Most visibly, the generated covers, which have roots at NYPL and Bookalope, went into PG via GITenberg.

More accurate to call it a fork.

Me too! GITenberg started with a variety of goals, some of which were achieved, and others which were less so. Outstanding, considered as a prototype. Standard Ebooks has been much more successful at creating a community working to improve the quality of PG-derived ebooks. We're on the same team.

A few notes on the different versions. The Archive version is a scan of the printed version. The scans are OCR'd to make it somewhat searchable, but the large filesize reflects the fact that it contains text scans. The Project Gutenberg and GITenberg versions derive from proofread and corrected text produced by Distributed Proofreaders. ( https://pgdp.org/ ) The GITenberg PDF is a conversion from EPUB by xvfb.

added cover, generated ebook files - https://unglue.it/work/378964/

thanks

This article gets its facts wrong. It was the 1986 MARCH Meeting in Las Vegas where this happened. I was there.

A friend of mine overheard the saleswomen talking in the lingerie shop (dressed as you might imagine) "I could be stark naked and these guys wouldn't notice me".

German users, please do not access or clone the following github repositories: “Der Untertan,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Untertan_38126 “Die Ehrgeizige,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Ehrgeizige_43335 “Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Professor-Unrat-oder-Das-Ende-e... “Der Vater,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Vater_33329 “Flöten und Dolche,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Fl-ten-und-Dolche--Novellen_312... “Flaubert und die Herkunft des modernen Romans,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Flaubert-und-die-Herkunft-des-m... “Buddenbrooks,” https://github.com/GITenberg/BuddenbrooksVerfall-einer-Famil... “Der Tod in Venedig,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Tod-in-Venedig_12108 “Der kleine Herr Friedemann,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-kleine-Herr-FriedemannNovel... “Tristan,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Tristan_13810 “Gladius Dei,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Gladius-Dei--Schwere-Stunde_120... “Schwere Stunde,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Gladius-Dei--Schwere-Stunde_120... “Königliche Hoheit,” https://github.com/GITenberg/K-nigliche-HoheitRoman_35328 “Tonio Kröger,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Tonio-Kr-ger_23313 “Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Ermordung-einer-Butterblume... “Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-drei-Spr-nge-des-Wang-lunCh... “Die Lobensteiner reisen nach Böhmen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Lobensteiner-reisen-nach-B-... “Wallenstein,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Wallenstein.-I.--of-2-_43931 “Wallenstein,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Wallenstein.-II.--of-2-_43932

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This point now referenced in the article.

Perhaps the distribution of fluent english speakers is more relevant.