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Books Index update from #1,153 to #1,200. 

Milestones to consider:

Etext #1200 posted yesterday. . .possibly #2000 on 1/1/2000

10 years ago we were just posting Etext #12. . . .

We are considering moving to 36 books per month, and, would like to have your input on this, as I consider this is YOUR project. . . .  If we do 36 per month for the next 23 month period, we should be able to reach 2000 Etexts by January 1 of the year 2000. . .however. . .I *am* aware that we would be pushing things a bit, so I am going to give this at most a one month trial period, so we can get some feedback. The Directors assure me that they have volunteers ready to go-- but I always like to check with out volunteers at large, b4 we change things.  I think it *would* be kind of nice to do our 2,000th Etext during the big celebration. . . .

[I know that the Third Millennium really doesn't start that year, but rather in 2001. . .since there was no year zero.]

Here are the 32 Etexts for January, 1998, and if we can get enough more out in February, I will rename some of them for January's extra 4 Etexts.  I pushed the envelope yesterday, and in a fit of the workaholism I am somewhat famous for, I posted 12 Etexts yesterday, as it is hard for me not to get going hard when crossing a milestone such as Etext #1200.

The very earliest of our volunteers joined us approximately
10 years ago, when we had only about 12 Etexts in our small collection. . .though not so small if you consider how long it took to download them at 300/1200/2400 baud.

Today we have about 100 Etexts available for each Etext the collection had 10 years ago.  If we can keep growing at the same rate, we can have a library truly worthy of that name, 10 years from now.

I am not sure how well this is going to work out for me, as
I have been pretty much working as hard as I can for years, and last year really wore me out.

However, if we can get just a few more volunteer editors in English and a few other languages, we can do this.

We desperately need at least one editor in these languages:

French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
and other languages
[see list below]

We still need someone to help us create a "hit counter" for
relaying hits to other Etext sources, so they get credited.
This is VERY important for some of them to get grants, etc.

Meanwhile here are the 32 Etexts already posted for January and the ones I posted yesterday for February, of
which 4 may be renamed as for January if we can get 36 more Etexts on line before the end of the month.

You might be interested to know that Etexts 1198, 99 & 1200 each have their origins down under in Australia.  #2000 was produced by Sue Asscher from down under in Queensland: and the other two are by Australian authors.

We are working hard to set up teams in the languages and/or countries listed below.  We hope you can help!!!

We would VERY much like to form Project Gutenberg Teams in these languages!!!

1.  Arabic
2.  Chinese
3.  Danish
4.  Dutch
5.  Esperanto
6.  French
7   German
8.  Greek
9.  Hebrew
10. Hungarian
11. Italian
12. Japanese
13. Korean
14. Latin
15. Lithuanian
16. Portuguese
17. Romanian
18. Russian
19. Slovak
10. Slovene
21. Spanish

and in any other languages you might like to add.

I, myself, am in PARTICULAR need of someone to help me in French.

Thanks!

Michael Stern Hart