Johannes Gutenberg Inventions

Gutenprint project, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4) and Linux...

The PyGE (Python Gutenberg E-text) project is a suite ofGUI desktop utilities written in Python to promote andfacilitate awareness and enjoyment of works of literaturethat are available from the archives of Project Gutenberg.

GutenPy project is a comfortable text reader and catalog browser for Project Gutenberg. GutenPy is written with Python GTK2, so all those nice clean fonts are available. This also allows it to run well on both Windows and Linux. It features handy bookmarking, line numbering, and word definition...


Platforms: *nix

Guten is a tool for browsing, retrieving, reading, and managing electronic books published by Project Gutenberg. It provides an interface for reading books that allows bookmarks to be added to text. Books can be imported from files that have already been downloaded, or through a simple...


Platforms: *nix

The tool used internally at Project Gutenberg to convert HTML or plain text ebooks to EPUBs. Can also process reST into EPUB.


Platforms: Mac

Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. We carry high quality ebooks: Our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized by us with the help of...


Platforms: *nix

Grabs most recent index from Project Gutenberg.Download, decompress, and put the resulting grabgutindex.sh file in your path (e.g. ~/bin). Make sure you have execute permissions.Cool ideas for extending this: cron the script so it happens automagicallycron a grep on it to keep an eye out for fave...


Platforms: Mac

Permits the conversion of texts, such as those from the Gutenberg project, into multiple audio files. It breaks the text on sentence boundaries for better listening. It can save the files as AIFF or mp3 files.


Platforms: Mac

Guiguts is a Perl/Tk text editor designed for editing and formating public domain material for inclusion at Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org). Features are provided for editing text files produced by Distributed Proofreaders (www.pgdp.net).


Platforms: Windows

SpeedReader is a Java GUI speed reading program, with a pluggable algorithm architecture, that allows users to read text documents from sources such as Project Gutenberg.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

GNU gv is an an X11 ghostscript interface based on Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5. GNU gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a graphical user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. gv is a improved derivation of Timothy O. Theisen's...


Platforms: *nix

Turns your computer monitor into an electronic paperback book, read without scrolling or panning -just flip pages like a real book. Works with ebooks in txt, html or rtf, customise font, type size, paper, ink color and more. Great for reading Project Gutenberg ebooks.


Platforms: Windows

On-line personal diaries, or blogs, are one of the most recent and widely accepted Internet inventions. Anyone can express their thoughts and opinions, without needing to build a webpage. This is why bogs have become so popular: they are simple..Novice users could, however, find certain...


Platforms: Windows

JBook project allows you to retrieve, read, and bookmark electronic texts. Its primarily from Project Gutenberg but eventually from other sources. Whats New in This Release: - Picking a font previews it live in the main display - Scrollbar for easier movement and position display - Color...


Platforms: *nix

EText Reader project is a simple cross-platform GUI EText reader.. It uses the wxWindows GUI library. It allows selection of font, and foreground and background colors, as well as persistant reading position and bookmarking. It supports browsing, searching, and direct downloading of Project...


Platforms: *nix

This is the IRC gateway for Microsoft(tm) Messenger. You probably wonder what this is and why I wrote this. Some more information can be found in the DESIGN document that is included in this package. This software is written by Johannes Verelst and is licensed through the GPL license...


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Hopify project is a set of tools and documentation on how to learn to speed read. It allows the user to convert Project Gutenberg books into hopified, printable pages. The User can use those pages to learn how to read multiple hopified words at once..


Platforms: *nix

Berkeley Yacc is an LALR(1) parser generator. Berkeley Yacc has been made as compatible as possible with AT&T Yacc. Berkeley Yacc can accept any input specification that conforms to the AT&T Yacc documentation. Specifications that take advantage of undocumented features of AT&T Yacc will probably...


Platforms: *nix

mod_litbook is an alternate method for referencing documents. mod_litbook is an experiment in web techonology - an experiment in document reference and retrieval is at the core of this module. Although the initial "Proof of Concept" is the King James Bible, the concept has a broader range of...


Platforms: *nix

Counting Sheep is a Dashboard widget that lets you listen to music or watch a movie while you're already in bed (or leaving the house, but prefer to do so with the approriate music playing). You just enter how many hours, minutes and seconds shall pass before the Mac shuts down and press start.


Platforms: Mac