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One can then read the ebook online, and get all kinds of lists, such as a list of the most downloaded books pride and prejudice won out with 18,642 downloads. Project gutenberg literary archive foundation 809 north 1500 west salt lake city, ut 84116 newsletter and discussion lists. There is a monthly email newsletter, also some discussion lists gutvold is the most active, for discussions among volunteers. Its author, warren lee goss, was a civil war veteran who wrote several books about that conflict, including a juvenile novel called jed. Even if you find classics available through your primary ereader account amazon, barnes and noble, etc. Our latest distributed proofreaders project to become a project gutenberg ebook is another world war i juvenile, two american boys with the allied armies, by major sherman crockett. Our latest distributed proofreaders project, jeds boy, continues the theme of juvenile novels about the first world war, though this one has a deeper history than most of the others. Project gutenberg books can also help bridge the digital divide. These are all classics and can be downloaded from project gutenberg. The outline of science, vol 1 has been the most downloaded book over the last 30 days with a total of 16,171 downloads.
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