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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. PG by ArbiterOne · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of PG's more well-knownalready are formatted into HTML.

    1. Re:PG by Charles+Franks · · Score: 5, Informative
      The promo.net address is an old one and no longer maintained, please reference gutenberg.net

      Charles Franks
      Founder, Distributed Proofreaders

    2. Re:PG by flimnap · · Score: 5, Informative

      Indeed, there are many, many sites that do all sorts of wonderful things with Project Gutenberg eBooks. That's the wonderful thing about PG, you can do anything you like with the books.

      While personally I prefer the original and the best... hey, whatever floats your boat!

      It is very much worth noting that Project Gutenberg would have nowhere near as many eBooks as it does without the help of Distributed Proofreaders. Sign up there, and proof just a page a day to make your contribution to preserving literary history. You can proofread as little or as much as you like, and do something worthwhile! Distributed Proofreaders is a great way to spend some of your time.

    3. Re:PG by bbc · · Score: 4, Informative

      PG does accept other formats, gladly.

      However, it insists on at least a plain vanilla version of a text, as that format has proven to be the most durable and accessible.

      So next time you post a text version to PG, make sure you post HTML and PDF versions alongside.

      (Do read the rules for HTML in the PG FAQ first, though.)

  2. Text version by Whitecloud · · Score: 5, Informative

    since some seem to have trouble on the index page... here it is:

    Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision.
    Now, more than thirty years later, Project Gutenberg has the following figures (as of November 8th 2002): 203 New eBooks released during October 2002, 1975 New eBooks produced in 2002 (they were 1240 in 2001) for a total of 6267 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks. 119 eBooks have been posted so far by Project Gutenberg of Australia.

    Click here for the full PG story and here for the latest News , and learn about the Stockholm Challenge Award recently won by Project Gutenberg in the category Culture.

    The key link is search page.

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    Do you need a website upgrade?

  3. Re:Slashdotted - but nice error messages by Zocalo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Judging by the snippet of Perl at the bottom of the error message I'd say it's part of the Mason CMS.

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    UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
  4. Re:Best way to read online texts? by gunne · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have a palm pilot, i can recommend Weasel Reader.
    I've been using it for a couple of years on my Palm V, and despite its small screen size it works perfectly for reading ebooks.