Saturday, January 1st, 2005
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PDF, iSilo, Plucker, and eReader eBooks might have embedded cover images from here on out.
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iPod Notes format is now available - instructions on how to install are forthcoming, but basically all you need to do is unzip the downloaded file and move it into the ‘Notes’ directory on your iPod.
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Finally fixed all titles that begin with “A” or “The” so that they alphabetize correctly.Thanks Greta!
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Re-working the site CSS - using Khoi Vinh’s subtraction.com as a guide.
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Added “content search” to the Advanced Search page.
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The site has moved to a new hard drive - please let me know if you experience any problems.
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A Most Popular Titles of the Week page has been added.
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eReader titles will now contain cover images - at least, with the desktop eReader (it doesn’t seem to work with the Palm version for some reason).
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Author lists now show all authors, instead of shorter lists in groups of ten.
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Librie format is available again, but still does not work consistently.
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Foreign language eBooks should convert to eReader format correctly now.
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Librie format is back in beta mode, and David Rothman (of Teleread) is sending a loaner Librie reader to test with!
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Disabled Librie format until it works
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No one seems interested in voting for titles, so that’s turned off.
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Anyone interested in reading books using a WAP phone? Sort of like this, but with WML, I guess.
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I’ve added a “vote” feature, so visitors can rate each title. Still need to figure out the best way to phrase it…
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Just figured out some weird stuff in our referer logs - AdminShop and xcopy.com kept showing up.
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The order of format choices in the drop-down menu has been re-organized to reflect the relative popularity of each format.
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LRF format is in “beta test” mode — Librie eBooks should work (we don’t have one to test with yet!)
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TCR format has been added — it’s for Symbian phones.
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Continued problems with extra lines in the DOC formatted files. Let us know if you have trouble!
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Added a “Random eBook” link. Each time the page is refreshed it will select another random title.
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Comments and Reviews can now be added to every eBook! Just click on the “Reviews” tab (it’s next to the “Excerpt” heading).
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The doc and zTXT formatting errors have been resolved — double spaces between lines have been removed.
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An RSS feed has been created, and will list the 10 most recent eBooks.
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Recent Additions are now available. Manybooks.net is almost up-to-date with Project Gutenberg releases!
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Added auto-generated book cover thumbnails to the sidebar.
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Re-designed the site. Let me know if you have any trouble, or have a comment you’d like to share.
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“Popularity” counter reset 4/11/2004 at 68,000 downloads. Also accidentally deleted all of the databases. Whoops. Fixed, though.
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iSiloX format has been added, and has Chapters - iSiloX requires iSilo v3.1 or better.
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Palmreader documents now have Chapters.
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Changed the list of available formats to a drop-down menu, and your selected format should remain selected thereafter.
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Reset the “Popularity” counter - more than 94,000 downloads from 12/29/2003 to 3/29/2004
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Changed scripts so the documents and eBooks appear to come from a sub-directory ~~ this should fix a problem with older Windows IE browsers that save all books as “send.pdb”
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Added Palm Reader format. It’s not showing much formatting right now…
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Changed the “excerpts” to show only 1k of text, rather than 2k.
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Added basic browsing by Book Cover and started drawing covers.
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Plucker’s formatting has been modified: “Click for Next Part” is no longer present in documents.
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An anonymous visitor suggested the addition of Authors names to the Category section (good idea!). I’ve also added it to the Language section.
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manybooks.net domain has been set up and is being tweaked.
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Missing “br” sequences have been fixed for Doc and zTXT eBooks.
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Project Gutenberg Archive links have been moved to the left sidebar.
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