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Today, the only way to load third party ebooks onto a newly purchased Kindle or…
Today, the only way to load third party ebooks onto a newly purchased Kindle or Kindle App is to use the “Send-to-Kindle” service which accepts EPUB3 files and loads them into your Kindle Library. We …
Project Gutenberg offers 7 ebook formats (like HTML, EPUB, and MOBI) and plans…
Project Gutenberg offers 7 ebook formats (like HTML, EPUB, and MOBI) and plans to add PDF and KEPUB. MOBI was Amazon's early proprietary format for Kindles, which later evolved into KF8. In response, …
@dandylover1 Can I ask you one more favor? Since we are seeking ADA II…
@dandylover1 Can I ask you one more favor? Since we are seeking ADA II accreditation, a question has arisen regarding the use of straight and curly quotes. I have selected two examples to provide prac…
The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around…
The word algebra comes from the title of a book called Al-Jabr, written around the year 820 by a Persian mathematician named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad — and the …
The best books on United States
The best books on United States recommended by Don Watson As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence, we asked historian Don Watson, author of the excelle…
💾 We often think of online platforms like YouTube and Flickr as permanent homes…
💾 We often think of online platforms like YouTube and Flickr as permanent homes for our photos and videos. They're not. On the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, Luca Messarra…
📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first…
📜🇺🇸 Printed on the night of July 4, 1776, the Dunlap Broadside was the first published copy of the Declaration of Independence, carrying news of independence across the colonies. Check out this high-re…
🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio…
🎧📜 The Internet Archive is home to millions of free audiobooks and audio recordings, including this LibriVox reading of the Declaration of Independence, bringing one of America's founding documents to…
Happy 55th Birthday, Project Gutenberg! Let's celebrate!🎉
Happy 55th Birthday, Project Gutenberg! Let's celebrate!🎉 Project Gutenberg was founded on July 4, 1971, when Michael Hart typed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into an early internet-connected c…
#OTD in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. He was an American novelist and…
#OTD in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. He was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawtho…
A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s)
A Brief Survey of the Great American Novel(s) Do We Need The G.A.N.? Why Do We Keep Looking? by Emily Temple (from the archives) https://lithub.com/a-brief-survey-of-great-american-novels/?utm_source=…
🖥️📜 How has the online presentation of the Declaration of Independence changed…
🖥️📜 How has the online presentation of the Declaration of Independence changed over nearly 30 years? Compare a 1997 capture of the National Archives webpage with one from 2026 using the Wayback Machine…
13 of the Most Unusual Fourth of July Traditions in U.S. History
13 of the Most Unusual Fourth of July Traditions in U.S. History Americans have come up with a variety of interesting and unexpected ways to celebrate the Fourth of July over the last 250 years! https…
🎨🇺🇸 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during…
🎨🇺🇸 Georgia O'Keeffe's THE FLAG (1918) is a striking watercolor painted during World War I. Now in the public domain in the United States, it's free to view, download, and reuse. It's one of many fasci…
Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic…
Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly How a millennium of kludges and workarounds led to one man's "will not fix." By Tom Hawking https://gizmodo.com/ty…
Project Gutenberg News - July 2026
Project Gutenberg News - July 2026 Contents Happy 55th Birthday, Project Gutenberg! PG at ALA Annual Meeting 100th Anniversary of The Hungry Tiger of Oz 100th Anniversary of The Muder of Roger Ackroyd…
☎️📖 At Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial (150 years) Exposition, the Bell…
☎️📖 At Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial (150 years) Exposition, the Bell Telephone System celebrated 50 years of the telephone with a booklet written from the telephone’s first-person perspective. …