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by acabal 2y ago
This is not entirely correct - Kobo also expects a bunch of special <span>s inserted for things like highlighting and page numbers to work. It kills me that Kobo is so close to having plain epubs rendered with Webkit but for some
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by acabal 2y ago
Once you're very familiar with the process, you could get a draft of a basic prose novel ready for proofreading in a few hours. Then it has to be proofread and completed. Beginners, and people working on more advanced books, can take m
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by acabal 2y ago
Each repo is a history of the ebook including editorial changes, typos fixes, and the like. Having a single repo containing thousands of ebooks and their histories would be pretty annoying to browse.
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by acabal 2y ago
Spelling varies widely across the eras our ebooks were published in. Therefore we attempt to standardize spelling to what a modern reader might be familiar with. We only make sound-alike changes, like to-morrow -> tomorrow. This is a com
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by acabal 2y ago
That's fine! Our editions didn't erase any of the other editions you can find online and in print. You're more than welcome to select any edition that fits your reading preferences.
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by acabal 2y ago
In addition to what Robin mentioned below, some of these placeholders are for books on our Wanted list. I also think it's useful to show readers that particular books are looking for volunteers to produce, and also to show that some bo
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by acabal 2y ago
We don't have a list of authors yet, but that's a good idea to add!
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by acabal 2y ago
The manual has some known issues on mobile, I believe there's a GitHub issue open about it. It's low priority because the manual is rarely read on mobile. PRs welcomed!
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by acabal 2y ago
Lots of people have tried similar projects in other languages but as far as I know none have persevered. Personally I think it's important to have one person in charge who is able to approve of the quality of all the project's out
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by acabal 2y ago
It makes a lot of sense when you recall that HTML and its ancestors were designed to mark up and format documents , i.e. books. One of the most fundamental elements is <p>, which stands for... paragraph. Each renderer differs in capa
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by acabal 2y ago
TEI is something like that, but the amount of effort required to mark a book up like that would be astronomical.
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by acabal 2y ago
Standard Ebooks only works on English-language books, as typography varies between languages and we're only experts in English.
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by acabal 2y ago
Yes, we have complete feeds available for our Patrons: https://standardebooks.org/feeds
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by acabal 2y ago
I read on an old Kobo, using Kepub files. Their Kepub renderer is quite good. I think Kindle's renderer hasn't changed significantly for many years, and it had always been pretty bad. I always say that Kindle seems to have been cr
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by acabal 2y ago
You can also join our Patrons Circle to have this book added to our Wanted Ebooks list, which is a list of suggestions for our volunteers to work on: https://standardebooks.org/donate#patrons-circle
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by acabal 2y ago
Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions, as always. We also recently celebrated Public Domain Day with an especially notable crop of books, including The Sound and the Fury , All Quiet on the Western Front , John Steinbeck&#x2
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by acabal 2y ago
We use the Flesch-Kincaid algorithm to calculate reading ease. For most books it works pretty well, but for avant-garde prose like The Sound and the Fury it fails pretty badly. It also considers Ulysses to be "fairly easy"!
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by acabal 2y ago
Some placeholders like this one exist because they are part of other collections for which we have more items. So when the reader is viewing the other collection, they can see which items we have and which we don't.
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by acabal 2y ago
I'm the editor in chief of Standard Ebooks and currently I read on an older Kobo eink reader, the Aura One. When using their Kepub format, Kobo has the best eink renderer on the market. I believe you can also install Koreader on them.
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by acabal 2y ago
Editor in chief here, happy to answer any questions!
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by acabal 2y ago
Hi HN, editor-in-chief of Standard Ebooks here! As always I'm happy to answer questions about the project and discuss ebooks and literature.
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Public Domain Day in Literature(standardebooks.org)
7 points by acabal 2y ago|2 comments
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by acabal 2y ago
Some time ago I read You Can't Win [1], a 1926 memoir by a hobo-by-choice named Jack Black. He describes his life as a hobo in various cities (including SF!), and the picture he paints of the turn-of-the-century will be eerily familia
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by acabal 2y ago
Getters aren't for everything. But for a basic CRUD case like above, they're a nice way of having a clean OOP contract by demarcating a clear difference between properties, which are pieces data attached to the object that the cal
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by acabal 2y ago
It's a matter of OOP modeling. Object methods are better reserved for performing actions with side effects, or complex logic or calculations, and not for getting state or simply setting public properties; and as a caller, I don't
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by acabal 2y ago
They are very useful when modeling CRUD-dy objects, because you can lazy-load infrequently-accessed child object using getters. It makes for a cleaner OOP-y interface in which the caller only cares about actually exposed properties and no
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by acabal 2y ago
I'm most excited for property hooks. Having getters and setters as part of the language syntax was something I dearly missed from my C# days, nearly two decades ago. In my projects I sometimes emulate getters and setters using `__get()
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by acabal 2y ago
If you think it's bad that `break-*` isn't supported in Firefox or Chrome, wait till you see what your ebook looks like in Kindle, or worse, ADE-based readers, of which there are still many in use! Kindle, the reading device with
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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending(newyorker.com)
81 points by acabal 2y ago|34 comments
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by acabal 2y ago
It's available as a free ebook at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-shackleton/south (The name of the book is South! , the subtitle is "The Endurance Expedition.")

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