The Panchatantra is (to quote Wikipedia) "an ancient Indian work of political philosophy, in the form of a collection of interrelated animal fables”. There’s nothing on Gutenberg but I did find this good quality transcription on Wikisource: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Panchatantra_(Purnabhadra%27s_Recensio… (see also archive.org scans: https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryder ). While this translation was published in the US in 1925 the wikisource link claims no copyright was renewed on the text. Sure enough, a quick search on the Stanford copyright renewal database doesn’t throw anything up.
Is this something Gutenberg would consider adding? If I wanted to verify lapse of copyright is there a more formal process I could undertake?
Thanks!
-Robin
I was looking at search results tonight - and noticed that the "navigation
bar" (for lack of an accurate term) jumps around. By "navigation bar" I
mean the thing that looks like
"Displaying results 551-575 | First
<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date> |
Previous
<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date&start_inde
x=526> | Next
<https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date&start_inde
x=576> "
When you move from pate to page it jumps up or down depending upon how much
content, especially image content, there is on a page. I think it would be
better for this particular part of navigation to be placed somewhere above
the books, in the same place, to make it easier for people to move forward
and backward through the pages. This might also help with mobile or tablet
devices but I haven't tried that out (yet). In any event it ought to be a
very small tweak
Tim Hare
Interest Bystander, Non-Inc.
Hello, I just joined this list but I'm interested in this current thread.
What is the goal of moving to these static HTML pages / directories? Is it
to eliminate the processing time necessary to generate these files with the
current back-end processing? Seems you will be (possibly) using more disk
space - a trade-off which may be worth it, I'm not arguing against it - to
save CPU time?
I need to understand more - What is currently stored for each book? Is it
stored in all of the formats at
http://aleph.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/56843/ or are those created at the
time someone requests them?
In https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56843/ what's the difference between the
-0 zip and the -h zip?
Tim Hare
Tallahassee, FL
Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.
