Sorry, CONTENT is what Project Gutenberg provides but not FORMAT, FORM, FORMALITY, etc.
Strange. I volunteer my 40+ hours to make and donate a book to PG and the Whitewashers don't complain about the accuracy of my CONTENT, but rather that my FORMAT doesn't in turn match THEIR idea of what the "correct" FORMAT is -- which in turn is something different than the format guides published on the PG site. Again, let me donate content in MY choice of format rather than asking me to mind-read the Whitewashers ideas of "correct" format and then let other volunteers do the last 1% to get the book into THEIR choice of format. Better yet, let volunteers like myself take YOUR [or the whitewashers] choice of format, change that format to a format that actually works on our machines, and resubmit it to the PG website so that people can simply read PG books on their favorite choice of machines, rather than having to "fix" a PG book each time before it can be read on our choice of machines. Even a 1% "fixup" [about a half hours needless busywork] assumes a knowledge of ebook authoring tools -- and patience -- that most book readers simply do not have. I buy a paperback book, I open the front cover and start reading. No 1% "fixup" is required. I buy [or acquire free] an ebook. I open the cover and start reading. No 1% "fixup" is required. What I and I think most readers are asking for is something pretty simple: A book that IN PRACTICE they can read! In my personal, practical experience, PG books frequently fail this simple test. Yes, 99% of the job is done -- yet the book IN PRACTICE remains unreadable! What a terrible waste of volunteer effort, to put that much work into creating CONTENT, and yet still have it unusable IN PRACTICE because of details of "formatting". So on forum after forum I see would-be readers of PG content asking, "Gosh, I just downloaded this book from PG and it almost works on my machine but not quite so how do I fix it?" And I reply "yes you can fix it but if you go to alternative site XYZ you will find that that site probably has the PG content already 'fixed' by some dedicated volunteers so that it will actually offer a pleasant and usable reading experience for you." If I might make a comparison: Microsoft Software is also 99% correct -- so why do customers keep complaining? Answer: Because it doesn't in practice work for them! PS: Both HTML and TXT file formats can be easily shown to be "write only" formats -- neither in practice allows the end user to "fix" all the problems that one may in practice run into using the books in either of these formats.