TIL that Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, typed 313 books word for word to distribute them online free of cost. Today, the project has over 70.000 free eBooks.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/13/michael-hart-obituary
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https://noc.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/065/062/822/649/421/original/91182e66760ed42d.jpg 

 @4d2facee And he was a big sweetheart too.