The project was geo-blocked in Germany for a long time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024039
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's interesting. What about the new design prevents you from doing it? Genuinely asking here. We may fix it if it's actionable
And now it's time to put my foot in my mouth. I haven't used it in a while because it was frustrating, but you guys seem to have already fixed it :) The previous version of the site had two major flaws: 1. The search bar had been removed from the top of the page, and hidden behind a "Click here to search" (or similar) link partway down the page 2. Once you opened that page, the coloring of the site was so washed out…
"you guys seem to have already fixed it" - that's what we like to hear :)
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#53Hi! I'm one of the programmers at Gutenberg. We've been improving the site a lot over the past few months (and more is coming!). If you haven't visited the page recently, it's worth checking out again: https://www.gutenberg.org/
There's a minor bug with chrome in android where the menu will not close when you tap outside the menu or on the menu link/button
I've messaged the guy who's best suited to fixing this. He'll be on it this weekend
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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Very cool! Do you have a recommended way for an agent to see an index of the books and epub links? (I can’t quite tell if that’s an egregious abuse of the site or you’re perfectly fine to share without human eye balls hitting your www?)
OPDS?
OPDS 2.0 coming RSN. email us if you want to test.
OPDS 0.x is currently available (not recommended) by adding .opds to the end of a url
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#55Project Gutenberg had (has?) a tendency toward plaintext that always put me off. (And it has been over a decade I'm sure since I explored the site—so I am no doubt now misinformed.) I like a styled formatted book—would prefer PDFs. (I know, not a popular format apparently.) I like the idea of Project Gutenberg but guess I found book scans on archive.org my preference. My go-to example is Lewis Carroll's "Through the…
PDF coming this year.
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#56Recently downloaded Moby Dick from here:) very easy to use
Moby Dick is consistently one of the Top Downloads
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#57Project Gutenberg had (has?) a tendency toward plaintext that always put me off. (And it has been over a decade I'm sure since I explored the site—so I am no doubt now misinformed.) I like a styled formatted book—would prefer PDFs. (I know, not a popular format apparently.) I like the idea of Project Gutenberg but guess I found book scans on archive.org my preference. My go-to example is Lewis Carroll's "Through the…
The common issue with PDFs is that e-readers generally have terrible support for them.
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#58Project Gutenberg had (has?) a tendency toward plaintext that always put me off. (And it has been over a decade I'm sure since I explored the site—so I am no doubt now misinformed.) I like a styled formatted book—would prefer PDFs. (I know, not a popular format apparently.) I like the idea of Project Gutenberg but guess I found book scans on archive.org my preference. My go-to example is Lewis Carroll's "Through the…
As others here have mentioned, https://standardebooks.org/ is excellent and my understanding is that they use Gutenberg books as a source for theirs but done up much nicer.
You can contribute to Standard Ebooks by finding OCR errors, then pushing your fixes to https://github.com/standardebooks
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#59Hi! I'm one of the programmers at Gutenberg. We've been improving the site a lot over the past few months (and more is coming!). If you haven't visited the page recently, it's worth checking out again: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Great Work. Thank you. I'm also a programmer. If you are ever short on help, let me know. I would love to contribute.
https://github.com/gutenbergtools
autocat3 and gutenbergsite are repos responsible for generating gutenberg.org
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#60PG remains one of the best things on the internet. The amount of fascinating material almost beggers belief.