October 2000 > Distributed Proofreaders Distributed Proofreaders was founded in October 2000 by Charles Franks to share the proofreading of ebooks between many volunteers. Volunteers choose one of the digitized books available on the website and proofread a given page, or several pages, as they wish. It is recommended they do one page per day if possible. It may not seem much, but with thousands of volunteers it really adds up. December 2000 > eBook #3000 > A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, by Marcel Proust Project Gutenberg reached 3,000 ebooks in December 2000. EBook #3000 was A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower), vol. 3 (1919), by Marcel Proust, in French, its original language. From 1998 to 2000, there was an average of 36 new ebooks per month. August 2001 > Project Gutenberg Australia Project Gutenberg Australia was launched in August 2001. The collection included 500 ebooks in July 2005, and 1,500 ebooks in April 2007. October 2001 > eBook #4000 > The French Immortals Series Project Gutenberg reached 4,000 ebooks in October 2001. eBook #4000 was The French Immortals Series (1905), in English. This book is an anthology of short fictions by authors from the French Academy (Academie Francaise): Emile Souvestre, Pierre Loti, Hector Malot, Charles de Bernard, Alphonse Daudet, and others. In 2001, there was an average of 104 new ebooks per month. April 2002 > eBook #5000 > The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Project Gutenberg reached 5,000 ebooks in April 2002. eBook #5000 was The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, an English version of Leonardo's early 16th-century writings in Italian. Since its release, this ebook has constantly stayed in the Top 100 downloaded ebooks. 2002 > 1.44 M standard disks and zipped files In 1991, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan each fit on one 360 K disk, the standard of the time. In 2002, the standard disk was 1.44 M and could be compressed as a zipped file. A practical file size is about 3 million characters, more than long enough for the average book. The ASCII version of a 300-page novel is 1 M. A bulky book can fit in two ASCII files, that can be downloaded as is or zipped. 50 hours on average are necessary to get an ebook selected, copyright- cleared, scanned, proofread, formatted, and assembled. Spring 2002 > 25% of all public domain works In spring 2002, the Project Gutenberg collection represented 25% of all public domain works freely available on the web and listed in the Internet Public Library (IPL). In 2002, there was an average of 203 new ebooks per month. November 2002 > The Human Genome Project In November 2002, Project Gutenberg released the 75 files of The Human Genome Project, with files of dozens or hundreds of megabytes, shortly after its initial release in February 2001 as a work from public domain. September 2003 > Project Gutenberg Audio eBooks