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Show the cast this replies toI'm really excited about this, im a literature freak and even if am not a great ebook reader, I think this is better than Wikipedia. About the Borges problem you mentioned: La biblioteca de Babel in the original Spanish is something you said you could legally host If possible I would love to contribute on the Spanish side, If it helps, I think I can prepare the texts as plain .txt files or your predefine format. Just thinking out loud if "ñ" or "á,é,í..ü" might be a problem (?).
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I found the original in the Library: tinyurl.com/hdsbsv2y The accented characters are automatically replaced by their non-accented (and uppercase) equivalent when searching for a text in the Library. I *could* change the Library settings to accept more than 64 different symbols, to let's say 128–1,024, so that we could include accented letters (keep in mind that even ASCII at 1,024 doesn't include accents, so we'd need to come up with a bespoke set). But then the size of the library would balloon — for example from 64^(2^20) right now (where 2^20 is the number of characters in one book) to e.g., 1,024^(2^20), which in an increase from ~10^1,893,917 to ~10^3,156,528 possible books 🫠 Alternatively we stick with the current 64 symbols and the tradeoff is capital letters only, no accents. I'll need to think deeper about this. Eventually I'd like to have some version of the TinyURL scheme where I can store shortcuts to books — wouldn't be a bijection, only a limited number of shorter URLs can represent a limited number of books given the math of addressing a book. This will make linking much easier, and we could have a whole database in the Library where you can properly add or look up any book.
The 64 symbols excluding accentuated capital letters seems fair enought. Congrats on the project, again, I really love it.
