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This is the new style PG file archive. You will find here all eBooks starting with #10.000 and some of the older eBooks too.

Each eBook is posted in various file formats in one directory. To get to the directory of eBook #12345 you have to type:

 www.gutenberg.org/files/12345/

File formats consisting of multiple files (like HTML files with illustrations) are posted in a subdirectory.

File formats other than plain text will have a format-designator appended to the filename, as well as an appropriate file extension. The following list indicates the most common formats likely to be found at Project Gutenberg:

 Plain text       12345.txt          12345.zip    (encoding: us-ascii)
 8-bit plain text 12345-8.txt        12345-8.zip  (encodings: iso-8859-1, windows-1252, MacRoman, ...)
 Big-5            12345-5.txt        12345-5.zip  (encoding: big-5)
 Unicode          12345-0.txt        12345-0.zip  (encoding: utf-8)
 
 HTML             12345-h.htm        12345-h.zip
 TeX              12345-t.tex        12345-t.zip
 XML              12345-x.xml        12345-x.zip
 MP3              12345-m-###.mp3    12345-m.zip
 RTF              12345-r.rtf        12345-r.zip
 
 PDF              12345-pdf.pdf      12345-pdf.zip
 LIT              12345-lit.lit      12345-lit.zip
 MS Word Doc      12345-doc.doc      12345-doc.zip
 PDB              12345-pdb.pdb      12345-pdb.zip