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Classics are desperately in need of artistic reinterpretation.
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Classics are desperately in need of artistic reinterpretation.

I have been exploring the Project Gutenberg library. I have noticed that more than 75% of the catalogue doesn't have proper covers and are given computer generated garbage.(no offense intended at all. Even classics like Dostoyevsky (https://imgur.com/a/V36yDwh) have seen this fate.

This is why I propose WE (artists and readers) do something about it. So I as a developer; have come up with mimesa[.org] for the community.
You can now submit artwork to be considered as the cover of your favorite classic literature.

This will significantly improve the quality of 99% of the books in the public domain hence making classic literature more aesthetically pleasing and hence hopefully more popular.
Would appreciate any thoughts and help!

u/Ok-Boomer_27 — 14 hours ago
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Has the Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary been updated recently?

Hi, not sure where to ask this so apologies in advance if this is the wrong place. It's just that I heard about the OPTED probably about 10 years ago and from what I understand it's based on the Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. But as far as I know, neither has been updated in years. Is this accurate? And is there a reason why?

I'm doing a little programming project and went hunting for a dictionary and thesaurus, and so the question crossed my mind. Thank you

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u/softwareredditor — 1 day ago
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Gopher server sunseting

In order to streamline our server setup and keep within our budget, we will be shutting down the gopher service at gopher.pglaf.org in the next few weeks.

Note that no files are being removed, this is simply removing the port 70 service that has seen next to zero traffic for a decade.

For those of you who are interested to take one last look, Floodgap has a proxy service you can use: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.pglaf.org%2F

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u/ProjectGutenberg — 3 days ago