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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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50000, a message from greg newby
by bowerbird 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

a message from greg newby: ================== John Gutenberg First Master Printer, His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death by Franz von Dingelstedt http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/0/0/50000 Project Gutenberg is thrilled to achieve the milestone of eBook #50,000. In honor of Project Gutenberg's founder, Michael S. Hart, a special title was selected. "John Gutenberg, First Master Printer, His Acts, and most remarkable Discourses, and his Death" is now available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50000 J. Gutenberg is best known for introducing mechanical movable type printing to Europe. This brought about a revolution in printing, which was a key event in shaping today's information and knowlege-based society. Michael Hart pioneered the e-book in 1971 and his cyber-library became his life's major calling. He named it "Project Gutenberg," to recognize the impact of J. Gutenberg, and in anticipation of electronic books helping to transform societies by bringing cost-free literature to people everywhere. Free literature, and the freedom of thought and freedom of expression which it fosters, is key to growth of literacy, opportunity, and enlightenment. You can read more about Michael Hart at: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart or in this Wikipedia article: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart To join in celebrating the great gift of free literature, please read a book. Or share a book. Or a collection of books. Michael was proud of all efforts to give books. On behalf of Michael Hart, and of Project Gutenberg, my huge thanks and appreciation to all the volunteers who have helped to achieve this milestone. I invite you to join Distributed Proofreaders at http://www.pgdp.net, to assist in digitizing future Project Gutenberg eBooks. This message is granted to the public domain by its author, Dr. Gregory B. Newby.

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50000
by bowerbird 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

so it looks like today will be the day. unless it's delayed until tomorrow... congratulations to all the volunteers. thank you for making the world better. -bowerbird

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150 to 50,000
by bowerbird 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

roughly 150 items before the library reaches 50,000. can't you feel the excitement from the bristling activity here! your project misses you, michael... -bowerbird p.s. thanks to the volunteers who brought us to this point at this time.

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Problems with rsyncing with the project gutenberg main server
by Jared Buck 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Hi all. I am having some problems using rsync with the main PG rsync server. I keep getting timed out or disconnected with the following errors: rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at io.c(785) [receiver=3.1.1] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (483943 bytes received so far) [generator] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [generator=3.1.1] I've been using this rsync command right now with the advice of the ibiblio.org people who maintain the server for us: rsync -av --delete --delete-during --progress ftp.ibiblio.org::gutenberg/ /cygdrive/e/gutenberg/ I am not sure what is causing these errors. I know the commands mean the connection closed on my end for some strange reason. I did not have any issues using rsync on my old windows 7 computer (I got a new machine for my birthday last month that has UEFI firmware installed on it, making dual booting into Linux for a faster rsync experience nearly impossible). So I am stick using cygwin's rsync distribution here on windows 10. I have been talking with the ibiblio folks via their forums, but it would be a lot easier if someone who is actually with PG who knows rsync well could help me. Jared --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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