Yes, I noticed the slowness. It seems much better now. I have a question though. It says that you can download all ebooks. I don't care about many of them but I would like to grab at least a few hundred if not a few thousands. How? Do I really have to individually download every single pdf file by hand? I don't expect a nice ftp/rsync/http directory listing, but it would at least be nice if all the titles from a certain collection could be on one search page. If you use the search form, you only get the first 10 results. The "browse collections" page only shows a random sampling of titles from any particular collection. Also, the numbers are wrong or I'm doing something wrong. One figure shows about 250,000 pdf files, another shows 330,000 depending on whether you search or not. The Census page shows about 30,000 pdf files but the search shows about 52,000. I tried the advanced search but that seems to only be a help document unless I did something wrong. I freely admit that I'm missing something here. What am I missing? Should I be using a more specific search syntax to get what I want, i.e. all books from one collection on a page? Is there a way to show 50 results instead of 10? Also, what about the missing files? I looked at some rocketry links on the NASA collection and got error 404. Where are they? Other than security, is there any reason to not allow raw directory lists? That would make downloading much easier. With the Baen books, how do I find titles? The page only lists ISBNs and authors but no titles except for mp3 samples. Finally, are any of these going to eventually make it to the main PG site? Some are public domain and there is no reason why they can't be part of PG except for possible layout and pdf issues. At 05:20 PM 7/5/06 -0700, you wrote:
It was on an overloaded network connection earlier, but we moved it this (Wednesday) morning and the site seems to be performing well.
Take a look - it's pretty neat!
There are a few missing files & broken links, but for the most part things seem OK. -- Greg
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