if you ignore the non-book entries,
and combine the split-up e-texts,
you'll find there are ~30,000 books
in the project gutenberg library now.

with a light-markup master-source
making auxiliary formats on-demand,
storage needs would be less than now,
as would be the costs of maintenance.
and user-satisfaction would skyrocket.

this is only a hard job for y'all because
_you_are_doing_it_wrong._  end of post.

-bowerbird