James Adcock wrote:
What is a "magic catalog"?
A "Magic Catalog" is fancy pants marketing words for a simple HTML catalog which has been converted to EPUB
I thought of that but put it on the back burner because: - if you have an online reader there's a much better alternative: http://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS - if you have an offline reader, there isn't much point as you can't download the books.
Yes one can do this and this is in fact how the Magic Catalogs work, but PG asks that one not do this kind of direct linking to a book, rather PG asks that one links to the standard "landing pads" at PG, such as:
If you have an epub catalog you qualify as Independent Search Site. Just include a link to the gutenberg main page in some prominent place. You may get in trouble if we change the directory structure though.
We have no information about the 'illustration' status of an ebook. Sometimes the producers include ornaments and drop caps as images, so we cannot claim 'illustrated' if we find images.
Very Strange, then how does PG generate a page such as http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22210 -- which includes both "illustrated" and "un-illustrated" versions of the same book?
Reading helps understanding. It says 'with images' which is not the same as 'illustrated'.
So there is a ton of options available here, and it could be cool if someone documented all the different ways one can read the various file options PG offers using a netbook
Get a wiki account and just do it. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org