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Here it is!

The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby, published in 1924, is about the society of suburban Hull in the early twentieth century and its treatment of a young woman who fails in what it sees as the ultimate purpose of a young woman's life—getting married. It is a very good book, taking a slow run-up to a resounding conclusion in minute and brilliant detail of setting and character, and it has one of the most satisfying endings of any book I've ever read.

When I submit the files for a new ebook, there are two steps that have to happen before it's available for download: first, the lovely processing volunteers at Project Gutenberg check the files, fix any mistakes they find and upload them, at which point they email me to let me know it's up; then the files actually have to finish uploading and appear on the website itself. Usually the first stage takes a day or two and the second a few hours, but this time it was the other way round: the processing team worked very fast and I got their email only a couple of hours after sending the files, but for mysterious reasons it's taken another day and a half for the book to materialise. Thus I have been impatiently bouncing up and down waiting to post this since Wednesday evening, but it's here now!

Date: Jul. 29th, 2022 06:02 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
From: [personal profile] sovay
The Crowded Street on Project Gutenberg

Thank you so much!

Date: Jul. 29th, 2022 06:43 pm (UTC)
garonne: (Default)
From: [personal profile] garonne

Yay, thank you! I just downloaded it.

Date: Jul. 29th, 2022 07:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] luzula
Woohoo! Congratulations on finishing it! \o/

Date: Jul. 29th, 2022 10:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] osprey_archer
Thank you for all your hard work! These glimpses of the process of getting a book onto Gutenberg.org are so fascinating.

Date: Jul. 30th, 2022 05:30 am (UTC)
scintilla10: stack of well-read books; text: "I love to read" (Stock readerly - ilovetoread booksbooksb)
From: [personal profile] scintilla10
Yay! That's so great. Love the sound of this one!

Date: Jul. 30th, 2022 12:13 pm (UTC)
oursin: Brush the Wandering Hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [personal profile] oursin
Holtby love! I have this if not in a first, in an early hardback edition - I don't think it was one of the ones reprinted in Fontana paperback after South Riding was televised in 1974, which is where most of my collection came from (honestly, she was not dragged from obscurity by Virago Press, just saying...)

Date: Jul. 30th, 2022 12:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ysilme
Thank you so much for doing this, that's awsome. I'm certainly giving it a try, no matter how long my TBR list already is. (Are you familiar with bookcrossing? In the German community there, several acronyms are circulating, derived from the pile of unread books which would be the SUB, Stapel Ungelesener Bücher = pile of unrad books, going up to bookshelf of unread books, room of unread books and house of unread books. My digital equivalent of that is certainly "house" by now. ;op )

How do you go about making ebooks for Project Gutenberg? Can anybody do this or is this limited to certain people/groups? I might be interesting in contributing as well for German books, if that's possible.
Edit to add I'm currently goign through the FAQs and how-to's on the Gutenberg site, so perhaps my questions will be answered there already. :o)
Edited Date: Jul. 30th, 2022 12:40 pm (UTC)

Date: Aug. 2nd, 2022 03:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lirazel
Downloaded! Who knows when I'll be able to read it, but I am looking forward to it, and I will enjoy it even more knowing that you made it possible!

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