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Hello @gutenberg_org, here's some questions out of interest:
While the Copyright Clearance process seems to serve a slightly different purpose, it could also be considered a tool to ensure an actual, previously published book was scanned and processed (step 2 seems to suggest that).
- Have you ever seen attempts to submit fake "historic" publications, that used more than just half-baked artifacts, and would have been, in theory, eligible for inclusion?
- If so: has the frequency or "quality" of such submissions increased, with the rise of " #AI "?
- What are your measures to prevent this from happening?
- Did you ever need to retract a publication from your corpus, that turned out to be a well-made fake?
Sorry if you have already written about this elsewhere, but our web searches returned no related results.
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@ehashman #ProjectGutenberg begs to differ. -
Status update:
Pdf reader with touchscreen control, alongside some pdfs from #HumbleBooksBundle also converted an epub copy of a Agatha Christie novel from #ProjectGutenberg using #calibre to pdf.
Currently no nice way of selecting the pdfs.
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We'll try something from https://standardebooks.org/ebooks next given the slightly hit-and-miss rendering from #ProjectGutenberg on the #xteinkX4 #eReader - again out of copyright public domain classics.
Update: Much better, same novel but all the pictures work and no weird table layout snippets 🥳
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Good news, the #xteinkX4 #eReader can show some of the pictures from #ProjectGutenberg nicely…
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Second #xteinkX4 #eReader challenge looks like working out which public domain e-books' formatting suits this little device best.
For example, #ProjectGutenberg's Alice In Wonderland https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28885/pg28885-images.html starts with a bunch of images and tables which don't show at all well.
The actual text starts with an almost black square image (meant to be a calligraphic letter A) and the "LICE was beginning to get tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, ..."
Update: Added comparison.
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Started reading "The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance." this weekend.
Not all penny dreadfuls are bad, and this is quite good in a melodramatic way.
"The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance."
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Finished reading Bram Stoker's #Dracula last night. Worth a read if just for the first few chapters in Dracula's castle. I found it sort of petered out after that, and the exciting conclusion I was hoping to find never really measured up to the first act.
I'd give it 3/5, but if you just want to read the first act as a short story I'd give that part 5/5.
I read the #ProjectGutenberg version with #KOReader on my #Kindle.
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Earlier this summer I read the 1926 fantasy novel "Lud-in-the-Mist" by Hope Mirrlees. In addition to being amused with reading the novel exactly 100 years since its publication, I was surprised at how modern its depiction of Faerie felt. I won't spoil it more than that, but you can get a copy at Project Gutenberg if you'd like to check it out:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68061
#literature #fantasy #Faerie #fae #fey #fairy #fairies #ProjectGutenberg #1920s
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The White Whale of Good Book Descriptions: Randomness Blogwagon
I've loved some of the previous Blogwagon topics from Prismatic Wasteland, but never got around to writing on them. The latest topic is randomness. It features a roll for date of post and for length, then a card draw for a blog to look through and include a reference to. For reference, my rolls and card were: 1d20: 14 (post on June 14) 2d6: 8 (post as long or short as you want) Playing Card: Queen of Hearts (Benign Brown Beast, a blog which seemed new to me, but I realized I played in a […] -
#ScribesAndMakers – 2nd Jun. Share a line from something you've read today (with credit.)
I knew myself to be on the threshold of a new order of experience—of an ecstasy. Something drew me forth with a sense of inexpressible yearning towards the being of this strange old man in the window seat, and for a moment I knew what it was to taste a mighty and wonderful sensation, and to touch the highest pinnacle of joy I have ever known.
THE WOOD OF THE DEAD by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD:
#AmReading #Horror #WierdTales #AlgernonBlackwood #projectgutenberg #NMSAM #NMPrompts
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Lucy’s hidden feelings erupt during a tense Sunday gathering as a novel exposes her Florence secret and George kisses her again. https://hackernoon.com/apollo-protocol #projectgutenberg
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Wow, another day, another "revolutionary" update to Project Gutenberg. 🎉🚀 Now with more dusty books no one reads and a UI that feels like it was designed by someone who just discovered HTML tables. 📚😂 Thank goodness for those "volunteers" who continue to make digital boredom possible!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ #ProjectGutenberg #DigitalLibraries #BookLovers #UIUpdate #VolunteerEfforts #DigitalBoredom #HackerNews #ngated -
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
#HackerNews #ProjectGutenberg #DigitalLibrary #OpenAccess #Books #Literature #Community
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Messing around with books, as I always do.
I found a book by John Ball, who wrote "In the Heat of the Night" and other Virgil Tibbs novels. This one is called "The First Team", and it's not related to the VIrgil Tibbs series at all. So far it's about a man who works in the White House as a Russian translator. But Russia has conquered the USA thanks to the hippies and liberal politicians.
John Ball was a bit of a right-winger. And a white one, if you were wondering. Sydney Poitier did Ball a HUGE favor by not playing Virgil Tibbs the way he was written in the book, i.e. as basically a white guy dyed brown (metaphorically).
I'm not sure how far I'll get with "The First Team". The Russians are comically evil, so far.
I also took a look at the first few pages of "The Impossibles" by Mark Phillips. It features mind-crime (apparently) in the far-flung, exotic future of 1972! So far the writing seems above par, so that's good. I'll see where it goes.
Hold on! Turns out that "Mark Phillips" was a pseudonym used by Lawrence Jannifer (a good science fiction writer) and Randall Garrett (the author of the "Lord Darcy" stories, which is basically Sherlock Holmes in a magic-based universe). They wrote a series of three books under that pseudonym, and all three are available for download from Project Gutenberg—along with quite a few others!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25267
#Books #Bookstodon #FreeEbooks #ProjectGutenberg #ScienceFiction #QuasitBookRecs
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A gunboat crew journeys into the Amazon to confront deadly intelligent ants whose growing empire threatens humanity’s rule. https://hackernoon.com/ants-claimed-the-amazon #projectgutenberg
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A man haunted by vivid dreams lives another life in a future world of love, political collapse, and catastrophic war that ends in tragedy. https://hackernoon.com/second-life-of-hedon #projectgutenberg
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A driven student risks everything after a split-second lab mistake becomes a moral crisis, exposing ambition, class tension, & the cost of scientific integrity. https://hackernoon.com/when-a-microscope-alters-destiny #projectgutenberg
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Bookmarked!
You should definitely check out https://standardebooks.org/ for beautiful hand-crafted ebooks taken from #ProjectGutenberg
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Partners in crime by Agatha ChristieRelease Date Apr 2, 2026
Copyright Status
Public domain in the USA.
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An entomologist obsessed with rival Pawkins becomes convinced a mysterious moth is a new species—or a hallucination, driving him into paranoia and madness. https://hackernoon.com/moth-delusion #projectgutenberg
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Industrial-era tale of Azuma-zi and Holroyd in a Camberwell dynamo shed where a giant generator becomes a false god, leading to murder and sacrifice story. https://hackernoon.com/azuma-zis-machine-cult #projectgutenberg
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A man struck by lightning sees a distant island instead of reality, sparking a chilling sci-fi mystery about vision, space, and the limits of perception. https://hackernoon.com/eyes-that-wandered-beyond-space #projectgutenberg
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A castaway hatches a prehistoric Ae pyornis egg on a remote island, forming a bond that turns deadly in this eerie tale of survival and lost species. https://hackernoon.com/the-island-that-hatched-extinction #projectgutenberg