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acidzebra · 07-19-2008, 09:14 PM

Hi all,

I stumbled over FangornUK's Gutenberg2lrf converter a while ago, and I was really happy with the end-results - proper chapters, images, text formatting.

So I automated it to pull in and convert most of the Gutenberg Project's HTML files (and of course TXT when in a pinch). Then I loaded the whole mess into Calibre, cleaned it up a little, stripped various magazines and journals and multi-volume histories, added a sprinkling of creative commons SF, and exported it before publishing it as a torrent.

Over 11,000 books and some 7,4 Gb in total, various languages, and as far as I know, legal to download in most countries (in a nutshell, if reading Gutenberg books is legal for you, this torrent should be legal too). I might make a second torrent to pick up the books I missed.

LINKS DELETED.

I checked the forums and this seemed to be the most appropriate place for this post, although technically not an upload. Apologies if I should have posted this somewhere else.

07-19-2008, 09:14 PM	#1
acidzebra Liseuse Lover Posts: 869 Karma: 1035404 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Netherlands Device: PRS-505	Automated dump of Gutenberg in torrent format, 11,000+ books in 7.4 Gb Hi all, I stumbled over FangornUK's Gutenberg2lrf converter a while ago, and I was really happy with the end-results - proper chapters, images, text formatting. So I automated it to pull in and convert most of the Gutenberg Project's HTML files (and of course TXT when in a pinch). Then I loaded the whole mess into Calibre, cleaned it up a little, stripped various magazines and journals and multi-volume histories, added a sprinkling of creative commons SF, and exported it before publishing it as a torrent. Over 11,000 books and some 7,4 Gb in total, various languages, and as far as I know, legal to download in most countries (in a nutshell, if reading Gutenberg books is legal for you, this torrent should be legal too). I might make a second torrent to pick up the books I missed. LINKS DELETED. I checked the forums and this seemed to be the most appropriate place for this post, although technically not an upload. Apologies if I should have posted this somewhere else.