[IAEP] PG Books

[James Simmons]

Elena,

I used an online catalog that only contains title and author.  Gutenberg 
has another catalog in RDF format which has a log more information, and 
I may use that as a basis for my search some day. That would allow 
searches by subject, title, author, language, etc.  I realize this would 
be a lot more useful, but my time available for Python programming is 
just a few hours a week.  If I can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the 
work that's what I'll do first.

James Simmons


Elena of Valhalla wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, James Simmons
> <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> I've had the reverse problem: I've searched a book as a test (Macbeth
> by Shakespeare) and had to download it in two different languages
> before I found the english text. Did I miss language informations
> somewhere in the activity, or are they missing?
>
> Usually the title would help, but cases like this where the title is
> the same in any translation are a significant minority, and I believe
> that either showing it or allowing to restrict searches by language
> should be useful.
>
>   

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