Books online: Gutenberg Project

Rudy Troike rtroike at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
Wed Sep 23 17:27:36 UTC 2009


Thanks to Troy for alerting us to the Google source for Native texts.
For those concerned about indirectly contributing to a commercial
enterprise, no matter how apparently altruistic, there is the volunteer
alternative of the Gutenberg Project. It was started at the University
of Illinois by one man typing in texts by hand, gradually joined by
volunteers doing the same thing, but with the advent of easy scanning,
any book can be entered into the collection. They welcome volunteer
contributions of time or money, and have no ulterior motive. This would
be a good place to archive Native texts, or any books that are not in
copyright. You can request a free CD of recently added texts, or a DVD
containing nearly 10,000 books on one disk.

Here is a link to their web site:

     http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

  Rudy



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