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Links

• Main site: http://www.projectgutenberg.org
• Affiliate: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de

Languages

• English: Many many books
• Portuguese: A few hundred books
• Spanish: A few hundred books
• Arabic: Few to none
• Current list of languages and sizes: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

Size

There are 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

Formats

• Many books are currently in plain text and need to be downloaded from Project Gutenberg or various mirrors. Other content formats are Plucker, and HTML, and some download files are zipped.
• Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from current packaging)

Curator Info

Group: Literature

Group coordinator: None

Contributing groups and their curators: Project Gutenberg, John Guagliardo

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