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By Branko Collin

Distributed Proofreaders LogoRecently Project Gutenberg passed the 20,000 e-books mark, and this weekend Distributed Proofreaders sent its 10,000th e-text to Project Gutenberg. There is no official number 10,000; instead DP posted 15 projects to mark the occasion:

  1. Species Plantarum: Monandria, Diandria and Triandria  by Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné), 1753, Latin
  2. Agriculture for beginners, Rev. ed. by Charles William Burkett, Frank Lincoln Stevens, and Daniel Harvey Hill, 1914
  3. Marchand de Venise by Shakespeare, trans. by M. Guizot, original 1821, our pub. 1862, French
  4. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry (1864-1938), 1921
  5. The Annals of the Cakchiquels: The original text, with a translation, notes, and introduction by Francisco Ernantez Arana (fl. 1582), trans. by and edit. by Daniel G. Brinton (1837-1899), 1885, English/Cakchiquel Mayan
  6. Encyclopedia of Needlework, by Therese de Dillmont, originally from 1884
  7. R. Caldecott’s First Collection of Pictures and Songs by Randolph Caldecott, 1900-1909?
  8. Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn  (1620-1706), 1664
  9. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
  10. Heimatlos by Johanna Spyri, 1890, German
  11. Heidi by Johanna Spyri, trans. Elisabeth P. Stork, with an intro by Charles Wharton Stork, A.M. PhD, Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Gift edition. 1919
  12. Triplanetary, by E.E. Smith, 1934
  13. Como atravessei Àfrica (v. II), by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto), 1881, Portuguese
  14. Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, ed. John Wesley Powell
  15. Slave Narratives, Oklahoma (A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves)  Works Project Administration Federal Writer’s Project, 1936-1938
 
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