Project Gutenberg Error:500

I think just since the 1.9 upgrade a lot of books from PG are giving the error:500 message. It's a bit hit or miss, but for example, all of L. M. Alcott's novels seem to give it, though some of her short story collections are fine. And I randomly tried a bunch of other books, including some from the "most popular" list, and most gave the same message.

error 500 on Gutenberg

I downloaded several books with no problem but have trouble with two by the same author.
The Rock of Chickamauga by Joseph A. Altsheler was one of these.

Love this app, maybe I'll start reading my old favorites again.

Error code 500 & 502

I received these when I attempted to download a few public domain books from Feedbooks? This happened with 6 or 7 books; however, most of the books I wanted downloaded with any problem.

Dec 10 still seeing error 500 on pg downloads

Author Peter B. Kyne. All books but one error.

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500 error should be fixed for Kyne books

Thanks for reporting this. We believe this is now corrected.

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We believe we have fixed all

We believe we have fixed all of the outstanding problems with the Project Gutenberg catalog. Please do try your books again and let us know if you continue to encounter problems.

Another instance of "Error: 500"

Hello! This evening, 10/7/2009, I attempted to download _The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary_ from Project Gutenberg, but the "Import Failed...Error: 500" message popped up on each of several attempts. This is not an immediate problem for me, but I thought that it would be good to make LexCycle aware that this issue apparently still exists with some PG texts. Thanks for listening!

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Thanks for the info. There is

Thanks for the info. There is a problem with that book that we will work on fixing.

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