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[wolffyluna]

Project Gutenberg is so good. I mean, I was aware of it's goodness, but tonight I have been reminded.

For those who haven't run into it before, Project Gutenberg is repository of ebook versions of out of copyright books.

It started with "Hang on, I could put Dracula on my phone for free and no one could stop me." (And no one can! It's out of copyright!) But then I started poking round with the search.

Did you know that Project Gutenberg has a whole lot of 1800s riding manuals? Do I personally have a use for 1800s riding manuals, other than maybe research? Maybe not, but tens! of 1800s! riding manuals! at! my! fingertips!

Project Gutenberg is so good.

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[brin_bellway]

I haven't done as much with it as I could, but I do have a complete (I think) set of Sherlock Holmes courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

For people who enjoy indiscriminate book hoarding† and have about 54 GB to spare, you can get a mass-download of the Gutenberg library (as of October 2018) here, and you can get an interface program for that file format here. These folks have a lot of other great packaged mass-downloads available: I recommend taking a look around, and I especially recommend their Wikipedia. (You can keep the entirety of Wikipedia on (a microSD card in) your smartphone! And not just in an abstract "theoretically if you compare the amount of data composing Wikipedia and the amount of storage capacity in your phone" way: you *literally can*! It's so great!!)

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†I personally prefer a more cultivated book hoard, but you'll get no judgment from me, just a fistbump from a fellow archiving hobbyist.

[wolffyluna]

I'm not likely to end with such an indiscriminate book hoard, but being able to get a mass download is useful to know, thank you!

[contrarianarchon]

Ooh I just barely have 54gb spare...

(However that's close to literally all I have spare and I'm not likely to stop acquiring data at a startling rate between now and [when I get a better laptop courtesy for not-quite-moore's-law.], so I had better not.)

(That is still only a little more than the size of warframe, though...)

[chocochipbiscuit]

I love Project Gutenberg!!!!

I finally read Dracula and Frankenstein thanks to it, and have a half-dozen Dickens novels that have remained unread across multiple plane flights. :')

[zdenka]

Project Gutenberg is great!

[lady_kishiria]

I read Dracula and Frankenstein thanks to Project Gutenberg. Aluratek used to make a marvelous low-tech e-reader called the E-libre. It comes with 100 books from Project Gutenberg pre-loaded onto it, including those two novels as well as big names like War and Peace, the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, all the works of Shakespeare, etc.