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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, that's going to happen. The books are in the US public domain and anyone in the US can do anything they want with them, including reselling them. Obviously we are not the ones selling these.
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by acabal 4y ago
There's been some talk about improving the Kobo browser experience, if you want to take a crack at it! https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/126
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by acabal 4y ago
If by "novel" you mean "modern", then potentially, but they would have to be actually good translations, and released to the public domain via CC0. We only work on public domain books.
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by acabal 4y ago
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , Passages from the Life of a Philosopher , and A Tangled Tale are probably our most MathML-heavy books. Books from the PD era are not very likely to feature math serious enough to require MathML. This is
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by acabal 4y ago
PGDP is an incredible project. We mostly work on the transcriptions they produce and we specifically avoid creating our own transcriptions, because PGDP already has such a good system in place. When people ask for a new transcription we poi
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by acabal 4y ago
The technical decisions Kindle makes are shrouded in obscurity, both in logic and in execution...
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by acabal 4y ago
There are no guarantees in life, but as long as I'm at the helm I hope to avoid spam! We do accept donations because as SE becomes more popular and attracts more contributors, managing the project is approaching the time required for a
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by acabal 4y ago
We've been in touch with Kobo but they haven't expressed a lot of interest. We do have an integration with the Google Play store, so if you search for an ebook we have in our catalog, it should appear near the top. I use a Kobo ei
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by acabal 4y ago
They've been around for a while, and now I notice that their cover art format and ebook page layout look vaguely familiar ... :)
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by acabal 4y ago
As I'm fond of saying, Kindle is an ecosystem invented by people who hate books. It's a pity they're the first thing many people think of when they hear "ebooks."
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by acabal 4y ago
This is technically true, however when you do that they simply convert the epub to mobi on the backend, which is even worse.
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by acabal 4y ago
The ebooks we work on are often very old, and have been illustrated various times over the years. We don't want to have to pick and choose a single set of illustrations, nor do we want to forced to constantly justify exceptions for eve
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by acabal 4y ago
This is a common request and the answer is unfortunately no. Typography varies across languages and we are only experts in English typography. People have tried to start up various SE-like projects for other languages, but as far as I know
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by acabal 4y ago
We did have one volunteer adding items to Goodreads as we produced them, but the process was manual and very tedious, and the ROI was questionable at best. So IIRC he no longer does that. I'm not against the idea but someone has to vol
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, we purposely don't include decorative illustrations in any ebook. (With some very rare exceptions.)
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by acabal 4y ago
Lithium seems to be fairly good in terms of rendering our advanced epubs, but it's not perfect; note especially that it doesn't invert black-and-white SVGs correctly so unless you set it to a dark page theme, they'll be &quot
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by acabal 4y ago
Glad to hear you're liking the project! We just added bulk downloads too, for the collector in you: https://standardebooks.org/bulk-downloads
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by acabal 4y ago
iBooks is at the moment the best ebook renderer for iPad, hands down. If there are specific issues that look very bad on Bluefire Reader, please send a note to our mailing list with details so we can take a look!
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by acabal 4y ago
The Book of Wonder is a series of weird short stories, some of them gloomy and pessimistic but many with a thread of dark humor. "Chu-bu and Sheemish" is one of my all-time favorite short stories - it's creative and hilarious
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by acabal 4y ago
Using the Flesch-Kincaid scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
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by acabal 4y ago
Absolutely! Creating epub ebooks is basically creating web pages. Epubs are just zipped up XHTML files, with exactly the same semantic structure and CSS styling you'd find on a well-made web page. That makes web devs with English major
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, bowdlerization and poor translations were common in those days. We do our best to select a single "best" translation that scholars/readers agree is the most faithful of the public domain options. But in some cases, like
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, the advanced epubs are just the zipped source repo, which is epub 3.2, including any "advanced" CSS selectors and so on. "Advanced" here just means that the epubs are written with a modern web rendering engine in mi
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by acabal 4y ago
Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions!
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by acabal 4y ago
We produced it using Project Gutenberg's modern F. P. Walter translation. At the time, there was no copyright notice on the text, only PG's public domain boilerplate, so we produced it thinking it had been dedicated to the public
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by acabal 4y ago
IMHO, the core of the problem is that elected politicians are asking constituents in the first place . I elected a politician to represent my interests for X years so I can get on with my life. I didn't elect a politician so they can
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by acabal 4y ago
In my experience - certainly in the bike lane example I gave above - the NIMBYs are a minority . A vocal one, yes - but still a minority. If a politician is only concerned about their career, surely a popular project like bike lanes would
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by acabal 4y ago
It's not just in megaprojects either. In my large, fairly dense US city, basic, easy-to-build, local infrastructure like adding a 1-mile bike lane to a straight street is impossible because a handful of NIMBYs are constantly taken seri
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by acabal 4y ago
I'm surprised to see kind of writing in a New Yorker article: > Casanova wouldn’t discover the existence of his putative daughter Leonilda for some eighteen years, at which point he fucked her mother while she shared their bed. I on
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by acabal 4y ago
I've always been shocked that HTML forms only support GET and POST and there's zero interest in supporting more HTTP methods in forms even in 2022. If forms supported the whole range of HTTP methods we could have a user facing web

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