JSeiko

Yes please! I think it's just kinda weird that this hasn't been done yet.

hopefully!

Interesting. Do you "just" use the browser's built-in capabilities or also some browser extensions?

exciting :)

nice!

in which way? (genuine question)

not that I know of ...

this is so great to hear! Distributed proofreaders (the org that actually does transcriptions) is still looking for volunteer should you feel the urge/inclination :) https://www.pgdp.net

PG works based on US copyright law. And as I understand it that's also 70 years after author/translator death. My gut feeling is that if anyone tried hard enough this ban could probably get lifted

good question. Eric - any pointers?

I believe our new-ish CEO Eric Hellman actually did some work on something very similar

you can open an Issue at https://github.com/gutenbergtools/gutenbergsite

I asked Claude to research the background story: "In May 2020, the Court of Rome ordered Italian ISPs to seize/block a list of domains as part of a criminal case (the 52127/20 R.N.R. you're seeing) targeting sites and Telegram channels distributing pirated newspapers and magazines. 28 domains were on the list, and Project Gutenberg got thrown in alongside the actual pirate sites."

apparently this situation hasn't been resolved yet

That's an interesting idea. not a small feat to accomplish though ...

we are having occasional lows in page speed performance due to LARGE amounts of bot traffic. full disclosure - we've not really been able to resolve this fully/well. Let us know if you have a good idea for how to deal with it

just heard back that the server provider has been doing a security update. Maybe you were one of the users that got unlucky as a result... maybe try later if still interested

Interesting!

Flatland: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=flatland

I've heard good things. Also - Sherlock Holmes :)

I'm getting "We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server." if I go to the link

that would be great! Sadly I'm not very confident that that will actually happen ...

so maybe Karpathy has a point that LLM-assisted reading should be a thing. Would be cool if that worked on E-Reader screens as well. Maybe when the browsers on E-Readers become good enough ...

I've reported it.

that's cool! one of my "pet-ideas" is actually to make an AI-agent that does all that typographical work for any PG book to make it nicely printable without any manual labor whatsoever. Maybe that's doable now ...

bot traffic would be my guess too. I doubt there was a sudden global spike in interest in "Concrete Construction Methods" :D

very glad this has been resolved (I'm from Germany myself)

it's not my day job. PG is open-source. I'm "just" a contributor

sadly HN doesn't have a "heart" emoji I could use :D

it's also very "accessible" - good for assistive technologies and people with "ou-of-the-ordinary" requirements

good question. first though - maybe some bot has downloaded it often for whatever reasons and our systems didn't detect it as bot traffic. just a guess.

the way I see it PG is a labor of love. Bit odd if Barnes & Noble or whoever piggyback off it. But in the end - the more people read the books, the better.