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GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

by bilinualcom on 8/2/20, 1:14 PM with 42 comments

• by gravitas on 8/2/20, 2:40 PM

  The https://standardebooks.org/ project has been rebuilding ebooks (open ePUB format) with an eye on quality and readability on mobiles/tablets (fonts, copyedit, etc.) which might be of interest, all books and the website revision are tracked in git.

• by thangalin on 8/2/20, 4:33 PM

  I wrote a technical comparison between various public domain eBook projects:

  https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...

• by koolba on 8/2/20, 1:52 PM

  They’re probably going to have to change their name to something that does not have “git” in it: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

• by maire on 8/2/20, 2:32 PM

  This looks like a subset of Project Gutenberg?

  The Girl from Alsace in Gitenberg: https://www.gitenberg.org/book/35926

  The Girl from Alsace in Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35926

  The numbers are even the same which seems suspicious. Hmmm.

• by hnarayanan on 8/2/20, 2:20 PM

  I don't know why, but I expected some amazing typography in their PDFs. :(

• by sethish on 8/2/20, 3:12 PM

  You might be more familiar with another project the Free Ebook Foundation maintains: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ Which is one of the top-10 repos on github by number of stars.

• by anaphor on 8/2/20, 6:30 PM

  I like how they're able to accurately tag translators vs original authors, e.g. https://github.com/GITenberg/The-History-of-the-Peloponnesia...

• by voldemort1968 on 8/2/20, 5:45 PM

  What is improved by adding Git to PG?