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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.
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Audio Books documented · fieldF10 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Audio Books documented · fieldF42 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), Affiliates; See also documented · fieldF60 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), lead documented · fieldF61 Wikipedia — The Pile (dataset) (census third-party), Sub-datasets of The Pile (table) documented · fieldF62 NaNoGenMo — National Novel Generation Month (census third-party), The Goal; The Rules documented · fieldF11 Project Gutenberg — gutenberg.org home page (chips 1, 2, 5), Most Popular documented · fieldF43 Wikipedia — Project Gutenberg (chip 4), footer documented · fieldProject 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.
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| body words | 229 | 58 | 391 | 293 | 2191 |
| distinct claims | 9 | 17 | 63 | 146 | 146 |
| claims per 100 words | 3.9 | 29.3 | 16.1 | 49.8 | 6.7 |
| field claims carried (of 63) | — | 17 | 63 | 63 | 63 |
| archive claims | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 83 |
| rail | 6 documents | 14 lineages | per sentence | 16 lineages | per sentence |
| modality shown in | none | typography | grammar | typography | grammar |
register entry project-gutenberg-aimode-20261101 · file as first run
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
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). . 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.
| field claims | received | receiving text | translation | archive |
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| F1, F16, F17, F23, F24 | F1 (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, O1605-01 | TLL-06, TLL-07, TLL-27, CAP-1-04, O1046-03, O1605-01 |
| F2, F13, F15, F63, F44, F48 | F2 (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, O416-01 | TLL-01, TLL-02, TLL-04, TLL-05, TLL-11, CAP-1-03, O416-01 |
| F3, F6, F8, F19, F21, F26, F39, F46 | F3 (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-1-02 | TLL-08, CAP-1-02 |
| F4, F18, F25, F34, F47 | F4 (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, F45 | F5 (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-1-01 | CAP-1-01 |
| F7, F22, F37, F38, F49 | F7 (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-1-05 | TLL-03, CAP-1-05 |
| F9, F10, F42 | F9 (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 O1046-02 | O1046-02 |
| F11 | F11 (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-1-08 | CAP-1-08 |
| F12, F27, F53, F54, F55, F56, F57, F58, F59 | F12 (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-1-07 | TLL-17, TLL-22, TLL-23, TLL-25, TLL-29, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07 |
| F28, F29, F33, F50, F51 | F28 (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, O1046-01 | TLL-09, TLL-26, CAP-1-10, O1046-01 |
| F30, F31, F32, F40, F41, F52 | F30 (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, O1720-02 | TLL-16, TLL-24, TLL-32, CAP-1-09, O186-03, O1543-03, O1560-01, O1707-01, O1710-01, O1720-02 |
| F35, F36 | F35 (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, O1720-01 | TLL-19, TLL-28, O943-01, O1044-01, O1044-02, O1044-03, O1668-01, O1689-01, O1712-01, O1712-02, O1720-01 |
| F43 | F43 (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-1-15 | CAP-1-11, CAP-1-12, CAP-1-13, CAP-1-14, CAP-1-15 |
| F60, F61, F62 | F60 (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, O735-01 | TLL-10, TLL-15, TLL-18, TLL-30, TLL-31, TLL-33, TLL-37, O186-01, O186-02, O1543-01, O1543-02, O735-01 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
TLL-22 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)TLL-22TLL-24 qualified claim: F31, F32 (resale with references removed; books stripped of attribution), read as the name a text carries after passage into training and compositionTLL-24O1710-01 qualified claim: F52 (the licence governs what may be done with a downloaded eBook), read as governing the name and trademarkO1710-01O1710-02 missing distinction: the field has no claim on a redistributor that keeps the header and names the file a transcriptionO1710-02O1707-01 qualified claim: F32 (books stripped of attribution to the project)O1707-01O1712-01 qualified claim: F35 (the TEI: versions not always documented); the catalogue's date against the title pageO1712-01O1689-01 qualified claim: F35, F36 (editions selected by popularity and ease of scanning)O1689-01O943-01 none: the field has no claim on what a given text lacks for a given workO943-01O1044-01 qualified claim: F34 (the plain text criticized as hard to read)O1044-01O1046-02 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)O1046-02O735-01 qualified claim: F61 (the Pile's PG-19 component)O735-01O186-02 none: the field has no claim on how texts in the corpora are readO186-02O1543-02 missing distinction: F60, F61 state a dataset made to train models without the loop from output back into the next corpusO1543-02TLL-21 missing distinction: no field claim states which eBooks a training set carriedTLL-21TLL-18 rival claim: F10 (the home page lists computer-generated audiobooks) against 'not recorded on its own pages'TLL-18CAP-1-04 rival claim: F1 (79,709 on the home page) against the registry's 'above every saved source'CAP-1-04CAP-1-07 rival claim: T's silence on the human-users rule, the mirrors and training (T1-1 to T1-9)CAP-1-07O416-01 none: the field has no claim on the library as a collection without internal architectureO416-01Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.
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.