Create smaller selections

[Popolechien]

The Gutenberg zim currently stands at 70GB in English, which has generated comments from users that it is rather unwiedly.

It would be interesting to offer fiction / non fiction subsets or anything based on the projects' bookshelves

[rgaudin]

What would be the input? A list of bookshelves IDs to include?

[Popolechien]

Would this be the easiest way to implement such an idea?

Alternatively, at this stage I don't think that the input should be left to users (or any curator), so maybe having the scraper automatically generate a zim for each bookshelf ID might be less labour intensive first step.

[rgaudin]

I see 👍 probably a good first step

[eshellman]

The PG bookshelves are currently not maintained; they used to be maintained on a wiki that got shut down because the underlying wiki software had security issues. Re-enabling the bookshelf management is a project that was worked on a year ago but didn't reach the finish line. So it might be a good idea to wait on this.

[kelson42]

The PG bookshelves are currently not maintained; they used to be maintained on a wiki that got shut down because the underlying wiki software had security issues. Re-enabling the bookshelf management is a project that was worked on a year ago but didn't reach the finish line. So it might be a good idea to wait on this.

@eshellman Thank you for this important feedback. I guess the problem is mostly not technical. Maybe this can be done somewhere in a dedicated code repository? For example github has a small wiki engine and a wiki is available for each repository. Anyway, that sounds problematic to implement this feature if the PG shelfs are not maintained!