Project Gutenberg ASCII text archive

February 26, 2019 by Lucian Mogosanu

Update, March 9, 2019: The content in this post is here for historical reasons only and some info (e.g. file hashes) is no longer accurate. See the update for more details.

The ASCII text archive of Project Gutenberg is available at lucian.mogosanu.ro and mirrored at: nosuchlabs.com.

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$ ksum gutentext.tar.xz > gutentext.tar.xz.ksum
$ cat gutentext.tar.xz.ksum
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After extracting the archive, one can for example:

$ grep -r 'Dosto' gutentext/GUTINDEX.ALL | grep 'Crime' | tr -s ' '
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky 2554
$ less gutentext/2/5/5/2554/old/8crmp10.txt

And so on.

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One Response to “Project Gutenberg ASCII text archive”

  1. #1:
    Gutenberg ASCII archive updated, now with 0.5% less junk « The Tar Pit says:
    October 11, 2019 at 14:58

    [...] differences brought by this version over the previous one have to do mostly with a lack of crap to bleed the reader's eyes, or, to be more [...]

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