Glad to hear you're liking the project! We just added bulk downloads too, for the collector in you: https://standardebooks.org/bulk-downloads
(Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things like patron registration, though it still doesn't index ebooks.)
If you’d just use a modern stack you could serve 10x less requests with more hardware.
They seem to be serving millions of books per month on a cheap VM. For once a smaller website didn't crash upon hitting the front page, so I don't really see any problems here.
I did read anachronistic as antagonistic (?) and less as more. Brain auto-correct may just be worse than the phone keyboard one!
It’s rare to see some good sense in this industry, which is almost completely fashion and hype/novelty driven, despite supposedly being a technical field.
Ohh dang this is good prose, and a great read to boot. Thank you!
Amazon expressly forbids any more free public domain ebooks on their platform. But our ebooks are available at the Google Play store and in the Apple store, for free.
There's a bunch of tutorials on it you can find that try to make it easy to figure out where these settings pages are. But of course Amazon likes to move that cheese every few months and A/B test "improvements" to the pages and page designs so tutorials also get outdated quickly.