Personally, I think that if you're going to get a copy of all of the Gutenberg ebooks for your ePub ereader, you're better off downloading the .epub files, and installing them on the ereader because they will usually have real formatting (i.e., italics, bold, etc), and the epub file will contain the author and name of the book so Calibre and your ereader will pick it up automatically. I've used rsync to get epubs with images for the entire Gutenberg library with this command
Code:
rsync -av --delete --delete-during --size-only --progress --filter '+ */' --filter '+ *images.epub' --filter '- *' ftp@ftp.ibiblio.org::gutenberg-epub gutenberg_epubs
At Gutenberg, they have two .epub and two .mobi files, and if there aren't any images for the ebook, the two .epub (or .mobi) files will be the same.
To get the no-image .epubs, use
Code:
rsync -av --delete --delete-during --size-only --progress --filter '+ */' --filter '+ *[0-9].epub' --filter '- *' ftp@ftp.ibiblio.org::gutenberg-epub gutenberg_epubs
And to get the .mobi files for kindle, replace .epub with .mobi.
Be aware that Gutenberg regenerates their ebooks regularly, so if you run this rsync command, you may get a lot more downloads than you expect.
I have not run this on Windows, so I don't know which rsync programs are good, but if you're comfortable with Unix, you could install Cygwin and use its rsync.