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Jim Tinsley
Known in the Project Gutenberg world for writing The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002, this author helped explain how one of the internet’s earliest free ebook projects worked behind the scenes. The surviving record suggests a practical, volunteer-minded writer deeply involved in preserving and sharing books online.
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The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
by Jim Tinsley
About the author
Jim Tinsley is best documented through his work with Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002, a historical guide to the project’s practices and culture in the early digital-library era.
Other Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders records show him as an active volunteer as well as a writer. He is credited on multiple ebook productions, and Distributed Proofreaders notes that he was an early member who helped the community get established.
Because reliable biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources available here, the clearest picture is of someone remembered for hands-on contributions to the volunteer effort of making books freely available online.