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Why don't you add some kind of index/search?

Because parsing the original metadata from Project Gutenberg is time consuming to write. I wasn't going to submit it to HN until I had an index/search api, but someone beat me to it.

But what/where is the metadata? Is it functionally equivalent to the Gutenberg's info (e.g. in the RDF dump). Or something else?

I was looking to write an alternative search for Gutenberg, based on the RDF dump, so would be happy to collaborate/discuss ideas.

Yep. The RDF/XML data. I have a mirror of it on github: https://github.com/sethwoodworth/PG_rdf_metadata

I would love to have a complete python parser for the metadata. I strongly recommend collaborating with the Gutenberg package posted to HN a few weeks ago (and his rdf branch): https://github.com/c-w/Gutenberg/tree/migrate-to-rdf

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