We’re halfway through 2014, and year-to-date the Mormon Texts Project has almost doubled the number of LDS books available on Project Gutenberg, as you can see from the graph. At the start of the year there were 21 LDS books on PG, and now there are 36. That’s more than two new books on PG per month, folks. Of the fifteen that are new to Project Gutenberg, twelve are all-new productions (hence the title of this post), and three were previously available but only on the MTP site and in fewer formats. Without further ado, here’s the list of new PG books:
- “The Vitality of Mormonism: An Address” by James E. Talmage
- “Leaves From My Journal” by Wilford Woodruff
- “The Mormon Doctrine of Deity” by B. H. Roberts
- “The Life of John Taylor” by B. H. Roberts
- “My First Mission” by George Q. Cannon
- “The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries, Ancient and Modern” by James E. Talmage
- “The Government of God” by John Taylor
- “Essentials in Church History” by Joseph Fielding Smith
- “General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States” by Joseph Smith
- “History of the Prophet Joseph by his Mother” by Lucy Smith
- “Absurdities of Immaterialism” by Orson Pratt
- “An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions” by Orson Pratt
- “Spencer’s Letters” by Orson Spencer
- “The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt” by Parley P. Pratt
- “William Clayton’s Journal” by William Clayton
This would not be possible without our dedicated volunteers. They’ve put in many, many hours of proofreading, often starting from painful-to-read OCR output but ultimately producing the near-flawless texts you see on Project Gutenberg. My thanks go out to them.
Believe it or not, only one of the above was produced by our interns, but as the end of the internship program approaches and their projects start getting finished expect to see at least ten more books from them over the next couple months. The second half of this year should be even better than the first.