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by acabal 7y ago
Shameless plug, we have a few Verne books downloadable for free as high-quality ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/ If you'd like to produce some new ones for everyone to read, get in touch
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by acabal 7y ago
Because new epub versions have the Python 3 problem. Every reading system out there supports epub 2, and epub 3, the latest revision, still has poor support years later because it's not a big enough improvement to bother with and too m
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by acabal 7y ago
Wow, that took me back. Small nitpick, XHTML does live on in one important place: epub, which is the most commonly used file type for ebooks. I do a lot of epub work at Standard Ebooks, and at first I hated XHTML for the exact reason the ar
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by acabal 7y ago
Shameless plug, you can download a high quality ebook of his dialogues, including "On the Shortness of Life," for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st
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by acabal 7y ago
Maybe, but the UX works . I'd be very happy if they didn't start tinkering just for the sake of not being "stale". (See: Gnome Shell.) As a daily user for 10+ years I can say there is certainly room to incrementally imp
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by acabal 7y ago
Shameless plug, you can download a high-quality ebook edition for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost
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by acabal 7y ago
We need proofreaders at Standard Ebooks! You could even produce a book if you'd like, as the skills needed are basic command line familiarity, and HTML/CSS. Regex is very helpful but not required. https://standardebooks
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by acabal 7y ago
Modern "fleece" is polyester, which is plastic-based: https://www.contrado.co.uk/blog/what-is-fleece/
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by acabal 7y ago
Men already had that in the past, the suit. Up until the first war clothing was expensive to make so generally men had only one or two suits and they would wear them every day, and repair them as they wore down. Shirts were, to an extent, a
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by acabal 7y ago
You can download his autobiography for your ereader for free at the project I lead, Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto... It's a great read!
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by acabal 7y ago
Possibly, you should ask them. However most decent OCR requires a flat top scanner or (in the case of rare books like this) a scanning device that holds pages firmly and takes pictures from above. I imagine that bringing your DSLR and doing
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by acabal 7y ago
This is really awesome and I wasn't aware of it! For a lot of the pulp sci fi stuff on Project Gutenberg, it was just a handful of volunteers doing the copyright research and I think it was a big bottleneck. I remember thinking of gett
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by acabal 7y ago
Alex from SE here. I wanted to transcribe Worm a few years ago too. IIRC the problem was that PG-AU had a post-1923 edition transcribed. The 1922 first edition is extremely rare. The Newberry Research Library in Chicago has a copy and I a
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by acabal 7y ago
You can read high quality ebook editions of some of the other novels mentioned here at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/ We'd love help in producing more HG Wells works for people
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by acabal 7y ago
For Linux, you can use a QR code scanner program to extract the text, then use a command line solution like: https://www.sendthemtomir.com/blog/cli-2-factor-authenticati...
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Morrowind: An Oral History(polygon.com)
3 points by acabal 8y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 8y ago
Shameless plug, free nicely formatted epub of The Art of Money Getting for your ereader of choice at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-art-of-mone...
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by acabal 8y ago
At Scribophile, I set up an option to pay for a membership upgrade directly with Bitcoin, i.e., without an intermediary to USD like Coinbase. Customers would be given a Bitcoin address to send a certain amount of Bitcoin to for a 1-year upg
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by acabal 8y ago
Hi 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 o
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by acabal 8y ago
I just finished reading this and it is definitely incredible. It put in to words the many jumbled and foggy thoughts I've been having on the subject for a long time. I feel as if I can perceive people's motivations so much more cl
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by acabal 8y ago
I'm a big Seneca fan. You can read all of Seneca's dialogues, including "On the Shortness of Life", for free at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st
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by acabal 8y ago
I'm currently reading _The Righteous Mind_. While I haven't finished it yet, so far a major theme has been that reason's major job is merely to justify what the gut instinct has already decided. Taking that theory to its conc
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by acabal 8y ago
Re. flac downloads, Bandcamp (almost?) always offers a flac download option. You'd be surprised how many bands have a Bandcamp page, even if they're signed to labels. The option is not well advertised. After you purchase a digital
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by acabal 8y ago
I very much agree and I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Interestingly enough, this line of thought is not new. People like Auguste Comte in the 1850s saw the industrial and technological revolution as an engine working to ero
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Art Institute of Chicago marks 52400 public domain works as CC0 in site redesign(artic.edu)
2 points by acabal 8y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 8y ago
Of course. We do not change punctuation, with a few exceptions for some short-lived archaic constructs like comma-emdash. We do change from single-quoted British style to double-quoted American style, but I think most everyone would agree
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by acabal 8y ago
To clarify, SE does not modernize grammar. 99% of the (very light) modernization we do is one-to-one spelling changes for wildly archaic spellings like "shew -> show" or "swop -> swap" or "to-night -> tonig
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by acabal 8y ago
This bit me hard many years ago in possibly the most frustrating bug I've encountered--frustrating because of the stupidity of MySQL's implementation. I had a utf8 MySQL database that was created back before utf8mb4 existed--thi
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I think your "the text's relationship with the spelling" argument can certainly be applied to the Shakespeare example above, just as I stated. When viewed in that light, replacing long-S and u for v change Shakespeare's
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by acabal 8y ago
That's probably the most common complaint we get. However I think most readers are unaware of how heavily the older works they read today have been edited over the years, not just in spelling but in grammar too, often by many different

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