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by acabal 2y ago
The more important point the comment you're replying to makes is not "what if people could diet and exercise" - i.e. accept the modern American lifestyle as given, plus force yourself to go to the gym and eat chicken and broc
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by acabal 2y ago
Pale Fire has been my favorite book for a long, long time, ever since I read it as part of a course in university. After all these years I haven't read a better, more intricately-constructed book. It was suggested to me to read the i
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by acabal 2y ago
You are correct that we usually do that, however for Ulysses we made an exception and transcribed the print exactly, so there are no changes from the print edition. (Except for whatever pre-1929 corrections we brought in based on our rese
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by acabal 2y ago
Some of this information is included in each ebook's colophon, at the end of the book.
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by acabal 2y ago
There is no counter online, but you can trust me (the S.E. Editor-in-Chief) when I say I used Bash to count them :)
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by acabal 2y ago
It works just fine for fiction. Ulysses is a very special edge case in the pantheon of all literature, so it's no surprise it doesn't work well for this one case.
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by acabal 2y ago
Our volunteers pick what books they personally want to work on. Those books have to meet our collections policy criteria: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/collections-policy
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by acabal 2y ago
Yes, it's a bit silly! The reason the score is so off is because we use the Flesch Reading Ease algorithm[1] to calculate it, which was designed for the US Navy to be able to score technical manuals. It works very well for most prose t
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by acabal 3y ago
Of course! Stripe, Paypal, Postmark/Sendgrid/whatever are not part of the majority I'm talking about. (Although Fractured Atlas, which is merely a wrapper for the Stripe API, is ; we use it because it solves a people problem
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by acabal 3y ago
Sure, at some point you're going to be relying on some 3rd party somewhere. We use a VPS and not a bare-metal hand-installed rack, and we rely on an electrical company and not a hand-turned crank to power our servers. As far as email g
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by acabal 3y ago
Of course. The entire point is that so much of that is just unnecessary for 90% of web projects. Most projects that are basically a front-end website backed by a local DB can get by on a 2GB VPS if they embrace classic web tech and don&#x27
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by acabal 3y ago
At Standard Ebooks we serve a respectable number of page views and ebooks each month - and have been on the front page of HN three or four times - all of it done with a single 4GB VPS. And the only reason we upgraded to 4GB from 2GB is beca
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by acabal 3y ago
Author here! This post is slightly out of date, as the server now does have a database to handle patron registration, and we've upgraded to 4GB because we needed more RAM to build the extremely long endnotes in Gibbon's Decline a
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by acabal 3y ago
When you use 'Send to Kindle' to send an epub to your device, you are not reading an epub. In the link above, it mentions how Kindle converts epub to an Amazon format before allowing your device to read it. Amazon's formats o
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by acabal 3y ago
Kindle does not natively support epubs: https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...
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by acabal 3y ago
That's great, thank you! We've had various people ask about us getting on Mastodon but frankly I really dislike social media and have only the vaguest understanding of how Mastodon works. If we did, then someone would have to volu
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by acabal 3y ago
It's very uncommon, if you want to do that then just email me privately and we can set something up.
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by acabal 3y ago
https://standardebooks.org/contribute
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by acabal 3y ago
You don't have to use Github if you don't want to, but you do have to use Git. We've had more than a few producers successfuly produce ebooks without using GitHub or Google Groups.
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by acabal 3y ago
Sci-fi works are the hardest to find cover art for as naturally there is zero public domain sci-fi themed fine art. If you can paint in a fine art style, contact me via email and let's chat.
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by acabal 3y ago
We do offer azw3 files for all of our books. https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kindle...
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by acabal 3y ago
Folio Society basically already does this, at a premium price. Used copies of well-set PD classics from respected publishers like Franklin Library or Modern Library go for pennies and can be shipped to your door fron places like Abebooks,
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by acabal 3y ago
I believe our website does have some basic Kindle browser support. The problem, as you noted, is that Kindle's browser is terrible. I say the same thing in every ebook thread: On a purely technical level Kindle is a terrible ereader de
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by acabal 3y ago
Nobody has offered as of yet, and if someone did I think the quality would have to be extremely high for me to consider it.
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by acabal 3y ago
Librivox creates audiobooks of PD texts. I've heard good things about their work but I personally don't listen to any audiobooks in general.
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by acabal 3y ago
Well, the point is not to jump at the new-fangled tech and AWS cloud lock-in :)
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by acabal 3y ago
That's a common request but there are no plans to officially offer PDFs. We offer a variety of reflowable file formats, and each format is more burden to maintain; since PDF is a famously difficult format, maintaining it would be even
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by acabal 3y ago
Like PG, our editions are blends of other editions, along with our own updates. Often our edition winds up looking nothing like the PG edition, for example when we combine volumes, extract footnotes into endnotes, remove pagination, and so
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by acabal 3y ago
That's a frequent request but it would also require having our catalog in a database, which we don't have right now. I do think the time is soon for doing that for several reasons, but there's no spare time in my day at the m
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by acabal 3y ago
I don't know anything about Manybooks' history, sorry. At SE we focus exclusively on US public domain titles; that's one of the major philosophical points of the project. The other major point is a high quality standard, so i

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