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I should hit Matt up for a donation.

later this year

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.

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).

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. reply

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.

we have a tarball of all text files - link posted somewhere here

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.

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.

Check out Distributed Proofreaders: https://pgdp.net

wikipedians, please help update this article.

if what you want is all the text, please use the tarball or data files at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds

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

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.

PDF coming this year.

OPDS 2.0 coming RSN. email us if you want to test. OPDS 0.x is currently available (not recommended) by adding .opds to the end of a url

Most visibly, the generated covers, which have roots at NYPL and Bookalope, went into PG via GITenberg.

More accurate to call it a fork.

Me too! GITenberg started with a variety of goals, some of which were achieved, and others which were less so. Outstanding, considered as a prototype. Standard Ebooks has been much more successful at creating a community working to improve the quality of PG-derived ebooks. We're on the same team.

A few notes on the different versions. The Archive version is a scan of the printed version. The scans are OCR'd to make it somewhat searchable, but the large filesize reflects the fact that it contains text scans. The Project Gutenberg and GITenberg versions derive from proofread and corrected text produced by Distributed Proofreaders. ( https://pgdp.org/ ) The GITenberg PDF is a conversion from EPUB by xvfb.

added cover, generated ebook files - https://unglue.it/work/378964/

This article gets its facts wrong. It was the 1986 MARCH Meeting in Las Vegas where this happened. I was there.

A friend of mine overheard the saleswomen talking in the lingerie shop (dressed as you might imagine) "I could be stark naked and these guys wouldn't notice me".

German users, please do not access or clone the following github repositories: “Der Untertan,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Untertan_38126 “Die Ehrgeizige,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Ehrgeizige_43335 “Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Professor-Unrat-oder-Das-Ende-e... “Der Vater,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Vater_33329 “Flöten und Dolche,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Fl-ten-und-Dolche--Novellen_312... “Flaubert und die Herkunft des modernen Romans,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Flaubert-und-die-Herkunft-des-m... “Buddenbrooks,” https://github.com/GITenberg/BuddenbrooksVerfall-einer-Famil... “Der Tod in Venedig,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-Tod-in-Venedig_12108 “Der kleine Herr Friedemann,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Der-kleine-Herr-FriedemannNovel... “Tristan,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Tristan_13810 “Gladius Dei,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Gladius-Dei--Schwere-Stunde_120... “Schwere Stunde,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Gladius-Dei--Schwere-Stunde_120... “Königliche Hoheit,” https://github.com/GITenberg/K-nigliche-HoheitRoman_35328 “Tonio Kröger,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Tonio-Kr-ger_23313 “Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Ermordung-einer-Butterblume... “Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-drei-Spr-nge-des-Wang-lunCh... “Die Lobensteiner reisen nach Böhmen,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Die-Lobensteiner-reisen-nach-B-... “Wallenstein,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Wallenstein.-I.--of-2-_43931 “Wallenstein,” https://github.com/GITenberg/Wallenstein.-II.--of-2-_43932

Thanks for the comments, folks. Apparently this post is too controversial or off-topic (or maybe just deemed silly) for Hacker News - it's been removed from the ranking!

This point now referenced in the article.

Perhaps the distribution of fluent english speakers is more relevant.

Leanpub. Please don't think of it as "crowdfunding" think of it as "audience building".

Should we worry that a Deep-Packet-Inspection vendor has the same owner as an SSL certificate vendor?

Stop by the repo and say hello. We can always use more help with maintenance and improvements; a bit of history doesn't hurt either!

I've been surprised how often new contributors mention that it's their first time contributing to an open source project. We need help to make sure it's not their last.

Is there any reason to to this without cooperation with https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books which already has over 4K commits and 16K forks?