[IAEP] PG Books

[Sean DALY]

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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 16:35, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That sounds awesome!
>
> Some interesting info:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/614821.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> 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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