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New ebookmaker for testing
by Greg Newby 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

I made a DP forum posting for this topic: https://www.pgdp.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=68280 Here is what I submitted: For those who test DP productions prior to final upload at https://upload.pglaf.org : With thanks to Eric Hellman, one of our programmers, there is now a new updated version of ebookmaker (previously known as epubmaker). If you notice any problems, please email me: gbnewby(a)pglaf.org or, if it is more of a feature request, submit an issue to the tracker here: https://github.com/gutenbergtools/ebookmaker The new version is here: https://ebookmaker2.pglaf.org After some testing, we will do two things: 1. Update https://ebookmaker.pglaf.org (and variations) to point to the new version. 2. Replace the production version on www.gutenberg.org to use the new version for all new uploads. Depending on whether problems are encountered, this change might occur in a week or so. Or, we might need a longer testing period. We will then gradually run the new version on the previous eBooks (i.e., #1-#60000something). For the most part, this new version of ebookmaker is indistinguishable from the old. There are a number of under-the-covers improvements, including getting it into a source code repository with better documentation for installation and dependencies. It also includes capability to make a simple book cover, when cover images are not already part of the eBook. It also handles some error conditions or input variations more effectively than the old version. - Greg

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Custom covers for a book that has no original cover available?
by James Simmons 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

I'm transcribing a book Harivamsha which has a PDF of the pages at archive.org but no book cover. I know I don't need to provide a cover, but I'd like to have one. While there is no book cover, there is some good art in the public domain inspired by events in the book: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Harivamsa I was thinking of taking one of these images and putting the title and author on it using The GIMP and making that my e-book cover image. Is there any PG policy on this? James Simmons

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http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/
by Rick Tonsing 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Is http://epubmaker.pglaf.org the same app the White Washers use for uploaded files? Some people at Distributed Proofreaders think the results are different between the http://epubmaker.pglaf.org/ results and the WW results published at PG. I don't believe it but thought I'd ask here before submitting an opinion to the DP forum. Specifically what they are claiming is that the oversized image (greater than 800 x 1200px or 128KB) reduction for the epub and mobi formats is different. Cheers, Rick

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Re: [gutvol-d] Technically off topic but I hope you could help
by Gardner Buchanan 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

This FAQ has recommendations WRT page scans: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Scanning_FAQ#S.21._Will_PG_store_sc… >> up to 600 dpi, and should be stored as black-and-white TIFFs with CCITT-4 (aka ITU-G4 or Fax Group 4) compression On 27-Jan.-2019 13:05, Gardner Buchanan wrote: > This guidance in the FAQ is aimed at illustrations, not raw page > scans. I got the impression you were looking to include raw page > scans which would generally be ~300-600dpi and could be above 3,000 > pixels on the long axis. Is there guidance about what to do with page > scans being contributed as part of a Gutenberg project? > > On 27-Jan.-2019 12:04, Ken Arromdee wrote: >> On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, Greg Newby wrote: >>> Concerning (Ken's) your comment about Weird etc.: I don't know what >>> scanning policy you are writing about. It's perfectly acceptable to >>> include high resolution scans. >> >> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:HTML_FAQ#8._Recommendation:_Images >> >> >> "Since most people will be viewing these images in a browser on a >> screen with a resolution below or around 1000 pixels wide, you should >> mostly make your images not much wider than 600 pixels. If you have a >> 2000- or 3000-pixel-wide image derived from an original scan, you >> need to look at resizing it." >> >> (Is epub generated from HTML? That could compound the problem since >> epub is often read on tablets which have higher resolution than PC >> screens). >> >> I see this is a wiki, so I could delete the text in question, but I >> don't know what I could replace it with since I don't know what sizes >> PG really recommends. Also, this guideline seems to reflect actual >> practice for many books on pg, and even if those books were scanned >> years ago, the images in them are now permanently small, since >> nobody's going to go through the back catalog and rescan everything >> that has images. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gutvol-d mailing list >> gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org >> http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/options/gutvol-d > > -- ============================================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana(a)teksavvy.com> Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.

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Technically off topic but I hope you could help
by Ken Arromdee 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

I hope this is not *too* off-topic, since it isn't about Gutenberg but it is hopefully a topic of interest... I want to see a book at Google Books, The Secret Tomb (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Secret_Tomb.html?id=0NMCTgniOIsC. This book is published in 1923 as can be seen from the first pages, so it became public domain this month. Google Books has a "Report an Issue" link which includes an option "I’d like to see the entire book, and I believe the book is in the public domain". I reported it and got a form letter reply from someone who obviously didn't understand my request and claimed that according to the publisher, the book was produced in 2009 (maybe, but it was obviously just a scan of a book from 1923, with a generic cover tacked on by a "publisher"). The book doesn't seem to be available on archive.org or on Project Gutenberg. Has anyone here had experience trying to escalate a request for a public domain book from Google Books?

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I love it
by Phyllis Poor 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

It's still available http://actual.veraeasweeney.com <http://actual.veraeasweeney.com/> Phyllis Poor

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Please test gutenberg website survey
by Greg Newby 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Hi, Gutenberg volunteers. As part of the redesign, we're doing a simple website assessment survey. This is not yet live, and might be changed a bit, so I am only sharing with a few internal colleagues and lists. https://goo.gl/forms/aT9z1w7sOYQpqDPI2 Thanks! Greg 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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Web site redesign
by Greg Newby 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi, gutvol-d subscribers. I am working with collaborators at UNC's iBiblio and elsewhere on updating many aspects of the Web presence at www.gutenberg.org (and back-end processes). I have put the blurb below in the last couple of monthly newsletters. If you have ideas, the gutvol-d list is a good place to discuss them. There is a full grant proposal I wrote that goes into detail on the different areas of emphasis, and I'll try to make that available to people who are interested. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. - Greg * Web Site Redesign Project Project Gutenberg invites design ideas and input for Project Gutenberg's Web site and eBook landing pages, such as https://www.gutenberg.org and https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 Send an email to Greg (simply by responding to this newsletter), or you can join the gutvol-d email discussion list via: https://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d 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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[OPENZIM][KIWIX] New offline version of the Gutenberg project
by Emmanuel Engelhart 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Hi We finally have generated new offline versions of the famous Gutenberg project library which has almost 60.000 free ebooks. See https://www.gutenberg.org/. This version provides of course more books than ever before, but also fixes many bugs which were impacting the scrapper or the user interface. We have extended the number of UI supported languages and fulltext search is now provided natively with Kiwix - no need to compute an external fulltext index. The offline versions are available like usual in the ZIM format. More details about the ZIM format and the openZIM project at http://www.openzim.org/ You can easily download one ZIM file with all the Gutenberg project books in all languages: * via HTTP: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim * via BitTorrent: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg_mul_all.zim.torrent * Language specific files at https://download.kiwix.org/zim/ * rsync or FTP are also supported. These ZIM files are readable wherever you want and on almost all kinds of devices thanks the multiple Kiwix ports, pick yours at http://www.kiwix.org/ or on your preferred app store. If you are curious and want just to have a look, please visit your library at https://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2018-10/. For tech people, all the scrapper is open source and maintained. Join us: * https://github.com/openzim/gutenberg * https://pypi.org/project/gutenberg2zim/ * https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/gutenberg/ We hope you will enjoy it! 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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The Panchatantra
by Robin Whittleton 22 May '18

22 May '18

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

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