Waffle

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Project Gutenberg is an amazing platform that makes books that are in the public domain accessible to everyone. The project is a massive volunteer effort that already spans 75.000 books. https://www.gutenberg.org Unfortunately the official website is a bit dated and a bit complicated when all you want is to quickly search for a book or author and to fetch the EPUB in one click. That's why I built this little helper app in a few minutes using https://instance.so Any fellow bookworms 📚🐛 here? Let me know what you think!

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1mo ago

Nika

minimalist phone: creating folders

I like the idea, but now, I can see only a few books on the main page. What is the number of publications in a database, and is there any possibility to contribute? If yes, how do you solve IP, copyrights, etc.?

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1mo ago

Thomas Schranz ⛄️

Waffle

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@busmark_w_nika The books shown on the main page are the most downloaded books on Project Gutenberg. The platform covers 75.000 books at the moment.

Collection development policy about which contributions are accepted: https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/collection_development.html

All books are in the public domain (in the US), more detailed info on licensing: https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html

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1mo ago

Nika

minimalist phone: creating folders

@__tosh Thank you, Thomas :) I had already one source for books but you know, there is not enough books to read and it is better to have more :)