Project Gutenberg mirrors and Internet Archive server links
Posted: January 7th, 2017, 7:18 am
When there are connection issues with the main PG site (gutenberg.org), you can use the mirrors that are hosted by libraries and universities as listed here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL
They don't have catalogue search so you need to locate the book folders based on the PG number as described here:
ftp://aleph.gutenberg.org/README
The good thing about mirrors is that they don't nag the visitors with captchas etc, that's why in Readiance users are offered mirror links even when there's no connection issue with the main PG site.
I put together a form which converts the PG links to mirror links. It also takes care of some of the older links in LibriVox catalogue which are not valid anymore:
https://readiance.org/pg-fallback
Readiance also has a fallback mechanism for Internet Archive links. It keeps a local backup of metadata files in the Internet Archive's LibriVox collection. So whenever the main IA site is in maintenance, it uses the servers and directories found in the local metadata files which often helps. A user interface for it:
https://readiance.org/ia-fallback
TL;DR: If you have connection issues with the main Project Gutenberg site (gutenberg.org) or with Internet Archive you can try these:
https://readiance.org/pg-fallback
https://readiance.org/ia-fallback
Hope it helps.
Firat
http://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL
They don't have catalogue search so you need to locate the book folders based on the PG number as described here:
ftp://aleph.gutenberg.org/README
The good thing about mirrors is that they don't nag the visitors with captchas etc, that's why in Readiance users are offered mirror links even when there's no connection issue with the main PG site.
I put together a form which converts the PG links to mirror links. It also takes care of some of the older links in LibriVox catalogue which are not valid anymore:
https://readiance.org/pg-fallback
Readiance also has a fallback mechanism for Internet Archive links. It keeps a local backup of metadata files in the Internet Archive's LibriVox collection. So whenever the main IA site is in maintenance, it uses the servers and directories found in the local metadata files which often helps. A user interface for it:
https://readiance.org/ia-fallback
TL;DR: If you have connection issues with the main Project Gutenberg site (gutenberg.org) or with Internet Archive you can try these:
https://readiance.org/pg-fallback
https://readiance.org/ia-fallback
Hope it helps.
Firat