GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
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Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#2They’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...
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#3They’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...
> It's hard to hold them responsible for picking a name that
violated a policy that didn't yet exist.
fwiw, Gitenberg has been around at least since 2012.
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#4They’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...
They've been named like that for six years apparently so I'm not sure how that works for what you linked above. It is a valid point that hopefully doesn't cause problems.
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#5I don't know why, but I expected some amazing typography in their PDFs. :(
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#6This 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.
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#7This 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.
It's a version controlled dump of Gutenberg.
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#8The 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.
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#9This 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.
"GITenberg is an exploration of how Project Gutenberg might work if all the Gutenberg texts were on Github, so that tools like version control, continuous integration, and pull-request workflow could be employed."
Re: GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain
#10The 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.