On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:24:41 -0400, Dan Weber wrote:
I don't object to any other languages. My opinion is that they should be on other websites to encourage development by persons interested in those books. I try to keep a local copy of PG in case the worst happens. I have only a limited bandwidth and disk space. Not all books have been on the posted list or identified as audio, DNA, German language, etc. I am expressing an opinion. It doesn't mean that I hate other languages. Until the day we have great translations for the books originally in other than English, I wish they could be somewhere else.
So for the sole reason you'd like to be able to host a local mirror of Gutenberg you'd like to fragment its collection? Never mind that the price of disk space is diminishing in an almost exponential fashion and that smart tools such as rsync ensure that the bandwidth consumed by such an endeavour is mostly for the newly added texts? Frankly, after having been on this list for about a decade, I can't remember having seen such an insular, if not shortsighted, opinion expressed here. Have you ever considered the possibility of helping out with tagging the 'offending' books in order to allow you excluding non-English books from your local mirror instead? Regards, Walter