{"id":422,"date":"2024-05-17T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2024-05-17T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:14:24","slug":"behind-the-scenes-at-bridges-abridged-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/behind-the-scenes-at-bridges-abridged-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes at Bridge&#8217;s Abridged Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I don&#8217;t forget how I did this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I downloaded text versions of books from Project Gutenberg.  I chose my targets from https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/browse\/scores\/top, plus I threw in the Declaration of Independence, as I was curious what the first Project Gutenberg text was.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~<code>\/bridges-abridged-books\/originals $ wget https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/1.txt.utf-8<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>~\/bridges-abridged-books\/originals $ mv 1.txt.utf-8 declaration-independence.txt<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, I used a simple grep for &#8220;bridge&#8221; &amp; included extra lines of context before &amp; after the found mention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>~\/bridges-abridged-books $ for BOOK in $(ls originals\/); do grep -C5 bridge originals\/$BOOK > abridged\/$BOOK; done<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do want to go back &amp; clean up my version of <a href=\"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/bridges-abridged-books-presents-middlemarch\/\">Middlemarch<\/a> at some point &#8212; my grep pulled in a lot of &#8220;Cambridge&#8221; and &#8220;Bambridge&#8221;, overshadowing the structure mentions.  But for now, I&#8217;m calling this good enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I don&#8217;t forget how I did this. I downloaded text versions of books from Project Gutenberg. I chose my targets from https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/browse\/scores\/top, plus I threw in the Declaration of Independence, as I was curious what the first Project Gutenberg text was. Example: ~\/bridges-abridged-books\/originals $ wget https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/1.txt.utf-8 ~\/bridges-abridged-books\/originals $ mv 1.txt.utf-8 declaration-independence.txt Next, I used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/2024\/05\/17\/behind-the-scenes-at-bridges-abridged-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behind the scenes at Bridge&#8217;s Abridged Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,49],"tags":[42,50,48,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornski.com\/maria\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}