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I see this is part of the Triptych project, an attempt to, among other things, bring more verbs into HTML forms. As I've said before one of my long-time dreams is to have HTML form…

Butler's Odyssey and Iliad are prose translations, which we felt didn't fit the commonly understood image of those works as works of verse.

SE Editor-in-Chief here. We selected the William Cullen Bryant translation because we felt that, of the public domain translations , it was the one most accessible to modern reader…

At Standard Ebooks we use the three-em-dash to indicate a fully obscured word, for example this line from Tristram Shandy : > He lies buried in the corner of his churchyard, in the…

Because if HTTP is the language of the web, then HTML forms are how humans speak that language to computers. Right now we humans can only speak GET and POST. In other words, right …

Supporting more than GET/POST in HTML forms has been my dream for decades. There's a WHATWG proposal to do just that if you want to add your voice: https://github.com/whatwg/html/p…

Home folder litter is one of my top pet peeves in computing. In fact it's the only reason why I refuse to use snaps on Ubuntu. I don't even care about whatever technical stuff ever…

The gem in this post is Pure, which I haven't heard of until now. I also have my prompt show the git status, and for large repos `git status` can take 10+ seconds to load and cache…

SE editor in chief here. What you describe is incorrect. The only thing we do is very light sound-alike spelling modernization, like "to-night" -> "tonight". We do not do things li…

This article is rediscovering the same phenomenon that happened when the steam-powered machinery was invented, leading to the Luddite movement. Machinery at the dawn of the industr…

I've always told people, Kindles are ereaders seeming designed by people who hate books. The renderer is atrocious and is holding back the entire industry, much like IE6's crappy r…

The reading ease algorithm we use is the Flesh-Kincaid algorithm, which works pretty well for regular prose books but clearly fails very badly on avant-garde prose like Ulysses or …

XML lost because 1) the existence of attributes means a document cannot be automatically mapped to a basic language data structure like an array of strings, and 2) namespaces are a…

Sure, but to maintain a CSS framework? Seems like they way overhired.

Taking their sponsors page at face value and doing the math, they're bringing in close to $100k/month with corporate sponsorships alone... how much money could maintaining a framew…

No, none have reached out yet. I've had some brief, high-level discussion along those lines with some people in the library industry, and the conclusion I drew is that public libra…

I know you griped about this in a different thread, but we won't be doing that, sorry. You can uniquely identify an ebook and its version by using dc:identifier in combination with…

As Robin mentioned the typical style is "fine art oil painting", with some wiggle room allowed for exceptionally difficult cases (like Asian-themed books, as there just wasn't much…

We have a list of wanted ebooks here: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks First-time contributors should select something from the appropriate section, because that…

The ebooks we produce are entirely in the US public domain, including metadata and any other files. Unfortunately there are basically no good fonts released under the CC0 license. …

SE Editor-in-Chief here! As always, happy to answer any questions.

For a literature-focused list of items entering the US public domain on 2026, Standard Ebooks has 20 ebooks prepared for release on January 1: https://standardebooks.org/blog/publi…

Headings can't help Slavoj, his writing is characterized by a few grains of interesting ideas totally overwhelmed within SAT-prep word salad.

We do the same with our feeds at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/feeds/rss/new-releases The page is XML but styled with XSLT.