Website To Find Gutenberg Texts Not Yet Recorded In LibriVox

joemorris · Post by **joemorris** » July 8th, 2014, 8:45 pm

I made a webpage to make it easier to see what texts in Project Gutenberg have not been recorded in LibriVox yet:

http://xenotropic.net/gutenovox/

It's the Project Gutenberg catalog, searchable by category (Library of Congress Subject Headings) or by author last name. When you click on the category or author, it shows you all the relevant Gutenberg texts, with an added column with links to Librivox recordings of that work, and another with estimated reading time.

Because the librivox and gutenberg catalogs don't "join" perfectly, some LibriVox recordings may not show up. But most of them do, probably 80-90%. I plan to get most of the other 10-20% to show up eventually, but I think it is usable enough as it is. If you like it, please consider mentioning it in forums wherever it seems appropriate, such as with lists of texts to record. You can send comments and bug reports here, or via PM, or email from the bottom of the Gutenovox page.

The underlying software is open source: https://github.com/xenotropic/gutenovox

Thanks!

Joe
Oakland, CA, USA

gypsygirl · Post by **gypsygirl** » July 10th, 2014, 6:14 am

Nice! And I see that you can sort by the column headings, so you can have all the non-LV ones together. Really nice!

carolb · Post by **carolb** » July 10th, 2014, 9:35 am

Cool name too!

Carol

Post by **chocoholic** » July 11th, 2014, 5:23 am

Great idea! I think this could be very useful. I do want to point out that not all texts on Gutenberg are in the public domain, and that is the reason some of them have not been recorded at LV. Examples: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 , http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1123 , http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18224 . (Side note: most of the Shakespeares in our catalog have non-Gutenberg text sources either because of the copyright status or because the formatting of the text is easier to use on other sites.) I wonder, is there a way for you to weed out the ones under copyright so they won't appear? The US copyright status is noted in each book's Bibrec tab but I don't know if it's coded in a way that you could use.

Anyway, as long as people use your site as you intended (as a tool, not a to-do list

) and remember to check copyright as they should in any case, it shouldn't cause a problem.

joemorris · Post by **joemorris** » July 11th, 2014, 9:46 am

Laurie Anne -- The Gutenberg catalog database I'm using has column called "rights" for each book that was either "G" or "C". It appears that "G" means public domain and "C" means copyrighted -- all the works you cited were "C", and the majority (44,353 vs 937) of the works in the Gutenberg catalog were "G". I am now only showing the "G" works.

Post by **chocoholic** » July 11th, 2014, 9:57 am

Great! Yes, it's a very small percentage of their books that is copyrighted, which (for me

) makes it harder to remember to double check. I'm glad it was easy to implement! (At least you make it sound like it was easy...)

BellonaTimes · Post by **BellonaTimes** » July 20th, 2014, 5:24 pm

This link ought to be on page one of LV's website; also on Project Gutenberg under associated projects.

Post by **annise** » July 20th, 2014, 6:35 pm

I agree it's great BT , but we do need it to test run a bit - and see if problems come up before we put it somewhere where people will rely on it totally.
For example - I have noticed BC's not entering the main link for PG books - entering epub or other sub pages instead and if that gets through to the database I think it doesn't pick them up as being done ?

Anne

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » July 20th, 2014, 11:31 pm

Agreed - it is a brilliant aid! But it can never be a definitive tool for the reason that Anne mentions, and also as so many other text sources are used here too.

Ruth

marys44 · Post by **marys44** » July 23rd, 2014, 11:20 am

https://librivox.org/totem-and-taboo-by-sigmund-freud/

I recorded "Totem and Taboo" by Freud but it doesn't show on your list as existing.

mary s

YouTube · Post by **Darvinia** » July 23rd, 2014, 11:27 am

marys44 wrote:https://librivox.org/totem-and-taboo-by-sigmund-freud/

I recorded "Totem and Taboo" by Freud but it doesn't show on your list as existing.

mary s

The online text for that listed on the catalogue page is not a gutenberg text, it's archive.org.
http://www.archive.org/stream/totemandtaboore00freugoog#page/n7/mode/1up

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » July 23rd, 2014, 1:46 pm

My point entirely - it's a most useful place to look for ideas, but you also need to check with the LibriVox catalogue that a book hasn't been recorded from another source.

Ruth