gluejar
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Comment · 5 months ago
I should hit Matt up for a donation.
Comment · 5 months ago
later this year
Comment · 5 months ago
A silly legal tribunal confused PG with pirate sites. We sent the tribunal a letter pointing out their error but it was ignored. The block was served on local dns providers so many Italian users evade the block by using DNS from Google or Cloudflare.
Comment · 5 months ago
There's quite a lot of information here: https://www.gutenberg.org/about/
All our text is now utf-8.
No Plucker!
Almost every book is HTML(5).
Comment · 5 months ago
only 20% of our books have original publication data in the db. We have a project to add another 40% or so from another database, let us know if you want to help.
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Comment · 5 months ago
only 20% of our books have original publication data in the db. We have a project to add another 40% or so from another database, let us know if you want to help.
Comment · 5 months ago
we have a tarball of all text files - link posted somewhere here
Comment · 5 months ago
traffic yesterday ~20% more than recent average.
4971601 sessions
177 robots
863462 robot files
3390115 user files
20.30% robot files
(robots id'd based on requests/ip address)
5 apache servers for static content, 1 CherryPy server for dynamic content
hosted at iBiblio.
Comment · 5 months ago
We're using git repos internally to keep history for each book. They existed on github for a while, but our implementation was awkward, and too big of project for the volunteer dev team. But it's likely that we'll evolve towards that.
Comment · 5 months ago
Check out Distributed Proofreaders: https://pgdp.net
Comment · 5 months ago
wikipedians, please help update this article.
Comment · 5 months ago
if what you want is all the text, please use the tarball or data files at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds
Comment · 5 months ago
Nowadays we depend on scans from Internet Archive, Hathitrust, and other sources. Some scans are better than others. Bear in mind that our illustrations need to be in the public domain and usually from the same edition as the text. https://www.gutenberg.org/help/errata.html
Comment · 5 months ago
Nice to see so much appreciation for what we do. (I'm the new-ish executive director.) Any wikipedians reading this, the article about PG is... aging. Last I looked, it said we offered Plucker files. @Jseiko has done some nice work.
Comment · 5 months ago
PDF coming this year.