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Is there a way to contribute to the index pages? I found a typo (sales as salees) on one of them[0] and I don't see a repository for the main site itself. [0]:
by microcolonel 9y ago
Is there a way to contribute to the index pages? I found a typo (sales as salees) on one of them[0] and I don't see a repository for the main site itself.
[0]: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-meredith/the-shaving-of-shagpat https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-meredith/the-shavin...
Also, I think it might be interesting to have multiple editions in the future. It would be nice to support editions in reduced reading levels for works which are not artistic prose (such as translated prose, or philosophy). For example, in the first paragraph of On Liberty, Mill writes:
> A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question of the future.
This sentence has five clauses, and one parenthetical; difficult prose. The first chapter of On Liberty contains a total of 80 adverbs, ~69 uses of passive voice. It also contains a bizarre convention of referencing previous phrases with ordinals.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoWould multiple editions be worth the effort? I can see that having them might be useful to some few people but creating a new version of On Liberty would be a substantial amount of work even if it could be done algorithmically because of the proof-reading required to make sure that it conveyed the same meaning as the original. Are there many people who would struggle to read the original who are nonetheless sufficiently interested that they would read a 'simplified' version?
- acabal 9y agoSure, the index pages pull from the "long description" in the source's metadata file. In this ebook's case, the metadata file is here: https://github.com/standardebooks/george-meredith_the-shaving-of-shagpat/blob/master/src/epub/content.opf https://github.com/standardebooks/george-meredith_the-shavin... I've gone ahead and corrected the typo, thanks! :)