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Project lead here. There's thousands of books we want to produce out there, and limited volunteer hours. If there's something you want to work on, it might be f
by acabal 6y ago
Project lead here. There's thousands of books we want to produce out there, and limited volunteer hours. If there's something you want to work on, it might be fun to get started as a producer for the project yourself. (Note that we ask that new producers start on a simpler project first, which might rule out some longer and more complicated stuff like Plato translations--at least to start with.)
Our wanted ebook list includes a list of works that we think are good starts for first-time producers: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks
I've been exploring the idea of crowdsourcing financing for ebook production. But I think we need some kind of not-for-profit framework set up first. If anyone is in that space and would like to talk about NFP infrastructure, or being a NFP fiscal sponsor, please contact me!
- cratermoon 6y agoI looked around on the site a bit and perused the source and I couldn't find the answer to my question: what sort of things are in the "advanced" epub version that aren't in the standard?
- robin_reala 6y agoThe “advanced” version is what we produce by default, before it’s processed for consumption by older readers. So, to give a couple of examples, CSS pseudoclasses are processed into actual classes, and MathML is rendered as PNGs. The hypothetical perfect ereader could support this natively, but for most ereaders its going to be a less buggy experience to go for the version with compatibility shims. (Incidentally, Kobo has an excellent MathML engine, so we don’t do the aforementioned PNG rendering for kepubs.)
- tejohnso 6y agoInteresting. I've never heard of a kepub before and I have a Kobo. The kepub format isn't even mentioned in the spec list for the [Forma]. [Forma]: https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-forma https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-forma
- aidenn0 6y agoI assume it's just an epub that's been optimized to work with Kobo's tweaks.