Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Project Gutenberg
The 20 closest digital library alternatives to Project Gutenberg, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Project Gutenberg? The closest matches are Open Library, JSTOR and Wikisource. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Wikidata: free digital library
Summary by Claude
A free digital library of nearly 80,000 public-domain eBooks, mostly older works whose U.S. copyright has expired, digitized and proofread by volunteers and available to download in open formats or read online.
- Who it’s for
- Readers, students and researchers
- Business model
- Donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Project Gutenberg’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Project Gutenberg
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Project Gutenberg, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
Very close cos 0.934 - 02
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.921 - 03
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.921 - 04
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.917 - 05
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Very close cos 0.915 - 06
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close cos 0.913 - 07
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close cos 0.908 - 08
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.899 - 10
Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
Very close cos 0.898 - 11
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.894 - 12
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
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BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
Read, hear, and study Scripture at the world's most-visited Christian website. Grow your faith with devotionals, Bible reading plans, and mobile apps.
Close cos 0.891 - 14
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Close cos 0.890 - 16
Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com
Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!
Close cos 0.888 - 17
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Close cos 0.886 - 18
Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
Close cos 0.885 - 19
Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.883
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gutenberg.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Project Gutenberg uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Project Gutenberg is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: wucOEvSnj5kP3Ts_36OfP64laakK-1mVTg-ptrGC9io
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Project Gutenberg adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on gutenberg.org 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gutenberg.org 8/20
- Atlassian · not on gutenberg.org 8/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gutenberg.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gutenberg.org 6/20
- nginx · not on gutenberg.org 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on gutenberg.org 5/20
- OpenAI · not on gutenberg.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on gutenberg.org 5/20
- Apple Business · not on gutenberg.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on gutenberg.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gutenberg.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on gutenberg.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on gutenberg.org 3/20