Searching Project Gutenberg
2004-08-26 23:10:27.916441+02 by Shawn 0 comments
From time to time, I've traipsed on over to Project Gutenberg to see how they're coming along. I love the idea, but the browse/search capability remains its weakest point, in my opinion. I'm almost never looking for a specific author or title, but rather just want to browse a genre or category. Unfortunately, Project Gutenberg doesn't seem to be interested in focusing on my preferred (nearly exclusive) category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy. The site does identify individual books as belonging to the Fiction "subject", but it's not an option in the advanced search. (The subject is clickable on the book detail page, but the site complains of too many search results and asks you to refine your search.)
I'm having thoughts about starting a kind of an online community for sharing/posting direct links to books and/or authors who fit the criteria of what I'd be interested in. As kind of a precursur to that, and because we saw the new remake of Around the World in 80 Days last weekend, I give you the available stories of Jules Verne. (Note that audio books are now included at Project Gutenberg.)