On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:33:06AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote:
Somebody would need to write the software :)
Zipping an mp3 is not a winning strategy: they really don't compress much, if at all.
Putting multiple mp3 files for a single eBook in one file, on the fly, would be a great move - making it easier to download a group of files.
A more general approach would be to let visitors to www.gutenberg.org put their selected files (including those generated on-the-fly) on a bookshelf (i.e., shopping cart), then download in one big file, or several small ones.
This would involve some fairly significant additions to the current PHP-based back-end at www.gutenberg.org, but is certainly not a huge technical feat. -- Greg
Where can one find the code for the "current PHP-based back-end at www.gutenberg.org" to begin doing looking into how feasible this would be?