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: The initiative aims to break down barriers to education and personal betterment by enabling unlimited redistribution of classic works. Collection and Operations

: This key partner site facilitates the conversion of scanned physical books into e-books through a collaborative online process. Legal and Technical Framework Permission How-to - Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg

: Although heavily English-centric (over 21,000 books as of 2008), it hosts significant collections in French, German, Finnish, Dutch, and dozens of other languages. : The initiative aims to break down barriers

: Books are provided in simple formats (like plain text and HTML) that can be read, used, and searched by almost any computer or program. 000 books as of 2008)

The library is built and maintained primarily by volunteers who digitize, proofread, and format the texts.