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Or in any format you like here: https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics or https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harv
by phs318u 8y ago
Or in any format you like here: https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics https://archive.org/details/Harvard-Classics or https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf) https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)
EDIT: added Project Gutenberg link.
- robin_reala 8y agoSlight self promotion, but Standard Ebooks has a few of the classics, and a few more of the classic fiction available as nicely formatted and accessible PD ebooks (epub, Kobo variant epub, and Kindle formats for each): - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto... - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditations/george-long https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation... - Don Quixote by Cervantes: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/don-quixote/john-ormsby https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/miguel-de-cervantes-saaved... - Pride and Predudice by Jane Austen: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prej... - Vanity Fair by William Thackeray: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera... - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copperfield https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copp... - Washington Irving collection: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sketch-book-of-geoffrey-crayon-gent https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sket... - Father Goriot by Balzac: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-goriot/ellen-marriage https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-go... - The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/r-d-boylan https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows... - Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/crime-and-punishment/constance-garnett https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/crime-an... These are nearly always taken from the Gutenberg source transcriptions, but tidied up typographically and marked up using modern technologies. If you notice any problems with any of these we’ll happily take PRs!
- patja 8y agoAt the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, the ePub versions I tried are rather unreadable, at least for me. Too many erroneously omitted spaces between words, odd hyphens breaking a word up in the middle of a paragraph, and mis-spellings.
- jlpom 8y agoI have this issue on all the epubs I have downloaded on archive.org, the converter they use (pandoc?) seems to give bad results on pdf-epub.
- robin_reala 8y agoIf you have low quality source, eg OCRed scans, then you’ll never get a high quality ePub. It needs manual intervention and proofing to keep quality up. Not to say that archive.org isn’t useful - I’ve produced a collection of Keats poetry[1] as an ePub from their OCRed source in the past - but it’s not really consumable as is. [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-keats/poetry https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-keats/poetry
- wyclif 8y agoYeah, I came here just to say that. I downloaded and unzipped the archive, then opened a few. The ones I looked at were badly formatted and had no TOC as well.