of mice and men
Dec. 17th, 2006 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorWhen I first discovered Project Gutenberg and bought the ebook readers I blundered forward with all the enthusiasm and direction of a lobotomized black lab. I had a vague idea of making a site that could store various file formats and provide a searchable database of PG and user uploaded files, at first for myself but with the ability to have multiple people access it. It was rather grandiose.
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derien was poking me a few weeks ago about the fact that I hadn't done anything with it. The fact is I realized that the number of people who actively use the file formats I'm working in is probably less than 1,000 outside of Russia. (Russia has a large percentage of the world's ebook fans, search for ebook on LJ and see how many Cyrillic character sets you get.) As far as HTML data, the files I make look nice in a browser but very few people want to read "War and Peace" at a computer. So my desire to work on the overall site vanished. What I've already created serves my purposes and makes downloading and converting books easier. The only thing I haven't had was a catalog of what files I have created, in case anyone ever wanted one of them.
This is a job for Library Thing! I added all the files I have on my ebook (here).
derien was poking me a few weeks ago about the fact that I hadn't done anything with it. The fact is I realized that the number of people who actively use the file formats I'm working in is probably less than 1,000 outside of Russia. (Russia has a large percentage of the world's ebook fans, search for ebook on LJ and see how many Cyrillic character sets you get.) As far as HTML data, the files I make look nice in a browser but very few people want to read "War and Peace" at a computer. So my desire to work on the overall site vanished. What I've already created serves my purposes and makes downloading and converting books easier. The only thing I haven't had was a catalog of what files I have created, in case anyone ever wanted one of them.This is a job for Library Thing! I added all the files I have on my ebook (here).
