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My Condolences!

Yes please! I think it's just kinda weird that this hasn't been done yet.

hopefully!

Interesting. Do you "just" use the browser's built-in capabilities or also some browser extensions?

exciting :)

nice!

in which way? (genuine question)

not that I know of ...

this is so great to hear! Distributed proofreaders (the org that actually does transcriptions) is still looking for volunteer should you feel the urge/inclination :) https://www.pg…

PG works based on US copyright law. And as I understand it that's also 70 years after author/translator death. My gut feeling is that if anyone tried hard enough this ban could pro…

good question. Eric - any pointers?

I believe our new-ish CEO Eric Hellman actually did some work on something very similar

you can open an Issue at https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite

I asked Claude to research the background story: "In May 2020, the Court of Rome ordered Italian ISPs to seize/block a list of domains as part of a criminal case (the 52127/20 R.N.…

That's an interesting idea. not a small feat to accomplish though ...

we are having occasional lows in page speed performance due to LARGE amounts of bot traffic. full disclosure - we've not really been able to resolve this fully/well. Let us know if…

just heard back that the server provider has been doing a security update. Maybe you were one of the users that got unlucky as a result... maybe try later if still interested

Interesting!

Flatland: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=flatland I've heard good things. Also - Sherlock Holmes :)

I'm getting "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server." if I go to the link

that would be great! Sadly I'm not very confident that that will actually happen ...

so maybe Karpathy has a point that LLM-assisted reading should be a thing. Would be cool if that worked on E-Reader screens as well. Maybe when the browsers on E-Readers become goo…

I've reported it.

that's cool! one of my "pet-ideas" is actually to make an AI-agent that does all that typographical work for any PG book to make it nicely printable without any manual labor whatso…

bot traffic would be my guess too. I doubt there was a sudden global spike in interest in "Concrete Construction Methods" :D