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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A few notes on the different versions. The Archive version is a scan of the printed version. The scans are OCR'd to make it somewhat searchable, but the large filesize reflects the fact that it contains text scans. The Project Gutenberg and GITenberg versions derive from proofread and corrected text produced by Distributed Proofreaders. ( https://pgdp.org/ ) The GITenberg PDF is a conversion from EPUB by xvfb.