Hacker News: gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gluejarHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:12:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>I should hit Matt up for a donation.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:21:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162975gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162975https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162975<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>later this year

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:19:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162952gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162952<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>A silly legal tribunal confused PG with pirate sites. We sent the tribunal a letter pointing out their error but it was ignored. The block was served on local dns providers so many Italian users evade the block by using DNS from Google or Cloudflare.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:15:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162929gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162929https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162929<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>There's quite a lot of information here: https://www.gutenberg.org/about/ All our text is now utf-8. No Plucker! Almost every book is HTML(5).

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:10:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162875gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162875<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>only 20% of our books have original publication data in the db. We have a project to add another 40% or so from another database, let us know if you want to help. reply

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:00:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162788gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162788https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162788<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>only 20% of our books have original publication data in the db. We have a project to add another 40% or so from another database, let us know if you want to help.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:59:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162776gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162776https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162776<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>we have a tarball of all text files - link posted somewhere here

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:56:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162751gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162751<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>traffic yesterday ~20% more than recent average. 4971601 sessions 177 robots 863462 robot files 3390115 user files 20.30% robot files (robots id'd based on requests/ip address) 5 apache servers for static content, 1 CherryPy server for dynamic content hosted at iBiblio.

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:54:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162735gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162735<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>We're using git repos internally to keep history for each book. They existed on github for a while, but our implementation was awkward, and too big of project for the volunteer dev team. But it's likely that we'll evolve towards that.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:26:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154109gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154109https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154109<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>Check out Distributed Proofreaders: https://pgdp.net

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:11:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152596gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152596<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>wikipedians, please help update this article.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:58:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151748gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151748https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151748<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>if what you want is all the text, please use the tarball or data files at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/feeds

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:57:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151741gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151741<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>Nowadays we depend on scans from Internet Archive, Hathitrust, and other sources. Some scans are better than others. Bear in mind that our illustrations need to be in the public domain and usually from the same edition as the text. https://www.gutenberg.org/help/errata.html

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:51:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151663gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151663<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>Nice to see so much appreciation for what we do. (I'm the new-ish executive director.) Any wikipedians reading this, the article about PG is... aging. Last I looked, it said we offered Plucker files. @Jseiko has done some nice work.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:42:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151577gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151577https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151577<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>PDF coming this year.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:35:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151489gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151489<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"]]>OPDS 2.0 coming RSN. email us if you want to test. OPDS 0.x is currently available (not recommended) by adding .opds to the end of a url

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:33:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151455gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151455https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151455<![CDATA[The PII Figleaf]]>Article URL: https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-pii-figleaf.html

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]]>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:35:00 +0000https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-pii-figleaf.htmlgluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706026<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain"]]>Most visibly, the generated covers, which have roots at NYPL and Bookalope, went into PG via GITenberg.

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:31:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038185gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038185https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038185<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain"]]>More accurate to call it a fork.

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:23:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038105gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038105<![CDATA[New comment by gluejar in "GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain"]]>Me too! GITenberg started with a variety of goals, some of which were achieved, and others which were less so. Outstanding, considered as a prototype. Standard Ebooks has been much more successful at creating a community working to improve the quality of PG-derived ebooks. We're on the same team.

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:21:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038081gluejarhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038081https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24038081