A similar project for books in french (french books and books translated to french) : https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php
Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
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Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#32Is there any way to download them all? Ebooks are very small so it shouldn't be a problem to make an archive, or at least have a way to use curl/wget to download them all from a directory.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#33Are there any plans to support languages beyond English?
Doesn't seem likely: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/accepted-ebooks
> Types of eBooks we don't accept
> ...
> * Non-English-language books. Translations to English are, of course, OK.
I don't see any rationale for it on the mailing list, only a message from Alex Cabal two years ago stating "not at the moment": https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/JdVpCm3ckGg/i...
Alex explicitly does not want the "Standard Ebooks" name or mailing list used to coordinate similar projects elsewhere (including other primarily English-language nations), due to copyright issues: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/qRDTb-hHMxk/z...
Nor is Alex aware of any other similar projects: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/standardebooks/ikg07cqkABY/Q...
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like they’ve decided not to publish any non-English books [1]. It’s a pity – I much prefer reading books in their original language if I’m able to understand it, and I was even considering contributing some German books to their collection. Maybe it would complicate the publishing process a bit though since different languages have different practices for things like punctuation. [1]: https://standardebooks.…
The tools are available. Maybe someone would be willing to make a similar project for other languages.
The only one I know of is http://projectoadamastor.org in Portuguese. I can't tell whether it uses the same tooling, but the project generally predates Standard Ebooks.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#35I just want to say that I appreciate all the effort.
I've finally gotten around to reading many of the classics using your ePub files.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#36Great project, following your progress and will be getting books from here since the formatting is so much nicer than some other places.
Question: how is Philip K Dick in public domain already?
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#37Great idea.
Now consider something similar for Audiobooks.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#38Is there any way to download them all? Ebooks are very small so it shouldn't be a problem to make an archive, or at least have a way to use curl/wget to download them all from a directory.
There’s something called opds. Sort of like a file that defines a library and its contents.
https://standardebooks.org/opds/
I’ve never really been able to get it to work with calibre, pretty much the standard go to piece of software for all things ebooks.
I would be interested in hearing about any tips for getting an opds working.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#39Great idea. Now consider something similar for Audiobooks.
Are you familiar with LibriVox? https://librivox.org/
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#40Great project, following your progress and will be getting books from here since the formatting is so much nicer than some other places. Question: how is Philip K Dick in public domain already?
Several of his works were published before 1964 and the copyright was not renewed.