tangledhelix

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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
Since the books are available on the site as text and HTML the search engines index them already for you. Try searching for the below; it should take you to the book you expect as the first result: site:gutenberg.org "it was the best o
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
One author remains blocked in Germany (but only for a couple more years)...
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
This is covered in the FAQ - https://www.gutenberg.org/help/faq.html#why-is-project-guten... And as another person noted, the vast majority of books have HTML, EPUB, Mobi formats. We are also looking at both KEPUB (Kob
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
As another commenter said PG is almost all books from 95+ years in the past due to copyright law in the US. We partner with a sister organization, the World Library Foundation, who have a self-publishing portal for modern works by authors w
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
Cloudflare sells that as a product, they call it Labyrinth IIRC.
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
See what I wrote above (and let me say I am talking about Project Gutenberg and Distributed Proofreaders here, I am one of the admins on both). A large amount of the hassle traffic we've seen is as I wrote above, the IPs come from eve
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
One could argue that this falls into the previous poster's thought about "the little differences to modern English are part of the charm" ...
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
OCR has improved a lot since then, but OCR is just step 1 of reading in text. They make a lot of errors (even now, especially on old worn out paper pages) and even if they didn't, one has to format the book, deal with footnotes, sideno
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
There are many books available as audio, some are human-read, some were automated. You can see lists here: human-read: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 computer-generated: https://www.guten
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
Worse than that - even if they would take action, you can't possibly orchestrate filing all of the complaints. It's a drown-in-quicksand problem, you can't fight quicksand one grain at a time.
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
The ebook editions are very good for this. Most of the e-reader software provides all the amenities (bookmarks, highlighting, notes, control of margins, etc).
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
The Alfred Döblin books are still blocked in Germany (for a couple more years).
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by tangledhelix 5mo ago
wouldn't help, much of the traffic we've observed look closer to ddos patterns - IPs from all over the world, many different networks, each IP makes one request only, doesn't come back. highly distributed, no form of blocking