Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus

Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by sethish on Monday August 04, 2014 @12:38AM (#8130355)

This is fantastic!

I just made a github repo for each Gutenber book: https://github.com/GITenberg

This will be very helpful, the XML/RDF files are a hassle.

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by walterbell on Monday August 04, 2014 @01:40AM (#8130505)

Are the github repos intended to collect errata? Do you know of a database which has metadata for all the Gutenberg books?

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by c-w on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:09AM (#8131158)

There's a database of RDF files that describe the books (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds/rdf-files.tar.bz2), but its a bit of a pain to use and doesn't link the books back to the API that should be used for crawling Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest).

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by sethish on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:55AM (#8131289)

I think the previous version of the metadata included a path to the ftp server. Splitting the book id (4443 -> 4/4/4/4443) works for _most_ books, but there were somewhere between 800 and 3000 books organized in a different folder structure that I still need to track down.

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by sethish on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:48AM (#8131266)

The github repos are intended to collect issues and received pull requests. Project Gutenberg doesn't have a public bugtracker, nor do they use version control.

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by voltagex_ on Monday August 04, 2014 @02:45AM (#8130647)

Why is Git in uppercase?

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Re:Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gu... by sethish on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:56AM (#8131294)

To better differentiate from Project Gutenberg, GIT + Gutenberg. Case is ambigious on github, so I can change it later without breaking anyone's URLs.

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