Our 18th Anniversary

Congratulations and many thanks to all for the many books so lovingly provided.

Hot off the Press

Eighteen years ago, on October 1, 2000, Distributed Proofreaders volunteers began “preserving history one page at a time” by preparing public-domain e-books for Project Gutenberg. Since then, DP has contributed over 36,000 unique titles. Here’s a look back at some of DP’s accomplishments since our last retrospective.

Milestones

33,000 titles. In November 2016, Distributed Proofreaders posted its 33,000th unique title to Project Gutenberg, A Flower Wedding, by the great children’s book illustrator Walter Crane. You can read all about it in this celebratory post.

34,000 titles. Our 34,000th title was, appropriately, A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding, and was posted in July 2017. The DP blog post on this milestone is here.

35,000 titles. DP contributed its 35,000th title, Shores of the Polar Sea, in January 2018. This beautifully illustrated account of a 19th-Century expedition to the North Pole is celebrated in this…

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Friday Finds – July 18, 2014

Friday Finds is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading to showcase books you recently found and added to your TBR (to be read) list. It doesn’t matter whether you found them free online, borrowed them from a library or purchased them somewhere. Anything works.

I found two this week, one which led to another, you know how that goes.

I spotted The Midnight Examiner by William Kotzwinkle at Emma’s Book Around the Corner. It looks like a totally wild and over-the-top read.

I’ve already ordered a copy in English, but couldn’t resist showing this German cover.

 

 

While I was browsing at Powell’s Books, I came across The Game of Thirty which looked intriguing and happened to jump right into my cart.

 

 

 

Share your Friday Finds with us! Please leave a comment with the link to your own Friday Finds post on MizB’s blog or here. If you don’t have a blog, you may share your finds in a comment here anyway. We’d love to know what you found this week.

 

 

Einstein was no dummy

 

I love it! Take Einstein’s advice and don’t miss a day of reading Tarnmoor. See the link in my Blogroll or jump straight to it here.