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Virginia Woolf on Not Knowing Greek(berfrois.com)
2 points by acabal 4y ago|0 comments
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by acabal 4y ago
In the US, copyright status is determined by when something was published, not how old it is. The two are not related. That's how we get stupid things like the University of California and the Mark Twain Foundation claiming a copyright
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by acabal 4y ago
Correction: At SE we don't "modernize old timey phrases". We perform sound-alike spelling updates only. For example clew -> clue, chuse -> choose. Changes are mostly conservative and obvious. People hear "modernize
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by acabal 4y ago
I produced a free ebook edition of Mutual Aid for Standard Ebooks last year: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/peter-kropotkin/mutual-aid It's very readable and quite interesting. It aimed to have a veneer of
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by acabal 4y ago
Stripe did actually have a great API at one point, when they just appeared. Their basics of charging a card and managing subscriptions was incredibly simple and developer-friendly compared to their competition at the time, like Authorize.ne
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by acabal 4y ago
I think that is factually wrong. Chicago was building beautiful, ornamented buildings well into the 40s. Burnham & Root - your examples of "less is more"? - are in fact masters of beaux arts. Burnham designed the Railway Excha
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by acabal 4y ago
I think about this a lot. I live in a large city that has a rich architectural heritage, so there are old beautiful buildings all around me from various eras. Neoclassical, beaux arts, art deco, etc. But of course the city suffers from the
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by acabal 4y ago
The pictures of those lymph nodes are shocking. In the Methods section, they state that > LN tissues were obtained from [...] LiveOnNY, the local organ procurement organization for the New York metropolitan area. which makes it sound lik
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Thank You for Your Feedback(vice.com)
1 points by acabal 4y ago|1 comments
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by acabal 4y ago
I have to disagree. I've been using Thunderbird for well over a decade and I appreciate that the UI hasn't changed much. As I get older I much prefer software that changes slowly and incrementally, if at all - and sometimes no c
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by acabal 4y ago
I use this all the time, it's invaluable. I also use it to remove sticky headers, which I find to be deeply annoying because they waste space and often break keyboard scrolling by scrolling the next few lines of text under the header.
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by acabal 4y ago
That link says that there's an average of 702 heat related deaths per year. In 2020 there were 38,824 car accident deaths.[1] Yet everyone keeps driving, without question. Is it so much to ask to see if it's possible to tolerate l
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by acabal 4y ago
AFAIK when you use "send to Kindle", Amazon takes your epub and runs it through Kindlegen (or whatever Amazon's current equivalent is) to create an azw3 on their end. They are not rendering the raw epub - it goes through a bl
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by acabal 4y ago
Chicago IMHO is just about the only place outside of NYC or Boston that you can live a full life car-free, if you live within the right boundary. The "Chicagoland Area" is huge and includes swaths of "city" that are subu
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by acabal 4y ago
Not sure, but even if Amazon allowed more free public domain books, it wouldn't make much sense to post there because their store is so saturated with low-quality junk editions. There isn't much point in being on the 20th page of
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by acabal 4y ago
Kindle is one of the worst reading platforms and it looks like this kind of difficulty is one more reason why. If you're on your phone, try using almost any other ereading app and download our epub files instead. Amazon expressly forbi
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by acabal 4y ago
Our source format is epub, and the conversion is part of our toolkit. Azw3 conversion is done using Calibre: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes - that's one of the main points of the project!
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by acabal 4y ago
They only fake support epub - when you use "send to Kindle" to send an epub, it gets quietly converted by Amazon to either mobi or azw3 (I don't know exactly which of those two but it seems like azw3 is more likely). I assume
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by acabal 4y ago
This is a not-uncommon request. The problem is that the publication date for many older books is unclear or unknown. Was Romeo and Juliet published in 1597? It certainly appeared in print, but that edition was so riddled with errors that
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by acabal 4y ago
The Flying Girl would make a good first production, if you'd like to take it on! See https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste... Make sure to thank your wife on my behalf for her hard work at
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by acabal 4y ago
I'd be open to that but there's limited time in the day! If a volunteer wants to discuss making it happen, send a note to our mailing list or open a GitHub issue and we can talk about it.
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by acabal 4y ago
Cover art must be in a fine art oil painting style, and it's up to each producer to find something thematically appropriate. Once they do we require proof of US public domain status. See https://standardebooks.org/manua
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by acabal 4y ago
Our editions are totally different than what PG does, our goals are different, our technical approach is different, and our collections policy is different. We would rather have our own curated catalog on our own website, than be another ed
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by acabal 4y ago
See here: https://standardebooks.org/contribute Our number one need is ebook producers. If you're passingly familiar in a command line environment and have basic HTML/CSS knowledge, you can produce an ebook!
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by acabal 4y ago
We've been front paged before without problems :) See https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-... (Though that article is now out of date, as we now have a database running that handles things
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by acabal 4y ago
I don't keep count but over the years I'd say the number is in the several hundreds, including one-time volunteers. We do have a core set of what we call "editors", who are volunteers in charge of managing individual pro
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by acabal 4y ago
The vast majority come from PG. When they don't it's another public domain transcription source, like Wikisource, Faded Page, or Project Gutenberg Australia. We usually don't create our own transcriptions. Our producers can a
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by acabal 4y ago
This is a problem Project Gutenberg has had for years, on Amazon and other platforms. It's a game of whack a mole and ultimately not really worth pursuing. As soon as you shut one guy down, another one appears with the same great idea.
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by acabal 4y ago
Line height is set to the browser/ereader default - it's not something we change as it depends on the font. Font size is also the ereader default, though if viewing in a web browser we increase it slightly.

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