor’s Note: Many of this blog’s Sunday Review fiction offering from the public domain are sourced at www.gutenberg.org
Wikipedia does a nice job of capturing Project Gutenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg

GUEST BLOG—By Catherine Sustana--Founded by Michael Hart in 1971, Project Gutenberg is a free digital library containing more than 43,000 e-books. Most of the works are in the public domain, though in some cases copyright holders have given Project Gutenberg permission to use their work. 
Michael Hart
Most of the works are in English, but the library also includes texts in French, German, Portuguese, and other languages. The effort is run by volunteers who are constantly working to expand the library's offerings.

Project Gutenberg was named after Johannes Gutenberg, the German inventor who developed movable type in 1440. Movable type, along with other advances in printing, helped facilitate mass production of texts, which fostered the rapid spread of knowledge and ideas in art, science, and philosophy. Goodbye, Middle Ages. Hello, Renaissance.

Note: Because copyright laws vary from country to country, users outside of the United States are advised to check the copyright laws in their respective countries before downloading or distributing any texts from Project Gutenberg.
A rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible printed in the 1400s is on display at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden Gutenberg (1398-1466),
was an engraver, inventor and printer.  Most well known
for the invention 
of the movable type printing press..

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