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This site is interesting. Thanks for sharing. Curious : whether the proofreading and formatting here are better than Gutenberg public domain ebooks ? And, w
by tsjq 8y ago
This site is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Curious : whether the proofreading and formatting here are better than Gutenberg
public domain ebooks ?
And, whether taking the EPUB and converting to AZW3 using calibre gets the same features as taking the AZW3 from this website ?
- FabHK 8y agoLet me quote from the "About" page: > HOW’S THIS DIFFERENT FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG OR OTHER FREE EBOOK SITES? > While there are plenty of places where you can download free and accurately-transcribed public domain ebooks, we feel the quality of those ebooks can often be greatly improved. > For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public-domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those ebooks are automatically generated and can’t take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual ebook productions varies greatly. Not sure about the Calibre conversion. I normally convert EPUBs to MOBI using Calibre (and switching to left aligned, right ragged), but on StandardEbooks I've been downloading the AZW3.
- acabal 8y agoHi there, I'm the lead on this project. Yes, our proofreading and formatting is better than Gutenberg. That's the entire point of the project. No, using Calibre to convert epub to azw3 won't quite produce the same output as our special azw3. We do use Calibre in our build process to do much of the heavy lifting, but there are also other adjustments made that Calibre doesn't do.