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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Joshua Hutchinson 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Marcello Perathoner 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

David A. Desrosiers wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Paulo Levi<i30817(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> So, i like to know how from the etext1802 number can i get a working url to >> download the book, and how to construct variants for each format. > > I do something very similar on the Plucker "samples" page: > > http://www.plkr.org/samples > > I check HEAD on each resource (using an intelligent caching mechanism > on my side), and then either present a working link, or a striked-out > link, depending on whether the format is available or not. That seems an horrible waste of resources seeing that you only need to scan the rdf file to see what files we have.

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Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg
by Greg Newby 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:17:23PM -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Greg Newby<gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> wrote: > > A more general approach would be to let visitors to www.gutenberg.org > > put their selected files (including those generated on-the-fly) > > on a bookshelf (i.e., shopping cart), then download in one big file, > > or several small ones. > > If you're looking at it at that level, why not just offer some > streaming audio of the books as well? You could do this very simply > with any number of dozens of dynamic content streaming applications in > whatever language you choose (Perl, PHP, Python, Java, etc.) This is a good point. I don't know why we don't have streaming, especially since iBiblio does have streaming (I think). If you could suggest some software that seems likely to work on the iBiblio server (Apache, PHP, Perl all on Linux; free), especially that could just be dropped into bibrec.php that I sent earlier, that would be a tremendous help. The funny part is that I get inquiries all the time via help@ on "how do I save an audio file locally?" It seems the most common audio listening experience is to download & play back (perhaps with a delay for the download to complete), so people are doing the same thing as streaming (i.e., immediate listening), but needing to wait for the download to complete. It would be nice to offer streaming, instead. -- Greg > I actually used one to demo for a DJ/Amtrak train conductor several > months back. He wanted a way to pull the tags/artists out of his > enormous mp3 collection, and in 15 minutes on the train (with 'net), I > found one that would let him "radio-enable" his entire mp3 collection, > including a web interface to stream, play, download, view, sort, > browse all of the artists by collection, tag, album art, date, etc. > all in Perl. > > It should be a simple matter to have something similar latched onto > the Gutenberg audio collection, so anyone can click on the audiobook > to either download, stream, convert, etc. the book in whatever format > they prefer. > > Just an idea...

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!@! Gutenberg's 25,000th English eBook
by Michael S. Hart 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

As of today: 24902 English We are asking for suggestions for #25,000!!! We probably have just over 10 days. . . . Thanks!!! Michael

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25,000th English eBook
by Michael S. Hart 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

As of today: 24879 in English At our usual rate of progress we should reach #25,000 sometime this month. Have we created a list of possible candidates yet? Suggestions welcome. Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg

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eBook readers for Linux desktop
by Greg Newby 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Nice article I encountered. It's PDF online, but I actually got the dead trees edition :) Collabora, GutenPY and FBReader are all featured. http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2009/104/FRESH-FROM-THE-PRESS -- Greg

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1984 and Animal Farm
by Michael S. Hart 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Does anyone know about how many Kindle copies were erased? thanks!!! Michael

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