Connection refused when trying to download all books from project gutenberg (wget)

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I am trying to follow Project Gutenberg's guide to downloading all their english books in txt format but I am running into issues. When I run the following command

wget -w 2 -m -H "http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest?filetypes[]=txt&langs[]=en"

my system is unable to connect. I keep getting these errors:

Connecting to aleph.gutenberg.org (aleph.gutenberg.org)|65.50.255.20|:80... failed: Connection refused.

Connecting to aleph.gutenberg.org (aleph.gutenberg.org)|2604:3200:0:3:1618:77ff:fe49:8a7|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.

I believe the error comes from the fact that the mirror "aleph.gutenberg.org" is down. How can I get the command to work (potentially by specifying another mirror to use such as "http://gutenberg.readingroo.ms/" for example).

Thanks.

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