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Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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LibriVox ( https://librivox.org/ ) has free audiobooks for many of these public domain books. They're recorded by volunteers, so the quality is a grab bag. Some of them are quite good though. Most recently I listened to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court read by John Greenman ( https://librivox.org/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-co... ) Goofy book, but very entertaining.

LibriVox is great.

As you mentioned, the quality varies, but some are real gems. My personal favorites are the Jeeves stories narrated by Mark Nelson:

https://librivox.org/my-man-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/

https://librivox.org/right-ho-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/

Also, the whole LibriVox collection is uploaded to the Internet Archive (easy to find: it’s one of the top links under the audio tab). IA’s interface is nicer in certain ways than librivox.org due to its options for searching, sorting (e.g., by views), and listening in the browser. https://archive.org/details/librivoxaudio

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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One of my favorite places to get new books to read.

Any recomendation? Please.

Popularity does not always correlate with quality, but Gutenberg’s “Top 100 Downloads” page is worth checking out: https://gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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While it is a great project, posting a link to it is almost like posting a link to Wikipedia.

Funny enough, I never heard of it until yesterday when I was looking to buy a book called "Calculus Made Easy" from Amazon and read a review that mentioned not to buy the book because it was a printed version of the it on Project Gutenberg. I was debating if I should post up the link or not because I did find other posts that mentioned Project Gutenberg on HN when I did a quick search; however, I didn't see any post…

And today's lucky 10 000 are thankful for your doing so.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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I parsed through the Library of Congress digital records to find an out-of-copyright subset, and developed a search engine that is unique in that it is technologically impossible for me to track searches, as the index loads in the page. It has about a million entries.

https://www.locserendipity.com/

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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I parsed through the Library of Congress digital records to find an out-of-copyright subset, and developed a search engine that is unique in that it is technologically impossible for me to track searches, as the index loads in the page. It has about a million entries. https://www.locserendipity.com/

Also this Project Gutenberg randomizer: https://www.locserendipity.com/Gutenberg.html

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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I parsed through the Library of Congress digital records to find an out-of-copyright subset, and developed a search engine that is unique in that it is technologically impossible for me to track searches, as the index loads in the page. It has about a million entries. https://www.locserendipity.com/

Neat trick! I took a look and the page is about 4MB or maybe 8MB, less than 1MB compressed. Smaller than the typical animated ad.

Is there an actual index data structure? What I see on the page is just a bunch of simple <a> links that are linearly scanned. Nothing wrong with that mind you, it seems to work well.

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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I parsed through the Library of Congress digital records to find an out-of-copyright subset, and developed a search engine that is unique in that it is technologically impossible for me to track searches, as the index loads in the page. It has about a million entries. https://www.locserendipity.com/

Neat trick! I took a look and the page is about 4MB or maybe 8MB, less than 1MB compressed. Smaller than the typical animated ad. Is there an actual index data structure? What I see on the page is just a bunch of simple <a> links that are linearly scanned. Nothing wrong with that mind you, it seems to work well.

It’s just simple keyword matching in the order of appearance on the list. I did something similar with the DMOZ directory: https://www.locserendipity.com/DMOZ.html

Also, as an experiment, I developed an auto-summarizer, scraped and summarized all of the edu domains on DMOZ, pared the non-active ones, and the ordered them by the amount of content (more content ranks higher). The result is this search engine: https://www.locserendipity.com/edu.html

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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Such a remarkable and useful project. I had to look this up in Wikipedia; it was started in 1971 (!) by Michael S. Hart. They've never done much for aesthetics or curation. I like https://manybooks.net/ as an alternative. It's mostly Gutenberg sources (with credit) but the site and epub downloads are nicely designed. Although they've gotten pretty spammy. If Sci-Hub is more your speed then Z-Library has 10 million bo…

Wanted to highlight https://standardebooks.org/, another alternative for copyedited Gutenberg texts that is mentioned in other HN comments.

Re: Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks

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Such a remarkable and useful project. I had to look this up in Wikipedia; it was started in 1971 (!) by Michael S. Hart. They've never done much for aesthetics or curation. I like https://manybooks.net/ as an alternative. It's mostly Gutenberg sources (with credit) but the site and epub downloads are nicely designed. Although they've gotten pretty spammy. If Sci-Hub is more your speed then Z-Library has 10 million bo…

Also library genesis, which searches z-library and I guess some other sources. It looks like it’s maybe built on IPFS which seems cool.
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