h in 1992, four books
per month in 1993, and eight books per month in 1994.

In January 1994, Project Gutenberg released "The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare" as eBook #100. Shakespeare wrote most
works between 1590 and 1613.

The steady growth went on, with an average of 8 books per month
in 1994, 16 books per month in 1995, and 32 books per month in
1996.

In June 1997, Project Gutenberg released "The Merry Adventures
of Robin Hood" (1883), by Howard Pyle.

Project Gutenberg had 1,000 ebooks in August 1997. eBook #1000
was "La Divina Commedia" de Dante Alighieri (1321), in Italian,
its original language.

As there were more and more ebooks, they got classified in
three main sections: (a) "Light Literature", such as "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-Glass", "Peter
Pan" and "Aesop's Fables"; (b) "Heavy Literature", such as the
Bible, Shakespeare's works, "Moby Dick" and "Paradise Lost";
(c) "Reference Literature", such as "Roget's Thesaurus",
almanacs, and a set of encyclopedias and dictionaries. (This
classification in three sections was replaced later with a more
detailed one.)

"Light Literature" was the main section in number of ebooks. As
explained on the website in 1998, "The Light Literature
Collection is designed to get persons to the computer in the
first place, whether the person may be a pre-schooler or a
great-grandparent. We love it when we hear about kids or
grandparents taking each other to an etext of 'Peter Pan' when
they come back from watching Hook at the movies, or when they
read 'Alice in Wonderland' after seeing it on TV. We have also
been told that nearly every Star Trek movie has quoted current
Project Gutenberg etext releases (from 'Moby Dick' in 'The
Wrath of Khan'; a Peter Pan quote finishing up the most recent,
etc.) not to mention a reference to 'Through the Looking-Glass'
in JFK. This was a primary concern when we chose the books for
our libraries. We want people to be able to look up quotations
they heard in conversation, movies, music, other books, easily
with a library containing all these quotations in an easy-to-
find etext format."

Project Gutenberg has selected books intended for the general
public. It has not focused on providing authoritative editions.
"We do not write for the reader who cares whether a certain
phrase in Shakespeare has a ':' or a ';' between its clauses.
We put our sights on a goal to release etexts that are 99.9%
accura