Openlibrary: Better integration of project gutenberg's material

Created on 26 Oct 2019 · 4Comments · Source: internetarchive/openlibrary

Right now, the 'text's are in a txt or img format. That's difficult to integrate into the Open Library. I would like to recommend contacting Project Gutenberg to create complementary pdf's for their html texts to incorporate into the Open Library.
project gutenberg: https://archive.org/details/gutenberg/downloader/index.php?tab=collection
example: https://archive.org/details/cookeryanddining29728gut
ideal html of example to convert to pdf: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm
example location on open library: https://openlibrary.org/search?q=apicius&author_key=OL4645453A&m=edit&mode=ebooks&has_fulltext=true

Data Import Triage 3 Feature Request

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BrittanyBunk

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They also distribute texts in HTML and ePUB formats. I would have thought that ePub which is supported natively by online bookreaders would be much more desirable than PDF.

tfmorris on 26 Oct 2019

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They also distribute texts in HTML and ePUB formats. I would have thought that ePub which is supported natively by online bookreaders would be much more desirable than PDF.

tfmorris on 26 Oct 2019

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I prefer PDF, because while the epub format's for tablets, PDF's for both tablets and computers. Also, it doesn't capture the formatting well enough to always use.

BrittanyBunk on 26 Oct 2019

I think this is going to have to be solved by the IA Product team (they know about it), tagging @bfalling and closing.