Great news! Are there any plans to harvest the images in these files, or has that already been done?
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg ( > http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format: > http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_ > 2014-11.zim.torrent. We also provide a few language specific versions > here http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg. > > This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet) and > it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody with a > computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books big > library. You can also make it available for read to other people on your > network, they only need a web browser. > > In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML (directly > readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have created a > custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few clicks you > can find your book, read it or download it. What is also unique is that > Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books content. You can see > by yourself using this demonstration web site: http://library.kiwix.org/ > gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/ > > Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France by > four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the Fondation > Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia CH. The > Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use it already > for its own deployments in Africa. > > The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is available > here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows to release > easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project and we will > release periodically new version of this offline version of the Project > Gutenberg. > > We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books > libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might > be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. > > We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which > are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We > also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a > hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor > needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here: > https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues > > Regards > Emmanuel > -- > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > * Web: http://www.kiwix.org > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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