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Project gutenberg blocks access in germany to all its. Amazon charges kindle users for free project gutenberg ebooks. This longestestablished ebook project releases books that entered the public domain, and can be freely used in electronic format. The amount added to the collection doubles every year, with one book per month in 1991, two in 1992, four in. The condensed version taken from the project gutenberg site is. Project gutenberg offers a list of the most popular books, latest books, a search feature, or a random book selection. If a book is over 100 years old, search project gutenberg for it. Project gutenberg is an excellent and important project that i have highly praised to others, and which will always remain so, but i believe that with many important works, providing easily accessible, easily useable, and easily correctable copies of them, wikisource can, and eventually shall do better than they currently are doing. And if you prefer reading your books, heres a list of free horror tales from project gutenberg. Project gutenberg was conceived in 1971 by michael hart, then a student, with the goal of creating and disseminating public domain electronic text.