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== Milestones == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Milestone ! Date ! e-text !Source |- ! First | 1 Oct 2000 | The Odyssey, [[Homer]], Lang tr. (first pages for proofreading) | rowspan="30" |<ref>{{Cite web|title=DP Timeline - DPWiki|url=https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/DP_Official_Documentation:General/DP_Timeline|access-date=2020-08-13|website=www.pgdp.net}}</ref> |- ! 1,000th | 19 Feb 2003 | Tales of St. Austin's, [[P. G. Wodehouse]] |- ! 2,000th | 3 Sep 2003 | Hamlet — the 'Bad Quarto', [[William Shakespeare]] |- ! 3,000th | 14 Jan 2004 | The Anatomy of Melancholy, [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]] |- ! 4,000th | 6 Apr 2004 | Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras, [[Jules Verne]] |- ! 5,000th | 24 Aug 2004 | A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, [[John William Cousin]] |- ! 6,000th | 2 Feb 2005 | [[The Journal of Sir Walter Scott]], [[Sir Walter Scott]] |- ! 7,000th | 23 Jun 2005 | Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano (Vol. I), [[Alexandre Herculano]]; <br> Viage al Parnaso, [[Miguel de Cervantes]]; <br> Leabhráin an Irisleabhair-III, Various. |- ! 8,000th | 8 Feb 2006 | The Suppression of the African slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870, [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] |- ! 9,000th | 8 Sep 2006 | History of the World War for Human Rights, [[Kelly Miller (scientist)|Kelly Miller]];<br> Poems, [[Christina Rossetti]];<br> Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting, [[Randolph Caldecott]] |- ! 10,000th | 9 Mar 2007 | (See [[#10,000th E-book|10,000th E-book]] below) |- ! 11,000th | 12 Sep 2007 | Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943, Northern Nut Growers Association |- ! 12,000th | 26 Jan 2008 | Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens, [[Sigmund Freud]] |- ! 13,000th | 24 Jun 2008 | A World of Girls, [[L. T. Meade]] |- ! 14,000th | 1 Dec 2008 | The Art of Stage Dancing, [[Ned Wayburn]] |- ! 15,000th | 12 May 2009 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666, Various. [[Henry Oldenburg]] (editor) |- ! 16,000th | 1 Oct 2009 | ABC Petits Contes, [[Jules Lemaître]] |- ! 17,000th | 4 Mar 2010 | The Position of Woman in Primitive Society, C. Gasquoine Hartley |- ! 18,000th | 15 Jun 2010 | Area Handbook for Romania, Eugene K. Keefe, et al. |- ! 19,000th | 10 Nov 2010 | [[Reynard cycle|Vanden Vos Reinaerde]] Uitgegeven en Toegelicht (anonymous) |- ! 20,000th | 10 April 2011 | (See [[#20,000th E-book|20,000th E-book]] below) |- ! 22,000th | 2 Jan 2012 | "[[The Nibelungenlied]]", William Nanson Lettsom's translation |- ! 25,000th | 10 April 2013 | The Art and Practice of Silver Printing, [[Henry Peach Robinson|H. P. Robinson]] and [[William de Wiveleslie Abney|Capt. Abney]] |- ! 30,000th | 7 July 2015 | Graded Literature Readers: Fourth Book |- ! 35,000th | 26 Jan 2018 | Shores of the Polar Sea, a Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876 |- !36,000th |7 September 2018 |American Missionary |- !37,000th |16 April 2019 |French Painting of the 19th Century in the National Gallery of Art |- !38,000th |8 November 2019 |The Birds of Australia (Vol. 3 of 7) |- !39,000th |27 April 2020 |Wilhelm Hauffs sämtliche Werke in sechs Bänden. Bd. 6 |- !40,000th |10 October 2020 |All four volumes of [[London Labour and the London Poor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2020/10/10/celebrating-40000-titles |title=Celebrating 40,000 Titles |date=10 October 2020 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !41,000th |5 March 2021 |[[Clara Barton]]'s The story of my childhood<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2021/03/05/celebrating-41000-titles |title=Celebrating 41,000 Titles |date=5 March 2021 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !42,000th |3 August 2021 |Carry On, Jeeves |- !43,000th |31 January 2022 |Die Sitten der Völker, Zweiter Band<ref>{{cite web | url = https://blog.pgdp.net/2022/02/01/celebrating-43000-titles/ | title = Celebrating 43,000 Titles | date = February 1, 2022 | website = blog.pgdp.net | access-date = February 1, 2022}}</ref> |- !44,000th |19 July 2022 |The trial of [[Émile Zola]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2022/07/19/celebrating-44000-titles/ |title=Celebrating 44,000 Titles |date=19 July 2022 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !45,000th |18 January 2023 |Elihu Stewart's Down the Mackenzie and Up the Yukon in 1906<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2023/01/18/celebrating-45000-titles/ |title=Celebrating 45,000 Titles |date=18 January 2023 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !46,000th |3 July 2023 |The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (the [[Child Ballads]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2023/07/03/celebrating-46000-titles/ |title=Celebrating 46,000 Titles |date=3 July 2021 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !47,000th |20 December 2023 |The [[Betty Crocker]] Picture Cooky Book<ref name=47000th>{{cite web |url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2023/12/20/celebrating-47000-titles/ |title=Celebrating 47,000 Titles |date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- !48,000th |19 July 2024 |The Reign of King Oberon<ref name=48000th>{{cite web |url=https://blog.pgdp.net/2024/07/19/celebrating-48000-titles/ |title=Celebrating 48,000 Titles |date=19 July 2024 |publisher=Pgdp.net}}</ref> |- |} === 10,000th E-book === On 9 March 2007, Distributed Proofreaders announced the completion of more than 10,000 titles. In celebration, a collection of fifteen titles was published: * ''Slave Narratives, Oklahoma'' (A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves) by the U.S. [[Work Projects Administration]] (English) * ''Eighth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology''. (1891 N 08 / 1886–1887) edited by [[John Wesley Powell]] (English) * ''R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs'' by [[Randolph Caldecott]] [Illustrator] (English) * ''Como atravessei Àfrica'' (Volume II) by [[Serpa Pinto]] (Portuguese) * ''Triplanetary'' by [[E. E. Smith|E. E. "Doc" Smith]] (English) * ''Heidi'' by [[Johanna Spyri]] (English) * ''Heimatlos'' by Johanna Spyri (German) * October 27, 1920 issue of ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' (English) * ''Sylva, or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees'' by [[John Evelyn]] (English) * ''Encyclopedia of Needlework'' by [[Therese de Dillmont]] (English) * ''The annals of the Cakchiquels'' by [[Francisco Ernantez Arana]] ([[floruit|fl.]] 1582), translated and edited by [[Daniel Garrison Brinton|Daniel G. Brinton]] (1837–1899) (English with Central American Indian) * ''The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties'' (1921) by [[Richard Runciman Terry]] (1864–1938) (English) * ''Le marchand de Venise'' by [[William Shakespeare]], translated by [[François Guizot]] (French) * ''Agriculture for beginners'', Rev. ed. by [[Charles William Burkett]] (English) * ''Species Plantarum'' (Part 1) by [[Carl Linnaeus]] (Carl von Linné) (Latin) === 20,000th E-book === On April 10, 2011, the 20,000th book milestone was celebrated as a group release of bilingual books:<ref>[http://blog.pgdp.net/2011/04/09/distributed-proofreaders-celebrates-20000-books-posted/ Distributed Proofreaders celebrates 20,000 books posted] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619033646/http://blog.pgdp.net/2011/04/09/distributed-proofreaders-celebrates-20000-books-posted/ |date=2011-06-19 }}, Distributed Proofreaders, April 10, 2011</ref> * ''The Renaissance in Italy–Italian Literature, Vol 1'', [[John Addington Symonds]] (English with Italian) * ''Märchen und Erzählungen für Anfänger; erster Teil'', [[H. A. Guerber]] (German with English) * ''Gedichte und Sprüche'', [[Walther von der Vogelweide]] (Middle High German ({{circa|1050}}–1500) with German) * ''Studien und Plaudereien im Vaterland'', [[Sigmon Martin Stern]] (German with English) * ''Caos del Triperuno'', [[Teofilo Folengo]] (Italian with Latin) * ''Niederländische Volkslieder'', [[Hoffmann von Fallersleben]] (German with Dutch) * ''A "San Francisco"'', [[Salvatore Di Giacomo]] (Italian with Neapolitan) * ''O' voto'', Salvatore Di Giacomo (Italian with Neapolitan) * ''De Latino sine Flexione'' & ''Principio de Permanentia'', [[Giuseppe Peano]] (1858–1932) (Latin with Latino sine Flexione) * ''Cappiddazzu paga tuttu—Nino Martoglio'', [[Luigi Pirandello]] (Italian with Sicilian) * ''The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto'', [[George Cox (writer)|George Cox]] (English with Esperanto) * ''Lusitania: canti popolari portoghesi'', [[Ettore Toci]] (Italian with French) === 30,000th E-book === On 7 July 2015, the 30,000th book milestone was celebrated with a group of thirty texts. One was numbered 30,000:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=59120 |title=Distributed Proofreaders • View topic - 30,000 Unique Titles Preserved! |publisher=Pgdp.net |access-date=2016-09-15}}</ref> *''Graded literature readers - Fourth book'', editors: [[Harry Pratt Judson]] and Ida C. Bender, 1900
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