Free Ebook Foundation
@ebookfoundation • Making the world safe for free ebooks.. Use this route to separate flagship concentration from portfolio breadth before you treat a publisher as broadly strong.
Portfolio concentration
73%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
29 repos
Visible snapshot
2 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
Python
Portfolio mix
Python (10), Unknown (9), JavaScript (5)
Average size
22
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
Updated: 2026-05-14(149d ago)GitHub API fallback29 repositories
73%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
22
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
Python
is the most common language here, with 2 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because one flagship repo drives 59% of its visible star count.
Flagship share 59%Breakout repo: free-programming-books-search
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In Free Ebook Foundation's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 73% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is Python (10), Unknown (9), JavaScript (5). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ebookfoundation/free-programming-books-search | JavaScript | 381 |
| 2 | ebookfoundation/capstone-projects Free Ebook Foundation projects for Stevens Institute of Technology Capstone Projects | 58 | |
| 3 | ebookfoundation/without-a-net Source code for Jessamyn West's 2011 book "Without a Net" | HTML | 38 |
| 4 | ebookfoundation/StandardEbooks-tools The Standard Ebooks toolset for producing ebook files, edited with RoE integration. | Python | 21 |
| 5 | ebookfoundation/river-of-ebooks | JavaScript | 19 |
| 6 | ebookfoundation/free-programming-books-parser | JavaScript | 18 |
| 7 | ebookfoundation/zimgutenberg Scraper for downloading the entire ebooks repository of project Gutenberg | JavaScript | 18 |
| 8 | ebookfoundation/bookshelf-management Application for managing bookshelves on project gutenberg site. | Python | 14 |
| 9 | ebookfoundation/reading-lists Implementing serverless reading lists for project gutenberg site | HTML | 14 |
| 10 | ebookfoundation/readthedocs.org The source code that powers readthedocs.org | Python | 10 |
| 11 | ebookfoundation/alt-text A PyPi package used for finding, generating, and setting alt-text for images in HTML files. The Alt-Text project is developed for the Free Ebook Foundation as a Senior Design Project at Stevens Institute of Technology. | Python | 7 |
| 12 | ebookfoundation/doab-check Link and DB Checker for DOAB | Python | 6 |
| 13 | ebookfoundation/autocat3 CherryPy App that serves dynamic content for Project Gutenberg | Python | 6 |
| 14 | ebookfoundation/regluit-provisioning ansible playbooks for Unglue.it | Shell | 6 |
| 15 | ebookfoundation/oapen-suggestion-service OAPEN Suggestion Service Web Application - SIT Senior Capstone | Python | 5 |
| 16 | ebookfoundation/gutenbergsite The Project Gutenberg Web site, database, and other internals | 5 | |
| 17 | ebookfoundation/bardo-copyright-db Database and search service for copyright records and renewals | Python | 5 |
| 18 | ebookfoundation/thoth-wiki | 4 | |
| 19 | ebookfoundation/alt-text-frontend | JavaScript | 3 |
| 20 | ebookfoundation/cce-search-ansible Ansible setup for deploying the CCE Search Flask app | 3 | |
| 21 | ebookfoundation/pgmarc | Python | 2 |
| 22 | ebookfoundation/alt-text-backend | Python | 2 |
| 23 | ebookfoundation/cce-search-prototype Unofficial, experimental interface to search Catalog of Copyright Entries | CSS | 2 |
| 24 | ebookfoundation/puppeteer-tools | 1 | |
| 25 | ebookfoundation/thoth Metadata management and dissemination system for Open Access books | 1 | |
| 26 | ebookfoundation/donor-calendar FEF supporters get a their own free-ebook-day! | 1 | |
| 27 | ebookfoundation/roe-pressbooks River of Ebooks integration for Pressbooks | PHP | 1 |
| 28 | ebookfoundation/oaipmh Python implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) | 0 | |
| 29 | ebookfoundation/pyoai The oaipmh module is a Python implementation of an "Open Archives$ Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" | 0 |
Next step after the organization read
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How to read this organization snapshot
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