Might be useful to create a utility which takes Project Gutenberg's plain text output and converts it into something more readable.

Some possibilities:

  • Convert ALL CAPS to headers
  • Convert "" to smart quotes.
  • Create hyperlinks within TOC

submitted 02 Jun '11, 22:13

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closed 07 Jun '11, 05:59

I think is very similar to (possibly duplicate of) this existing idea: http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/1/project-gutenberg-scraping-service

(04 Jun '11, 09:07) rgrp ♦♦

Looks like it :) See also http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/283

(07 Jun '11, 05:58) tim mcnamara

The idea has been closed for the following reason "Duplicate of #1" by tim mcnamara 07 Jun '11, 05:59

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