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  • #1

    You want books? Here's books!

    ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/ProjectGutenburgDVD.iso

    The entire Project Gutenberg online library into one package...12.000 books in the palm of your hand! Link was coming down at 1200KB/s for me. This is not warez, as all these books are open-license and freely available.

    Download, burn and enjoy

    This is what I call PROGRESS!
    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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  • #2
    omfg.. is there a link to a summary of what's here? It's giving me a 21 hr download time!

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    • #3
      wow nice! Looks like I'll be done with the download in a few minutes. I'm assuming there is a TOC.

      Oh, and thanks!
      Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

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      • #4
        www.gutenberg.net is the online library...and of course there is a TOC in HTML form which allows you to browse by author or title
        All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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        • #5
          My download is going backwards.
          Attached Files

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          • #6
            1 day 2 hours to go!!! WOO HOO!!!

            Good thing this is a university FTP, or their host would be $#!^^!$# bricks.

            Jammrock
            “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
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            • #7
              Good find, I'm going to have to get more memorycards to my PDA
              If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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              • #8
                Damn, this is almost worth getting a DVD burner for by itself.

                While I'm here, have a link to the Online Books Page.
                Blah blah blah nick blah blah confusion, blah blah blah blah frog.

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                • #9
                  blistering at 220 kB/s
                  Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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                  • #10
                    What kind of books are we talking here?

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Kooldino
                      What kind of books are we talking here?
                      the list of their current top 100 popular ones:

                      Project Gutenberg
                      http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
                      Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
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                      • #12
                        May take a while to get through those.. 8)
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                        • #13
                          Gutenberg?
                          GUTENBERG?!?!

                          ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!

                          As some may remember, I was working for a private school for a while. One of my on-going projects was to download books from Gutenberg, run them through a set of macros and a voice simulator to come up with butchered versions of the books in the crazy old school directors 'e-writing' format. I had to do this to hundreds of books, and I'm sure that now that I'm gone, someone else is stuck with the project, and that person most likely hates Gutenberg as much as I do.

                          Here's a sample:
                          HugeDomains.com
                          http://book555.com/book555_com/index.asp?book=376


                          When I quit, I swore if I ever had to look at that site again, someone would have to suffer. Now I've been traumatised by this memory, and I'm going to have to take my vengence out on Lecter....
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                          • #14
                            lmao! poor, poor Kenny
                            Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Kooldino
                              What kind of books are we talking here?
                              Books that have hit the public domain.
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