http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
Summary & Evaluation:
Projekt Gutenberg-DE is an enormous collection of literary texts preserved and archived online. The largest contributor to the "library" is works by authors who have been dead for 70 years or more (and thus have lost their copyright.) Projekt Gutenberg-DE is affiliated with the larger Project Gutenberg, although it focuses mostly on German-language texts. This Projekt is smaller, and is hosted on the web by "Der Spiegel."
Projekt Gutenberg-DE is simple to navigate, providing both information about the writer of hosted works and easy access to the works themselves. This site may be one of the only places online that allows someone to access so many original works so easily- everyone from Freud, to Aesop, to the Brothers Grimm. This, along with the larger Project Gutenberg, make it possible to access what, prior to the advent of the internet, would be probably unattainable.
Important Links:
1) http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/index.php?id=14 "Information"
This page describes Projekt Gutenberg-DE, how it works, how one can volunteer, aswell as provide statistics about the site: It currently hosts 5,700 books, 21,000 poems, 1800 fairytales, 1200 fables, and more.
2) http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/index.php?id=18&autor= "1123 Autoren gefunden"
Projekt Gutenberg's content is organized by authors. This is a complete list of the authors in alphabetical order, both allowing a reader or researcher knowledge of what's available, and expressing the scope of this enormous project.
3) http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/index.php?id=8 "Genres"
This list displays the many different genres of work hosted by Projekt Gutenberg. Projekt Gutenberg covers everything from Treatise to Comic Strip to Satire to Epic Poems. Here is reflected the scope of Projekt Gutenbergs work.
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