# Project Gutenberg as a Gemini Notebook source

> 75,000+ public-domain books. Grab the Plain Text UTF-8 edition for the cleanest import.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/project-gutenberg — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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- Site: [gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org/)
- Category: Books & archives
- Access: free

75,000+ public-domain books. Grab the Plain Text UTF-8 edition for the cleanest import.

With over 75,000 titles, it's deep enough for a notebook built around a single 19th-century author's full body of work, not just one famous novel. The Plain Text UTF-8 edition strips the formatting cruft that HTML and Kindle versions carry, which matters for import quality. Its catalog is bound by copyright, so it stops well short of the 20th century and won't have scholarly annotated editions.

## Import into Gemini Notebook

1. Copy the link: https://www.gutenberg.org/
2. In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
3. Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.

**Tip:** For public-domain books, download the Plain Text file and upload it — the 500,000-words-per-source limit fits most novels whole. ePub uploads are supported too.

## More books & archives sources

- [Internet Archive](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/internet-archive.md) — Books, historical documents, magazines and archived websites — much of it downloadable as text or PDF.
- [Standard Ebooks](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/standard-ebooks.md) — Carefully typeset public-domain ePubs — a cleaner starting point than raw scans for literature notebooks.
- [Wikisource](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/wikisource.md) — Transcribed historical texts, speeches and primary documents, page-linked and citable.
- [Open Library](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/open-library.md) — Catalog and lending arm of the Internet Archive — useful for finding which editions exist and where.
- [British Library](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/british-library.md) — Digitised manuscripts, maps, and historical newspapers from the UK's national library. Many scans download as PDFs for primary-source work.
- [Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/directory-of-open-access-books-doab.md) — Peer-reviewed open-access academic books, most downloadable as PDFs — a legal way to get whole scholarly monographs into a notebook.
- [HathiTrust Digital Library](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/hathitrust-digital-library.md) — Millions of digitized library volumes; public-domain titles are downloadable as full PDFs — a deep well for historical primary texts.
- [OAPEN Library](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/oapen-library.md) — Thousands of open-access academic books, strongest in humanities and social sciences. Full PDFs download freely and upload straight into a notebook.
- [Open Research Library](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/open-research-library.md) — One search box across open-access scholarly books from many publishers. Read online or grab PDFs to upload as notebook sources.
- [Wikipedia](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/wikipedia.md) — Quick background on almost any topic. Paste article URLs as Website sources for context, then chase the footnotes for primary material worth importing.