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You could quite ethically do it with Project Gutenberg, and I agree it would be interesting to see. In this case it would rather defeat the purpose of the infi

• corinroyal 3y ago
  > I mean, in theory all the works on Z Library are in there, somewhere... Interesting to consider works excluded from the Library of Babel. Books aren't just a vector of EBDIC characters and whitespace. There are figures, captions, indices, tables, blurbs, notes, frontmater like publishing history, title pages, dedications, lists of figures, and backmatter like appendices, glossaries, epilogues, afterwords. In between the can be chapter, sections, free verse, lyrics, typographic art, and even art reproductions on archival paper pasted in with mucilage that long since lost it's stick. Some pages me even be left blank intentionally, due to oversight, or driven by malignant spirits. Now if the Library of Babel were written using SGML... you'd have two problems.