Re: [Kiwix-developer] [Wikisource-l] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline

[Jane D. <ja...@gm...>]

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 <ke...@ki...>
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
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