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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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Re: [Fwd: Re: someone needs to (fwd)] (fwd)
by Greg Newby 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Forwarding from Brewster Kahle: > From: Brewster Kahle <brewster(a)archive.org> > To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird(a)aol.com > CC: "Michael S. Hart" <hart(a)pglaf.org>, John Guagliardo <john(a)gutenberg.cc> > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] someone needs to (fwd) > > > bowerbird-- > > some very active volunteers have been taking the downloadeable pdf's > from google's site and uploading them to the archive. the archive > stores these, OCR's them to make them searchable, and if someone wants > the pdf-- points them back to google. > > we would like to see more of this. if there are volunteers to expand > this program, we would like to play our part. > > -brewster > > > > Michael S. Hart wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:00:16 EDT >> From: Bowerbird(a)aol.com >> Reply-To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> >> To: gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org, Bowerbird(a)aol.com >> Subject: [gutvol-d] someone needs to >> >> someone needs to remount independently the scan-set from >> every single public-domain book that google has scanned... >> >> might that be project gutenberg? >> >> if not, then someone else needs to do it. >> >> because it needs to be done... >> >> those books don't belong to google, or to sony, or to >> barnes & noble, or to anyone else that google decides >> to share them with. those books belong to the public. >> >> -bowerbird

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brewster kahle responds -- someone needs to (fwd)
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

michael hart forwarded my post to brewster kahle, who responded: > bowerbird-- > > some very active volunteers have been taking the downloadable > pdf's from google's site and uploading them to the archive. > the archive stores these, OCR's them to make them searchable, > and if someone wants the pdf-- points them back to google. > > we would like to see more of this. if there are volunteers > to expand this program, we would like to play our part. > > -brewster i admit the internet archive has fallen off my radar somewhat -- ever since i was banned from their listserves because i had the temerity to continue complaining about their o.c.r. flaws -- but i should have remembered that they are indeed remounting google's public-domain scans, and deserve kudos for doing so. so thank you, brewster, and internet archive. "universal access to knowledge" has always appealed to me, by virtue of its deep simplicity, but i find that more and more, lately, brewster, i am chagrined that google has subverted it... instead of a global library, we're getting a global book-store... and "free to all" increasingly means "dig out your wallet"... -bowerbird ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=htt… bcd=JulyExcfooterNO62)

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someone needs to
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

someone needs to remount independently the scan-set from every single public-domain book that google has scanned... might that be project gutenberg? if not, then someone else needs to do it. because it needs to be done... those books don't belong to google, or to sony, or to barnes & noble, or to anyone else that google decides to share them with. those books belong to the public. -bowerbird ************** Hot Deals at Dell on Popular Laptops perfect for Back to School (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1223106546x1201717234/aol?redir=htt…)

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