A book which I scanned has just been posted to Project Gutenberg, free (gratis and public domain) to the world. It’s a textbook for learning Spanish: Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios, by Lawrence Wilkins and Max Luria, from 1916. It’s Project Gutenberg etext #24250, and should be available here shortly; an HTML version is directly available here.
The book was my mother’s; I think she got it during high school or college, when she took several Spanish classes. I started the project and submitted it for copyright clearance, and I scanned the text, which was then OCR‘ed by Distributed Proofreaders member Alicia Williams, proofread and processed by DP volunteers, shepherded by Chuck Greif. I also scanned the images (pictures and maps) that appear in the HTML version of the etext.
Most of the credit is due to the wonderful projects, Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders, which make possible this and many other valuable contributions to the commons.
This isn’t my first involvement with Project Gutenberg, as I wrote on my LiveJournal last year, and it hopefully won’t be my last.
