Allow me to crosspost this...
>
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> From: "Emmanuel Engelhart" <kelson@kiwix.org>
> Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:18 PM
> Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline
> To: "Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline" <offline-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>, <wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: "kiwix-testing@lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-testing@lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> Hi,
>
> The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg
> (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format:
> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torrent.
> We also provide a few language specific versions here
> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg.
>
> This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet)
> and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody
> with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books
> big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on
> your network, they only need a web browser.
>
> In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML
> (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have
> created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few
> clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also
> unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books
> content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site:
> http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/
>
> Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France
> by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the
> Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia
> CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use
> it already for its own deployments in Africa.
>
> The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is
> available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows
> to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project
> and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of
> the Project Gutenberg.
>
> We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free
> books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add,
> this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available.
>
> We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which
> are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We
> also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a
> hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor
> needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here:
> https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
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