On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:02:50AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote:
Hello all. I was browsing the Internet Archive texts and saw that they have a link to their own Project Gutenberg collection. When I followed it, they only listed 7,389 items. Why is this? There should be over 17,000, right? They are all available via ftp.archive.org I believe, so why aren't they listed on their web site?
To see this, go to http://www.archive.org/ and go to texts. Select the Project Gutenberg link. Are things not being mirrored properly from the PG catalog?
I've bothered them about this repeatedly. I think there might be a note or link somewhere that mentions they only have a subset of the titles. What happened was, they had some summer interns who set up their site. It's modeled after an Alexa/Amazon-style referrer system, which is kind of nice. But it was all done "by hand," and doens't integrate new titles. Feel free to send them feedback directly with suggestions about how they can make it clearer that this is just a subset. Or, volunteer to do an internship at the Internet Archive next summer or spring, to fix it to auto-update!!! -- Greg