Michael Hart RIP

Do you use e-books? Are you familiar with the Gutenberg Project? Today, I read in the Chronicle that Michael S. Hart founder of the Gutenberg Project had passed on earlier in September.

Project Gutenberg was inarguably the birthplace of the e-book. Today we don't think twice about downloading a book to our Kindle, tablet, Web browser, or cellphone. But in 1971, when Mr. Hart officially began Project Gutenberg, or even in the early 1990s, when it began to reach critical mass, e-books were not just unusual—they were unheard-of....[more]

We have downloaded the MARC records for 415 Gutenberg Project titles. You can of course access all 36,000 by going directly to Project Gutenberg.

Thank you, Mr. Hart, for creating this invaluable resource for information sharing.


-kss