Project Gutenberg 2010-12-23 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 276 Lebert, Marie 40 years / 40 años / 40 ans Produced by Al Haines "40 years / 40 años / 40 ans" by Marie Lebert is a trilingual ebook celebrating the 40th anniversary of Project Gutenberg, encompassing its history and evolution written in the early 21st century. The work describes the emergence of Project Gutenberg, a revolutionary initiative by Michael Hart, aimed at creating free electronic versions of literary works accessible to the public. The ebook highlights important milestones of the project, discussing its growth and impact on digital libraries worldwide. The beginning of the ebook presents an overview of Project Gutenberg's foundation, recalling July 4, 1971, as the date when the first ebook, The United States Declaration of Independence, was digitized. It outlines Michael Hart's vision for democratizing access to literature through technology, detailing how the project's number of ebooks expanded from one to thousands over the decades. Notably, it accounts for significant technological advancements and the support of volunteer proofreaders that contributed to the vast collection of over 33,000 high-quality ebooks by 2010. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 59.8 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en es fr Project Gutenberg Z Text FR Services publics FR Livres, Collections et Bibliophilie Browsing: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference Browsing: Teaching & Education Browsing: Other Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Engineering & Technology 178920 2025-06-14T08:26:11.949049 text/html 178741 2025-01-14T08:17:43.412098 text/html 125989 2025-06-14T08:26:17.047033 application/epub+zip 127648 2025-06-14T08:26:13.800030 application/epub+zip 127649 2025-06-14T08:26:12.574061 application/epub+zip 244897 2025-06-14T08:26:19.416034 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 233322 2025-06-14T08:26:16.386040 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 198515 2022-09-16T04:44:44.214744 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 158457 2025-06-14T08:26:11.646055 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 159675 2010-12-22T21:48:18 text/plain; charset=utf-8 55631 2010-12-22T21:48:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 157415 2010-12-22T21:48:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 55093 2010-12-22T21:48:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 157429 2010-12-22T21:48:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54157 2010-12-22T21:48:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21535 2025-06-14T08:26:19.556010 application/rdf+xml 12197 2025-06-14T08:26:13.207021 image/jpeg 3547 2025-06-14T08:26:12.927031 image/jpeg 123596 2025-06-14T08:26:11.964023 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog