From 7c8c966b439b0cb9e9d8fd665d6809117263f958 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: reillysmith Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:58:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] feb 16 content blog --- content/news/95-gutenberg.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/news/95-gutenberg.md diff --git a/content/news/95-gutenberg.md b/content/news/95-gutenberg.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72151ef4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/news/95-gutenberg.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +author: reilly +title: 'WANTED: Open Libraries' +date: '2017-02-16 00:15:00' +cover: 'gutenberg-banner.jpg' +--- +It always bears repeating around here: LBRY’s destiny is nothing short of the most reliable and rich library on earth... despite the illegible abbreviation “LBRY.” + +To expedite the process, we have [an open bounty](https://lbry.io/bounty/publish-open-content) for the world’s free and digitized libraries in order to aggregate them onto one big (decentralized) shelf: LBRY’s network of gracious content hosts. + +One pierre1024, a member of the [LBRY Slack community](http://slack.lbry.io/), has claimed quite a big fish… + +![Project Gutenberg](/img/news/gutenberg-inline.jpg) + +Project Gutenberg is an open project that has digitized 54,000 free pdf, epub and Kindle books. + +Hundreds of historical archives are now available on LBRY, including: +The Economic Consequences of the Peace by Keynes +A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey +Journal of a Voyage to Brazil by Callcott +How Jerusalem Was Won by W. T. Massey +Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham + +The project was started by the late Michael Hart in 1971 with the digitization of the US Declaration of Independence. Make a donation [to Project Gutenberg here](https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Needs_Your_Donation), and enjoy thousands of books now available on LBRY. + +**Not on LBRY yet?** [Get an invite here](https://lbry.io/get). Have a big library bounty to claim? Email reilly@lbry.io and take all the glory.