Guten

About

Guten is a tool to browse, retrieve, read and manage electronic books published by Project Gutenberg. Guten is Free software, distributed under the BSD licence.

Guten marks up and displays books. Bookmarks can be inserted in to the text, and the current position is automatically saved and restored.

Guten's book catalogue provides a simple interface to browse and access the entire Project Gutenberg library. Books that have already been retrieved from other sources can also be imported in to the catalogue.

Requirements

Guten is written and tested on Linux and Windows XP. It should also run on Mac OSX, but is currently untested

Windows

Windows users should download and run the self-extracting installer. It contains almost everything needed to run guten. Windows users will still need to download and install the GTK+ library.

The source package can still be used, providing all of the below dependencies are met.

Other platforms

Guten requires the following packages:

• Python. Version 2.3 or higher. Earlier versions won't work.
• GTK+ and PyGTK. Debian users should install the python-gtk2 package. A Win32 port of PyGTK is available, with directions and links for installing GTK+ and PyGTK under Windows.
• LibGlade. Debian users should install the python-glade2 package. Windows users can skip this requirement; libGlade support is already included in the Win32 PyGTK installer.
• SQLObject. Guten uses the UnicodeCol column type that was only introduced in the most recent version, 0.6.1. Debian and Ubuntu users, see this bug for details on why these distributions still only ship with 0.6, as well as links to updated packages that should work. If I sound bitter about Debian not using the version that was released seven months ago, it's because I am.
• PySQLite. Guten is developed using version 1.1. Version 2 is untested. Note that at the moment pysqlite is still required for the bookmarks database regardless of the sqlobject backend in use. This will soon change.
  Debian users should install python-sqlite.

Download

Guten releases can be downloaded from the Sourceforge project page.

The latest version of the source code is kept in an arch repository. To retrieve a copy using tla:

tla register-archive http://hardy.dropbear.id.au/arch/peter@hardy.dropbear.id.au
tla get peter@hardy.dropbear.id.au--2005/guten--main--0

Using guten

Run guten. Hit the catalogue button to open the catalogue, then the Refresh button to update the database of available books from Project Gutenberg.

Contact

Guten was written by Peter Hardy. Questions, suggestions, patches welcome.