In a very short time, Ekatra picked up pace and involved numerous volunteers from across the world.In the digital form they will be fully searchable with any search engine.
#ONLINE READING GUJARATI BOOKS FREE ANDROID#
Once Gujarati books are digital, they will be instantly available on eBook readers and readable via Kindle, iPad, Android tablets and smart phones.
#ONLINE READING GUJARATI BOOKS FREE FREE#
Over 1,000 million downloads of free ebooks have already occurred. Instantly, thousands of books from Shakespeare to Agatha Christie became available to eBook readers at no charge.
In the Western world, a similar successful effort, Project Gutenberg, created over 40,000 free books in digital format and was instrumental in making e-Book reader ubiquitous. “To preserve Gujarati literature and increase its audience through digitization.” However, communities that choose to participate in this digital revolution are at a great advantage, as ubiquitous accessibility becomes common.Įvery electronic device – from mobile phones to automobiles - will hold literature in the digital form and it will be accessible to people worldwide. We feel that any language that does not make this transition will be in danger of becoming extinct by 2050. Now, in the 21st century, we are experiencing another such tectonic shift, a move from paper book to digital. This formalized Gujarati as a one of the official languages of India, in a time where many other dialects did not make the technological transition and thus are now endangered or even extinct. With the introduction of the printing press, publishers of Gujarati books offered books in quantities never imaginable before.
At that time, written materials consisted only of manuscripts. Most dialects, including Gujarati, did not qualify as “language” because they lacked definitive dictionary and formal grammar. In the early eighteen century, people on the Indian subcontinent spoke many more dialects than are spoken today. This was the beginning of a new epoch for Gujarati.
In 1929, Gujarat Vidyapidth published its first edition of સાર્થ ગૂજરાતી જોડણીકોશ, the Gujarati comprehensive dictionary.
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