[gutvol-d] Re: Fwd: Programmatic fetching books from Gutenberg

Joshua Hutchinson wrote:

Any chance of creating on the fly zips of some of the books? For instance, the audio books are huge and usually divided along chapter lines. Single file zips are very useful (and something we've done on some of them manually) but the space waste is huge. On the fly zipping of those files would save huge in storage space.

The other way round would be much more useful: store only a zipped version of everything. All browsers support unzipping on-the-fly (all bibrec pages we serve are in a compressed format since years now) so the only people who'd notice anything was the ftp users. (But he who has mastered to type "ftp" can also be made to type "unzip", so no problem there.)