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Old 03-12-2015, 01:39 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Definitely not the first. Project Gutenberg has of course been around since the 1970s and had created thousands of ebooks by the 1990s. I was reading PG eBooks on hand-held devices in the mid '80s. That's the way I first read literally hundreds of classics.
You're right. I forgot all about Project Gutenberg. I didn't know about them back when I was on Compuserve but I do know that they started in the 1970s and I forgot all about that.

After I retired about 1995 or so I began proofing for them as one of their many volunteers so I should have thought of it.

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