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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." }, "sentences": [ { "n": 1, "para": 0, "text": "Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks and the oldest digital library, founded by Michael S. 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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.", "claims": [ "F37", "F49", "F38", "F7", "TLL-03" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 1, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F22", "F42" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 2, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F1", "F44", "F16", "F17", "F23", "TLL-07" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 2, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O1046-03", "O1605-01" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 3, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F3", "F46", "F6" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 3, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F26", "F36", "TLL-08" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 3, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F8", "F19", "F39" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 3, "text": "Material is added only after a copyright clearance, whose records are kept, and the project claims no new copyright on the titles it publishes.", "claims": [ "F28" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 4, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F35", "TLL-19", "TLL-28", "TLL-21" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 4, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O1689-01", "O1712-01", "O1712-02", "O1720-01" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 4, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O943-01", "O1668-01" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 4, "text": "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\".", "claims": [ "O1044-01", "O1044-03", "O1044-02" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 4, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O416-01" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 5, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F29", "F50", "F51", "TLL-09", "TLL-26" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 5, "text": "Its website was inaccessible in Germany from 2018 to 2021 under a court order concerning works of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Dรถblin, and it has been blocked in Italy since May 2020.", "claims": [ "F33" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 5, "text": "In the archive's account the U.S. public-domain constraint leaves its translations mostly older ones, Victorian, Edwardian and early twentieth-century.", "claims": [ "O1046-01" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 6, "text": "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 65โ€“70 characters, were criticized in 2000 as \"bland and difficult to read on screen\".", "claims": [ "F18", "F25", "F34" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 6, "text": "All its eBooks are free, \"and always will be\", with no fees, registration or apps required.", "claims": [ "F47", "F4" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 7, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F53", "F54", "F55", "F59" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 7, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F58", "F57", "F56" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 7, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F12", "F27" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 7, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "TLL-22", "TLL-23", "TLL-17", "TLL-25", "TLL-29" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F60", "F61", "TLL-15", "TLL-33" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F62", "F10", "F9", "F42" ] }, { "n": 31, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O1046-02", "F10" ] }, { "n": 32, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O735-01" ] }, { "n": 33, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "TLL-15", "TLL-18", "TLL-30", "TLL-31", "TLL-21", "F10" ] }, { "n": 34, "para": 8, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O186-01", "O186-02", "O1543-02", "TLL-37", "TLL-10" ] }, { "n": 35, "para": 8, "text": "#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.", "claims": [ "O1543-01", "O1543-03" ] }, { "n": 36, "para": 9, "text": "\"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.", "claims": [ "F30", "F40", "F41", "TLL-32" ] }, { "n": 37, "para": 9, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F31", "F32" ] }, { "n": 38, "para": 9, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F52", "O1710-01" ] }, { "n": 39, "para": 9, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "O1560-01", "O1707-01", "O1720-02", "O1710-02" ] }, { "n": 40, "para": 9, "text": "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\".", "claims": [ "TLL-24", "TLL-16", "F11", "O186-03" ] }, { "n": 41, "para": 10, "text": "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 1891โ€“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.", "claims": [ "O1680-01", "O1711-01", "O1656-01", "O1713-01", "O1593-01" ] }, { "n": 42, "para": 11, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "TLL-35", "TLL-36", "TLL-12", "TLL-13", "TLL-14", "TLL-20" ] }, { "n": 43, "para": 11, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "TLL-34" ] }, { "n": 44, "para": 12, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-11", "CAP-1-15", "CAP-1-13", "CAP-1-14", "CAP-1-08" ] }, { "n": 45, "para": 12, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-12", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-03" ] }, { "n": 46, "para": 12, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-06", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-07", "CAP-1-09", "CAP-1-10", "CAP-1-04", "F1" ] }, { "n": 47, "para": 12, "text": "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.", "claims": [ "F43" ] } ], "claims": { "F44": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Project Gutenberg is an online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks.", "source": "B5", "source_label": "Project Gutenberg โ€” About Project Gutenberg (own page)", "locus": "About Project Gutenberg", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F13": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to \"encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks .\"", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Project Gutenberg (chip 4)", "locus": "lead", "modality": "documented" }, "F14": { "kind": "field", "quote": "It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. 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