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From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

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

• Formats materials are currently in
• Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from curent packaging)

Curator Info

Group

Group coordinator

Contributing groups and their curators

Allottable size

Assessment

Scope (subjects, ages, other)

Completeness (comprehensiveness for given topic and audience)

Multilingualism (specifically es, pt, en, ar)

Quality (incl. suitability for audience)

Freeness (license and format)

Comments, Tags, and Ratings

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