Project Twutenberg aims to make literature accessible. We take classics of world literature and translate them to "twiterature" - from stodgy, unappetising tomes into easily digested tweets.

NEW: We are proud to release this library:
The Whole Of Literature On One A4 Sheet (print duplex).
& for a bibliophilic challenge, try to identify these truly obscure twutenbergs.

We are recruiting editors for this ambitious and important project. To apply, please contact us on Twitter (we're @twutenberg).

Everyone is welcome to contribute to Project Twutenberg. To participate simply digest a well-known book into a tweet and add #twbg to the end, like the glacé cherry on a word bun.

Everyone is free to do their own tweetbooks their own way. We will be putting out calls for specific books that need converting. But you can submit other books too. We will retweet the best twiterature.

Whilst we applaud the efforts of Project Gutenberg, it is clear that making e-texts worth reading requires more than scanning in a few old books. This is 2009. We don't have time to read all the way through things. Perhaps if we still had servants to cook and clean. But we don't. We need our literature immediate, in your face and on an intravenous social-network dripfeed.

This interactive diversion was brought to you by Winterwell in conjunction with the West Port Book Festival.
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