[Bugs] #904 UNSP: Read Etexts-11, search result path information unnecessary for user to see

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#904: Read Etexts-11, search result path information unnecessary for user to see
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    Reporter:  garycmartin                |          Owner:  jdsimmons                  
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Read Etexts                |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by jdsimmons):

 I kind of agree with this, but not quite.  If you look at the Help text
 (under the Groucho Marx quote) you'll see an example of why you might need
 the path.  Gutenberg has two different path conventions: a new one based
 on the text number which is mostly correct and an older one that
 occasionally is not.  My first attempt at this only used the new path, but
 that meant that some of Gutenberg's choicest titles were unavailable.  Now
 some books have both old and new entries.  For instance. Alice in
 Wonderland works for the new one but not the old.  You need a way to know
 which is which.

 Also, the columns can be sorted so the easiest way for me to get the path
 for downloading is to get it from the table.  If this was a Java Swing
 table I'd know how to have information be in the table but not visible to
 the user.  For pygtk tables I haven't figured it out yet.

 Finally, Project Gutenberg Australia has its own offline catalog including
 2,000 some odd books that are out of copyright there but not in the U.S.
 I want to merge that catalog with the other one so a user who is allowed
 to can download these titles.  I really need to show which titles are
 which so we're not accused of encouraging children to steal the
 intellectual property of an author who's been dead 50 years.

 Not saying this isn't a bug, just looking for some ideas.

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