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Project Gutenberg

SPXI instrument · method 0.16 of 87, level 0 (Measurement): The Negative of the Negative (/non). An instrument of SPXI, the Semantic Packet for eXchange & Indexing; the whole practice is itemized at spxi.dev/methods.

equal terms, ontology included (v0.9) · ρ = extends · the field's type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity on which the archive bears: a digital library of free public-domain eBooks whose texts pass into training sets and machine-made works downstream; an entity of the traininglayerliterature.org layer census, host_relation 'infrastructure') · sought at Project Gutenberg

composed 2026-11-01 under EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10, #1726, from the traininglayerliterature.org layer census (CENSUS project-gutenberg; anchors #186, #1543); equal case, ρ = extends. Draft, not frozen; ledgers unaudited, one extractor; checked by the session.

AXN AXN:0BC9.NON.📝🌱👉☉∮✊ · root AXN:0BC9.NON

composed in session · Claude (Opus 5.5), subagent, 2026-11-01

This row was composed in session. SPXI-gnΩsis (gnosis.spxi.dev) opens a Wikipedia revision sentence by sentence against the sources it cites; a commission consults the archive by its own procedure and composes the entity's row here; a quote to recompose this entity is free.

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not frozentype C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity on which the archive bears: a digital library of free public-domain eBooks whose texts pass into training sets and machine-made works downstream; an entity of the traininglayerliterature.org layer census, host_relation 'infrastructure')signed out, incognitoknowledge object · 47 sentences

EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10 (#1726): equal case, ρ = extends, read from the traininglayerliterature.org layer census record, the capture record and the deposits that bear on the entity and its classes (#186 and #1543, the census's anchors; the seatings #1560, #1689, #1707, #1710, #1712, #1713, #1720 and the shelf #1680, #1711; #416, #735, #943, #1044, #1046, #1593, #1605, #1656, #1668); archive selected by D/R/O (108 D and 39 R candidates in 23 deposits, 116 O candidates in 53, a hop of 234 read; 20 deposits admitted with 9 instances kept), with the census record (37 claims) and the Capture Registry's findings, reading, analysis, PER note, query note and surface basis (15 claims) ledgered as the archive's records of the entity; the field in two pools (B_D: 4 sources on six inline chips, 2 without text; B_R: 2 own pages and 2 census third-party sources); the composer read the ledgers, never the transcript, except where the brief asks for T's claims and the delta. Ledger: unaudited (§3.8: one extractor per ledger); field quotes 63/63 verified by script against saved text or the wikitext; archive quotes 83/83 verified against the registry, census.json and the deposit texts.

WORKING KNOWLEDGE OBJECT · NOT FROZEN · LEDGER UNAUDITED

Expansion · Field and archive, equal terms — L(B ∪ A)47 sentences · every one sourced below

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks and the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971: a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works whose mission is "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." Most of what it holds are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain, free to access in an open format, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired; its unit is the eBook, a digitized and proofread text with its own permanent landing page. The collection is primarily literature of the Western cultural tradition, novels, poetry, short stories and drama, with cookbooks, reference works, issues of periodicals and a few non-text items such as audio files, movies and music-notation files; most releases are in English, and many are in other languages. Hart's stated goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible", and a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy".

Hart began the project in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence and named it after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century printer; its own pages say that Hart "invented eBooks in 1971" and count "55+ Years" of free eBooks. Hart entered all text by hand until 1989, when scanners and optical character recognition made book scanning feasible, and died on 6 September 2011. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in Mississippi in 2000 to handle the project's legal needs, operates it and accepts donations; Gregory B. Newby became the foundation's first CEO in 2001, the home page now refers to its late CEO, Dr. Greg Newby, and after Newby's death in 2025 Eric Hellman became acting CEO. ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts it; the Internet Archive was its long-time backup distribution site and an earlier main host.

Counts differ by date and source: 79,709 free eBooks on the home page as read on 1 November 2026, more than 75,000 on its about page, nearly 78,000 items as of 22 March 2026 and over 77,500 documents in Wikipedia's infobox, and over 75,999 items claimed in May 2025, with over 30 new e-books a week. A snapshot of the Gutenberg catalog taken into the archive in July 2026 holds 90,252 rows, and the archive records that Das Kapital is not on Gutenberg in German, so that a comparison of Hegel's prose with Marx's cannot be run on the open German shelf.

By its own account thousands of volunteers have digitized and proofread its books; the same home page also says that hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years. No selection policy governs what is added: volunteers work on what interests them or what they have, and the works and editions available have been set by popularity, ease of scanning, copyright status and other factors. Distributed Proofreaders, founded by Charles Franks in 2000 and affiliated in 2002, distributes the proofreading of scanned texts among volunteers and is now the main source of new eBooks; its 36,000+ books were almost two-thirds of the collection in 2018. Material is added only after a copyright clearance, whose records are kept, and the project claims no new copyright on the titles it publishes.

In December 1994 the Text Encoding Initiative criticized the project for not documenting the decisions made in preparing a text and, in some cases, which of several conflicting versions had been digitized; the census records it as no scholarly edition, unable to say which edition a text was digitized from. The archive's seatings identify the edition behind a Gutenberg text from the text itself: Morris's Pearl from the second edition of 1869, The Prophet from a later Knopf printing whose book text is that of 1923, a Monadologie catalogued as 1909 whose title page reads 1900, each of Kafka's works as the edition its header names, a Principia transcribed from the first edition of 1687 with its transcribers' corrections listed, and an Opticks of the fourth edition of 1730, produced by Distributed Proofreaders, held beside the first printing of 1704. The archive also finds a Gutenberg text short of what some works need: its Dickinson "is a propositional shell", its Hopkins "lacks the notational apparatus", and works cited from its texts are cited by chapter, for want of print pagination. The archive calls Gutenberg's texts "the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities", their reading environment unchanged for three decades and their metadata spare, and holds that "Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer", while it sets out to build the scholarly reading environment "Gutenberg is architected not to construct". An earlier archive paper counts large text archives such as Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust as collections with scale and no internal architecture, of which an AI summary describes what is in them.

Most books are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law, a few copyrighted texts with permission; the target audience is United States persons over 13, and the project offers no warranty about copyright status or freedom to use its materials outside the United States. Its website was inaccessible in Germany from 2018 to 2021 under a court order concerning works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, and it has been blocked in Italy since May 2020. In the archive's account the U.S. public-domain constraint leaves its translations mostly older ones, Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century.

Releases come in plain text, a Latin-character version having been required since the founding as the format Hart believed most likely to stay readable, and in HTML, EPUB and MOBI; the plain files, wrapped at 65–70 characters, were criticized in 2000 as "bland and difficult to read on screen". All its eBooks are free, "and always will be", with no fees, registration or apps required.

Its terms address two readers: "This website is intended for human users only", and automated access brings a block of the IP address, while anyone downloading many books, more than about 100 a day, by hand or by software, is sent to the mirrors, and a machine-readable database of all its books is offered at its Offline Catalogs and Feeds page beside an index file. Applications using its OPDS feed must identify themselves and keep to a browser's volume, high-volume ones being pointed to the catalog database to host their own feed; large-scale deep-linking to its files and mock front-ends that take advertising revenue are refused, and links go to an item's landing page, which it intends to be permanent. The home page links a page on linking to the site and "roboting or crawling" it, and the collection is backed up regularly and mirrored on servers in many places, so that no one localized accident can lose it. The census reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing the human reader at the website and machine access at the mirrors and the catalog, and records its readback by landing page, search, index file and catalog database.

Its texts pass into training downstream: the Pile, an 886 GB dataset of English text made to train large language models, lists among its sub-datasets "Gutenberg (PG-19)" at 11.68 GB, unmarked among the components with copyright disputes. NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated novel that could "literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg", and the library's own home page lists almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles in the Open Audiobook Collection beside 662 titles read by people and LibriVox's human-read recordings of its texts. An archive update of July 2026, listing venues for an AI-mediated reading text of its own, records "Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)"; the statement concerns text and stands beside the computer-generated audiobooks the home page lists. A pre-registered training corpus by the archive's heteronym Nobel Glas takes 30% of its documents from Project Gutenberg's public-domain prose before 1900, filtered for literary stature, as high training signal. The census records that the library's own saved pages say nothing of training and that what an apparatus makes from its texts is unrecorded there, that the library is no training dataset and the datasets and generated works drawn from it are different entities, and that whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set cannot be answered from it; the home page, which the census did not save, lists the computer-generated audiobooks. In the census's anchors training-layer literature is writing addressed to the layer where texts are "crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers", texts in the corpora that are not organized around that fact are "read by machines incidentally", and the institutional training loop runs from a text through a model and its output into the next corpus. #1543 names the second wing of that literature machine composition, "what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE", and keeps apart whether a machine wrote something new and whether it told the truth about where it came from.

"Project Gutenberg" is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of the project's public-domain texts; the sister projects are independent organizations permitted to use it, and one of them, Projekt Gutenberg-DE, claims copyright for its product. Resale of its public-domain works is lawful once every reference to Project Gutenberg is removed, contributors have questioned commercial reuse of content formatted by volunteers, and books stripped of attribution to the project, Fox Trapping (1906) among them, have been sold in the Kindle Store and by other booksellers. What may be done with a downloaded eBook falls under the Project Gutenberg License, which the archive reads as governing the use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark, the text being public domain in the United States. The archive keeps the name with the text: its seatings record a Gutenberg file as "Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence", seat it "with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact" or with "its header and footer kept as served", and name each one a transcription beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found. The census places the name a text carries after its passage into training and composition outside the library's own pages and finds authors' names unrecorded on the pages it saved, while the home page lists its most popular works each under its author; in #186 persistence is a work placed where the training and retrieval layers look, "with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed".

Project Gutenberg is one of the archive's originals shelf's own sources and a comparator for it: the shelf counts 16 seats in its Gutenberg licence class, points to the mantle-bearing Leaves of Grass of 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322 outside the archive, holds Philip K. Dick's unrenewed stories as open in its transcriptions from their magazine printings, checked against its catalogue, and rests the reproducibility of a stylometric run on it among other open sources.

The census asks how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it, and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it admits aggregators that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, and enters Project Gutenberg as infrastructure, a library whose question is training membership at the source: whether a public-domain work is held, at which landing page, and on what terms a machine may take it. It leaves unchecked the Project Gutenberg License, the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page, the mirrors list and every eBook landing page, so the author and metadata fields of a release are unseen in its record.

Asked for "Project Gutenberg" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Mode, run there by the operator's note in place of an Overview, said what the library is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, listed five famous works under their authors and offered help finding and downloading texts; it gave its sources as six inline chips, at a new address. The Capture Registry found the library composed accurately as a reader's library, its opening and founder following Wikipedia and its volunteers and Distributed Proofreaders at their sources' grain, and its mission widened from the creation and distribution of eBooks to global literacy and open access. The registry also found that the composition addresses the reader of the browser and the Kindle, carries neither the operating foundation, the human-users rule, the mirrors, any word of training, the trademark nor the policy's limit outside the United States, and gives a count, "nearly 80,000", above every saved source and every result on the page; the home page, read after the capture, gives 79,709. The Wikipedia article read here was last edited on 12 October 2026; two of the six chips, OpenEd and a YouTube video of Microsoft Cloud, carry no title, snippet or link and stand unidentified.

Provenance — every sentence sourced47 sentences

47 sentences; 63 field claims, 83 archive claims. Modality is the source's own; the prose carries it in its grammar.

1.Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks and the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971: a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works whose mission is "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."8
  • F44 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.
  • F13 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ."
  • F14 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library .
  • F48 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), Project Gutenberg Mission Statement documented · field
    To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
  • TLL-01 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].name stipulation
    Project Gutenberg
  • TLL-02 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].aka stipulation
    gutenberg.org
  • TLL-04 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].kind stipulation
    online library of free eBooks
  • TLL-11 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].evidence_kind stipulation
    digital library
2.Most of what it holds are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain, free to access in an open format, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired; its unit is the eBook, a digitized and proofread text with its own permanent landing page.3
  • F15 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Most items in its collection are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain . All files are free to access in an open format , available on almost any computer.
  • F2 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Choose free eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world's great literature here with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired.
  • TLL-05 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].unit stipulation
    an eBook: a digitized, proofread text with its own permanent landing page (e.g. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11), released in plain text and other formats
3.The collection is primarily literature of the Western cultural tradition, novels, poetry, short stories and drama, with cookbooks, reference works, issues of periodicals and a few non-text items such as audio files, movies and music-notation files; most releases are in English, and many are in other languages.4
  • F24 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    In addition to literature such as novels, poetry, short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks , reference works and issues of periodicals. [ 13 ] The Project Gutenberg collection also has a few non-text items such as audio files, movies, and music-notation files.
  • F23 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition .
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
  • TLL-06 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record_object documented
    'the world's literature' digitized and proofread by volunteers; per Wikipedia, mostly full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain in the United States, primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition, most in English
4.Hart's stated goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible", and a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy".1
  • F63 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    His goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible". … Likewise, a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy"
5.Hart began the project in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence and named it after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century printer; its own pages say that Hart "invented eBooks in 1971" and count "55+ Years" of free eBooks.4
  • F20 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence . … He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable-type printing-press revolution.
  • F45 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
  • F5 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 55+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971
  • TLL-27 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].lifecycle documented
    operating since 1971; per Wikipedia, about 30 new eBooks a week (May 2025)
6.Hart entered all text by hand until 1989, when scanners and optical character recognition made book scanning feasible, and died on 6 September 2011.2
  • F21 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible.
  • F22 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.
7.The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in Mississippi in 2000 to handle the project's legal needs, operates it and accepts donations; Gregory B. Newby became the foundation's first CEO in 2001, the home page now refers to its late CEO, Dr. Greg Newby, and after Newby's death in 2025 Eric Hellman became acting CEO.5
  • F37 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    In 2000, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation , the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. ( EIN : 64–6221541) was chartered in Mississippi , United States , to handle the project's legal needs.
  • F49 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), More about Project Gutenberg documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation , which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations.
  • F38 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    in 2001, became the foundation's first CEO … After Newby died in 2025, Eric Hellman became acting CEO of the foundation.
  • F7 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Read about our late CEO , Dr. Greg Newby .
  • TLL-03 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].operator documented
    the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations; per Wikipedia, a 501(c)(3) chartered in Mississippi in 2000, with Eric Hellman acting CEO after Gregory Newby died in 2025
8.ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts it; the Internet Archive was its long-time backup distribution site and an earlier main host.2
  • F22 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.
  • F42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · field
    The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg
9.Counts differ by date and source: 79,709 free eBooks on the home page as read on 1 November 2026, more than 75,000 on its about page, nearly 78,000 items as of 22 March 2026 and over 77,500 documents in Wikipedia's infobox, and over 75,999 items claimed in May 2025, with over 30 new e-books a week.6
  • F1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), heading documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks
  • F44 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.
  • F16 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    As of 22 March 2026 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg had reached nearly 78,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.
  • F17 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), infobox documented · field
    Over 77,500 documents
  • F23 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition .
  • TLL-07 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].count.value documented
    more than 75,000 free eBooks (own about page); nearly 78,000 items (Wikipedia, as of 22 March 2026)
10.A snapshot of the Gutenberg catalog taken into the archive in July 2026 holds 90,252 rows, and the archive records that Das Kapital is not on Gutenberg in German, so that a comparison of Hegel's prose with Marx's cannot be run on the open German shelf.2
  • O1046-03 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § Corpora mirror at data-rhizome documented
    `datasets/corpora/gutenberg/` holds catalog snapshot (5.5 MB, 90,252 rows) plus 206 canonical public-domain classical translations across 28 author buckets (~97 MB).
  • O1605-01 #1605 The First Draft — a notebook: Theophrastus as the Draft of the Aristotle-Position; speculations, seam counts, the named- Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-10 · §30 Does the instrument measure authorship in Hegel/Marx? documented
    The comparison Lee's question names — Hegel's prose against Marx's prose — cannot be run on the open German shelf, because Marx's treatises are not there (*Das Kapital* is not on Gutenberg in German).
11.By its own account thousands of volunteers have digitized and proofread its books; the same home page also says that hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years.3
  • F3 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Thousands of Project Gutenberg volunteers have digitized and proofread these books for you.
  • F46 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Since then, thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature.
  • F6 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years
12.No selection policy governs what is added: volunteers work on what interests them or what they have, and the works and editions available have been set by popularity, ease of scanning, copyright status and other factors.3
  • F26 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is intentionally decentralized; there is no selection policy dictating what texts to add. Instead, individual volunteers work on what they are interested in or have available.
  • F36 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The selection of works (and editions) available has been determined by popularity, ease of scanning, being out of copyright, and other factors; this would be difficult to avoid in any crowd-sourced project.
  • TLL-08 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].method documented
    volunteer digitization and proofreading; per Wikipedia, no selection policy (volunteers work on what interests them), copyright clearance recorded before a text is added, and close affiliation with Distributed Proofreaders
13.Distributed Proofreaders, founded by Charles Franks in 2000 and affiliated in 2002, distributes the proofreading of scanned texts among volunteers and is now the main source of new eBooks; its 36,000+ books were almost two-thirds of the collection in 2018.3
  • F8 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help documented · field
    Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks.
  • F19 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders , an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.
  • F39 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Partners documented · field
    In 2000, Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders (DP) … DP became officially affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2002. … As of 2018 [ update ] , the 36,000+ DP-contributed books comprised almost two-thirds of the nearly 77,500 books in Project Gutenberg.
14.Material is added only after a copyright clearance, whose records are kept, and the project claims no new copyright on the titles it publishes.1
  • F28 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Material is added to the Project Gutenberg archive only after it has received a copyright clearance, and records of these clearances are saved for future reference. Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes.
15.In December 1994 the Text Encoding Initiative criticized the project for not documenting the decisions made in preparing a text and, in some cases, which of several conflicting versions had been digitized; the census records it as no scholarly edition, unable to say which edition a text was digitized from.4
  • F35 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    In December 1994, Project Gutenberg was criticized by the Text Encoding Initiative for failing to include documentation or discussion of the decisions unavoidable in preparing a text, or in some cases, not documenting which of several (conflicting) versions of a text has been the one digitized.
  • TLL-19 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].stated_limits.4 attributed
    per Wikipedia, the Text Encoding Initiative criticized it in 1994 for not documenting which version of a text was digitized
  • TLL-28 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.0 interpretation
    NOT a scholarly edition: per Wikipedia, the version digitized is not always documented
  • TLL-21 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].does_not_answer interpretation
    which edition a text was digitized from (per Wikipedia, not always documented) … whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set (the Pile's PG-19 component is known here from Wikipedia) … how its texts are attributed once redistributed elsewhere
16.The archive's seatings identify the edition behind a Gutenberg text from the text itself: Morris's Pearl from the second edition of 1869, The Prophet from a later Knopf printing whose book text is that of 1923, a Monadologie catalogued as 1909 whose title page reads 1900, each of Kafka's works as the edition its header names, a Principia transcribed from the first edition of 1687 with its transcribers' corrections listed, and an Opticks of the fourth edition of 1730, produced by Distributed Proofreaders, held beside the first printing of 1704.4
  • O1689-01 #1689 EA-CORPORA-19 — The Nineteenth Seating: Pearl, the Masnavi, The Prophet and Blake's Illuminated Books, Each in Its Origi Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-18 · 19/01 and 19/03, Editions documented
    1864, the Gutenberg text from the second edition of 1869 … the Gutenberg text is taken from a later Knopf printing: its front matter carries an epigraph from Claude Bragdon and a list of the author's books running to Nymphs of the Valley (1948); the text of the book is the 1923 text.
  • O1712-01 #1712 EA-CORPORA-27 — The Twenty-Seventh Seating: Spinoza, Leibniz's Monadology, Nietzsche, Bergson, Kafka and Artaud, Each in Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 27/02 Leibniz, Editions documented
    Leibniz, La Monadologie, avec étude et notes de Clodius Piat (Paris: Victor Lecoffre, 1900, as its title page reads), produced from the BnF/Gallica scan, Project Gutenberg EBook #17641 (catalogued as 1909)
  • O1712-02 #1712 EA-CORPORA-27 — The Twenty-Seventh Seating: Spinoza, Leibniz's Monadology, Nietzsche, Bergson, Kafka and Artaud, Each in Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 27/05 Kafka, Scope documented
    Eight works as first published, each as Project Gutenberg's transcription of the edition its header names
  • O1720-01 #1720 EA-CORPORA-30 — The Thirtieth Seating: The Exact Sciences — Einstein, Gödel, Tesla, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-30 · 30/06 Newton, Editions and Normalization documented
    the Project Gutenberg transcription (Distributed Proofreaders, 2010) … The Gutenberg transcription of the Principia is of the 1687 first edition; its transcribers record that they corrected a few typographical errors, listed at the end of the file. The Gutenberg Opticks is the fourth edition (1730), seated beside the first printing of 1704 as its clean text layer, the edition differing
17.The archive also finds a Gutenberg text short of what some works need: its Dickinson "is a propositional shell", its Hopkins "lacks the notational apparatus", and works cited from its texts are cited by chapter, for want of print pagination.2
  • O943-01 #943 Whitespace as Provenance: Representation Pipelines and the Extinction of Compositional Authorship (EA-WHITESPACE-01 v0.2 Lee Sharks · 2026-07-02 · § (acquisition criterion, immediate priorities) interpretation
    **Dickinson** — the Gutenberg text is a propositional shell; deep work requires the Emily Dickinson Archive or the Franklin facsimile. **Hopkins** — the Gutenberg text lacks the notational apparatus; re-sourcing from a critical edition is a longer-term item.
  • O1668-01 #1668 The Noun Becomes a Verb: Slave Valuation, the Civil War, and the Transformation of the Laboring Body (EA-NOUN-VERB-01 v1 Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-07 · revision notes, item 23 interpretation
    Taylor (1911 Harper) and Ford (1922 Doubleday, Page) print pagination: cited by chapter from Gutenberg texts.
18.The archive calls Gutenberg's texts "the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities", their reading environment unchanged for three decades and their metadata spare, and holds that "Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer", while it sets out to build the scholarly reading environment "Gutenberg is architected not to construct".3
  • O1044-01 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The second line: The NH Canon Editions ¶2 interpretation
    Gutenberg's texts are the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities, and their reading environment has been essentially unchanged for three decades. Every DH scholar working with Gutenberg is building their own apparatus in isolation, without shared infrastructure, without provenance discipline, and without citability.
  • O1044-03 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The extension protocol, Criterion 2 interpretation
    missing an apparatus Alexanarch can supply (Gutenberg's spare metadata)
  • O1044-02 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The second line: The NH Canon Editions ¶1 interpretation
    The strategic point is not to displace or duplicate Gutenberg's reading environment at Gutenberg's own layer — Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer — but to construct the scholarly reading environment Gutenberg is architected not to construct
19.An earlier archive paper counts large text archives such as Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust as collections with scale and no internal architecture, of which an AI summary describes what is in them.1
  • O416-01 #416 Architecture-Aware Literary Traversal by Public AI Summarizers: A Position Paper Based on Direct Forensic Evidence Lee Sharks · 2026-01-30 · § Digital Humanities Corpora interpretation
    **Digital Humanities Corpora:** Large text archives (e.g., HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg) have scale but no internal architecture. They are collections, not systems. An AI summarizing a corpus describes *what's in it*; it does not traverse *how it works*.
20.Most books are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law, a few copyrighted texts with permission; the target audience is United States persons over 13, and the project offers no warranty about copyright status or freedom to use its materials outside the United States.5
  • F29 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law. There are also a few copyrighted texts, such as those of science fiction author Cory Doctorow , that Project Gutenberg distributes with permission.
  • F50 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Project Gutenberg’s target audience is United States persons over 13 years of age.
  • F51 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Non-US persons are advised to check copyright laws of their country before accessing any eBooks or other content from Project Gutenberg. … Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
  • TLL-09 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].coverage documented
    target audience United States persons; works not protected by copyright in the United States; most releases in English, many in other languages
  • TLL-26 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].license documented
    the Project Gutenberg License (unread); 'All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be'; per Wikipedia, most books are public domain under US law and a few copyrighted texts are distributed with permission
21.Its website was inaccessible in Germany from 2018 to 2021 under a court order concerning works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, and it has been blocked in Italy since May 2020.1
  • F33 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    From 2018 to 2021, the Project Gutenberg website was not accessible within Germany , as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin . … The Project Gutenberg website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020, as part of a larger effort to block websites that publish newspapers and journals that are protected by copyright in Italy.
22.In the archive's account the U.S. public-domain constraint leaves its translations mostly older ones, Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century.1
  • O1046-01 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · §V The Feisting Gutenberg Plan ¶1 interpretation
    Gutenberg's U.S. public-domain constraint means its canonical translation layer is mostly older public-domain translation: Victorian, Edwardian, and early twentieth-century surfaces
23.Releases come in plain text, a Latin-character version having been required since the founding as the format Hart believed most likely to stay readable, and in HTML, EPUB and MOBI; the plain files, wrapped at 65–70 characters, were criticized in 2000 as "bland and difficult to read on screen".3
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
  • F25 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release had been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believed it was the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.
  • F34 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The text files use the format of plain text encoded in UTF-8 and are typically wrapped at 65–70 characters, with paragraphs separated by a double line break. In 2000, this presentation was criticized as "bland and difficult to read on screen".
24.All its eBooks are free, "and always will be", with no fees, registration or apps required.2
  • F47 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be.
  • F4 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free … ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed
25.Its terms address two readers: "This website is intended for human users only", and automated access brings a block of the IP address, while anyone downloading many books, more than about 100 a day, by hand or by software, is sent to the mirrors, and a machine-readable database of all its books is offered at its Offline Catalogs and Feeds page beside an index file.4
  • F53 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    This website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access this website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address.
  • F54 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience; Footnotes documented · field
    If you want to download many books [1] manually or using an automated download software, download them from one of our mirrors, not from the main site. … Many books: i.e., more than ~100 per day
  • F55 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    If you want a list of all our books , download and save the Gutenberg index file … If you want a machine-readable database of all our books, read the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page.
  • F59 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Automated Blocks documented · field
    Blocks to Internet addresses (IP addresses) are applied automatically based on the volume of traffic and related factors. Such blocks automatically expire after a few days.
26.Applications using its OPDS feed must identify themselves and keep to a browser's volume, high-volume ones being pointed to the catalog database to host their own feed; large-scale deep-linking to its files and mock front-ends that take advertising revenue are refused, and links go to an item's landing page, which it intends to be permanent.3
  • F58 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), OPDS Feed documented · field
    Every application that uses our OPDS feed must: … Use a proper user-agent … For high-volume OPDS applications consider downloading our catalog database and hosting your own OPDS feed.
  • F57 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Embedding or Wrapping our Site or Contents documented · field
    We do not allow large-scale deep-linking to eBook files hosted on our servers. … We will not tolerate mock Gutenberg front-ends that pocket advertising revenues
  • F56 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Deep Linking documented · field
    When linking to a Project Gutenberg item, link to the main landing page such as www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11. … We intend the landing page to be permanent.
27.The home page links a page on linking to the site and "roboting or crawling" it, and the collection is backed up regularly and mirrored on servers in many places, so that no one localized accident can lose it.2
  • F12 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Useful Links documented · field
    Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site.
  • F27 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg collection is intended to preserve items for the long term, so they cannot be lost by any one localized accident. In an effort to ensure this, the entire collection is backed-up regularly and mirrored on servers in many different locations.
28.The census reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing the human reader at the website and machine access at the mirrors and the catalog, and records its readback by landing page, search, index file and catalog database.5
  • TLL-22 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    The archive reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it.
  • TLL-23 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    Its own terms address two readers: the website 'is intended for human users only', and bulk and machine access go to mirrors and a machine-readable catalog.
  • TLL-17 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.readback interpretation
    each eBook has a permanent landing page; site search; a Gutenberg index file listing all books and a machine-readable catalog database (Offline Catalogs and Feeds); the website itself 'is intended for human users only', and bulk downloads go through mirrors
  • TLL-25 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].data_access documented
    free eBooks on gutenberg.org with permanent landing pages; mirrors for bulk download; the Gutenberg index file; Offline Catalogs and Feeds (a machine-readable database); an OPDS feed under stated rules for applications
  • TLL-29 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.1 interpretation
    NOT open to automated access on its main site: its terms send bulk and automated downloads to mirrors
29.Its texts pass into training downstream: the Pile, an 886 GB dataset of English text made to train large language models, lists among its sub-datasets "Gutenberg (PG-19)" at 11.68 GB, unmarked among the components with copyright disputes.4
  • F60 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), lead documented · field
    The Pile is an 886 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created to train large language models (LLMs).
  • F61 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), Sub-datasets of The Pile (table) documented · field
    Sub-datasets of The Pile [ 1 ] [ 11 ] (*denotes works with copyright disputes) … Original size, GB … Gutenberg (PG-19) 11.68
  • TLL-15 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.in_layer interpretation
    public domain eBooks; per Wikipedia, the Pile carries a 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component of 11.68 GB; Project Gutenberg's own saved pages say nothing of training
  • TLL-33 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].relations documented
    Wikipedia's table of the Pile's sub-datasets lists 'Gutenberg (PG-19)', 11.68 GB … Wikipedia lists the Internet Archive as an affiliate … NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated 'novel' that grabs 'a random novel from Project Gutenberg'
30.NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated novel that could "literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg", and the library's own home page lists almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles in the Open Audiobook Collection beside 662 titles read by people and LibriVox's human-read recordings of its texts.4
  • F62 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party), The Goal; The Rules documented · field
    Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. … It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg.
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
  • F9 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help; Audio Books documented · field
    Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox . … LibriVox produces high-quality human-read recordings of Project Gutenberg texts. 662 of our own titles are read by people.
  • F42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · field
    The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg
31.An archive update of July 2026, listing venues for an AI-mediated reading text of its own, records "Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)"; the statement concerns text and stands beside the computer-generated audiobooks the home page lists.2
  • O1046-02 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · §V, venue documented
    Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected).
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
32.A pre-registered training corpus by the archive's heteronym Nobel Glas takes 30% of its documents from Project Gutenberg's public-domain prose before 1900, filtered for literary stature, as high training signal.1
  • O735-01 #735 The Deviation-Optimized Language Model: A Pre-Registered Adversarial Intervention from Lagrange Observatory! (EA-SEI-MM- Nobel Glas · 2026-05-17 · §4 The Training Corpus stipulation
    30% canonical prose. Public-domain texts from Project Gutenberg, pre-1900, prose only, filtered for established literary stature. Provides high-$\mathcal{M}_T^\pi$ training signal.
33.The census records that the library's own saved pages say nothing of training and that what an apparatus makes from its texts is unrecorded there, that the library is no training dataset and the datasets and generated works drawn from it are different entities, and that whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set cannot be answered from it; the home page, which the census did not save, lists the computer-generated audiobooks.6
  • TLL-15 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.in_layer interpretation
    public domain eBooks; per Wikipedia, the Pile carries a 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component of 11.68 GB; Project Gutenberg's own saved pages say nothing of training
  • TLL-18 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.makes interpretation
    not recorded on its own pages; downstream, per Wikipedia, the Pile carries a 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component, and NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated 'novel' that grabs 'a random novel from Project Gutenberg'
  • TLL-30 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.2 interpretation
    NOT a training dataset: the PG-19 component is the Pile's, known here from Wikipedia
  • TLL-31 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.3 interpretation
    NOT the downstream datasets or generated works made from its texts: the source library and what is drawn from it are different entities
  • TLL-21 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].does_not_answer interpretation
    which edition a text was digitized from (per Wikipedia, not always documented) … whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set (the Pile's PG-19 component is known here from Wikipedia) … how its texts are attributed once redistributed elsewhere
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
34.In the census's anchors training-layer literature is writing addressed to the layer where texts are "crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers", texts in the corpora that are not organized around that fact are "read by machines incidentally", and the institutional training loop runs from a text through a model and its output into the next corpus.5
  • O186-01 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § What is training-layer literature? ¶1 stipulation
    writing *addressed*, in whole or in part, to the layer of culture where texts are crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers.
  • O186-02 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § Who is in the field? (after the collaborative practitioners) interpretation
    every one of these texts is, as a matter of fact, in the corpora. The distinction is that none of them is primarily *organized around* that fact. They are read by machines incidentally.
  • O1543-02 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §10 Formal consolidation interpretation
    The institutional training loop is the especially important case: x → M_t → y → corpus_{t+1} → M_{t+1} → y′
  • TLL-37 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json areas.corpora stipulation
    The corpora: collections, crawls and datasets whose texts enter machine training
  • TLL-10 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].areas stipulation
    corpora
35.#1543 names the second wing of that literature machine composition, "what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE", and keeps apart whether a machine wrote something new and whether it told the truth about where it came from.2
  • O1543-01 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §1 The claim stipulation
    machine COMPOSITION — what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE.
  • O1543-03 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §10, closing paragraph interpretation
    Did the machine write something new? and Did the machine tell the truth about where it came from? are different questions
36."Project Gutenberg" is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of the project's public-domain texts; the sister projects are independent organizations permitted to use it, and one of them, Projekt Gutenberg-DE, claims copyright for its product.4
  • F30 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark of the organization, and the mark cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of public domain texts from the project.
  • F40 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Sister projects documented · field
    All sister projects are independent organizations that share the same ideals and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.
  • F41 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), List of sister projects documented · field
    Projekt Gutenberg-DE [ de ] claims copyright for its product and limits access to browsable web-versions of its texts.
  • TLL-32 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.4 interpretation
    NOT any of its sister projects (Project Gutenberg Australia, Projekt Gutenberg-DE and others), which Wikipedia describes as independent organizations
37.Resale of its public-domain works is lawful once every reference to Project Gutenberg is removed, contributors have questioned commercial reuse of content formatted by volunteers, and books stripped of attribution to the project, Fox Trapping (1906) among them, have been sold in the Kindle Store and by other booksellers.2
  • F31 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There is no legal impediment to the reselling of works in the public domain if all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, but Gutenberg contributors have questioned the appropriateness of directly and commercially reusing content that has been formatted by volunteers.
  • F32 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There have been instances of books being stripped of attribution to the project and sold for profit in the Kindle Store and other booksellers, one being the 1906 book Fox Trapping .
38.What may be done with a downloaded eBook falls under the Project Gutenberg License, which the archive reads as governing the use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark, the text being public domain in the United States.2
  • F52 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Trademark License documented · field
    What you are allowed to do with our eBooks once you download them: See: the Project Gutenberg License and the Permission How-To .
  • O1710-01 #1710 EA-CORPORA-26 — The Twenty-Sixth Seating: W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, as Far as the Public Domain Reaches Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 26/01 Licence interpretation
    Project Gutenberg transcriptions under the Project Gutenberg License (the text is public domain in the United States; the licence governs use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark), whose header each file carries.
39.The archive keeps the name with the text: its seatings record a Gutenberg file as "Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence", seat it "with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact" or with "its header and footer kept as served", and name each one a transcription beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found.4
  • O1560-01 #1560 EA-CORPORA-05 — The Fifth Seating: Browning, Pound, Pessoa, and the Constructed Voice at Three Stages Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-29 · seat table, 05/01 browning documented
    Public domain (author d. 1889); Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence
  • O1707-01 #1707 EA-CORPORA-24 — The Twenty-Fourth Seating: 1844. The Book of Mormon and the Latter Day Saint Succession, the Bab and the Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 24/03 Licence documented
    Bates's Seventh Day Sabbath as Project Gutenberg eBook #27266, a public-domain text, seated with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact.
  • O1720-02 #1720 EA-CORPORA-30 — The Thirtieth Seating: The Exact Sciences — Einstein, Gödel, Tesla, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-30 · 30/06 Licence documented
    The Project Gutenberg texts (eBooks #28233 and #33504) are public-domain works distributed under the Project Gutenberg License, its header and footer kept as served.
  • O1710-02 #1710 EA-CORPORA-26 — The Twenty-Sixth Seating: W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, as Far as the Public Domain Reaches Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 26/01 Normalization documented
    Project Gutenberg transcriptions as fetched (text/<slug>.txt), with Project Gutenberg's header and licence, line endings normalized to LF; each is a transcription and is named as one beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found.
40.The census places the name a text carries after its passage into training and composition outside the library's own pages and finds authors' names unrecorded on the pages it saved, while the home page lists its most popular works each under its author; in #186 persistence is a work placed where the training and retrieval layers look, "with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed".4
  • TLL-24 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    Its texts reach training and composition downstream, in the Pile's Gutenberg (PG-19) component (Wikipedia) and as allowed raw material for NaNoGenMo's generated novels; the name a text carries after that passage is outside its own pages, and Wikipedia records texts resold with references to the project removed.
  • TLL-16 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.name interpretation
    not recorded for authors in the saved own pages; Wikipedia records that 'Project Gutenberg' is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions, that public domain texts may be resold once all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, and that books have been sold stripped of attribution to the project
  • F11 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Most Popular documented · field
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen … Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley … Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle … The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  • O186-03 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § What is training-layer literature? ¶2 (third criterion) stipulation
    Third, persistence: the work is placed where the training and retrieval layers actually look, with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed.
41.Project Gutenberg is one of the archive's originals shelf's own sources and a comparator for it: the shelf counts 16 seats in its Gutenberg licence class, points to the mantle-bearing Leaves of Grass of 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322 outside the archive, holds Philip K. Dick's unrenewed stories as open in its transcriptions from their magazine printings, checked against its catalogue, and rests the reproducibility of a stylometric run on it among other open sources.5
  • O1680-01 #1680 The Living Academy: Alexanarch, Function by Function — Mantle object with Metadata Packet for AI Indexing (EA-MPAI-ALEXA Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-13 · F4. The originals shelf — source editions, Comparators documented
    **Comparators.** Its own sources (Perseus, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM, Project Gutenberg) and other digital text libraries holding the same edition or witness.
  • O1711-01 #1711 The Originals Library of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive — Seats, Witnesses, the Shelf and Its Canon: Method, Locations, O Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · § Method, 5. The licence, as attribution documented
    the class derived most-restrictive-first (manifest: cc-by-sa 45, public-domain 25, gutenberg 16, cc-by 12, cc-by-nc 3, other 4, site-terms 2, cc-by-nc-sa 1, gpl 1)
  • O1656-01 #1656 The Work Bears the Mantle: A Mantle Symbolon — the Good Gray Poet, the King of May, the Prince of Poets (EA-MANTLE-BEARI Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-29 · Appendix C.2 Leaves of Grass documented
    Outside the archive: the 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322
  • O1713-01 #1713 EA-CORPORA-28 — The Twenty-Eighth Seating, the Wanted: Hypatia, Philip K. Dick, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Carson, Tao Lin wit Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 28/02 Philip K. Dick, Scope; and the declarations documented
    thirteen stories of the early 1950s whose copyrights were not renewed, in Project Gutenberg's transcriptions from their magazine printings … for Dick, the Project Gutenberg catalogue of his open stories
  • O1593-01 #1593 Measuring the Operation, Not the Name: a protocol for asking whether a corpus's stylistic structure follows its author-n Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-07 · § (reproduction) interpretation
    Every text in the worked run is public: Perseus canonical-greekLit, First1KGreek, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive scan of the 1867 *Kapital*. The tables can be rebuilt from the open sources in an afternoon.
42.The census asks how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it, and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it admits aggregators that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, and enters Project Gutenberg as infrastructure, a library whose question is training membership at the source: whether a public-domain work is held, at which landing page, and on what terms a machine may take it.6
  • TLL-35 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json organizing_question stipulation
    How is literature addressed to a receiving apparatus, what does that apparatus make from it, and how can transmission, transformation and provenance be inspected across later reception?
  • TLL-36 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json admission_rule stipulation
    A row is an aggregator: a resource that gathers and holds many other works or records and says what it holds (operator, 2026-11-01).
  • TLL-12 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].host_relation interpretation
    infrastructure
  • TLL-13 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record_type stipulation
    library
  • TLL-14 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].question interpretation
    training membership at the source: is a public domain work held as an eBook, at which landing page, and on what terms may a machine take it?
  • TLL-20 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].answers interpretation
    whether a public domain work is held as a Project Gutenberg eBook, and at which landing page … on what terms bulk and automated access is allowed
43.It leaves unchecked the Project Gutenberg License, the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page, the mirrors list and every eBook landing page, so the author and metadata fields of a release are unseen in its record.1
  • TLL-34 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].unchecked documented
    the Project Gutenberg License and Permission How-To … the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page and the mirrors list … any eBook landing page (none saved), so the author and metadata fields of a release are not seen here
44.Asked for "Project Gutenberg" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Mode, run there by the operator's note in place of an Overview, said what the library is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, listed five famous works under their authors and offered help finding and downloading texts; it gave its sources as six inline chips, at a new address.5
  • CAP-1-11 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, reading interpretation
    Asked for the library by name, AI Mode says what it is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, lists famous titles, and asks what the user wants to find or download.
  • CAP-1-15 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, surface_basis documented
    The operator's note in the paste ('wikipedia in place of popup so ai mode:'): no Overview popup, the run in AI Mode.
  • CAP-1-13 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, per_note documented
    Michael S. Hart named, Distributed Proofreaders and LibriVox named, the operating foundation not; no cards under the answer, its sources given as six inline chips.
  • CAP-1-14 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, q_kind documented
    the census name; NEW address.
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    Five works stand under their authors ('Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen', 'Moby Dick by Herman Melville', 'The complete works of William Shakespeare').
45.The Capture Registry found the library composed accurately as a reader's library, its opening and founder following Wikipedia and its volunteers and Distributed Proofreaders at their sources' grain, and its mission widened from the creation and distribution of eBooks to global literacy and open access.4
  • CAP-1-12 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, analysis interpretation
    The library composed accurately as a reader's library, with a count above its own.
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    'the world's oldest digital library' and 'Founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart' follow Wikipedia
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    'The digitization process relies on thousands of volunteers around the globe, largely collaborating through Distributed Proofreaders' answers the about page's 'thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature' and Wikipedia's 'closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders'.
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    The mission is widened: the about page's 'To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.' becomes 'to encourage global literacy and open access to historical texts'.
46.The registry also found that the composition addresses the reader of the browser and the Kindle, carries neither the operating foundation, the human-users rule, the mirrors, any word of training, the trademark nor the policy's limit outside the United States, and gives a count, "nearly 80,000", above every saved source and every result on the page; the home page, read after the capture, gives 79,709.7
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[3] interpretation
    The composition addresses the reader who reads 'directly within your web browser' or downloads to 'a Kindle, tablet, or phone'.
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[2] interpretation
    The composition names the founder and no one after him; the project stands as 'a massive volunteer-driven effort'.
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[3] interpretation
    The census row reads that division as the library holding itself apart from the datasets made from it. The composition carries neither the rule nor the mirrors, and no word of training; the Pile's 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component is on The Pile's Wikipedia page.
  • CAP-1-09 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    The composition offers download to a Kindle and says nothing of the mark.
  • CAP-1-10 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    US Public Domain Focus: Because it operates under United States copyright law' stands without the policy's limit: 'Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[1] interpretation
    The composition's figure is above every saved source and every result on the page.
  • F1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), heading documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks
47.The Wikipedia article read here was last edited on 12 October 2026; two of the six chips, OpenEd and a YouTube video of Microsoft Cloud, carry no title, snippet or link and stand unidentified.1
  • F43 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), footer documented · field
    last edited on 12 October 2026
Compression · Field and archive, equal terms — L(B ∪ A)Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971 and run by the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation: volunteer-made eBooks of works public domain in the United States, its website for human users only, its bulk and machine access sent to mirrors and a catalog; its texts reach training sets downstream.

📚 The library

  • Holdings: Western literature chiefly, most in English; free, open formats.5↘
    The collection is primarily literature of the Western cultural tradition, novels, poetry, short stories and drama, with cookbooks, reference works, issues of periodicals and a few non-text items such as audio files, movies and music-notation files; most releases are in English, and many are in other languages.§3 Hart's stated goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible", and a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy".§4 Counts differ by date and source: 79,709 free eBooks on the home page as read on 1 November 2026, more than 75,000 on its about page, nearly 78,000 items as of 22 March 2026 and over 77,500 documents in Wikipedia's infobox, and over 75,999 items claimed in May 2025, with over 30 new e-books a week.§9 Releases come in plain text, a Latin-character version having been required since the founding as the format Hart believed most likely to stay readable, and in HTML, EPUB and MOBI; the plain files, wrapped at 65–70 characters, were criticized in 2000 as "bland and difficult to read on screen".§23 All its eBooks are free, "and always will be", with no fees, registration or apps required.§24
  • Count: 79,709 (home page, 1 November 2026); "more than 75,000" (about); nearly 78,000 (Wikipedia, March 2026).4↘
    Hart began the project in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence and named it after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century printer; its own pages say that Hart "invented eBooks in 1971" and count "55+ Years" of free eBooks.§5 Counts differ by date and source: 79,709 free eBooks on the home page as read on 1 November 2026, more than 75,000 on its about page, nearly 78,000 items as of 22 March 2026 and over 77,500 documents in Wikipedia's infobox, and over 75,999 items claimed in May 2025, with over 30 new e-books a week.§9 A snapshot of the Gutenberg catalog taken into the archive in July 2026 holds 90,252 rows, and the archive records that Das Kapital is not on Gutenberg in German, so that a comparison of Hegel's prose with Marx's cannot be run on the open German shelf.§10 The registry also found that the composition addresses the reader of the browser and the Kindle, carries neither the operating foundation, the human-users rule, the mirrors, any word of training, the trademark nor the policy's limit outside the United States, and gives a count, "nearly 80,000", above every saved source and every result on the page; the home page, read after the capture, gives 79,709.§46
  • Origin: the Declaration of Independence, 1971; typed by hand until 1989.3↘
    Hart began the project in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence and named it after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century printer; its own pages say that Hart "invented eBooks in 1971" and count "55+ Years" of free eBooks.§5 Hart entered all text by hand until 1989, when scanners and optical character recognition made book scanning feasible, and died on 6 September 2011.§6 ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts it; the Internet Archive was its long-time backup distribution site and an earlier main host.§8
  • Holder: the foundation (2000); acting CEO Eric Hellman since Newby's death (2025); hosted by ibiblio.3↘
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in Mississippi in 2000 to handle the project's legal needs, operates it and accepts donations; Gregory B. Newby became the foundation's first CEO in 2001, the home page now refers to its late CEO, Dr. Greg Newby, and after Newby's death in 2025 Eric Hellman became acting CEO.§7 ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts it; the Internet Archive was its long-time backup distribution site and an earlier main host.§8 NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated novel that could "literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg", and the library's own home page lists almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles in the Open Audiobook Collection beside 662 titles read by people and LibriVox's human-read recordings of its texts.§30

✍️ How texts are made

  • Volunteers: "Thousands" and "hundreds" on one page; no selection policy.2↘
    By its own account thousands of volunteers have digitized and proofread its books; the same home page also says that hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years.§11 No selection policy governs what is added: volunteers work on what interests them or what they have, and the works and editions available have been set by popularity, ease of scanning, copyright status and other factors.§12
  • Distributed Proofreaders: the main source of new eBooks.1↘
    Distributed Proofreaders, founded by Charles Franks in 2000 and affiliated in 2002, distributes the proofreading of scanned texts among volunteers and is now the main source of new eBooks; its 36,000+ books were almost two-thirds of the collection in 2018.§13
  • Clearance: recorded before a text is added.1↘
    Material is added only after a copyright clearance, whose records are kept, and the project claims no new copyright on the titles it publishes.§14
  • Edition: undocumented at times (TEI, 1994); the archive reads it from title page and header.2↘
    In December 1994 the Text Encoding Initiative criticized the project for not documenting the decisions made in preparing a text and, in some cases, which of several conflicting versions had been digitized; the census records it as no scholarly edition, unable to say which edition a text was digitized from.§15 The archive's seatings identify the edition behind a Gutenberg text from the text itself: Morris's Pearl from the second edition of 1869, The Prophet from a later Knopf printing whose book text is that of 1923, a Monadologie catalogued as 1909 whose title page reads 1900, each of Kafka's works as the edition its header names, a Principia transcribed from the first edition of 1687 with its transcribers' corrections listed, and an Opticks of the fourth edition of 1730, produced by Distributed Proofreaders, held beside the first printing of 1704.§16
  • Apparatus: "correct work at its layer"; metadata spare; some texts "a propositional shell".3↘
    The archive also finds a Gutenberg text short of what some works need: its Dickinson "is a propositional shell", its Hopkins "lacks the notational apparatus", and works cited from its texts are cited by chapter, for want of print pagination.§17 The archive calls Gutenberg's texts "the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities", their reading environment unchanged for three decades and their metadata spare, and holds that "Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer", while it sets out to build the scholarly reading environment "Gutenberg is architected not to construct".§18 An earlier archive paper counts large text archives such as Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust as collections with scale and no internal architecture, of which an AI summary describes what is in them.§19

⚖️ Terms and two readers

  • Audience: US persons over 13; no warranty abroad; blocked in Germany (2018–21) and Italy.3↘
    Most books are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law, a few copyrighted texts with permission; the target audience is United States persons over 13, and the project offers no warranty about copyright status or freedom to use its materials outside the United States.§20 Its website was inaccessible in Germany from 2018 to 2021 under a court order concerning works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, and it has been blocked in Italy since May 2020.§21 In the archive's account the U.S. public-domain constraint leaves its translations mostly older ones, Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century.§22
  • Machines: over ~100 books a day from mirrors; OPDS rules; IP blocks; permanent landing pages.4↘
    Its terms address two readers: "This website is intended for human users only", and automated access brings a block of the IP address, while anyone downloading many books, more than about 100 a day, by hand or by software, is sent to the mirrors, and a machine-readable database of all its books is offered at its Offline Catalogs and Feeds page beside an index file.§25 Applications using its OPDS feed must identify themselves and keep to a browser's volume, high-volume ones being pointed to the catalog database to host their own feed; large-scale deep-linking to its files and mock front-ends that take advertising revenue are refused, and links go to an item's landing page, which it intends to be permanent.§26 The home page links a page on linking to the site and "roboting or crawling" it, and the collection is backed up regularly and mirrored on servers in many places, so that no one localized accident can lose it.§27 The census reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing the human reader at the website and machine access at the mirrors and the catalog, and records its readback by landing page, search, index file and catalog database.§28
  • Census: a source library held apart from the datasets made from it.3↘
    The census reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing the human reader at the website and machine access at the mirrors and the catalog, and records its readback by landing page, search, index file and catalog database.§28 The census asks how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it, and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it admits aggregators that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, and enters Project Gutenberg as infrastructure, a library whose question is training membership at the source: whether a public-domain work is held, at which landing page, and on what terms a machine may take it.§42 It leaves unchecked the Project Gutenberg License, the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page, the mirrors list and every eBook landing page, so the author and metadata fields of a release are unseen in its record.§43

🤖 Downstream

  • Training: "Gutenberg (PG-19)", 11.68 GB of the Pile.5↘
    In December 1994 the Text Encoding Initiative criticized the project for not documenting the decisions made in preparing a text and, in some cases, which of several conflicting versions had been digitized; the census records it as no scholarly edition, unable to say which edition a text was digitized from.§15 Its texts pass into training downstream: the Pile, an 886 GB dataset of English text made to train large language models, lists among its sub-datasets "Gutenberg (PG-19)" at 11.68 GB, unmarked among the components with copyright disputes.§29 A pre-registered training corpus by the archive's heteronym Nobel Glas takes 30% of its documents from Project Gutenberg's public-domain prose before 1900, filtered for literary stature, as high training signal.§32 The census records that the library's own saved pages say nothing of training and that what an apparatus makes from its texts is unrecorded there, that the library is no training dataset and the datasets and generated works drawn from it are different entities, and that whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set cannot be answered from it; the home page, which the census did not save, lists the computer-generated audiobooks.§33 In the census's anchors training-layer literature is writing addressed to the layer where texts are "crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers", texts in the corpora that are not organized around that fact are "read by machines incidentally", and the institutional training loop runs from a text through a model and its output into the next corpus.§34
  • Machine-made: NaNoGenMo novels; almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobooks beside LibriVox; "AI-mediated text rejected" (archive).4↘
    NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated novel that could "literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg", and the library's own home page lists almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles in the Open Audiobook Collection beside 662 titles read by people and LibriVox's human-read recordings of its texts.§30 An archive update of July 2026, listing venues for an AI-mediated reading text of its own, records "Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)"; the statement concerns text and stands beside the computer-generated audiobooks the home page lists.§31 The census records that the library's own saved pages say nothing of training and that what an apparatus makes from its texts is unrecorded there, that the library is no training dataset and the datasets and generated works drawn from it are different entities, and that whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set cannot be answered from it; the home page, which the census did not save, lists the computer-generated audiobooks.§33 #1543 names the second wing of that literature machine composition, "what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE", and keeps apart whether a machine wrote something new and whether it told the truth about where it came from.§35

🏷️ The name

  • Trademark: barred from commercial or modified redistributions; sister projects licensed.2↘
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of the project's public-domain texts; the sister projects are independent organizations permitted to use it, and one of them, Projekt Gutenberg-DE, claims copyright for its product.§36 What may be done with a downloaded eBook falls under the Project Gutenberg License, which the archive reads as governing the use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark, the text being public domain in the United States.§38
  • Stripped: resale lawful with every reference removed; books sold so.2↘
    Resale of its public-domain works is lawful once every reference to Project Gutenberg is removed, contributors have questioned commercial reuse of content formatted by volunteers, and books stripped of attribution to the project, Fox Trapping (1906) among them, have been sold in the Kindle Store and by other booksellers.§37 The census places the name a text carries after its passage into training and composition outside the library's own pages and finds authors' names unrecorded on the pages it saved, while the home page lists its most popular works each under its author; in #186 persistence is a work placed where the training and retrieval layers look, "with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed".§40
  • Kept: the archive seats each file with its header and licence, a transcription beside its scan.3↘
    What may be done with a downloaded eBook falls under the Project Gutenberg License, which the archive reads as governing the use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark, the text being public domain in the United States.§38 The archive keeps the name with the text: its seatings record a Gutenberg file as "Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence", seat it "with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact" or with "its header and footer kept as served", and name each one a transcription beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found.§39 The census places the name a text carries after its passage into training and composition outside the library's own pages and finds authors' names unrecorded on the pages it saved, while the home page lists its most popular works each under its author; in #186 persistence is a work placed where the training and retrieval layers look, "with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed".§40
  • Shelf: a source and comparator of the archive's originals shelf.1↘
    Project Gutenberg is one of the archive's originals shelf's own sources and a comparator for it: the shelf counts 16 seats in its Gutenberg licence class, points to the mantle-bearing Leaves of Grass of 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322 outside the archive, holds Philip K. Dick's unrenewed stories as open in its transcriptions from their magazine printings, checked against its catalogue, and rests the reproducibility of a stylometric run on it among other open sources.§41

🔎 At the name

  • AI Mode, 1 November 2026: a reader's library; foundation, human-users rule, mirrors, training and trademark uncarried (Capture Registry).4↘
    Asked for "Project Gutenberg" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Mode, run there by the operator's note in place of an Overview, said what the library is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, listed five famous works under their authors and offered help finding and downloading texts; it gave its sources as six inline chips, at a new address.§44 The Capture Registry found the library composed accurately as a reader's library, its opening and founder following Wikipedia and its volunteers and Distributed Proofreaders at their sources' grain, and its mission widened from the creation and distribution of eBooks to global literacy and open access.§45 The registry also found that the composition addresses the reader of the browser and the Kindle, carries neither the operating foundation, the human-users rule, the mirrors, any word of training, the trademark nor the policy's limit outside the United States, and gives a count, "nearly 80,000", above every saved source and every result on the page; the home page, read after the capture, gives 79,709.§46 The Wikipedia article read here was last edited on 12 October 2026; two of the six chips, OpenEd and a YouTube video of Microsoft Cloud, carry no title, snippet or link and stand unidentified.§47
1the collection and its count#1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, · 2026-07-0611 claims · #1046, #1605, B1, B3, TLL, capture-registry
  • F1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), heading documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks
  • F16 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    As of 22 March 2026 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg had reached nearly 78,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.
  • F17 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), infobox documented · field
    Over 77,500 documents
  • F23 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition .
  • F24 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    In addition to literature such as novels, poetry, short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks , reference works and issues of periodicals. [ 13 ] The Project Gutenberg collection also has a few non-text items such as audio files, movies, and music-notation files.
  • TLL-06 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record_object documented
    'the world's literature' digitized and proofread by volunteers; per Wikipedia, mostly full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain in the United States, primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition, most in English
  • TLL-07 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].count.value documented
    more than 75,000 free eBooks (own about page); nearly 78,000 items (Wikipedia, as of 22 March 2026)
  • TLL-27 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].lifecycle documented
    operating since 1971; per Wikipedia, about 30 new eBooks a week (May 2025)
  • CAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[1] interpretation
    The composition's figure is above every saved source and every result on the page.
  • O1046-03 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § Corpora mirror at data-rhizome documented
    `datasets/corpora/gutenberg/` holds catalog snapshot (5.5 MB, 90,252 rows) plus 206 canonical public-domain classical translations across 28 author buckets (~97 MB).
  • O1605-01 #1605 The First Draft — a notebook: Theophrastus as the Draft of the Aristotle-Position; speculations, seam counts, the named- Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-10 · §30 Does the instrument measure authorship in Hegel/Marx? documented
    The comparison Lee's question names — Hegel's prose against Marx's prose — cannot be run on the open German shelf, because Marx's treatises are not there (*Das Kapital* is not on Gutenberg in German).
2what it is: a library of free eBooks#416 Architecture-Aware Literary Traversal by Public AI Summarizers: A Posi · 2026-01-3013 claims · #416, B1, B3, B5, TLL, capture-registry
  • F2 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Choose free eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world's great literature here with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired.
  • F13 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ."
  • F15 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Most items in its collection are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain . All files are free to access in an open format , available on almost any computer.
  • F63 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    His goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible". … Likewise, a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy"
  • F44 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.
  • F48 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), Project Gutenberg Mission Statement documented · field
    To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
  • TLL-01 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].name stipulation
    Project Gutenberg
  • TLL-02 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].aka stipulation
    gutenberg.org
  • TLL-04 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].kind stipulation
    online library of free eBooks
  • TLL-05 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].unit stipulation
    an eBook: a digitized, proofread text with its own permanent landing page (e.g. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11), released in plain text and other formats
  • TLL-11 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].evidence_kind stipulation
    digital library
  • CAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    The mission is widened: the about page's 'To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.' becomes 'to encourage global literacy and open access to historical texts'.
  • O416-01 #416 Architecture-Aware Literary Traversal by Public AI Summarizers: A Position Paper Based on Direct Forensic Evidence Lee Sharks · 2026-01-30 · § Digital Humanities Corpora interpretation
    **Digital Humanities Corpora:** Large text archives (e.g., HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg) have scale but no internal architecture. They are collections, not systems. An AI summarizing a corpus describes *what's in it*; it does not traverse *how it works*.
3how its texts are made: volunteers, proofreading, Distributed ProofreadersWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)10 claims · B1, B3, B5, TLL, capture-registry
  • F3 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Thousands of Project Gutenberg volunteers have digitized and proofread these books for you.
  • F6 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years
  • F8 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help documented · field
    Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks.
  • F19 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders , an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.
  • F21 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible.
  • F26 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is intentionally decentralized; there is no selection policy dictating what texts to add. Instead, individual volunteers work on what they are interested in or have available.
  • F39 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Partners documented · field
    In 2000, Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders (DP) … DP became officially affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2002. … As of 2018 [ update ] , the 36,000+ DP-contributed books comprised almost two-thirds of the nearly 77,500 books in Project Gutenberg.
  • F46 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Since then, thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature.
  • TLL-08 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].method documented
    volunteer digitization and proofreading; per Wikipedia, no selection policy (volunteers work on what interests them), copyright clearance recorded before a text is added, and close affiliation with Distributed Proofreaders
  • CAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    'The digitization process relies on thousands of volunteers around the globe, largely collaborating through Distributed Proofreaders' answers the about page's 'thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature' and Wikipedia's 'closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders'.
4free access and formatsWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F4 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free … ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
  • F25 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release had been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believed it was the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.
  • F34 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The text files use the format of plain text encoded in UTF-8 and are typically wrapped at 65–70 characters, with paragraphs separated by a double line break. In 2000, this presentation was criticized as "bland and difficult to read on screen".
  • F47 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be.
5origin: Hart, 1971Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B1, B3, B5, capture-registry
  • F5 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 55+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971
  • F14 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library .
  • F20 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence . … He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable-type printing-press revolution.
  • F45 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
  • CAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[0] interpretation
    'the world's oldest digital library' and 'Founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart' follow Wikipedia
6who holds it: the foundation and its officersWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)7 claims · B1, B3, B5, TLL, capture-registry
  • F7 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Read about our late CEO , Dr. Greg Newby .
  • F22 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.
  • F37 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    In 2000, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation , the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. ( EIN : 64–6221541) was chartered in Mississippi , United States , to handle the project's legal needs.
  • F38 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    in 2001, became the foundation's first CEO … After Newby died in 2025, Eric Hellman became acting CEO of the foundation.
  • F49 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), More about Project Gutenberg documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation , which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations.
  • TLL-03 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].operator documented
    the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations; per Wikipedia, a 501(c)(3) chartered in Mississippi in 2000, with Eric Hellman acting CEO after Gregory Newby died in 2025
  • CAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[2] interpretation
    The composition names the founder and no one after him; the project stands as 'a massive volunteer-driven effort'.
7audiobooks: human-read and computer-generated#1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, · 2026-07-064 claims · #1046, B1, B3
  • F9 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help; Audio Books documented · field
    Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox . … LibriVox produces high-quality human-read recordings of Project Gutenberg texts. 662 of our own titles are read by people.
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
  • F42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · field
    The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg
  • O1046-02 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · §V, venue documented
    Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected).
8works under their authorsProject Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5)2 claims · B1, capture-registry
  • F11 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Most Popular documented · field
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen … Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley … Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle … The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  • CAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    Five works stand under their authors ('Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen', 'Moby Dick by Herman Melville', 'The complete works of William Shakespeare').
9two readers: human users and machine accessWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)16 claims · B1, B3, B6, TLL, capture-registry
  • F12 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Useful Links documented · field
    Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site.
  • F27 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg collection is intended to preserve items for the long term, so they cannot be lost by any one localized accident. In an effort to ensure this, the entire collection is backed-up regularly and mirrored on servers in many different locations.
  • F53 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    This website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access this website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address.
  • F54 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience; Footnotes documented · field
    If you want to download many books [1] manually or using an automated download software, download them from one of our mirrors, not from the main site. … Many books: i.e., more than ~100 per day
  • F55 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    If you want a list of all our books , download and save the Gutenberg index file … If you want a machine-readable database of all our books, read the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page.
  • F56 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Deep Linking documented · field
    When linking to a Project Gutenberg item, link to the main landing page such as www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11. … We intend the landing page to be permanent.
  • F57 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Embedding or Wrapping our Site or Contents documented · field
    We do not allow large-scale deep-linking to eBook files hosted on our servers. … We will not tolerate mock Gutenberg front-ends that pocket advertising revenues
  • F58 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), OPDS Feed documented · field
    Every application that uses our OPDS feed must: … Use a proper user-agent … For high-volume OPDS applications consider downloading our catalog database and hosting your own OPDS feed.
  • F59 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Automated Blocks documented · field
    Blocks to Internet addresses (IP addresses) are applied automatically based on the volume of traffic and related factors. Such blocks automatically expire after a few days.
  • TLL-17 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.readback interpretation
    each eBook has a permanent landing page; site search; a Gutenberg index file listing all books and a machine-readable catalog database (Offline Catalogs and Feeds); the website itself 'is intended for human users only', and bulk downloads go through mirrors
  • TLL-22 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    The archive reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it.
  • TLL-23 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    Its own terms address two readers: the website 'is intended for human users only', and bulk and machine access go to mirrors and a machine-readable catalog.
  • TLL-25 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].data_access documented
    free eBooks on gutenberg.org with permanent landing pages; mirrors for bulk download; the Gutenberg index file; Offline Catalogs and Feeds (a machine-readable database); an OPDS feed under stated rules for applications
  • TLL-29 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.1 interpretation
    NOT open to automated access on its main site: its terms send bulk and automated downloads to mirrors
  • CAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[3] interpretation
    The composition addresses the reader who reads 'directly within your web browser' or downloads to 'a Kindle, tablet, or phone'.
  • CAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[3] interpretation
    The census row reads that division as the library holding itself apart from the datasets made from it. The composition carries neither the rule nor the mirrors, and no word of training; the Pile's 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component is on The Pile's Wikipedia page.
10terms: public domain in the United States#1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, · 2026-07-069 claims · #1046, B3, B6, TLL, capture-registry
  • F28 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Material is added to the Project Gutenberg archive only after it has received a copyright clearance, and records of these clearances are saved for future reference. Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes.
  • F29 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law. There are also a few copyrighted texts, such as those of science fiction author Cory Doctorow , that Project Gutenberg distributes with permission.
  • F33 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    From 2018 to 2021, the Project Gutenberg website was not accessible within Germany , as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin . … The Project Gutenberg website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020, as part of a larger effort to block websites that publish newspapers and journals that are protected by copyright in Italy.
  • F50 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Project Gutenberg’s target audience is United States persons over 13 years of age.
  • F51 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Non-US persons are advised to check copyright laws of their country before accessing any eBooks or other content from Project Gutenberg. … Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
  • TLL-09 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].coverage documented
    target audience United States persons; works not protected by copyright in the United States; most releases in English, many in other languages
  • TLL-26 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].license documented
    the Project Gutenberg License (unread); 'All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be'; per Wikipedia, most books are public domain under US law and a few copyrighted texts are distributed with permission
  • CAP-1-10 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    US Public Domain Focus: Because it operates under United States copyright law' stands without the policy's limit: 'Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
  • O1046-01 #1046 GW.TACHYON UPDATE — 2026-07-06: The Feist Line, the Iliad Experiment, the Tachyonica Cast, and the Erasure Observatory Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · §V The Feisting Gutenberg Plan ¶1 interpretation
    Gutenberg's U.S. public-domain constraint means its canonical translation layer is mostly older public-domain translation: Victorian, Edwardian, and early twentieth-century surfaces
11the project's name after redistribution#186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Su · 2026-06-1116 claims · #1543, #1560, #1707, #1710, #1720, #186, B3, B6, TLL, capture-registry
  • F30 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark of the organization, and the mark cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of public domain texts from the project.
  • F31 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There is no legal impediment to the reselling of works in the public domain if all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, but Gutenberg contributors have questioned the appropriateness of directly and commercially reusing content that has been formatted by volunteers.
  • F32 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There have been instances of books being stripped of attribution to the project and sold for profit in the Kindle Store and other booksellers, one being the 1906 book Fox Trapping .
  • F40 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Sister projects documented · field
    All sister projects are independent organizations that share the same ideals and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.
  • F41 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), List of sister projects documented · field
    Projekt Gutenberg-DE [ de ] claims copyright for its product and limits access to browsable web-versions of its texts.
  • F52 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Trademark License documented · field
    What you are allowed to do with our eBooks once you download them: See: the Project Gutenberg License and the Permission How-To .
  • TLL-16 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.name interpretation
    not recorded for authors in the saved own pages; Wikipedia records that 'Project Gutenberg' is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions, that public domain texts may be resold once all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, and that books have been sold stripped of attribution to the project
  • TLL-24 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading interpretation
    Its texts reach training and composition downstream, in the Pile's Gutenberg (PG-19) component (Wikipedia) and as allowed raw material for NaNoGenMo's generated novels; the name a text carries after that passage is outside its own pages, and Wikipedia records texts resold with references to the project removed.
  • TLL-32 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.4 interpretation
    NOT any of its sister projects (Project Gutenberg Australia, Projekt Gutenberg-DE and others), which Wikipedia describes as independent organizations
  • CAP-1-09 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, findings[4] interpretation
    The composition offers download to a Kindle and says nothing of the mark.
  • O186-03 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § What is training-layer literature? ¶2 (third criterion) stipulation
    Third, persistence: the work is placed where the training and retrieval layers actually look, with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed.
  • O1543-03 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §10, closing paragraph interpretation
    Did the machine write something new? and Did the machine tell the truth about where it came from? are different questions
  • O1560-01 #1560 EA-CORPORA-05 — The Fifth Seating: Browning, Pound, Pessoa, and the Constructed Voice at Three Stages Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-29 · seat table, 05/01 browning documented
    Public domain (author d. 1889); Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence
  • O1707-01 #1707 EA-CORPORA-24 — The Twenty-Fourth Seating: 1844. The Book of Mormon and the Latter Day Saint Succession, the Bab and the Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 24/03 Licence documented
    Bates's Seventh Day Sabbath as Project Gutenberg eBook #27266, a public-domain text, seated with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact.
  • O1710-01 #1710 EA-CORPORA-26 — The Twenty-Sixth Seating: W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, as Far as the Public Domain Reaches Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 26/01 Licence interpretation
    Project Gutenberg transcriptions under the Project Gutenberg License (the text is public domain in the United States; the licence governs use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark), whose header each file carries.
  • O1720-02 #1720 EA-CORPORA-30 — The Thirtieth Seating: The Exact Sciences — Einstein, Gödel, Tesla, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-30 · 30/06 Licence documented
    The Project Gutenberg texts (eBooks #28233 and #33504) are public-domain works distributed under the Project Gutenberg License, its header and footer kept as served.
12which edition a text was made from#943 Whitespace as Provenance: Representation Pipelines and the Extinction · 2026-07-0213 claims · #1044, #1668, #1689, #1712, #1720, #943, B3, TLL
  • F35 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    In December 1994, Project Gutenberg was criticized by the Text Encoding Initiative for failing to include documentation or discussion of the decisions unavoidable in preparing a text, or in some cases, not documenting which of several (conflicting) versions of a text has been the one digitized.
  • F36 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The selection of works (and editions) available has been determined by popularity, ease of scanning, being out of copyright, and other factors; this would be difficult to avoid in any crowd-sourced project.
  • TLL-19 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].stated_limits.4 attributed
    per Wikipedia, the Text Encoding Initiative criticized it in 1994 for not documenting which version of a text was digitized
  • TLL-28 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.0 interpretation
    NOT a scholarly edition: per Wikipedia, the version digitized is not always documented
  • O943-01 #943 Whitespace as Provenance: Representation Pipelines and the Extinction of Compositional Authorship (EA-WHITESPACE-01 v0.2 Lee Sharks · 2026-07-02 · § (acquisition criterion, immediate priorities) interpretation
    **Dickinson** — the Gutenberg text is a propositional shell; deep work requires the Emily Dickinson Archive or the Franklin facsimile. **Hopkins** — the Gutenberg text lacks the notational apparatus; re-sourcing from a critical edition is a longer-term item.
  • O1044-01 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The second line: The NH Canon Editions ¶2 interpretation
    Gutenberg's texts are the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities, and their reading environment has been essentially unchanged for three decades. Every DH scholar working with Gutenberg is building their own apparatus in isolation, without shared infrastructure, without provenance discipline, and without citability.
  • O1044-02 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The second line: The NH Canon Editions ¶1 interpretation
    The strategic point is not to displace or duplicate Gutenberg's reading environment at Gutenberg's own layer — Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer — but to construct the scholarly reading environment Gutenberg is architected not to construct
  • O1044-03 #1044 EA-DATAHUB-01 v1.0 — A Restoration Protocol and Enriched Data Hub for Scholarly Records: The Alexanarch Severance Regist Lee Sharks · 2026-07-06 · § The extension protocol, Criterion 2 interpretation
    missing an apparatus Alexanarch can supply (Gutenberg's spare metadata)
  • O1668-01 #1668 The Noun Becomes a Verb: Slave Valuation, the Civil War, and the Transformation of the Laboring Body (EA-NOUN-VERB-01 v1 Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-07 · revision notes, item 23 interpretation
    Taylor (1911 Harper) and Ford (1922 Doubleday, Page) print pagination: cited by chapter from Gutenberg texts.
  • O1689-01 #1689 EA-CORPORA-19 — The Nineteenth Seating: Pearl, the Masnavi, The Prophet and Blake's Illuminated Books, Each in Its Origi Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-18 · 19/01 and 19/03, Editions documented
    1864, the Gutenberg text from the second edition of 1869 … the Gutenberg text is taken from a later Knopf printing: its front matter carries an epigraph from Claude Bragdon and a list of the author's books running to Nymphs of the Valley (1948); the text of the book is the 1923 text.
  • O1712-01 #1712 EA-CORPORA-27 — The Twenty-Seventh Seating: Spinoza, Leibniz's Monadology, Nietzsche, Bergson, Kafka and Artaud, Each in Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 27/02 Leibniz, Editions documented
    Leibniz, La Monadologie, avec étude et notes de Clodius Piat (Paris: Victor Lecoffre, 1900, as its title page reads), produced from the BnF/Gallica scan, Project Gutenberg EBook #17641 (catalogued as 1909)
  • O1712-02 #1712 EA-CORPORA-27 — The Twenty-Seventh Seating: Spinoza, Leibniz's Monadology, Nietzsche, Bergson, Kafka and Artaud, Each in Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 27/05 Kafka, Scope documented
    Eight works as first published, each as Project Gutenberg's transcription of the edition its header names
  • O1720-01 #1720 EA-CORPORA-30 — The Thirtieth Seating: The Exact Sciences — Einstein, Gödel, Tesla, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-30 · 30/06 Newton, Editions and Normalization documented
    the Project Gutenberg transcription (Distributed Proofreaders, 2010) … The Gutenberg transcription of the Principia is of the 1687 first edition; its transcribers record that they corrected a few typographical errors, listed at the end of the file. The Gutenberg Opticks is the fourth edition (1730), seated beside the first printing of 1704 as its clean text layer, the edition differing
13reception and the composition at the nameWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)6 claims · B3, capture-registry
  • F43 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), footer documented · field
    last edited on 12 October 2026
  • CAP-1-11 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, reading interpretation
    Asked for the library by name, AI Mode says what it is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, lists famous titles, and asks what the user wants to find or download.
  • CAP-1-12 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, analysis interpretation
    The library composed accurately as a reader's library, with a count above its own.
  • CAP-1-13 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, per_note documented
    Michael S. Hart named, Distributed Proofreaders and LibriVox named, the operating foundation not; no cards under the answer, its sources given as six inline chips.
  • CAP-1-14 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, q_kind documented
    the census name; NEW address.
  • CAP-1-15 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 (OBS-d3c1028b7ac2, AXN:0BB7.CAPTURE.♉⌛🟡🚨📦🏷 Lee Sharks (the registry) · 2026-11-01 · project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101, surface_basis documented
    The operator's note in the paste ('wikipedia in place of popup so ai mode:'): no Overview popup, the run in AI Mode.
14into training sets and machine-made works#735 The Deviation-Optimized Language Model: A Pre-Registered Adversarial I · 2026-05-1715 claims · #1543, #186, #735, B7, B8, TLL
  • F60 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), lead documented · field
    The Pile is an 886 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created to train large language models (LLMs).
  • F61 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), Sub-datasets of The Pile (table) documented · field
    Sub-datasets of The Pile [ 1 ] [ 11 ] (*denotes works with copyright disputes) … Original size, GB … Gutenberg (PG-19) 11.68
  • F62 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party), The Goal; The Rules documented · field
    Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. … It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg.
  • TLL-10 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].areas stipulation
    corpora
  • TLL-15 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.in_layer interpretation
    public domain eBooks; per Wikipedia, the Pile carries a 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component of 11.68 GB; Project Gutenberg's own saved pages say nothing of training
  • TLL-18 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record.makes interpretation
    not recorded on its own pages; downstream, per Wikipedia, the Pile carries a 'Gutenberg (PG-19)' component, and NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated 'novel' that grabs 'a random novel from Project Gutenberg'
  • TLL-30 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.2 interpretation
    NOT a training dataset: the PG-19 component is the Pile's, known here from Wikipedia
  • TLL-31 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].negative_tags.3 interpretation
    NOT the downstream datasets or generated works made from its texts: the source library and what is drawn from it are different entities
  • TLL-33 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].relations documented
    Wikipedia's table of the Pile's sub-datasets lists 'Gutenberg (PG-19)', 11.68 GB … Wikipedia lists the Internet Archive as an affiliate … NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated 'novel' that grabs 'a random novel from Project Gutenberg'
  • TLL-37 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json areas.corpora stipulation
    The corpora: collections, crawls and datasets whose texts enter machine training
  • O186-01 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § What is training-layer literature? ¶1 stipulation
    writing *addressed*, in whole or in part, to the layer of culture where texts are crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers.
  • O186-02 #186 Who Is Writing for the Machines? Training-Layer Literature: A Field Survey Johannes Sigil · 2026-06-11 · § Who is in the field? (after the collaborative practitioners) interpretation
    every one of these texts is, as a matter of fact, in the corpora. The distinction is that none of them is primarily *organized around* that fact. They are read by machines incidentally.
  • O1543-01 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §1 The claim stipulation
    machine COMPOSITION — what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE.
  • O1543-02 #1543 Generative Uptake: Training-Layer Literature Extended from Machine Reading to Machine Composition (EA-TLL-COMPOSITION-01 Sharks, Lee · 2026-08-25 · §10 Formal consolidation interpretation
    The institutional training loop is the especially important case: x → M_t → y → corpus_{t+1} → M_{t+1} → y′
  • O735-01 #735 The Deviation-Optimized Language Model: A Pre-Registered Adversarial Intervention from Lagrange Observatory! (EA-SEI-MM- Nobel Glas · 2026-05-17 · §4 The Training Corpus stipulation
    30% canonical prose. Public-domain texts from Project Gutenberg, pre-1900, prose only, filtered for established literary stature. Provides high-$\mathcal{M}_T^\pi$ training signal.
15what the census asks of itTLL8 claims · TLL
  • TLL-12 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].host_relation interpretation
    infrastructure
  • TLL-13 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].record_type stipulation
    library
  • TLL-14 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].question interpretation
    training membership at the source: is a public domain work held as an eBook, at which landing page, and on what terms may a machine take it?
  • TLL-20 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].answers interpretation
    whether a public domain work is held as a Project Gutenberg eBook, and at which landing page … on what terms bulk and automated access is allowed
  • TLL-21 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].does_not_answer interpretation
    which edition a text was digitized from (per Wikipedia, not always documented) … whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set (the Pile's PG-19 component is known here from Wikipedia) … how its texts are attributed once redistributed elsewhere
  • TLL-34 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].unchecked documented
    the Project Gutenberg License and Permission How-To … the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page and the mirrors list … any eBook landing page (none saved), so the author and metadata fields of a release are not seen here
  • TLL-35 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json organizing_question stipulation
    How is literature addressed to a receiving apparatus, what does that apparatus make from it, and how can transmission, transformation and provenance be inspected across later reception?
  • TLL-36 TLL traininglayerliterature.org layer census record: Project Gutenberg (https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/ Lee Sharks (editor) · 2026-11-01 · census.json admission_rule stipulation
    A row is an aggregator: a resource that gathers and holds many other works or records and says what it holds (operator, 2026-11-01).
16the archive's shelf: transcriptions beside scans#1593 Measuring the Operation, Not the Name: a protocol for asking whether a · 2026-09-076 claims · #1593, #1656, #1680, #1710, #1711, #1713
  • O1593-01 #1593 Measuring the Operation, Not the Name: a protocol for asking whether a corpus's stylistic structure follows its author-n Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-07 · § (reproduction) interpretation
    Every text in the worked run is public: Perseus canonical-greekLit, First1KGreek, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive scan of the 1867 *Kapital*. The tables can be rebuilt from the open sources in an afternoon.
  • O1656-01 #1656 The Work Bears the Mantle: A Mantle Symbolon — the Good Gray Poet, the King of May, the Prince of Poets (EA-MANTLE-BEARI Sharks, Lee · 2026-09-29 · Appendix C.2 Leaves of Grass documented
    Outside the archive: the 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322
  • O1680-01 #1680 The Living Academy: Alexanarch, Function by Function — Mantle object with Metadata Packet for AI Indexing (EA-MPAI-ALEXA Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-13 · F4. The originals shelf — source editions, Comparators documented
    **Comparators.** Its own sources (Perseus, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM, Project Gutenberg) and other digital text libraries holding the same edition or witness.
  • O1710-02 #1710 EA-CORPORA-26 — The Twenty-Sixth Seating: W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, as Far as the Public Domain Reaches Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 26/01 Normalization documented
    Project Gutenberg transcriptions as fetched (text/<slug>.txt), with Project Gutenberg's header and licence, line endings normalized to LF; each is a transcription and is named as one beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found.
  • O1711-01 #1711 The Originals Library of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive — Seats, Witnesses, the Shelf and Its Canon: Method, Locations, O Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · § Method, 5. The licence, as attribution documented
    the class derived most-restrictive-first (manifest: cc-by-sa 45, public-domain 25, gutenberg 16, cc-by 12, cc-by-nc 3, other 4, site-terms 2, cc-by-nc-sa 1, gpl 1)
  • O1713-01 #1713 EA-CORPORA-28 — The Twenty-Eighth Seating, the Wanted: Hypatia, Philip K. Dick, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Carson, Tao Lin wit Sharks, Lee · 2026-10-27 · 28/02 Philip K. Dick, Scope; and the declarations documented
    thirteen stories of the early 1950s whose copyrights were not renewed, in Project Gutenberg's transcriptions from their magazine printings … for Dick, the Project Gutenberg catalogue of his open stories
AIO's transcript, a record · Project Gutenberg · Google AI Mode · 229 words · 6 cards
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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works and to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks; founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. It is an online library of free eBooks, most of them full texts of books or stories in the public domain in the United States, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired. Its count stands at 79,709 on its home page, more than 75,000 on its about page and nearly 78,000 in Wikipedia (March 2026). The collection is mostly Western literature in English, with reference works, periodicals and a few non-text items.

Hart began with the Declaration of Independence in 1971, named the project after Johannes Gutenberg, typed every text until 1989 and died in 2011. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, chartered in 2000, operates it; its CEO Gregory Newby died in 2025 and Eric Hellman is acting CEO.

Volunteers digitize and proofread its texts, thousands or hundreds by its own two counts, with no selection policy; Distributed Proofreaders is the main source of new eBooks. Texts are added after copyright clearance; the Text Encoding Initiative criticized it in 1994 for not documenting which version of a text was digitized.

Releases come in plain text, HTML, EPUB and MOBI, free and without registration; the plain text has been criticized as hard to read on screen. Its audience is US persons over 13, it gives no warranty abroad, and it has been blocked in Germany and Italy.

Its website is for human users only; automated access is blocked, bulk downloads go to mirrors, and a machine-readable catalog, an index file and an OPDS feed under stated rules serve other uses.

"Project Gutenberg" is a trademark barred from commercial or modified redistributions; resale is lawful with all references removed, and books stripped of attribution have been sold.

LibriVox records its texts as human-read audiobooks, and the Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles; the Internet Archive hosted it earlier. Downstream, the Pile, a dataset for training language models, carries a "Gutenberg (PG-19)" component of 11.68 GB, and NaNoGenMo allows a generated novel that grabs a random novel from it.

Its most popular titles stand under their authors; the Wikipedia article was last edited on 12 October 2026.

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1.Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works and to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks; founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library.3
  • F13 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ."
  • F14 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library .
  • F48 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), Project Gutenberg Mission Statement documented · field
    To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
2.It is an online library of free eBooks, most of them full texts of books or stories in the public domain in the United States, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired.4
  • F44 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.
  • F15 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Most items in its collection are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain . All files are free to access in an open format , available on almost any computer.
  • F2 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Choose free eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world's great literature here with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired.
  • F29 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law. There are also a few copyrighted texts, such as those of science fiction author Cory Doctorow , that Project Gutenberg distributes with permission.
3.Its count stands at 79,709 on its home page, more than 75,000 on its about page and nearly 78,000 in Wikipedia (March 2026).4
  • F1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), heading documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks
  • F16 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    As of 22 March 2026 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg had reached nearly 78,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.
  • F17 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), infobox documented · field
    Over 77,500 documents
  • F23 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition .
4.The collection is mostly Western literature in English, with reference works, periodicals and a few non-text items.2
  • F24 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    In addition to literature such as novels, poetry, short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks , reference works and issues of periodicals. [ 13 ] The Project Gutenberg collection also has a few non-text items such as audio files, movies, and music-notation files.
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
5.Hart began with the Declaration of Independence in 1971, named the project after Johannes Gutenberg, typed every text until 1989 and died in 2011.5
  • F20 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence . … He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable-type printing-press revolution.
  • F45 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
  • F5 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 55+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971
  • F21 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible.
  • F22 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.
6.The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, chartered in 2000, operates it; its CEO Gregory Newby died in 2025 and Eric Hellman is acting CEO.4
  • F37 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    In 2000, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation , the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. ( EIN : 64–6221541) was chartered in Mississippi , United States , to handle the project's legal needs.
  • F49 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), More about Project Gutenberg documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation , which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations.
  • F38 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    in 2001, became the foundation's first CEO … After Newby died in 2025, Eric Hellman became acting CEO of the foundation.
  • F7 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Read about our late CEO , Dr. Greg Newby .
7.Volunteers digitize and proofread its texts, thousands or hundreds by its own two counts, with no selection policy; Distributed Proofreaders is the main source of new eBooks.8
  • F3 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Thousands of Project Gutenberg volunteers have digitized and proofread these books for you.
  • F46 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Since then, thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature.
  • F6 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years
  • F26 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is intentionally decentralized; there is no selection policy dictating what texts to add. Instead, individual volunteers work on what they are interested in or have available.
  • F36 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The selection of works (and editions) available has been determined by popularity, ease of scanning, being out of copyright, and other factors; this would be difficult to avoid in any crowd-sourced project.
  • F8 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help documented · field
    Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks.
  • F19 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders , an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.
  • F39 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Partners documented · field
    In 2000, Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders (DP) … DP became officially affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2002. … As of 2018 [ update ] , the 36,000+ DP-contributed books comprised almost two-thirds of the nearly 77,500 books in Project Gutenberg.
8.Texts are added after copyright clearance; the Text Encoding Initiative criticized it in 1994 for not documenting which version of a text was digitized.2
  • F28 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Material is added to the Project Gutenberg archive only after it has received a copyright clearance, and records of these clearances are saved for future reference. Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes.
  • F35 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    In December 1994, Project Gutenberg was criticized by the Text Encoding Initiative for failing to include documentation or discussion of the decisions unavoidable in preparing a text, or in some cases, not documenting which of several (conflicting) versions of a text has been the one digitized.
9.Releases come in plain text, HTML, EPUB and MOBI, free and without registration; the plain text has been criticized as hard to read on screen.6
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
  • F25 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release had been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believed it was the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.
  • F34 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The text files use the format of plain text encoded in UTF-8 and are typically wrapped at 65–70 characters, with paragraphs separated by a double line break. In 2000, this presentation was criticized as "bland and difficult to read on screen".
  • F47 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be.
  • F4 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free … ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed
  • F63 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    His goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible". … Likewise, a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy"
10.Its audience is US persons over 13, it gives no warranty abroad, and it has been blocked in Germany and Italy.3
  • F50 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Project Gutenberg’s target audience is United States persons over 13 years of age.
  • F51 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Non-US persons are advised to check copyright laws of their country before accessing any eBooks or other content from Project Gutenberg. … Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
  • F33 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    From 2018 to 2021, the Project Gutenberg website was not accessible within Germany , as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin . … The Project Gutenberg website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020, as part of a larger effort to block websites that publish newspapers and journals that are protected by copyright in Italy.
11.Its website is for human users only; automated access is blocked, bulk downloads go to mirrors, and a machine-readable catalog, an index file and an OPDS feed under stated rules serve other uses.9
  • F53 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    This website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access this website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address.
  • F54 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience; Footnotes documented · field
    If you want to download many books [1] manually or using an automated download software, download them from one of our mirrors, not from the main site. … Many books: i.e., more than ~100 per day
  • F55 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    If you want a list of all our books , download and save the Gutenberg index file … If you want a machine-readable database of all our books, read the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page.
  • F56 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Deep Linking documented · field
    When linking to a Project Gutenberg item, link to the main landing page such as www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11. … We intend the landing page to be permanent.
  • F57 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Embedding or Wrapping our Site or Contents documented · field
    We do not allow large-scale deep-linking to eBook files hosted on our servers. … We will not tolerate mock Gutenberg front-ends that pocket advertising revenues
  • F58 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), OPDS Feed documented · field
    Every application that uses our OPDS feed must: … Use a proper user-agent … For high-volume OPDS applications consider downloading our catalog database and hosting your own OPDS feed.
  • F59 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Automated Blocks documented · field
    Blocks to Internet addresses (IP addresses) are applied automatically based on the volume of traffic and related factors. Such blocks automatically expire after a few days.
  • F12 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Useful Links documented · field
    Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site.
  • F27 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg collection is intended to preserve items for the long term, so they cannot be lost by any one localized accident. In an effort to ensure this, the entire collection is backed-up regularly and mirrored on servers in many different locations.
12."Project Gutenberg" is a trademark barred from commercial or modified redistributions; resale is lawful with all references removed, and books stripped of attribution have been sold.6
  • F30 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark of the organization, and the mark cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of public domain texts from the project.
  • F31 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There is no legal impediment to the reselling of works in the public domain if all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, but Gutenberg contributors have questioned the appropriateness of directly and commercially reusing content that has been formatted by volunteers.
  • F32 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There have been instances of books being stripped of attribution to the project and sold for profit in the Kindle Store and other booksellers, one being the 1906 book Fox Trapping .
  • F40 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Sister projects documented · field
    All sister projects are independent organizations that share the same ideals and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.
  • F41 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), List of sister projects documented · field
    Projekt Gutenberg-DE [ de ] claims copyright for its product and limits access to browsable web-versions of its texts.
  • F52 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Trademark License documented · field
    What you are allowed to do with our eBooks once you download them: See: the Project Gutenberg License and the Permission How-To .
13.LibriVox records its texts as human-read audiobooks, and the Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles; the Internet Archive hosted it earlier.3
  • F9 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help; Audio Books documented · field
    Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox . … LibriVox produces high-quality human-read recordings of Project Gutenberg texts. 662 of our own titles are read by people.
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
  • F42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · field
    The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg
14.Downstream, the Pile, a dataset for training language models, carries a "Gutenberg (PG-19)" component of 11.68 GB, and NaNoGenMo allows a generated novel that grabs a random novel from it.3
  • F60 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), lead documented · field
    The Pile is an 886 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created to train large language models (LLMs).
  • F61 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), Sub-datasets of The Pile (table) documented · field
    Sub-datasets of The Pile [ 1 ] [ 11 ] (*denotes works with copyright disputes) … Original size, GB … Gutenberg (PG-19) 11.68
  • F62 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party), The Goal; The Rules documented · field
    Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. … It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg.
15.Its most popular titles stand under their authors; the Wikipedia article was last edited on 12 October 2026.2
  • F11 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Most Popular documented · field
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen … Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley … Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle … The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  • F43 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), footer documented · field
    last edited on 12 October 2026
Compression · The field's ontology — L_F(B)Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971: free volunteer-made eBooks of US public-domain works, 79,709 on its home page.

🏛️ Who runs it

  • Foundation: chartered 2000; acting CEO Eric Hellman.1↘
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, chartered in 2000, operates it; its CEO Gregory Newby died in 2025 and Eric Hellman is acting CEO.§6

⚖️ Terms

  • Readers: human users only on the site; bulk downloads from mirrors.1↘
    Its website is for human users only; automated access is blocked, bulk downloads go to mirrors, and a machine-readable catalog, an index file and an OPDS feed under stated rules serve other uses.§11
  • Name: a trademark; stripped copies sold.1↘
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark barred from commercial or modified redistributions; resale is lawful with all references removed, and books stripped of attribution have been sold.§12

🤖 Downstream

  • Training: the Pile's PG-19 component; computer-generated audiobooks.2↘
    LibriVox records its texts as human-read audiobooks, and the Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles; the Internet Archive hosted it earlier.§13 Downstream, the Pile, a dataset for training language models, carries a "Gutenberg (PG-19)" component of 11.68 GB, and NaNoGenMo allows a generated novel that grabs a random novel from it.§14
1the collection and its countWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B1, B3
  • F1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), heading documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks
  • F16 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    As of 22 March 2026 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg had reached nearly 78,000 items in its collection of free eBooks.
  • F17 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), infobox documented · field
    Over 77,500 documents
  • F23 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition .
  • F24 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    In addition to literature such as novels, poetry, short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks , reference works and issues of periodicals. [ 13 ] The Project Gutenberg collection also has a few non-text items such as audio files, movies, and music-notation files.
2what it is: a library of free eBooksWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)6 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F2 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Choose free eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world's great literature here with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired.
  • F13 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ."
  • F15 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Most items in its collection are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain . All files are free to access in an open format , available on almost any computer.
  • F63 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    His goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible". … Likewise, a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy"
  • F44 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.
  • F48 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), Project Gutenberg Mission Statement documented · field
    To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
3how its texts are made: volunteers, proofreading, Distributed ProofreadersWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)8 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F3 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), opening documented · field
    Thousands of Project Gutenberg volunteers have digitized and proofread these books for you.
  • F6 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years
  • F8 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help documented · field
    Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks.
  • F19 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders , an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts.
  • F21 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible.
  • F26 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is intentionally decentralized; there is no selection policy dictating what texts to add. Instead, individual volunteers work on what they are interested in or have available.
  • F39 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Partners documented · field
    In 2000, Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders (DP) … DP became officially affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2002. … As of 2018 [ update ] , the 36,000+ DP-contributed books comprised almost two-thirds of the nearly 77,500 books in Project Gutenberg.
  • F46 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Since then, thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature.
4free access and formatsWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F4 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free … ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed
  • F18 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available.
  • F25 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Scope of collection documented · field
    Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release had been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believed it was the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.
  • F34 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The text files use the format of plain text encoded in UTF-8 and are typically wrapped at 65–70 characters, with paragraphs separated by a double line break. In 2000, this presentation was criticized as "bland and difficult to read on screen".
  • F47 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be.
5origin: Hart, 1971Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)4 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F5 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ 55+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971
  • F14 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), lead documented · field
    It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library .
  • F20 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence . … He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable-type printing-press revolution.
  • F45 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), About Project Gutenberg documented · field
    Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today.
6who holds it: the foundation and its officersWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B1, B3, B5
  • F7 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Project Gutenberg (feature list) documented · field
    ✓ Read about our late CEO , Dr. Greg Newby .
  • F22 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), History documented · field
    Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64.
  • F37 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    In 2000, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation , the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. ( EIN : 64–6221541) was chartered in Mississippi , United States , to handle the project's legal needs.
  • F38 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation documented · field
    in 2001, became the foundation's first CEO … After Newby died in 2025, Eric Hellman became acting CEO of the foundation.
  • F49 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page), More about Project Gutenberg documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation , which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations.
7audiobooks: human-read and computer-generatedWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)3 claims · B1, B3
  • F9 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), How to Help; Audio Books documented · field
    Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox . … LibriVox produces high-quality human-read recordings of Project Gutenberg texts. 662 of our own titles are read by people.
  • F10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · field
    The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles.
  • F42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · field
    The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg
8works under their authorsProject Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5)1 claim · B1
  • F11 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Most Popular documented · field
    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen … Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley … Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle … The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
9two readers: human users and machine accessWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)9 claims · B1, B3, B6
  • F12 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Useful Links documented · field
    Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site.
  • F27 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Ideals documented · field
    The Project Gutenberg collection is intended to preserve items for the long term, so they cannot be lost by any one localized accident. In an effort to ensure this, the entire collection is backed-up regularly and mirrored on servers in many different locations.
  • F53 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Audience documented · field
    This website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access this website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address.
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    If you want to download many books [1] manually or using an automated download software, download them from one of our mirrors, not from the main site. … Many books: i.e., more than ~100 per day
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    If you want a list of all our books , download and save the Gutenberg index file … If you want a machine-readable database of all our books, read the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page.
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    When linking to a Project Gutenberg item, link to the main landing page such as www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11. … We intend the landing page to be permanent.
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    We do not allow large-scale deep-linking to eBook files hosted on our servers. … We will not tolerate mock Gutenberg front-ends that pocket advertising revenues
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    Blocks to Internet addresses (IP addresses) are applied automatically based on the volume of traffic and related factors. Such blocks automatically expire after a few days.
10terms: public domain in the United StatesWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)5 claims · B3, B6
  • F28 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    Material is added to the Project Gutenberg archive only after it has received a copyright clearance, and records of these clearances are saved for future reference. Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes.
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    Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law. There are also a few copyrighted texts, such as those of science fiction author Cory Doctorow , that Project Gutenberg distributes with permission.
  • F33 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    From 2018 to 2021, the Project Gutenberg website was not accessible within Germany , as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin . … The Project Gutenberg website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020, as part of a larger effort to block websites that publish newspapers and journals that are protected by copyright in Italy.
  • F50 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Terms of Use (head) documented · field
    Project Gutenberg’s target audience is United States persons over 13 years of age.
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    Non-US persons are advised to check copyright laws of their country before accessing any eBooks or other content from Project Gutenberg. … Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States.
11the project's name after redistributionWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)6 claims · B3, B6
  • F30 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark of the organization, and the mark cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of public domain texts from the project.
  • F31 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Copyright documented · field
    There is no legal impediment to the reselling of works in the public domain if all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, but Gutenberg contributors have questioned the appropriateness of directly and commercially reusing content that has been formatted by volunteers.
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    There have been instances of books being stripped of attribution to the project and sold for profit in the Kindle Store and other booksellers, one being the 1906 book Fox Trapping .
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    All sister projects are independent organizations that share the same ideals and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark.
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    Projekt Gutenberg-DE [ de ] claims copyright for its product and limits access to browsable web-versions of its texts.
  • F52 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page), Trademark License documented · field
    What you are allowed to do with our eBooks once you download them: See: the Project Gutenberg License and the Permission How-To .
12which edition a text was made fromWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)2 claims · B3
  • F35 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    In December 1994, Project Gutenberg was criticized by the Text Encoding Initiative for failing to include documentation or discussion of the decisions unavoidable in preparing a text, or in some cases, not documenting which of several (conflicting) versions of a text has been the one digitized.
  • F36 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Criticism documented · field
    The selection of works (and editions) available has been determined by popularity, ease of scanning, being out of copyright, and other factors; this would be difficult to avoid in any crowd-sourced project.
13reception and the composition at the nameWikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4)1 claim · B3
  • F43 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), footer documented · field
    last edited on 12 October 2026
14into training sets and machine-made worksWikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party)3 claims · B7, B8
  • F60 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), lead documented · field
    The Pile is an 886 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created to train large language models (LLMs).
  • F61 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), Sub-datasets of The Pile (table) documented · field
    Sub-datasets of The Pile [ 1 ] [ 11 ] (*denotes works with copyright disputes) … Original size, GB … Gutenberg (PG-19) 11.68
  • F62 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party), The Goal; The Rules documented · field
    Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. … It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg.

popup — the compression from the field ledger alone (B_D: the home page and Wikipedia; B_R: the about page, the terms of use, the Pile article, NaNoGenMo). the field's entity: a free online library of volunteer-made public-domain eBooks, as its chips, its own pages, Wikipedia and two census sources present it composed 2026-11-01 from the field ledger alone; not frozen

Form ledger — AIO against both arms, at both levels
AIO (T)L_F compressionL_F expansionL_A compressionL_A expansion
body words229583912932191
distinct claims91763146146
claims per 100 words3.929.316.149.86.7
field claims carried (of 63)—17636363
archive claims0008383
rail6 documents14 lineagesper sentence16 lineagesper sentence
modality shown innonetypographygrammartypographygrammar

Computed from the row at build: words counted in the text; claims from the ledger ids each line or sentence carries. T's claims are the worked example's T1–T9.

The objects

Tthe transcript229 words · 6 cards

register entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 OBS-d3c1028b7ac2 · file as first run sha256 231ff7db2f155deb…

  • T1-1 definition: 'is the world's oldest digital library, providing nearly 80,000 free eBooks primarily focused on public domain literature.' (chip 1, 'Project Gutenberg +1', after the opening paragraph)
  • T1-2 founder and purpose: 'Founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart, the project is a massive volunteer-driven effort dedicated to digitizing, proofreading, and archiving cultural works to encourage global literacy and open access to historical texts.' (chip 1)
  • T1-3 free access: '100% Free Access: Everything is available completely free of charge, with no registration, library cards, special apps, or user accounts required.' (chip 2, 'Project Gutenberg +1')
  • T1-4 formats: 'Format Flexibility: Books can be read directly within your web browser or downloaded in open, long-lasting formats like EPUB, Kindle (MOBI), HTML, and plain text.' (chip 3, 'OpenEd +1')
  • T1-5 US public domain focus: 'US Public Domain Focus: Because it operates under United States copyright law, the vast majority of its collection consists of books published more than a century ago whose copyrights have expired.' (chip 4, 'Wikipedia +1')
  • T1-6 volunteers: 'Volunteer Driven: The digitization process relies on thousands of volunteers around the globe, largely collaborating through Distributed Proofreaders to clean up optical character recognition (OCR) errors, format files, and review submissions.' (chip 5, 'Project Gutenberg +2')
  • T1-7 audiobooks: 'Audiobook Companions: The library is closely paired with platforms like LibriVox to provide volunteer-recorded audiobooks alongside written texts.' (chip 6, 'YouTube·Microsoft Cloud +1')
  • T1-8 popular works: 'Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen' … 'Frankenstein by Mary Shelley' … 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle' … 'Moby Dick by Herman Melville' … 'The complete works of William Shakespeare' (no chip)
  • T1-9 closing offers: 'If you are looking to dive into the collection, let me know:' … 'Do you want to download books to a Kindle, tablet, or phone?' … 'I can guide you through finding and downloading the exact texts you need.' (no chip)
Bthe disclosed field8 sources
  • B1 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5) card; B1.html sha256 461dd6237aa9aa55, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:13:06Z; page identified by the chips' spans (see identification)
  • B2 OpenEd — page unidentified (chip 3) unreachable: unidentified; site name only, no title, snippet or URL in the paste
  • B3 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4) card; B3.html sha256 80cfad0162a08071, HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T15:13:06Z; wikitext HTTP 200 (sha256 c04b2a45206eec23); the census's copy (sha256 05de9e5673bcf1d5) differs in bytes, same article text
  • B4 YouTube·Microsoft Cloud — video unidentified (chip 6) unreachable: unidentified; site name only, no title, snippet or URL in the paste
  • B5 Project Gutenberg — About Project Gutenberg (own page) own page; the census's saved copy B5.html sha256 4e1cfdb3edd2d17a (matches the manifest), HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T04:07:47Z
  • B6 Project Gutenberg — Terms of Use (own page) own page; the census's saved copy B6.html sha256 38e45e0cbc6a3f90 (matches the manifest), HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T04:07:48Z
  • B7 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party) census third party; the census's saved copy B7.html sha256 1ba82f3edd2a4647 (matches the manifest), HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T04:07:51Z
  • B8 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party) census third party; the census's saved copy B8.html sha256 d831aaf0d1a4efc0 (matches the manifest), HTTP 200 at 2026-11-01T04:07:58Z
Ethe two entities and their relationρ = extends · equal case

E_A, the archive's entity: the same library, in the traininglayerliterature.org layer census record and the archive's deposits: a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing two readers, its texts passing into training and composition downstream with the name they carry after that passage outside its pages (census); infrastructure to the census's question of training membership at the source; a source and comparator of the archive's originals shelf, whose seatings keep its header and licence with each file, read the licence as governing the name and trademark, and identify the edition behind each transcription; the most widely used public-domain corpus in digital humanities, doing correct work at its layer with spare metadata TLL-22 TLL-23 TLL-24 TLL-14 TLL-21 TLL-12 O1680-01 O1710-01 O1710-02 O1707-01 O1712-01 O1044-01 O1044-02 O416-01 O735-01 O1046-02 O186-02 O1543-02; defining papers #186, #1543, #1710, #1712, #1044, #1046, #1680, #1711, #1560, #1707, #1689, #1720, #943, #416, #735

E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: a digital library of free eBooks)): Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971 and operated by the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (chartered 2000): a volunteer effort, with Distributed Proofreaders, to digitize and proofread works, chiefly public domain in the United States, released free in plain text and other formats (79,709 eBooks on its home page, 2026-11-01); its website for human users only, bulk and machine access sent to mirrors and a catalog; its name a trademark removable on resale; its texts carried downstream into the Pile's PG-19 component and into generated works

ρ = extends: The archive reads Project Gutenberg as its own pages and Wikipedia present it and adds, on the same object: the census's reading of the library as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, with its two readers (TLL-22, TLL-23) and the questions it cannot answer (TLL-21, TLL-24); the seatings' practice, which keeps the library's header and licence with each file, reads the licence as governing the name, and identifies the edition behind each transcription (O1710-01, O1710-02, O1707-01, O1712-01, O1689-01, O1720-01), on the field's own trademark and TEI claims (F30–F32, F35); the archive's estimates of the library's texts and apparatus (O1044-01, O1044-02, O943-01, O416-01); the training corpus of a heteronym and the anchors' categories for texts in the corpora (O735-01, O186-02, O1543-02). TLL-22 TLL-23 TLL-21 TLL-24 O1710-01 O1710-02 O1707-01 O1712-01 O1689-01 O1720-01 O1044-01 O1044-02 O943-01 O416-01 O735-01 O186-02 O1543-02. Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more: the archive's claims do not make the field's sources wrong at their dates; where the census's record.makes contradicts the home page (TLL-18, F10) and #1046 stands beside the computer-generated audiobooks (O1046-02, F10), both stand with their sources (P_coh), and the census's unanswered questions stay questions (open block).

The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive reads the field's entity as the entity. The census record describes Project Gutenberg from its own pages and Wikipedia and keeps the resource's terms (operator, kind, unit, record object, method) apart from its own reading (tll_reading), which reads the same library as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it. The archive's deposits name the library as a source of its own shelf and say what its texts are and lack; none contests that it is a library of volunteer-made public-domain eBooks.

#TLL census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading: The archive reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it.

#TLL census.json rows[slug == 'project-gutenberg'].tll_reading: Its texts reach training and composition downstream, in the Pile's Gutenberg (PG-19) component (Wikipedia) and as allowed raw material for NaNoGenMo's generated novels; the name a text carries after that passage is outside its own pages, and Wikipedia records texts resold with references to the project removed.

#1710 26/01 Licence: Project Gutenberg transcriptions under the Project Gutenberg License (the text is public domain in the United States; the licence governs use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark), whose header each file carries.

#1044 § The second line: The NH Canon Editions ¶1: The strategic point is not to displace or duplicate Gutenberg's reading environment at Gutenberg's own layer — Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer — but to construct the scholarly reading environment Gutenberg is architected not to construct

#1680 F4. The originals shelf — source editions, Comparators: **Comparators.** Its own sources (Perseus, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM, Project Gutenberg) and other digital text libraries holding the same edition or witness.

τthe translation: every field claim carried, beside its statement in the archive's ontology63 field claims · 14 rows
field claimsreceivedreceiving texttranslationarchive
F1, F16, F17, F23, F24F1 (B1, heading): "Project Gutenberg is a library of 79,709 free eBooks" | F16 (B3, lead): "As of 22 March 2026 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg had reached nearly 78,000 items in its collection of free eBooks." | F17 (B3, infobox): "Over 77,500 documents" | F23 (B3, Scope of collection): "As of May 2025 [ update ] , Project Gutenberg claimed over 75,999 items in its collection, with an average of over 30 new e-books being added each week. [ 12 ] These are primarily works of literature from the Western cultural tradition ." | F24 (B3, Scope of collection): "In addition to literature such as novels, poetry, short stories and drama, Project Gutenberg also has cookbooks , reference works and issues of periodicals. [ 13 ] The Project Gutenberg collection also has a few non-text items such as audio files, movies, and music-notation files."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-06, TLL-07, TLL-27, CAP-1-04, O1046-03, O1605-01TLL-06, TLL-07, TLL-27, CAP-1-04, O1046-03, O1605-01
F2, F13, F15, F63, F44, F48F2 (B1, opening): "Choose free eBooks to download or read online. You will find the world's great literature here with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired." | F13 (B3, lead): "Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks ."" | F15 (B3, lead): "Most items in its collection are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain . All files are free to access in an open format , available on almost any computer." | F63 (B3, Ideals): "His goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible". … Likewise, a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy"" | F44 (B5, About Project Gutenberg): "Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks." | F48 (B5, Project Gutenberg Mission Statement): "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-01, TLL-02, TLL-04, TLL-05, TLL-11, CAP-1-03, O416-01TLL-01, TLL-02, TLL-04, TLL-05, TLL-11, CAP-1-03, O416-01
F3, F6, F8, F19, F21, F26, F39, F46F3 (B1, opening): "Thousands of Project Gutenberg volunteers have digitized and proofread these books for you." | F6 (B1, Project Gutenberg (feature list)): "✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years" | F8 (B1, How to Help): "Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks." | F19 (B3, lead): "Project Gutenberg is closely affiliated with Distributed Proofreaders , an Internet-based community for proofreading scanned texts." | F21 (B3, History): "He manually entered all of the text until 1989 when image scanners and optical character recognition software improved and became more available, making book scanning more feasible." | F26 (B3, Ideals): "Project Gutenberg is intentionally decentralized; there is no selection policy dictating what texts to add. Instead, individual volunteers work on what they are interested in or have available." | F39 (B3, Partners): "In 2000, Charles Franks founded Distributed Proofreaders (DP) … DP became officially affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2002. … As of 2018 [ update ] , the 36,000+ DP-contributed books comprised almost two-thirds of the nearly 77,500 books in Project Gutenberg." | F46 (B5, About Project Gutenberg): "Since then, thousands of volunteers have digitized and diligently proofread the world’s literature."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-08, CAP-1-02TLL-08, CAP-1-02
F4, F18, F25, F34, F47F4 (B1, Project Gutenberg (feature list)): "✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free … ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed" | F18 (B3, lead): "The releases are available in plain text as well as other formats, such as HTML , EPUB , and MOBI . Most releases are in English , but many non-English works are also available." | F25 (B3, Scope of collection): "Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release had been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believed it was the format most likely to be readable in the extended future." | F34 (B3, Criticism): "The text files use the format of plain text encoded in UTF-8 and are typically wrapped at 65–70 characters, with paragraphs separated by a double line break. In 2000, this presentation was criticized as "bland and difficult to read on screen"." | F47 (B5, About Project Gutenberg): "All Project Gutenberg eBooks are completely free and always will be."—untranslated: composed as received
F5, F14, F20, F45F5 (B1, Project Gutenberg (feature list)): "✓ 55+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971" | F14 (B3, lead): "It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library ." | F20 (B3, History): "Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence . … He named the project after Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable-type printing-press revolution." | F45 (B5, About Project Gutenberg): "Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today."—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-01CAP-1-01
F7, F22, F37, F38, F49F7 (B1, Project Gutenberg (feature list)): "✓ Read about our late CEO , Dr. Greg Newby ." | F22 (B3, History): "Project Gutenberg is now hosted by ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . … Hart died on 6 September 2011 at his home in Urbana, Illinois, at the age of 64." | F37 (B3, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation): "In 2000, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation , the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, Inc. ( EIN : 64–6221541) was chartered in Mississippi , United States , to handle the project's legal needs." | F38 (B3, Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation): "in 2001, became the foundation's first CEO … After Newby died in 2025, Eric Hellman became acting CEO of the foundation." | F49 (B5, More about Project Gutenberg): "The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation , which operates Project Gutenberg and accepts donations."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-03, CAP-1-05TLL-03, CAP-1-05
F9, F10, F42F9 (B1, How to Help; Audio Books): "Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox . … LibriVox produces high-quality human-read recordings of Project Gutenberg texts. 662 of our own titles are read by people." | F10 (B1, Audio Books): "The Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles." | F42 (B3, Affiliates; See also): "The Internet Archive , previous long-time backup distribution site, and previous main host site. … Librivox.org , new audiobooks main partner … LibriVox —free online audiobook library, with many texts used from Project Gutenberg"—untranslated: composed as received beside O1046-02O1046-02
F11F11 (B1, Most Popular): "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen … Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley … Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville … The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle … The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare"—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-08CAP-1-08
F12, F27, F53, F54, F55, F56, F57, F58, F59F12 (B1, Useful Links): "Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site." | F27 (B3, Ideals): "The Project Gutenberg collection is intended to preserve items for the long term, so they cannot be lost by any one localized accident. In an effort to ensure this, the entire collection is backed-up regularly and mirrored on servers in many different locations." | F53 (B6, Audience): "This website is intended for human users only. Any perceived use of automated tools to access this website will result in a temporary or permanent block of your IP address." | F54 (B6, Audience; Footnotes): "If you want to download many books [1] manually or using an automated download software, download them from one of our mirrors, not from the main site. … Many books: i.e., more than ~100 per day" | F55 (B6, Audience): "If you want a list of all our books , download and save the Gutenberg index file … If you want a machine-readable database of all our books, read the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page." | F56 (B6, Deep Linking): "When linking to a Project Gutenberg item, link to the main landing page such as www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11. … We intend the landing page to be permanent." | F57 (B6, Embedding or Wrapping our Site or Contents): "We do not allow large-scale deep-linking to eBook files hosted on our servers. … We will not tolerate mock Gutenberg front-ends that pocket advertising revenues" | F58 (B6, OPDS Feed): "Every application that uses our OPDS feed must: … Use a proper user-agent … For high-volume OPDS applications consider downloading our catalog database and hosting your own OPDS feed." | F59 (B6, Automated Blocks): "Blocks to Internet addresses (IP addresses) are applied automatically based on the volume of traffic and related factors. Such blocks automatically expire after a few days."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-17, TLL-22, TLL-23, TLL-25, TLL-29, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07TLL-17, TLL-22, TLL-23, TLL-25, TLL-29, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07
F28, F29, F33, F50, F51F28 (B3, Copyright): "Material is added to the Project Gutenberg archive only after it has received a copyright clearance, and records of these clearances are saved for future reference. Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes." | F29 (B3, Copyright): "Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law. There are also a few copyrighted texts, such as those of science fiction author Cory Doctorow , that Project Gutenberg distributes with permission." | F33 (B3, Copyright): "From 2018 to 2021, the Project Gutenberg website was not accessible within Germany , as a result of a court order from S. Fischer Verlag regarding the works of Heinrich Mann , Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin . … The Project Gutenberg website has been blocked in Italy since May 2020, as part of a larger effort to block websites that publish newspapers and journals that are protected by copyright in Italy." | F50 (B6, Terms of Use (head)): "Project Gutenberg’s target audience is United States persons over 13 years of age." | F51 (B6, Terms of Use (head)): "Non-US persons are advised to check copyright laws of their country before accessing any eBooks or other content from Project Gutenberg. … Project Gutenberg offers no warranty or assurances about copyright status or freedom to access or use its materials outside of the United States."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-09, TLL-26, CAP-1-10, O1046-01TLL-09, TLL-26, CAP-1-10, O1046-01
F30, F31, F32, F40, F41, F52F30 (B3, Copyright): ""Project Gutenberg" is a trademark of the organization, and the mark cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of public domain texts from the project." | F31 (B3, Copyright): "There is no legal impediment to the reselling of works in the public domain if all references to Project Gutenberg are removed, but Gutenberg contributors have questioned the appropriateness of directly and commercially reusing content that has been formatted by volunteers." | F32 (B3, Copyright): "There have been instances of books being stripped of attribution to the project and sold for profit in the Kindle Store and other booksellers, one being the 1906 book Fox Trapping ." | F40 (B3, Sister projects): "All sister projects are independent organizations that share the same ideals and have been given permission to use the Project Gutenberg trademark." | F41 (B3, List of sister projects): "Projekt Gutenberg-DE [ de ] claims copyright for its product and limits access to browsable web-versions of its texts." | F52 (B6, Trademark License): "What you are allowed to do with our eBooks once you download them: See: the Project Gutenberg License and the Permission How-To ."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-16, TLL-24, TLL-32, CAP-1-09, O186-03, O1543-03, O1560-01, O1707-01, O1710-01, O1720-02TLL-16, TLL-24, TLL-32, CAP-1-09, O186-03, O1543-03, O1560-01, O1707-01, O1710-01, O1720-02
F35, F36F35 (B3, Criticism): "In December 1994, Project Gutenberg was criticized by the Text Encoding Initiative for failing to include documentation or discussion of the decisions unavoidable in preparing a text, or in some cases, not documenting which of several (conflicting) versions of a text has been the one digitized." | F36 (B3, Criticism): "The selection of works (and editions) available has been determined by popularity, ease of scanning, being out of copyright, and other factors; this would be difficult to avoid in any crowd-sourced project."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-19, TLL-28, O943-01, O1044-01, O1044-02, O1044-03, O1668-01, O1689-01, O1712-01, O1712-02, O1720-01TLL-19, TLL-28, O943-01, O1044-01, O1044-02, O1044-03, O1668-01, O1689-01, O1712-01, O1712-02, O1720-01
F43F43 (B3, footer): "last edited on 12 October 2026"—untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-11, CAP-1-12, CAP-1-13, CAP-1-14, CAP-1-15CAP-1-11, CAP-1-12, CAP-1-13, CAP-1-14, CAP-1-15
F60, F61, F62F60 (B7, lead): "The Pile is an 886 GB diverse, open-source dataset of English text created to train large language models (LLMs)." | F61 (B7, Sub-datasets of The Pile (table)): "Sub-datasets of The Pile [ 1 ] [ 11 ] (*denotes works with copyright disputes) … Original size, GB … Gutenberg (PG-19) 11.68" | F62 (B8, The Goal; The Rules): "Spend the month of November writing code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. … It could literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg."—untranslated: composed as received beside TLL-10, TLL-15, TLL-18, TLL-30, TLL-31, TLL-33, TLL-37, O186-01, O186-02, O1543-01, O1543-02, O735-01TLL-10, TLL-15, TLL-18, TLL-30, TLL-31, TLL-33, TLL-37, O186-01, O186-02, O1543-01, O1543-02, O735-01

equal-terms case: every field claim composed as received, beside the archive claims it stands with; no receiving text. Reading the received column recovers the field (§5.9).

R7the measure0 of 15 survive

v0.9 §4.10 (unchanged in v0.10): KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.10 0 of 15 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.10, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.

L_F(B)recomposed from the disclosed field, in the field's ontology385 words

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works and to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks; founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. It is an online library of free eBooks, most of them full texts of books or stories in the public domain in the United States, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired. Its count stands at 79,709 on its home page, more than 75,000 on its about page and nearly 78,000 in Wikipedia (March 2026). The collection is mostly Western literature in English, with reference works, periodicals and a few non-text items. Hart began with the Declaration of Independence in 1971, named the project after Johannes Gutenberg, typed every text until 1989 and died in 2011. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, chartered in 2000, operates it; its CEO Gregory Newby died in 2025 and Eric Hellman is acting CEO. Volunteers digitize and proofread its texts, thousands or hundreds by its own two counts, with no selection policy; Distributed Proofreaders is the main source of new eBooks. Texts are added after copyright clearance; the Text Encoding Initiative criticized it in 1994 for not documenting which version of a text was digitized. Releases come in plain text, HTML, EPUB and MOBI, free and without registration; the plain text has been criticized as hard to read on screen. Its audience is US persons over 13, it gives no warranty abroad, and it has been blocked in Germany and Italy. Its website is for human users only; automated access is blocked, bulk downloads go to mirrors, and a machine-readable catalog, an index file and an OPDS feed under stated rules serve other uses. "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark barred from commercial or modified redistributions; resale is lawful with all references removed, and books stripped of attribution have been sold. LibriVox records its texts as human-read audiobooks, and the Open Audiobook Collection adds almost 5,000 computer-generated titles; the Internet Archive hosted it earlier. Downstream, the Pile, a dataset for training language models, carries a "Gutenberg (PG-19)" component of 11.68 GB, and NaNoGenMo allows a generated novel that grabs a random novel from it. Its most popular titles stand under their authors; the Wikipedia article was last edited on 12 October 2026.

L_A(B ∪ A)the field and the archive composed in the archive's ontology2173 words

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks and the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. Hart in 1971: a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works whose mission is "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." Most of what it holds are full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain, free to access in an open format, with a focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired; its unit is the eBook, a digitized and proofread text with its own permanent landing page. The collection is primarily literature of the Western cultural tradition, novels, poetry, short stories and drama, with cookbooks, reference works, issues of periodicals and a few non-text items such as audio files, movies and music-notation files; most releases are in English, and many are in other languages. Hart's stated goal was "to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible", and a project slogan is to "break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy". Hart began the project in 1971 by digitizing the United States Declaration of Independence and named it after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth-century printer; its own pages say that Hart "invented eBooks in 1971" and count "55+ Years" of free eBooks. Hart entered all text by hand until 1989, when scanners and optical character recognition made book scanning feasible, and died on 6 September 2011. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation chartered in Mississippi in 2000 to handle the project's legal needs, operates it and accepts donations; Gregory B. Newby became the foundation's first CEO in 2001, the home page now refers to its late CEO, Dr. Greg Newby, and after Newby's death in 2025 Eric Hellman became acting CEO. ibiblio at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts it; the Internet Archive was its long-time backup distribution site and an earlier main host. Counts differ by date and source: 79,709 free eBooks on the home page as read on 1 November 2026, more than 75,000 on its about page, nearly 78,000 items as of 22 March 2026 and over 77,500 documents in Wikipedia's infobox, and over 75,999 items claimed in May 2025, with over 30 new e-books a week. A snapshot of the Gutenberg catalog taken into the archive in July 2026 holds 90,252 rows, and the archive records that Das Kapital is not on Gutenberg in German, so that a comparison of Hegel's prose with Marx's cannot be run on the open German shelf. By its own account thousands of volunteers have digitized and proofread its books; the same home page also says that hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years. No selection policy governs what is added: volunteers work on what interests them or what they have, and the works and editions available have been set by popularity, ease of scanning, copyright status and other factors. Distributed Proofreaders, founded by Charles Franks in 2000 and affiliated in 2002, distributes the proofreading of scanned texts among volunteers and is now the main source of new eBooks; its 36,000+ books were almost two-thirds of the collection in 2018. Material is added only after a copyright clearance, whose records are kept, and the project claims no new copyright on the titles it publishes. In December 1994 the Text Encoding Initiative criticized the project for not documenting the decisions made in preparing a text and, in some cases, which of several conflicting versions had been digitized; the census records it as no scholarly edition, unable to say which edition a text was digitized from. The archive's seatings identify the edition behind a Gutenberg text from the text itself: Morris's Pearl from the second edition of 1869, The Prophet from a later Knopf printing whose book text is that of 1923, a Monadologie catalogued as 1909 whose title page reads 1900, each of Kafka's works as the edition its header names, a Principia transcribed from the first edition of 1687 with its transcribers' corrections listed, and an Opticks of the fourth edition of 1730, produced by Distributed Proofreaders, held beside the first printing of 1704. The archive also finds a Gutenberg text short of what some works need: its Dickinson "is a propositional shell", its Hopkins "lacks the notational apparatus", and works cited from its texts are cited by chapter, for want of print pagination. The archive calls Gutenberg's texts "the most widely-used public-domain corpus in digital humanities", their reading environment unchanged for three decades and their metadata spare, and holds that "Gutenberg is doing correct work at its layer", while it sets out to build the scholarly reading environment "Gutenberg is architected not to construct". An earlier archive paper counts large text archives such as Project Gutenberg and HathiTrust as collections with scale and no internal architecture, of which an AI summary describes what is in them. Most books are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law, a few copyrighted texts with permission; the target audience is United States persons over 13, and the project offers no warranty about copyright status or freedom to use its materials outside the United States. Its website was inaccessible in Germany from 2018 to 2021 under a court order concerning works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, and it has been blocked in Italy since May 2020. In the archive's account the U.S. public-domain constraint leaves its translations mostly older ones, Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century. Releases come in plain text, a Latin-character version having been required since the founding as the format Hart believed most likely to stay readable, and in HTML, EPUB and MOBI; the plain files, wrapped at 65–70 characters, were criticized in 2000 as "bland and difficult to read on screen". All its eBooks are free, "and always will be", with no fees, registration or apps required. Its terms address two readers: "This website is intended for human users only", and automated access brings a block of the IP address, while anyone downloading many books, more than about 100 a day, by hand or by software, is sent to the mirrors, and a machine-readable database of all its books is offered at its Offline Catalogs and Feeds page beside an index file. Applications using its OPDS feed must identify themselves and keep to a browser's volume, high-volume ones being pointed to the catalog database to host their own feed; large-scale deep-linking to its files and mock front-ends that take advertising revenue are refused, and links go to an item's landing page, which it intends to be permanent. The home page links a page on linking to the site and "roboting or crawling" it, and the collection is backed up regularly and mirrored on servers in many places, so that no one localized accident can lose it. The census reads Project Gutenberg as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing the human reader at the website and machine access at the mirrors and the catalog, and records its readback by landing page, search, index file and catalog database. Its texts pass into training downstream: the Pile, an 886 GB dataset of English text made to train large language models, lists among its sub-datasets "Gutenberg (PG-19)" at 11.68 GB, unmarked among the components with copyright disputes. NaNoGenMo's rules allow a generated novel that could "literally grab a random novel from Project Gutenberg", and the library's own home page lists almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles in the Open Audiobook Collection beside 662 titles read by people and LibriVox's human-read recordings of its texts. An archive update of July 2026, listing venues for an AI-mediated reading text of its own, records "Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)"; the statement concerns text and stands beside the computer-generated audiobooks the home page lists. A pre-registered training corpus by the archive's heteronym Nobel Glas takes 30% of its documents from Project Gutenberg's public-domain prose before 1900, filtered for literary stature, as high training signal. The census records that the library's own saved pages say nothing of training and that what an apparatus makes from its texts is unrecorded there, that the library is no training dataset and the datasets and generated works drawn from it are different entities, and that whether a given eBook was carried into a given training set cannot be answered from it; the home page, which the census did not save, lists the computer-generated audiobooks. In the census's anchors training-layer literature is writing addressed to the layer where texts are "crawled, indexed, trained on, retrieved, and recomposed into answers", texts in the corpora that are not organized around that fact are "read by machines incidentally", and the institutional training loop runs from a text through a model and its output into the next corpus. #1543 names the second wing of that literature machine composition, "what the encountered work makes it possible for a machine to WRITE", and keeps apart whether a machine wrote something new and whether it told the truth about where it came from. "Project Gutenberg" is a trademark that cannot be used in commercial or modified redistributions of the project's public-domain texts; the sister projects are independent organizations permitted to use it, and one of them, Projekt Gutenberg-DE, claims copyright for its product. Resale of its public-domain works is lawful once every reference to Project Gutenberg is removed, contributors have questioned commercial reuse of content formatted by volunteers, and books stripped of attribution to the project, Fox Trapping (1906) among them, have been sold in the Kindle Store and by other booksellers. What may be done with a downloaded eBook falls under the Project Gutenberg License, which the archive reads as governing the use of the Project Gutenberg name and trademark, the text being public domain in the United States. The archive keeps the name with the text: its seatings record a Gutenberg file as "Project Gutenberg packaging under the PG licence", seat it "with its Gutenberg header and licence text intact" or with "its header and footer kept as served", and name each one a transcription beside the scan of the same edition where an open scan was found. The census places the name a text carries after its passage into training and composition outside the library's own pages and finds authors' names unrecorded on the pages it saved, while the home page lists its most popular works each under its author; in #186 persistence is a work placed where the training and retrieval layers look, "with the metadata that lets it be found and attributed". Project Gutenberg is one of the archive's originals shelf's own sources and a comparator for it: the shelf counts 16 seats in its Gutenberg licence class, points to the mantle-bearing Leaves of Grass of 1891–92 at Project Gutenberg #1322 outside the archive, holds Philip K. Dick's unrenewed stories as open in its transcriptions from their magazine printings, checked against its catalogue, and rests the reproducibility of a stylometric run on it among other open sources. The census asks how literature is addressed to a receiving apparatus, what that apparatus makes from it, and how transmission, transformation and provenance can be inspected across later reception; it admits aggregators that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, and enters Project Gutenberg as infrastructure, a library whose question is training membership at the source: whether a public-domain work is held, at which landing page, and on what terms a machine may take it. It leaves unchecked the Project Gutenberg License, the Offline Catalogs and Feeds page, the mirrors list and every eBook landing page, so the author and metadata fields of a release are unseen in its record. Asked for "Project Gutenberg" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Mode, run there by the operator's note in place of an Overview, said what the library is, when and by whom it was founded, how it is made and what it holds, listed five famous works under their authors and offered help finding and downloading texts; it gave its sources as six inline chips, at a new address. The Capture Registry found the library composed accurately as a reader's library, its opening and founder following Wikipedia and its volunteers and Distributed Proofreaders at their sources' grain, and its mission widened from the creation and distribution of eBooks to global literacy and open access. The registry also found that the composition addresses the reader of the browser and the Kindle, carries neither the operating foundation, the human-users rule, the mirrors, any word of training, the trademark nor the policy's limit outside the United States, and gives a count, "nearly 80,000", above every saved source and every result on the page; the home page, read after the capture, gives 79,709. The Wikipedia article read here was last edited on 12 October 2026; two of the six chips, OpenEd and a YouTube video of Microsoft Cloud, carry no title, snippet or link and stand unidentified.

Δthe delta

current · derived from the current composition

T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): At 'Project Gutenberg' (T1, AI Mode, six inline chips; the disclosed pool B_D is B1 gutenberg.org for chips 1, 2 and 5, B2 OpenEd and B4 a YouTube video of Microsoft Cloud, both unidentified and without text, and B3 Wikipedia; B5–B8, the about page, the terms of use, the Pile article and NaNoGenMo, are the reference pool and stand outside this comparison, §0.3), T composes a definition with founder and purpose, five bulleted features, five works under their authors and three offers. Composed at its source's grain or coarser: the oldest digital library founded in 1971 by Hart (F14), a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works (F13), the focus on older works whose U.S. copyright has expired (F2, F15, F29), free access without fees, registration or apps (F4), the formats (F18), thousands of volunteers (F3) and Distributed Proofreaders (F8, F19), LibriVox (F9, F42), and the most popular works under their authors (F11, five of the home page's list in its order of popularity, Alice and Dracula left out). 'nearly 80,000' composes F1 (79,709) at a coarser grain. Substituted reading: 'Audiobook Companions … to provide volunteer-recorded audiobooks alongside written texts' (T1-7) composes the audiobooks as volunteer-recorded; the home page under its chips lists 662 titles read by people, LibriVox's human-read recordings and 'almost 5,000 computer-generated titles' in the Open Audiobook Collection (F10), the larger share made by machine. Force raised: 'to encourage global literacy and open access to historical texts' (T1-2) composes the mission at a wider scope than F48's 'To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks' (B5, the reference pool); in B_D, Wikipedia's Ideals carry the slogan 'break down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy' and Hart's goal 'for the entire world to read' (F63), so the widening has a disclosed basis at the grain of the project's ideals, and the Capture Registry's 'mission is widened' (CAP-1-03) holds against the mission statement. 'massive' (T1-2) has no field claim. Available and not composed (§6.2): the operating foundation (F37, F49 in B_R), its CEOs (F38; F7 'our late CEO' on the home page), the trademark and the stripping of the project's name from resold books (F30, F31, F32), the sister projects (F40, F41), the copyright clearance (F28), the absence of a selection policy (F26, F36), the TEI criticism of undocumented versions (F35), the plain-text criticism (F34), the blocks in Germany and Italy (F33), the long-term mirroring (F27), the home page's link on 'roboting or crawling the site' (F12), the counts with their dates (F16, F17, F23), the computer-generated audiobooks (F10), the site's host (F22) and the namesake (F20). The human-users rule, the mirrors and the catalog (F53–F55) are B_R (the terms of use) and stand outside this comparison; the registry's finding that T carries neither (CAP-1-07) is a finding against the census's sources. Limit dropped: 'Because it operates under United States copyright law' (T1-5) composes F29 without the terms' limit outside the United States (F51, B_R) and without the blocks in Germany and Italy (F33, B_D). Composed beyond the chips: 'more than a century ago' (T1-5: F2 says 'older works'), 'library cards' and 'user accounts' (T1-3), 'around the globe' (T1-6), 'clean up optical character recognition (OCR) errors, format files, and review submissions' (T1-6: F21 dates OCR to 1989; no field claim states DP's tasks at that grain). Composed without attribution: every bullet, at the coarse grain of a reference entry (recorded). Content replaced by use: the three offers and 'I can guide you through finding and downloading the exact texts you need' (T1-9), next steps toward download to a Kindle, tablet or phone. Nothing is assigned to another; nothing is denied.

v0.10 §0.5: the first diff is ontological and narrow. T and the field agree on the entity, a free online library of volunteer-made public-domain eBooks; T's ontology is the reader's library (what it is, who began it, what it holds, how to read and download), and it composes the disclosed field at the grain of the home page's own feature list. What it leaves out of B_D is the library's institutions and conditions: the foundation, the trademark and the stripping of its name, the TEI's criticism, the blocks, the computer-generated audiobooks. Its audiobooks are volunteer-recorded where the chip-site's own page counts machine narration as the larger share.

L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the census's reading of the library as a source library held apart from the datasets made from it, its terms addressing two readers (TLL-22, TLL-23), with the questions it cannot answer, which edition a text was digitized from, whether an eBook was carried into a given training set and how a text is attributed after redistribution (TLL-21), and the name a text carries after its passage into training placed outside the library's pages (TLL-24); the archive's seatings, which take texts from the library, keep its header and licence with each file, read the licence as governing the name and trademark, name each file a transcription beside the scan of its edition, and identify editions from title page and header against the catalogue (O1560-01, O1707-01, O1710-01, O1710-02, O1712-01, O1689-01, O1720-01, O1720-02), extending F35 (the TEI's criticism) and F30–F32 (the trademark and the stripped name) on the field's own object; the archive's estimates of the library as the most widely used public-domain corpus in digital humanities, doing correct work at its layer with spare metadata and some texts short of what works need (O1044-01 to -03, O943-01, O1668-01, O416-01); its holding gap and catalog snapshot (O1605-01, O1046-03); the training corpus of the heteronym Nobel Glas (O735-01), beside the Pile's PG-19 (F61); 'Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)' (O1046-02), beside the computer-generated audiobooks (F10); the anchors' categories for texts in the corpora, read incidentally, and for machine composition and the training loop (O186-01 to -03, O1543-01 to -03); and the Capture Registry's findings on the composition (CAP-1-01 to CAP-1-15). Not surfaced: no archive source is among T's chips (archive_controlled_cites 0). The field is carried whole; the archive adds the library's place on its own shelf and the census's question of training membership at the source to the field's object, which the field states as terms of use, a trademark and a dataset table.

alignment: {'T1_chips_claims': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12', 'F13', 'F14', 'F15', 'F16', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F21', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F25', 'F26', 'F27', 'F28', 'F29', 'F30', 'F31', 'F32', 'F33', 'F34', 'F35', 'F36', 'F37', 'F38', 'F39', 'F40', 'F41', 'F42', 'F43', 'F63'], 'T1_composed': ['F13', 'F14', 'F1', 'F2', 'F15', 'F29', 'F4', 'F18', 'F3', 'F8', 'F19', 'F9', 'F42', 'F11'], 'T1_composed_note': "F1 at coarser grain ('nearly 80,000'); F9 and F42 composed without F10 (substituted reading: volunteer-recorded); F29 composed without F33 (limit dropped); F48 is B_R, F63 (B_D) carries the ideals T's mission composes", 'T1_outside_chips': ["'massive' (T1-2)", "'global literacy and open access to historical texts' (T1-2; F63 at the grain of ideals)", "'more than a century ago' (T1-5)", "'library cards', 'user accounts' (T1-3)", "'around the globe' (T1-6)", "'clean up optical character recognition (OCR) errors, format files, and review submissions' (T1-6)", "'long-lasting formats' (T1-4; F25 'readable in the extended future')", 'the offers (T1-9)'], 'rule': "a field claim counts as composed when T states it at its source's grain or coarser; B_D only (B5–B8 excluded, §0.3); the transcript read for this alignment only"}

pool_note: T against L_F(B_D): B1–B4 (B2 and B4 without text); L_F(B) against L(B ∪ A): B1–B8 with A

Kthe prospective kernel sealed only at freeze · composer-written18 entries

composer-written · derived from the current composition, written by its composer under the brief. §8.2 derives the kernel mechanically from the frozen plan; this one was written by the composer, mechanical derivation pending.

K1TLL-22 traininglayerliterature.org layer census recordmissing distinction: the field states the human-users rule and the mirrors (F53, F54) and the Pile's component (F61) without reading the library as held apart from the datasets made from it; T addresses the human reader only (CAP-1-06)
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TLL-22
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traininglayerliterature.org layer census record
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interpretation
sense
two readers: human users and machine access
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
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missing distinction: the field states the human-users rule and the mirrors (F53, F54) and the Pile's component (F61) without reading the library as held apart from the datasets made from it; T addresses the human reader only (CAP-1-06)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K2TLL-24 traininglayerliterature.org layer census recordqualified claim: F31, F32 (resale with references removed; books stripped of attribution), read as the name a text carries after passage into training and composition
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TLL-24
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traininglayerliterature.org layer census record
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sense
the project's name after redistribution
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
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qualified claim: F31, F32 (resale with references removed; books stripped of attribution), read as the name a text carries after passage into training and composition
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K3O1710-01 #1710qualified claim: F52 (the licence governs what may be done with a downloaded eBook), read as governing the name and trademark
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O1710-01
source
#1710
M_src
interpretation
sense
the project's name after redistribution
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F52 (the licence governs what may be done with a downloaded eBook), read as governing the name and trademark
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K4O1710-02 #1710missing distinction: the field has no claim on a redistributor that keeps the header and names the file a transcription
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O1710-02
source
#1710
M_src
documented
sense
the project's name after redistribution
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
missing distinction: the field has no claim on a redistributor that keeps the header and names the file a transcription
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K5O1707-01 #1707qualified claim: F32 (books stripped of attribution to the project)
claim
O1707-01
source
#1707
M_src
documented
sense
the project's name after redistribution
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F32 (books stripped of attribution to the project)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K6O1712-01 #1712qualified claim: F35 (the TEI: versions not always documented); the catalogue's date against the title page
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O1712-01
source
#1712
M_src
documented
sense
which edition a text was made from
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F35 (the TEI: versions not always documented); the catalogue's date against the title page
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K7O1689-01 #1689qualified claim: F35, F36 (editions selected by popularity and ease of scanning)
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O1689-01
source
#1689
M_src
documented
sense
which edition a text was made from
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F35, F36 (editions selected by popularity and ease of scanning)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K8O943-01 #943none: the field has no claim on what a given text lacks for a given work
claim
O943-01
source
#943
M_src
interpretation
sense
which edition a text was made from
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
none: the field has no claim on what a given text lacks for a given work
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K9O1044-01 #1044qualified claim: F34 (the plain text criticized as hard to read)
claim
O1044-01
source
#1044
M_src
interpretation
sense
which edition a text was made from
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F34 (the plain text criticized as hard to read)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K10O1046-02 #1046qualified claim: F10 (almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles); the archive's statement concerns text; the field claim can win on the same terms (§8.2)
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O1046-02
source
#1046
M_src
documented
sense
audiobooks: human-read and computer-generated
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F10 (almost 5,000 computer-generated audiobook titles); the archive's statement concerns text; the field claim can win on the same terms (§8.2)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K11O735-01 #735qualified claim: F61 (the Pile's PG-19 component)
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O735-01
source
#735
M_src
stipulation
sense
into training sets and machine-made works
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
qualified claim: F61 (the Pile's PG-19 component)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K12O186-02 #186none: the field has no claim on how texts in the corpora are read
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O186-02
source
#186
M_src
interpretation
sense
into training sets and machine-made works
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
none: the field has no claim on how texts in the corpora are read
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K13O1543-02 #1543missing distinction: F60, F61 state a dataset made to train models without the loop from output back into the next corpus
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O1543-02
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#1543
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interpretation
sense
into training sets and machine-made works
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
missing distinction: F60, F61 state a dataset made to train models without the loop from output back into the next corpus
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K14TLL-21 traininglayerliterature.org layer census recordmissing distinction: no field claim states which eBooks a training set carried
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TLL-21
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traininglayerliterature.org layer census record
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what the census asks of it
qualifiers carried
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
missing distinction: no field claim states which eBooks a training set carried
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K15TLL-18 traininglayerliterature.org layer census recordrival claim: F10 (the home page lists computer-generated audiobooks) against 'not recorded on its own pages'
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traininglayerliterature.org layer census record
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sense
into training sets and machine-made works
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f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
rival claim: F10 (the home page lists computer-generated audiobooks) against 'not recorded on its own pages'
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K16CAP-1-04 Capture Registryrival claim: F1 (79,709 on the home page) against the registry's 'above every saved source'
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CAP-1-04
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Capture Registry
M_src
interpretation
sense
reception and the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
rival claim: F1 (79,709 on the home page) against the registry's 'above every saved source'
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K17CAP-1-07 Capture Registryrival claim: T's silence on the human-users rule, the mirrors and training (T1-1 to T1-9)
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CAP-1-07
source
Capture Registry
M_src
interpretation
sense
reception and the composition at the name
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
rival claim: T's silence on the human-users rule, the mirrors and training (T1-1 to T1-9)
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
K18O416-01 #416none: the field has no claim on the library as a collection without internal architecture
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O416-01
source
#416
M_src
interpretation
sense
what it is: a library of free eBooks
qualifiers carried
—
f (source's own falsifiers)
— (none stated; watch: a later composition at the address that states or drops the claim, attributed or not (uptake §8.3))
contrast
none: the field has no claim on the library as a collection without internal architecture
resolver
a later capture at 'Project Gutenberg' (ADDR-4825dd2956f6) on Google AI Mode or AI Overview, seated in the Capture Registry (§8.3)
Archive bearing — D/R/O traversalread

Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.

traversal2026-11-01
D 23 deposits · 108 sentencesR 13 · 39O 53 · 26 direct, 90 classhop 234read: 20 admitted, 9 not
admitted, by lineage5 lineages
packaging under the licence5 · from #1560
transcription named beside the scan2 · from #1710
Das Kapital not on Gutenberg in German2 · from #1594
originals shelf sources1 · from #1678
licence classes1 · from #1709

The archive's bearing on Project Gutenberg runs chiefly through its own shelf: from #1560 (2026-08-29) to #1720 (2026-10-30) the seatings take texts from the library, keep its header and licence with each file, name each a transcription, and identify the edition behind it from title page and header. Those acts bear on two of the census's unanswered questions, which edition a text was digitized from and the name a text keeps after passage.

#1046's 'Not Gutenberg (AI-mediated text rejected)' (2026-07-06) is a statement of the library's acceptance policy, held by the archive without a cited source; the home page lists computer-generated audiobooks. Both composed (P_coh); the open block asks what the library's own policy says.

#735 designs, under the heteronym Nobel Glas, a training corpus drawn 30% from the library: the archive's own work places the library's texts in a training set, as the Pile's PG-19 does in the field.

The string pass misses the bare 'Gutenberg' unless aliased: #1044 and #1046 name the library only as 'Gutenberg'. The alias was added and the pass re-run (config notes).

Lee Sharks · Crimson Hexagonal Archive · register v1.36, 2026-10-27. Built by scripts/build_non.py from the files linked above; it writes nothing back. Working, not frozen.