Project Gutenberg, an ongoing project which is in general a digital library. Gutenberg works by transcribing old books whose copyrights have expired, and posting the books online, free for download. That's right: Anyone can download books from Gutenberg for free.
I guess that tells everything. I browsed that website only to be disappointed that I could not find a full transcription of Euclid's Elements. That bible of geometry is extremely hard to find, Google don't even have a full transcription of it. I had also checked Barnes & Noble only to be disappointed about it. It will be great if I can find commented version of the great book.
The works of Riemann is also nowhere to be find. Project Gutenberg is far from perfect, only popular titles can be found easily (BTW, isn't Euclid's Elements supposed to be popular?) such as Sherlock Holmes series, Alice in Wonderland, Homer's Odyssey, Sunzi Bingfa, some of Einstein's works, and obviously Origin of Species.
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