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| author | James Simmons <jim@localhost.simmons> | 2009-05-22 20:45:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | James Simmons <jim@localhost.simmons> | 2009-05-22 20:45:27 (GMT) |
| commit | dbe59f9949eb84404d43e74f86fcd52610fae284 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ecfa2195cf0b50ee73072964a9dac599f92376b /help.txt | |
| parent | 7ce103811119341300fa6d73d3035288ee64e27d (diff) | |
modified: ReadEtextsActivity.py
modified: help.txt
Fixed bug where we couldn't read a zipped book if the file was in
a directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'help.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | help.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx The Books tab above will let you search through the offline catalog of Project Gutenberg, an Internet repository of -free etexts featuring books in many languages. For technical reasons some of the books available through the -Project Gutenberg website are not in the catalog used by this Activity, but most of the books are here. +free etexts featuring books in many languages. The catalog used contains 26,869 titles, all out of copyright in the United States. The catalog is current as of -January 29, 2009. For titles published after that date you should visit http://www.gutenberg.org. +January 29, 2009. For titles added after that date you should visit http://www.gutenberg.org. To find a book, type one or more words that would be in the author's name or the title, then press Enter. The list will only include books that match all the words, so use fewer words to make the list longer and more words to shorten the list. @@ -19,4 +18,9 @@ To download the book select it in the list and press the download button next to several books to the Journal in the same session by using the "Keep" button on the Activity tab after each one except the final one, which will be saved to the Journal when you exit this Activity. +There are two kinds of "paths" listed in the table. The older file naming convention on the Project Gutenberg +website has a path that begins with "/etext". These represent the oldest files in the archive, and the paths are +occasionally wrong. The new file naming convention uses just numbers: /1/9/0/3/19033 for example. If there +are two entries for the same book, choose the one using the new naming convention. + Press the Escape key to hide the search results table and start reading. |