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Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by sethish » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 3:07 PM UTC

maire wrote: post #6

This looks like a subset of Project Gutenberg? The Girl from Alsace in Gitenberg: https://www.gitenberg.org/book/35926 The Girl from Alsace in Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35926 The numbers are even the same which seems suspicious. Hmmm.

Yes, absolutely. Apologies if that's not clear from the website. GITenberg started as an experimental fork of PG, but due to the work of Eric Hellman at the Free Ebook Foundation, much of the infrastructure such as metadata formats, CI/CD for building books, and DVCS backend are being ported upstream to the Project Gutenberg infrastructure.

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by sethish » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

hnarayanan wrote: post #5

I don't know why, but I expected some amazing typography in their PDFs. :(

[Standard Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/) has accomplished a lot in producing better ebooks of public domain texts.

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by sethish » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

You might be more familiar with another project the Free Ebook Foundation maintains: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ Which is one of the top-10 repos on github by number of stars.

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by sethish » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 3:15 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #2

They’re probably going to have to change their name to something that does not have “git” in it: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by maire » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

sethish wrote: post #11

maire wrote: post #6

This looks like a subset of Project Gutenberg? The Girl from Alsace in Gitenberg: https://www.gitenberg.org/book/35926 The Girl from Alsace in Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35926 The numbers are even the same which seems suspicious. Hmmm.

Yes, absolutely. Apologies if that's not clear from the website. GITenberg started as an experimental fork of PG, but due to the work of Eric Hellman at the Free Ebook Foundation, much of the infrastructure such as metadata formats, CI/CD for building books, and DVCS backend are being ported upstream to the Project Gutenberg infrastructure.

Thanks for the clarification!

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

sethish wrote: post #14

koolba wrote: post #2

They’re probably going to have to change their name to something that does not have “git” in it: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.

I propose Gytenberg

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by thangalin » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

I wrote a technical comparison between various public domain eBook projects:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by artiszt » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 5:06 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #16

sethish wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gitenberg was one of the alternate spellings of Gutenberg in the 1400s.

I propose Gytenberg

or, widely accepted standard [in german and slavic-languages] way back then, 'v' instead of 'u', and vice versa

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by bilinualcom » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 5:07 PM UTC

sethish wrote: post #10

gravitas wrote: post #8

The https://standardebooks.org/ project has been rebuilding ebooks (open ePUB format) with an eye on quality and readability on mobiles/tablets (fonts, copyedit, etc.) which might be of interest, all books and the website revision are tracked in git.

I'm a big fan of standardebooks! They're doing fantastic work producing better ebooks from Project Gutenberg sources.

OP here, I found this website when I was looking for a way to get the updated version (with correction) of a PG (Project Gutenberg) book and all changes/diffs from the point that I scrape the book from PG website for my language learning side project: https://www.bilinual.com

The bilinual Project also rebuild ebooks (modern HTML, PDF and open ePUB format) with better quality and readability( while it is not its prime goal). Take a look at one example here:

https://www.bilinual.com/book/18043sven/sv/en#line=68&lpp=23 https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.pdf https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.epub

Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

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Post by bilinualcom » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

sethish wrote: post #12

hnarayanan wrote: post #5

I don't know why, but I expected some amazing typography in their PDFs. :(

[Standard Ebooks]( https://standardebooks.org/ ) has accomplished a lot in producing better ebooks of public domain texts.

OP here, it seems standardebooks doesn't provide the books in PDF format. My side project, https://www.bilinual.com rebuild the ebooks in PDF format with translation hints, if you don't mind about learning a new language while reading your favourite books ;)