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Cumulative download statistics
by jon.a＠hursts.eclipse.co.uk 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

In answer to my own (lazy) question, plus a couple of unasked ones: * The 1000 most downloaded titles account for 41% of total downloads. * The 10000 most downloaded titles account for 80% of total downloads. * 50% of total downloads are accounted for by the first 1800 most downloaded titles. Graph here if you are interested: http://www.hursts.eclipse.co.uk/pg-cumulative-downloads.pdf

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Quick question (hopefully)
by jon.a＠hursts.eclipse.co.uk 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi all, I was just wondering what percentage of PG downloads are accounted for by the top 1000 downloads. Is there anyone on this list able to generate this statistic? Many thanks Jon

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procedures for blah, blah for blah and blah
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

if you ignore the non-book entries, and combine the split-up e-texts, you'll find there are ~30,000 books in the project gutenberg library now. with a light-markup master-source making auxiliary formats on-demand, storage needs would be less than now, as would be the costs of maintenance. and user-satisfaction would skyrocket. this is only a hard job for y'all because _you_are_doing_it_wrong._ end of post. -bowerbird

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Metadata for original publication date?
by Steve White 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hi, I've not found the right way to include the date of the original publication in e-book metadata, particularly in EPUB books. The Dublin Core has lots of other dates, but they're thinking in terms of updates to modern documents, not a re-published historical document. Of course, to a user, the original publication date of the historical documents of Project Gutenberg is likely to be of greater importance than the most recent publication date. Any ideas?

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Fwd: Fw: [DP-announce] DP: Site Outage - 11-Sep-2012
by Greg Newby 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

FYI. I've also heard that updates were posted here, during the main DP site outage: http://blog.pgdp.net ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: "dphelp(a)pgdp.net" <dphelp(a)pgdp.net> >To: dp-announce(a)pgdp.net >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:06 AM >Subject: [DP-announce] DP: Site Outage - 11-Sep-2012 > >The morning of Sept. 11, DP had an incident with a client IP that had an >unusually large number of web server connections open. That incident was >resolved without issue. > >As part of our response, the database server was stopped (a common >preventative measure if there is a chance of data being siphoned off) and >later restarted. However, during the normal startup checks, the db >determined that repairs were needed on the past_tallies table, one of the >largest on the system. This check could not be interrupted. > >It was determined that the fastest recovery time would be achieved by >shutting down almost all server processes (including web access and mail >services) and allowing the db to have the maximum resources available to >perform its work. > >The process of repairing the past_tallies table was a long one, but it and >all other mysql checks completed successfully. The post-recovery checklist >was completed just before 11 p.m. server time (PDT) on Sept. 12 and we >have returned to normal operations. > >All should now be well. If not, please report issues in the "Site Outage - >11-Sep-2012" thread: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=51975 > >Thank you for your patience while this issue was being resolved. > > >Distributed Proofreaders >www.pgdp.net > >_______________________________________________ >DP-announce mailing list >DP-announce(a)pgdp.net >http://www.pgdp.net/mailman/listinfo/dp-announce > > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Can't connect to DP-US (Sept 12/2012)
by Al Haines 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

Connection to DP-US appears to be down. Anyone out there with more information about this? Al

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Raft of New Kindles Announced
by James Adcock 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

http://www.amazon.com/kindle

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Reminder: efestivalofwords.com, this weekend (gbn interview: Sunday)
by Greg Newby 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

This weekend: "The eFestival of Words is the first virtual book fair dedicated to highlighting independent and small press ebook publishers. The fair will feature a variety of panels, workshops, Author Q & A chats, a virtual vendor hall, and other special events. The festival is free to attend and will be held August 17th-19th." http://www.efestivalofwords.com/ I'll be hosting an informal guest chat on Sunday, July 17. It was originally scheduled for 11am EDT, but is supposed to move to 10:30 am. They have some other interesting chat subjects, and guests. Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive and Director Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation www.gutenberg.org A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with EIN 64-6221541 gbnewby(a)pglaf.org

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Self.Gutenberg.org (Month of July)
by John Guagliardo, World Public Library 06 Aug '12

06 Aug '12

Dear GutVol-D, Thank you everyone for spreading the word about the new Self.Gutenberg.orgsite. The site has gotten off to a great start. For the first month have had about 100 new books published. We have received an average of about 3 new submissions for publication a day. My guess is about half of them were non-English books. I was pleasantly surprised that so many were International languages. We will be adjusting the site accordingly, and adding a Sort by Language option on the Advanced Search page. The most popular Categories for July's submissions was Education and Poetry. If anyone would like to help out with the Self.Gutenberg.org site, we could use some help with making comments and reviews for books on the site. Thank you again for every ones help. Best regards, John ***************************************** John Guagliardo, Ph.D Director, World Public Library P.O. Box 22687 Honolulu, Hawaii 96823 Office (808) 292-2068 John(a)WorldLibrary.net World Public Library Promoting literacy and access. www.WorldLibrary.net

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Re: [gutvol-d] greg, can you help me mount a mirro
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

greg said: > If you just want a good subset to work with > and don't have a lotta bandwidth, > I could ship you a drive. i'm good on the bandwidth. (especially since i will be _receiving_, right? or is there something that i'm not grokking?) nevertheless, that's an intriguing offer, because then i could ship that drive on to someone else, who can do the same... so we'd eventually have a ton of mirrors. and if the drive was to be sent to an i.s.p. -- such as dreamhost or hostmonster -- i'm assuming the contents could be copied over to a good number of different accounts, for a small price, without any further shipping. many of these i.s.p. offer unlimited bandwidth and storage for less than $100/year these days. so i'll think about it. this is all in a planning stage right now, so i will post again later when things start to go in play, but i think i'm good for now. thank you, greg... -bowerbird p.s. but you can put me in at a $20-$40 pledge if someone executes this as a communal project.

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