Gutenberg and Shakespeare were among the patrons of the thirteen months in this calendar.
Long ago, before Gutenberg, if you wanted to know something, you had to memorize it.
They're copyright-free, so they can be freely distributed, and Project Gutenberg has compiled them in one extensive catalog.
Project Gutenberg was one of the first online organizations to offer scanned copies of public domain books.
One of the two volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, for example, sold at a 1987 Christie's auction for more than $5 million.