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Question about book pages
by Tim Hare 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

On a book information page, there are options for DropBox, Google Drive, and OneDrive - but no option to e-mail it? If I could choose to e-mail it (even if it only allowed the email I signed in with), I could forward (or send) it to the e-mail address of my Kindle. Tim Hare Tallahassee, FL

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Has there been a recent change to the https://upload.pglaf.org/ app?
by Rick Tonsing 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

The time between the upload finishing at https://upload.pglaf.org/ with a confirmation message that the upload was successful and the email confirmation has increased significantly in the past few weeks. The one I just submitted took 8 minutes between the confirmation screen and the same message arriving in my inbox. I had one earlier today which took about 15 minutes. The time used to be typically about 1 minute with a very few as long as two minutes. I would assume that sending the email would have coincided (give or take a delay of a second or two) with the confirmation screen on pglaf since the confirmation states that the file was received and processing was complete. Cheers, Rick

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Rick Tonsing 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

I tried several items in the Quick Search. I was occasionally surprised by the search results as the books initially appeared to be unrelated but the search terms were always listed somewhere in the "Bibliographic Record". The advanced search is slightly puzzling. Subject: As expected, this appears to search the subject fields of the Bibliographic Record. For example, "Standard Oil" appeared in the subject lines of all four books. One of the books (17090) includes the contents in the Title field (see Screenshot_2020-01-17 Project Gutenberg.png). [After mentioning this I've noticed that the same issue exists with many of the books.] Title: Oddly book 17090 was included in the title results despite neither word actually appears in the title. Probably due to the title + contents conflation previously mentioned. And the third book (54399) was unexpected but the words did appear in the title of the book, just not in that order. So it immediately occurred to me to search for "Standard Oil" with the quotes. "No record found. Please retry." I expected to see 60692 in the results. But the Help screen does say avoid punctuation characters so it probably works as designed. I noticed that the tab results always says "Search on Titles" (see Capture.png) even though the selected search did not include a search item in the Title field. It could be difficult to decide which should appear so I suggest use the first field from the top. For example, if an Author search term is included then always have the title say "Search on Authors". Cheers, Rick

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Rick Tonsing 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Greg, Odd. I'm not seeing the Google ads today. Return and [Google Search] give the same results. No results for sites other than gutenberg.org. Perhaps the Yahoo fix altered something. If someone else can replicate my original findings then perhaps add the following to the Help: Google may include ads for other sites if one presses the return key. And no ads if one clicks the [Google Search] button. I should have mentioned that [DuckDuckGo Search] and Return results are also restricted to the gutenberg.org as expected. The Yahoo search gives similar results with the Return or [Yahoo! Search]. The left side search results are restricted to gutenberg.org. (I saw a single ad at the bottom on the first test but it was not repeatable). The right side results occasionally include a Wikipedia article related to the search but I doubt this is within your control. If the quote is from a single book then all three search engines return the work most related to the search at the top. If the search is, for example, a quote from Shakespeare then there is a medley of books and there are differences in the order displayed. I do not use an adblocker but I do use the EFF's apps "Privacy Badger" and "HTTPS Everywhere" on Firefox. Cheers, Rick On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:00 PM <gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org> wrote: > Send gutvol-d mailing list submissions to > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > gutvol-d-request(a)lists.pglaf.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gutvol-d-owner(a)lists.pglaf.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gutvol-d digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org > (Greg Newby) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> > To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:00:18 -0800 > Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Public beta of new website at > https://dev.gutenberg.org > Yahoo is fixed - sorry for the delay. > > I'm not seeing what you are seeing with Google, probably due to my ad > blocker. If you are pretty sure about this behavior (could others > confirm?), what text might I add to the "Help" pop-up? > > Thanks! > - Greg > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 01:08:47PM -0800, Rick Tonsing wrote: > > Tried the Full Text Search: > > > > Yahoo is a 404 error that wants fixing. > > > > Google includes ads if one presses the return key. No ads if one clicks > > the [Google Search] button. Probably not in your control but a short > > mention next to Google might be in order. > > > > DuckDuckGo gives the same results with the return key and with the > > [DuckDuckGoSearch] button. > > > > Other than the ads bit, both Google & DuckDuckGogave good text search > > results. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rick > > > _______________________________________________ > > gutvol-d mailing list > > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > > https://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/options/gutvol-d > > > _______________________________________________ > gutvol-d mailing list > gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org > https://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d >

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Rick Tonsing 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Tried the Full Text Search: Yahoo is a 404 error that wants fixing. Google includes ads if one presses the return key. No ads if one clicks the [Google Search] button. Probably not in your control but a short mention next to Google might be in order. DuckDuckGo gives the same results with the return key and with the [DuckDuckGoSearch] button. Other than the ads bit, both Google & DuckDuckGogave good text search results. Cheers, Rick

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set digest off
by Rick Tonsing 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Rick Tonsing 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

It would be helpful if the advanced search results were sorted. I did an advanced search for Stevenson, Robert Louis as the author. The list of 118 books looks semi-random. Cheers, Rick

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Rick Tonsing 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Top 100 Authors last 30 days <http://dev.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#authors-last30> <http://dev.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#authors-last30> 1. Dickens, Charles (119769) <http://dev.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a37> 2. Widger, David (80758) <http://dev.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a1961> I did not realize that #2 David Widger was such a popular author. Is this an error or real? Cheers, Rick

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Public beta of new website at https://dev.gutenberg.org
by Greg Newby 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Visit https://dev.gutenberg.org/ and see the "new website" page for details. I will be happy to have your input and, as desired & appropriate, contributions. Best, Greg

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UTF-8 File Names
by Rick Tonsing 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

The subject of file names with xxxx-lt1.txt or xxxx-lat1.txt for Latin-1 and the xxxx-utf8.txt for UTF-8 text files came up in a DP forum <https://www.pgdp.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=1189531#p1189531>. The gist of the discussion (as I see it) is that we select the file type on the direct upload screen. Do we even need an indicator of the file type in the file name? If so, then do we need both? UTF8 is be the default so xxxx.txt without the (-UTF8) should be sufficient for UTF-8 files. The -lt1 or -lat1 could remain the backup signal that the file needs to go through the upconvert program to UTF-8. Cheers, Rick

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