[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

[James Simmons]

Tomeu,

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.  PG accepts out of 
copyright books from everywhere, so if a country wanted more books in 
its own language it could do the scanning, proofreading, etc. itself and 
have PG host it.  I'd strongly suggest exploring the PG website.  They 
have a lot to offer.  You can even create a custom CD with all the 
Spanish books on it and download it.

See this page for Spanish books: (and links for other languages)

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es

I wish I could have my offline catalog feature filter by language, but 
the offline catalog does not list language for a book.  You can see what 
it looks like here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/GUTINDEX.ALL

There is also a Project Gutenberg Europe:

http://pge.rastko.net/browse/languages/es

It looks like they have the same Spanish books as the regular site does.

The Internet Archive has lots of books, and they are in both PDF and 
DJVU format, useable by the core Read activity.  No offline catalog from 
them, unfortunately.  It looks like PG and PG Australia are the only 
ones with an offline catalog.

Glad you liked the Activity.  If you can think of any improvements let 
me know.  At the moment I'm thinking of ways to better split Title and 
Author, as well as including the PG Australia catalog, which would add 
over 2,000 books out of copyright in Australia but still in copyright in 
the U.S.

James Simmons


Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Just tried in a recent Soas and it worked wonderfully. Congratulations!
>
> I would like to make it more widely used, but most of the content I
> found was in english. Do we know other book sources with more content
> in (for example) spanish?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
>