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December 2015

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[KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline
by Emmanuel Engelhart 17 May '17

17 May '17

Hi, The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre…. We also provide a few language specific versions here http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg. This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet) and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org) This allows anybody with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on your network, they only need a web browser. In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site: http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/ Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use it already for its own deployments in Africa. The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of the Project Gutenberg. We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Offering technology to power better typography for Project Gutenberg
by Florian Rivoal 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Hi, Not sure I'm writing to the right place, but previous attempts at different addresses didn't work out. My name is Florian, and I work at http://www.vivliostyle.com I think the incredible collection of books the Gutenberg project has collected over the years is a great treasure, and would like to make a little contribution to the project, not in the form of additional books, but in terms of software improve the online reading experience, making the Gutenberg project more accessible to readers. My company is building a javascript engine that can augment what browsers can do in terms of layout and typography, with a focus on paged media and other typographical features usually more associated with print and PDFs than with the web. It can be used to power an in-browser paginated (but still responsive) view of the document, or to generate PDFs with rich typography. I've made a basic demo to showcase the in-browser paginated experience. http://florian.rivoal.net/demos/gutenberg/ We would be happy to provide this to the Gutenberg Project royalty free and to work with you to set it up. Is this the right place to discuss this idea? Best regards, -- Florian RIVOAL 取締役、Chief Commercial Officer Vivliostyle

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