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Project Gutenberg Made Accessible
scishop writes "Mazarin is an open-source interface to Project Gutenberg's library. Mazarin increases the accessibility of Gutenberg's 10,000+ books as it formats the books for HTML display -- providing paginations in addition to generating table of contents and other advanced markup features -- along with enabling users to carry out full-text searches on the entire library."
I searched on "oil" and came up with numerous passages from various versions of the Bible, and a few recipes from an Italian cookbook. Attempted to search again, but amazingly the site fails to respond...
Nothing but the finest in meaningless drivel
What I love is the home page that says:
"All contents copyright 2004 Scott Fortmann-Roe."
Yeah, sure.
sure thats the modern version of 10,000 students all rushing to get the same book out that is recommended by the professor :)
Do you need a website upgrade?
10,000+ books. Right, so I've got to read all of them before I can post a comment?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
Where's the Kaboom?
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
In the spirit of the Gutenberg name, seems like there is a new Perl module that simulates Steve Gutenberg's career.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Interesting idea, I can't get to the website but a feature I'd want is the content shared P2P so you don't have to rely on a central server for the content.
When I go to the Gutenberg site and do a search, it gives me plain text, zipped plain text, and P2P links.
I don't know whether this makes you a genius for thinking of a good idea, or an idiot for not bothering to check to see if it had already been implemented.
I love sexy robot voice tutorials! mazarin tutorial
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -Albert Einstein
Karma? There's a serial modder out there.
I fear a source code dump would put me off my lunch faster than a goatsex link.
Monday May 24, @03:14PM : Project Gutenberg made accessible
Monday May 24, @03:15PM : Project Gutenberg made inaccessible
"Project Gutenberg Made Accessible"
Oh, the irony that is slashdot.
The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle
Gotta turn a living you know...
6. Celibacy - Pederasty
hell the Gutenberg Project is faster than /. for news.
Well, in my converstaions with information I have determined that while some information does indeed want to be free, other information does not want to rock the boat. Some information simply wants to be left alone. There are also some sub-groups of information that are blissfully ignorant of their situation and do not realize that they are not already free.
I have not had the time to speak with all information, so this is merely anecdotal evidence of the diversity of opinion among informations.
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Information wants you to give me a dollar.
If I had a diet of worms, I'd be abrasive and confrontational as well.
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