Elena,
I used an online catalog that only contains title and author. Gutenberg
has another catalog in RDF format which has a log more information, and
I may use that as a basis for my search some day. That would allow
searches by subject, title, author, language, etc. I realize this would
be a lot more useful, but my time available for Python programming is
just a few hours a week. If I can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the
work that's what I'll do first.
James Simmons
Elena of Valhalla wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, James Simmons
<[email protected]> wrote:
It is a fair statement to say that most PG books are in English.
However, if you go to the PG website you can list out books in various
languages, and there are a fair number in Spanish.
I've had the reverse problem: I've searched a book as a test (Macbeth
by Shakespeare) and had to download it in two different languages
before I found the english text. Did I miss language informations
somewhere in the activity, or are they missing?
Usually the title would help, but cases like this where the title is
the same in any translation are a significant minority, and I believe
that either showing it or allowing to restrict searches by language
should be useful.
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