Is it possible to download books from project Gutenberg to your own PC? If it is, how to do that?

Almost anywhere. Google “Project Gutenberg” and go straight to their website.

They offer most books in a half dozen different formats, all for free and all downloadable.

@elbanditoroso I did go to their website and found the book I want to download.
The thing is, I can’t find any link there to download it on the PC.
It only gives me links to Drive, Cloud and Dropbox. I can access those only if I sign up, and when I try that, my mail is “invalid”. I managed to send it to my Drive, but then I can’t download it on the comp for some reason.
What they offer me is Kindle and EPUB versions of the text.

Can you download the kindle for PC app?

Which book do you want?

@Stinley Just tried it. I downloaded the setup, but when I run it, it installs it and the icon shows up and all, but it won’t open the program.
I tried downloading the kindle version to see what will happen, but it only sent it to Drive, and from there on, it won’t open it, nor download further. I set it up to send it on the desktop and there is nothing in here.

I’ve no idea what to do anymore.

@Lightlyseared This: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41931

If you click on “more files” there is a link to a .text format.

For what it’s worth Amazon offers a free Kindle for PC app that allows you to read Kindle format books on your computer. You could try that.

@Sneki95 I seem to remember you are not in USA or UK. Is the problem with the download, of Kindle, the country you live in maybe?

@Tropical_Willie brings up a fair point. Copyright laws can vary from country to country, so things that are public domain in one country may still be under copyright (and thus not available on something like Project Gutenberg) in another country.

With that said, the US has some of, if not the, most restrictive copyright laws on the planet, so if a work is public domain here, then chances are it’s public domain anywhere.

Just download the file and google EPUB reader software for PC. There are a lot of free softwares out there that can open your file.

It worked, finally. I managed to install EPUB reader somehow.

Thanks, y’all, for trying to help me.

Or you could do what we used to do when there were no other options but HTML.

Hit and open the HTML page to the document.

Press [Control]+A (Select All)

Press [Control]+C (Copy)

Open a fresh word.doc

Press [Control]+V (Paste)

Press [Control]+S (Save)

And there’s your book.

I usually delete everything above the title and below the last sentence of the book in order to… well because I’m a freak about document tidiness and hate shit that has nothing to do with the book.

I also hyperlink the title with the page I got the book from.

I still do this sometimes because I find the search, copy and paste are easier with Word than in Pdfs or EPub. It usually comes out in the same format, whereas with Pdfs and EPub it often doesn’t and reformatting is a bitch. It also comes in handy when you are searching for a particular section and want to cite/quote from the text into a forum, which are usually HTML formats and are Word reciprocal.