I'm slightly curious how PG handles heavily illustrated books. I've downloaded some years ago, and the quality of the illustrations was always pretty poor. Has it been improved lately? What's the QA like for illustrations?
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
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Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#62Nice to see so much appreciation for what we do. (I'm the new-ish executive director.) Any wikipedians reading this, the article about PG is... aging. Last I looked, it said we offered Plucker files. @Jseiko has done some nice work.
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#63While PG has probably gotten a lot of use and growth with the growth/maintreaming of the Internet since the 1990s, (TIL) it started back in 1971: > Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitization of the United States Declaration of Independence.[5] Hart, a student at the University of Illinois, obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. […]…
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#64I'm surprised no eBook Reader vendor has a Project Gutenberg "Store." Where you can just browse Gutenberg, find a book, and just grab it down to the reader. Instead, they either are actively hostile (Kindle), or require the use of Calibre (which itself is good, it is just the friction).
Used to be one could sort of get that with the Project Librivox:
e-book app Gutebooks (in addition to their audio app), but it seems to have been deprecated (I'm no longer able to connect to the server on my copy (which I only got 'cause there was an in-app purchase to fund Project Librivox).
FWIW, Barnes & Noble has been plundering the public domain using a book composition/keying house in the Philippines to make their public domain books which they make available in their stores --- Amazon apparently has a similar setup for the Kindle Store:
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Domain-Books-Kindle-Store/s?k=...
Rather a shame that PG didn't monetize by putting their books up there pre-emptively.
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#65Gutenberg is awesome. There is also
https://www.fadedpage.com/ from Canada I think
https://runeberg.org/ from Sweden
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#66I'm surprised no eBook Reader vendor has a Project Gutenberg "Store." Where you can just browse Gutenberg, find a book, and just grab it down to the reader. Instead, they either are actively hostile (Kindle), or require the use of Calibre (which itself is good, it is just the friction).
You can download books directly from the Project Gutenberg website using the web browser on most eBook readers - even the Kindle supports it.
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#67Their feeds of new books is a goldmine: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/feeds.html Every day you'll get much more than you're bargaining for, right into your feed or inbox. Easy download books you're interested in and put them on your Kindle.
I used to use the Online Books Page new books listing similarly:
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#68I find it interesting that the context of this comments page apparently overrides the normal definition of “PG” on HN.
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#69PG remains one of the best things on the internet. The amount of fascinating material almost beggers belief.
the amount of weird/interesting stuff that one would find nowhere else is possibly the coolest aspect of PG imo
Re: Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#70I find it interesting that the context of this comments page apparently overrides the normal definition of “PG” on HN.
:D