# No more gutenberg gopher

Unfortunately Project Gutenberg have now shut down their gopher
server rendering my unofficial Gutenberg search front end to their
catalogue on gopher useless.

Ben Collver had warned me that this was on the cards but, I had no
answer at the time how to continue the service. Ben mentioned that
their catalogue was available to rsync but that it contained several
terabytes of files.  I just don't have the storage capacity to hold
a mirror that I could make accessible via gopher.

Suggestions would be appreciated.


I have already lost two other gopher services due to API changes
or shutdown of services. 

The weather info for my location, that I had for some time displaying
ascii weather forecast images, provided by the Met Office. I signed
up to their new Free-Plan but, couldn't find a comparable data set
to the one I had been using. Also the pod cast search API I was
using has closed down and again, I couldn't find something to easily
replace it.

Dependence on third parties is always a problem.