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Show HN: Read the Classics While at Home
- sudhirj 7y agoWorking on a online book reading (and later, writing) site. Would appreciate the feedback, and also let me know which books (public domain for now) you'd like to see available. Will work on a way to write your own books as well, probably integrated with Gumroad for payments.
- thecodrr 7y agoVery clean UI. Love it. Keep it up.
- sudhirj 7y agoThanks :)
- mturmon 7y agoOMG. I hadn’t read Right Ho, Jeeves in ten years and it’s perfect for today. Beautiful clean interface and I have not noticed any typos so far. Kudos.
- sudhirj 7y agoThank you... And yeah, Wodehouse was my first favourite author. Will be nice to read some of his books again.
- superasn 7y agoI'm pretty sure it's common knowledge here, but project Gutenberg(1) is also a great resource if you wish to read the classics online. (1) https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
- sudhirj 7y agoYup. I’m starting to pull them from standardebooks first, because they’ve already done all the chapter separation work and made corrections. The raw project gutenberg filed and either plain text or rudimentary HTML and are super tough to parse. I tried automating the parser for one book and it wound up being quite a manual job. The point of Papiary is greatly improve on the Gutenberg experience with better design, fonts, responsive layouts, customisation, accessibility, etc. And to help write and sell their own books.
- person_of_color 7y agoI tried classics but the anglo-centric view of the world is distasteful to my eyes.
- sudhirj 7y agoI’m trying to get classics in different languages from different cultures as well - if you have something in mind do let me know. We can tip the scales a bit by making the western books a minority.