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Looks like these are just epubs rehosted direct from Project Gutenberg. Why not just go to gutenberg.org instead?
by acabal 10y ago
Looks like these are just epubs rehosted direct from Project Gutenberg. Why not just go to gutenberg.org instead?
- kermittd 10y agoThey are just rehosted from Project Gutenberg. I think their interface/experience is terrible
- soneil 10y agoI think I'd agree, but they are trying to solve very different problems. I'm not sure your UI would scale to 53,000 titles either.
- mcphage 10y agoWhy should it need to?
- dredmorbius 10y agoWhy shouldn't it? I'm working on a large research project, and with ~5,000 references, managing, accessing, annotating, classifying, rating, and integrating in a workflow the references ... is an absolute PITA.
- mcphage 10y agoBecause there's value in sites that highlight a few works as well, which is the purpose of OP's site. Managing 5,000 references is a pain, but there's no indication that was the problem OP was trying to solve.
- kermittd 10y agoHi! OP here. I would like to expand it but yes cracking the UI, which I really like right now, with so many titles is a little more complex. My plan is to actually host tens of thousands of titles but highlight between 9-18 titles and implement a search feature, that actually works, for author or title.
- dredmorbius 10y agoIf you're still taking notes: there's a standard for information on books. Library catalogs. In particular, MARC format. Titles, authors, genres, publication dates, subjects, publishers, languages (the amount of online information not clearly categorised by langauage is ... annoying). In my use of Pocket, what I'd really like is the ability to both see how many titles are grouped under a tag, and to get a visualisation of relationships amongst tags.