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A grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
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