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<h1>GITenberg</h1>
<p class="status">2012 – 2026 · This project has concluded.</p>

<p><strong>GITenberg</strong> was an exploration of how
<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> might take advantage of
modern software engineering tools and workflows. It brought tens of thousands of
public-domain books into <a href="https://github.com/GITenberg">version control on
GitHub</a>, where they could be corrected, enriched, and rebuilt into modern ebook
formats the way software is.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>What remains available:</p>
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  <li>The books themselves, at <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a></li>
  <li>The <a href="https://github.com/GITenberg">GITenberg book repositories</a> on GitHub</li>
  <li>The <a href="https://github.com/gitenberg-dev">gitenberg-dev tooling</a> that built them</li>
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<p>Thank you to everyone who contributed books, code, and ideas.</p>

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