2012 – 2026 · This project has concluded.
GITenberg was an exploration of how Project Gutenberg might take advantage of modern software engineering tools and workflows. It brought tens of thousands of public-domain books into version control on GitHub, where they could be corrected, enriched, and rebuilt into modern ebook formats the way software is.
The experiment succeeded — and made itself unnecessary: its core technology and lessons now live on in the software infrastructure of Project Gutenberg itself. With our work upstreamed, the standalone GITenberg site has been retired.
What remains available:
Thank you to everyone who contributed books, code, and ideas.