AusGamers now has a BitTorrent up for the Project Gutenberg DVD. The DVD includes about 9400 eBooks from December 2003 and earlier.

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BitTorrent users can grab it now from AusGamers. BigPond users can download it from BigPond Files - please note though that due the immense size (4.1Gb), resume support will not work on BPFiles, so you may want to download it divided into smaller parts which will resume properly.

you rock trog.

unfortunatley, the ie download thingy doesnt... i'm currently at "-9%"

I dont think its used to donwloading 4gb files :D

edit: ghey cable dload speed... 300k/s - wtf? heh, at least its better than dsl :P

last edited by mongie at 17:23:17 24/Feb/04

I'll wait another week til I'm on bigpond before I attempt this :P

Why was there a long battle?

unfortunatley, the ie download thingy doesnt... i'm currently at "-9%"

It should still work, as long as the download is uninterrupted.

Why was there a long battle?

First up, the DVD was removed from the location I was downloading it from mid-download. Then I had to find the download again. Then none of the download tools I was using could deal with a file of that size. Then I installed GetRight and things started looking good, but it inexplicably deleted the partially downloaded file. Finally I found a solid mirror that worked, and I finally got it down.

Basically, not enough applications have support for large files yet. I'm quite stunned to see its not supported properly in such a wide variety of software (wget, curl, apache to name a few).

poo, I hope you're telling me it's not supported in wget on win32 only... I'm using wget on my linux box right now...

what kinds of readrs are people using to read these?? alot are straight text files but quite a few have some funky formatting in them (dictionarys etc..)

yeah, IE doesn't seem to tell the truth when you download really large files. Why doesn't bigpond support resuming of large files?

it's not necessarily IE that's the problem, it's windows itself. Ever done a large file copy accross a network and seen the '139832039546380 minutes to go' message when there's really only a half hour wait or so?

It strange that explorer.exe can't get it right considering a copy /Z is pretty reliable.

omg, almost 2gb done.

*rage at my postlimit being halved from 60secs to 120secs*

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I thought this was gonna be about giving a failed Police Academy star another shot at the big time.

If that was the case the topic would've been: Kill Bill 3: Bill's back - Guttenburg to star as reincarnated Bill.

Tarantino's the only one that revives hasbeen's carreers and makes them last.

The bit torrent link doesn't seem to be working for me at work here?

Bit Torrent is gay.
Ps dling it right now off bigpond almost got it :P

i got it off telstra a few hours ago, after 3 attempts...

8 gigs of unmetered download... hahahahahah

The bit torrent link doesn't seem to be working for me at work here?

You're just saying that because its broken (its fixed now)

8 gigs of unmetered download... hahahahahah

what's funny about that, except that your download skills are obviously laughable

Cheers trog :)

So what off project gutenberg (sp) have you guys found interesting?

So what off project gutenberg (sp) have you guys found interesting?

I haven't actually downloaded the DVD myself yet, but a few weeks ago I downloaded Homer's Iliad and have been steadily making my way through that.

I dont even have 4gig of free space... Hmmmm

DVD burn time.

"A Princess of Mars" from "The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs" looks worth a read.

Any other finds?

got the dvd sitting on my desk, but the whole thing kinda looks a little too intimiditaing to browse though at the moment :P

can you please reseed this trog ? tracker is down.

thanks mate.

will do asap

edit: done

last edited by trog at 11:27:32 31/May/04

thanks trog much appreciated

Don't know about you but I definately want to know what I'm getting before I devote that much bandwidth to that...

You can get a complete list of what's available in .zip format from here
or alternatively by Author, Title or the eBook itself

last edited by HERMITech at 21:45:09 01/Jun/04

Or you can search and view the entire gutenburg library in html from mazarin

/. article on mazarin

browsing the website seems to be more benificial... as there is lots of new stuff added or updted...

nice site though...

Hang on...

Two helpful posts in 1 QGL thread !
This is profoundly disturbing

dude - this is an AUSGAMERS news post

not everything on the net revolves around qgl :p

My cats breath smells like cat food.

e.g "The Time Machine" 196kb are these complete novels?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/boffiend/pgdownload.jpg

It's actually up to -296% now

HOORAH FOR IE

*rage at my postlimit being halved from 60secs to 120secs*

Doubled?


Also, who can sit there staring at a computer screen for ages? I'd soon er have the book. But oh well looks good anyway, probably save a f***load of cash.

Yea they are complete novels...

I think it was sony who recently released a palm sized reader that works by permanently altering the screen (instead of sucking up power by generating a image over and over like a monitor) it only uses battery power when you change the text.

The text itself looks just like a newspaper and it doesnt suffer from glare in sunlight. The screen is about as thick as piece of cardboard.

Anyone know the name of this s*** or the product from sony?

worst steve gutenburg thread ever

Anyone know the name of this s*** or the product from sony?

nope, but i want one.

Well the display tech is calledeink

Some /. articles /. /. /.

It's over $300 American and only available in japan, runs on linux, 10000 pages on 3 aa batteries. It's bendable too, the idea is you would carry the screen around in a tiny canister and pull it out like on that mars movie.

Unreal! I was talking to a [certain company] training rep back in 1999 and he told me they'd just developed this technology. They'd only built one and it cost $100,000. I wasn't allowed to tell anyone because it was top secret at the time.

All he would tell me was that it was like an A4 piece of paper that could be rolled up, but it acted as a computer screen right to the edges. Sounded very exciting.

We're living in the future! :D

First time I heard about eink was in 1999, just some news article, probably /. I dont suppose you remember the month? If he was just dicking you around about it being top secret you could confront him after all these years, maybe scream "I TRUSTED YOU" or something at him, would be funny, I'd laugh.