In January 1994, Project Gutenberg released The Complete Works of William Shakespeare as eBook #100. Shakespeare wrote most works between 1590 and 1613. The steady growth went on, with an average of eight ebooks per month in 1994, 16 ebooks per month in 1995, and 32 ebooks per month in 1996. June 1997 > The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood In June 1997, Project Gutenberg released The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), by Howard Pyle. August 1997 > eBook #1000 > La Divina Commedia, by Dante Project Gutenberg reached 1,000 ebooks in August 1997. eBook #1000 was La Divina Commedia (1321), by Dante Alighieri, in Italian, its original language. 1997 > Three main sections With the number of ebooks on the rise, three main sections were set up: (1) "Light Literature", such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan and Aesop's Fables; (2) "Heavy Literature", such as the Bible, Shakespeare's works, Moby Dick and Paradise Lost; (3) "Reference Literature", such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedias and dictionaries. A more detailed classification was released years later. Project Gutenberg's goal has been more about selecting books intended for the general public than providing authoritative editions. As explained on the website in 1997: "We do not write for the reader who cares whether a certain phrase in Shakespeare has a ':' or a ';' between its clauses. We put our sights on a goal to release etexts that are 99.9% accurate in the eyes of the general reader." 1998 > A collection in Plain Vanilla ASCII The etexts, later called ebooks, were stored in the simplest way, using the low set of ASCII, called Plain Vanilla ASCII, for them to be read on any hardware and software. As a text file, a book could be easily copied, indexed, searched, analyzed, and compared with other books. Pietro di Miceli was the sole driving force behind the Project Gutenberg's website for nearly a decade, after making the first pages in 1994. August 1998 > "We consider etext to be a new medium." As explained by Michael Hart in August 1998: "We consider etext to be a new medium, with no real relationship to paper, other than presenting the same material, but I don't see how paper can possibly compete once people each find their own comfortable way to etexts, especially in schools. (...) My own personal goal is to put 10,000 etexts on the Net [a goal reached in October 2003] and if I can get some major support, I would like to expand that to 1,000,000 and to also expand our potential audience for the average etext from 1.x% of the world population to over 10%, thus changing our goal from giving away 1,000,000,000,000 etexts to 1,000 times as many, a trillion and a quadrillion in U.S. terminology." (NEF Interview) May 1999 > eBook #2000 > Don Quijote, by Cervantes Project Gutenberg reached 2,000 ebooks in May 1999. eBook #2000 was Don Quijote (1605), by Cervantes, in Spanish, its original language.