Bug 1182368 - Enhancement Request: Add More "General Books"
Summary: Enhancement Request: Add More "General Books"
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xiphos
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: greg.hellings
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2015-01-15 00:19 UTC by David Le Sage
Modified: 2015-01-26 19:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-01-26 19:50:46 UTC
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Description David Le Sage 2015-01-15 00:19:37 UTC
Description of problem:

At the moment, under the "General Books" section of Xiphos, you only have three devotionals: Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, Orthodoxy by Chesterton and Pilgirm's Progress by Bunyan.

I'd like to please suggest some more major mainstream Christian texts, all of which are well and truly out of copyright and therefore in the public domain.



1.  Table Talk by Martin Luther. An electronic copy is available here:

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/tabletalk.i.html

2.  Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin. An electronic copy is available here:

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.i.html

3. A Selection of the Most Celebrated Sermons of John Calvin. An electronic copy is available here:

https://archive.org/stream/selectionofmostc00calv/selectionofmostc00calv_djvu.txt

4.  The Journal of George Fox.  An electronic copy is available here:

http://www.strecorsoc.org/gfox/title.html


5. The Confession of Saint Patrick. An electronic copy is available here:

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/patrick/confession.i.html

6. Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Fox. An electronic copy is available here:

http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/home.html


7. Major writings of Dick Sheppard (famous British Anglican priest and Christian radio broadcaster of the 1930s). Can be easily collated from these:

http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_2.html#forgive%20them
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_3.html#I%20will%20not%20fight
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_3.html#if%20another%20war%20comes
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_4.html#murder%20is%20wrong
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_5.html#candid%20letter
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_6.html#christian%20attitudes
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_7.html#root%20of%20the%20matter
http://www.ppu.org.uk/e_publications/sheppard_8.html#let%20us%20honour%20peace

8. Quest for the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/


9. Blanche Gamond: A Heroine of the Faith.  An electronic copy is available here (but this one is a Google book scan downloadable as a PDF, not in plain-text format so it might be more work to migrate into Xiphos):

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7EkBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=blanche+gamond+a+heroine+of+the+faith&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MP-2VPO-ONTn8AW3s4HADA&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=blanche%20gamond%20a%20heroine%20of%20the%20faith&f=false

10. Historical Protestant/Calvinist liturgical book:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJK3532.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext



I hope these suggestions help improve the product.

Comment 1 greg.hellings 2015-01-26 19:50:46 UTC
If you switch your install source to the "Xiphos" repository instead of the "CrossWire" repository, you will find there are several more General Books available. If you would like to report these specific ones upstream at http://crosswire.org/wiki/Module_Requests, then you may do so. In the meantime, I'll close this out as it has nothing to do with the Fedora packaging of this product nor is there anything the packagers can do about it.


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