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Project Gutenberg Made Accessible

Posted by Hemos on from the reading-too-much-into-it dept.

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."

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  1. Slashdotted? by alexatrit · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...

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    1. Re:Slashdotted? by pinky99 · · Score: 2, Funny

      amazingly?
      you really want to say, this is the first time you follow a link posted on /. and the server does not respond. Your first link? *g*

  2. Re:Tested by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What I love is the home page that says:

    "All contents copyright 2004 Scott Fortmann-Roe."

    Yeah, sure.

  3. 10,000+ books? by Ronald+Dumsfeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    10,000+ books. Right, so I've got to read all of them before I can post a comment?

    Oh wait, this is Slashdot.

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  4. the tutorial talked to me by Lord+Zerrr · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love sexy robot voice tutorials! mazarin tutorial

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  5. Bam by kunudo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Monday May 24, @03:14PM : Project Gutenberg made accessible
    Monday May 24, @03:15PM : Project Gutenberg made inaccessible

  6. Slashdot'd by Bipedismaximus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Project Gutenberg Made Accessible"

    Oh, the irony that is slashdot.

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  7. SCO will file a lawsuit saying they wrote them all by HiyaPower · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gotta turn a living you know...

  8. Re:thewolfweb.com is faster than slashdot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    hell the Gutenberg Project is faster than /. for news.

  9. Re:and then just think by carlos_benj · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  10. Bruce Sterling by Discoflamingo13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Information wants you to give me a dollar.

  11. Re:and then just think by Farce+Pest · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I had a diet of worms, I'd be abrasive and confrontational as well.

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