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Books Index update from #897 to #933.

This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for Tuesday June 4th, 1997

With this issue we have reached Etext #933, though we were a little behind all of the month of May, we managed to catch up just in time.

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www.ul.cs.cmu.edu These will also be available via FTP.

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