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Since the books are available on the site as text and HTML the search engines index them already for you. Try searching for the below; it should take you to the book you expect as …

One author remains blocked in Germany (but only for a couple more years)...

This is covered in the FAQ - https://www.gutenberg.org/help/faq.html#why-is-project-guten... And as another person noted, the vast majority of books have HTML, EPUB, Mobi formats. …

As another commenter said PG is almost all books from 95+ years in the past due to copyright law in the US. We partner with a sister organization, the World Library Foundation, who…

Cloudflare sells that as a product, they call it Labyrinth IIRC.

See what I wrote above (and let me say I am talking about Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders here, I am one of the admins on both). A large amount of the hassle traffic…

One could argue that this falls into the previous poster's thought about "the little differences to modern English are part of the charm" ...

OCR has improved a lot since then, but OCR is just step 1 of reading in text. They make a lot of errors (even now, especially on old worn out paper pages) and even if they didn't, …

There are many books available as audio, some are human-read, some were automated. You can see lists here: human-read: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 computer-genera…

Worse than that - even if they would take action, you can't possibly orchestrate filing all of the complaints. It's a drown-in-quicksand problem, you can't fight quicksand one grai…

The ebook editions are very good for this. Most of the e-reader software provides all the amenities (bookmarks, highlighting, notes, control of margins, etc).

The Alfred Döblin books are still blocked in Germany (for a couple more years).

wouldn't help, much of the traffic we've observed look closer to ddos patterns - IPs from all over the world, many different networks, each IP makes one request only, doesn't come …