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Shakespeare's plays #2

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eshellman opened this issue Jan 18, 2025 · 0 comments

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eshellman commented Jan 18, 2025

PG has a bunch of versions of Shakespeare's plays, the earlier of which are not really presentable. And other outliers.

For example, Much ado about nothing is:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1519 (not bad at all)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2240 (horrible)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1520 (horrible)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1118 (not the worst)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2252 (horrible)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1783 (horrible)

there are catalog notes saying that 1519 is an "improved" version.

quick search shows them all.
As part of a UI redesign, we could do things like

remove 5 of these 6 from search results (the obsoletes)
add redirects to 1519 along with override parameters.
reformat the generated html for the obsoletes
stop making ebook files for the the obsoletes
one step we could take in this path is to create a type : obsolete

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