specific projects like Project Gutenberg, but also considers the social impact of these transformations on literature and culture. The opening of the book introduces the significant milestones in the history of ebooks, beginning with the launch of Project Gutenberg, which aimed to create free, accessible electronic texts. It shares the vision of its founder, Michael Hart, and outlines the early challenges and successes of digitizing literature, pointing out how the project gained momentum with the advent of the internet. The narrative sets the stage for subsequent themes—like the development of digital libraries, ebook formats, and evolving copyright laws—giving readers insight into how ebooks transitioned from a novel concept to a critical component of the digital age. (This is an automatically generated summary.)