The available content has been used in loads of different applications, from text analysis, to linguistics libraries, to spam detection. There's a lot of valua

The available content has been used in loads of different applications, from text analysis, to linguistics libraries, to spam detection. There's a lot of valuable information there, but it's not easy to get at it. A public API with text search would accelerate opportunities for new applications to be built on top of the text. As for myself, I find the Project Gutenberg site to be a bit clunky, so a public API would allow someone to build a wrapper around the metadata and content. In my mind, a Project Gutenberg reader with full text-search and Medium-style paragraph comments would be a great resource.