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Ebook Inventor Michael Stern Hart Dies

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Project Gutenberg founder dies.
Ebook Inventor Michael Stern Hart Dies
  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    Definitely had an impact on my life, even though I only learned his name now. I often peruse the Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg - free ebooks site, a very important and useful online resource.

    RIP, Michael Stern Hart and Thank You
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    RIP Michael Stern.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I'm also a Gutenberg fan, although I never thought much about who created it - or ebooks. I still go to Gutenberg sometimes just simply to read.

    RIP Michael. You did us a great service.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      I'm also a Gutenberg fan, although I never thought much about who created it - or ebooks. I still go to Gutenberg sometimes just simply to read.

      RIP Michael. You did us a great service.
      Yeah, that was nice. For a while, every day or so, was reading a new book. I got SOME stuff, and was toying with making it a salable product. It wouldn't be the only piece, and people would be paying for MY work, but it would be more professional, and cheaper, ironically, by using gutenburgs books and audio.

      BTW I never really found the time to do that. 8-( Somewhere I collected all the info, and processed the document, but the rest was to be done by HAND. 8-(

      But yeah, gutenburg is a NICE name too! He would have been PROUD of it, I'm sure! I was ready to chime in and say CREATED THE EBOOK!?!?!?!?!? YEAH RIGHT! But 1971 IS about right. Even companies like IBM preferred huge books they could sell or a fortune. One product I use now, for the basic set of books. *****NO***** software, or license, charges $750 for them! Thankfully, as a partner, I can download them for free.

      Steve
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