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nonprofit project
online library
abbreviation PG
accessPolicy free access
no registration required
collectionSize over 60,000 ebooks
contentSource volunteer-produced ebooks
countryOfOrigin United States
distributionModel download
online reading
fileFormat EPUB
HTML
Kindle
plain text
focusesOn classic literature
public domain literature
foundedBy Michael S. Hart
foundingDate 1971
hasProject Distributed Proofreaders
Project Gutenberg Australia
Project Gutenberg Canada
Project Gutenberg Europe
hasSlogan “eBooks @ Project Gutenberg”
inception 1971
legalStatus nonprofit initiative
licensingModel public domain texts
mission to encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks
name Project Gutenberg
notableFor being one of the first digital libraries
being one of the oldest ebook projects
offers EPUB ebooks
HTML ebooks
Kindle ebooks
audiobooks
free ebooks
plain text ebooks
public-domain ebooks
primaryLanguage English
subjectArea history
literature
philosophy
reference works
science
supportedBy donations
volunteers
uses Distributed Proofreaders for text production
website https://www.gutenberg.org/

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