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I don't know. The Kindle browser doesn't have any copy and paste function, so it's difficult to work around any limitation.
I meant the SE site serving ".azw" files that are the same as the .azw3 - I understood that it's the Kindle browser that limits the downloads, right? Once the files are in the Kindle, it would probably work out OK.
Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions! Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-... (This post is slightly out of date as there is a database now; but it's used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as des…
Re XHTML - It looks like the website is being served with a text/html content type. Did you give up on your XHTML experiment? How did it go? Maybe it would help if browsers reported back errors to the server, like how "Content Security Policy" reporting works.
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I’m curious, why do you have a policy against hosting religious books?
The site actually hosts several "religious books" (try filtering by the "Spirituality" tag -- I've even produced several books on religious topics myself for SE). What it doesn't host are "Religious texts from modern world religions" (what some might call "scriptures," e.g. the Bible or the Quran) which is a much narrower category than "religious books." As a religious person myself, I actually think this policy is v…
I have a question regarding books in other languages than English. Is there a technical reason for only allowing English or is it the legal aspect (knowing what is in public domain in countries other than the US) that hinders this? For example I live in Iceland there is a number of texts that are in the public domain, for example the Edda and Icelandic sagas among others. But since we are very few (approximately 380K…
It’s neither: it’s that our tooling and manual of style[1] is only developed for our specific conventions for English text. Other people have attempted to start alternative projects but getting that set of standards together takes time and effort, and like you say 380k people isn’t that many. If you do decide to start something then SE’s tooling supports a --white-label flag when creating a skeleton, which would at l…
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It’s neither: it’s that our tooling and manual of style[1] is only developed for our specific conventions for English text. Other people have attempted to start alternative projects but getting that set of standards together takes time and effort, and like you say 380k people isn’t that many. If you do decide to start something then SE’s tooling supports a --white-label flag when creating a skeleton, which would at l…
Thank you for this, are your tools licensed in such a way that it would be ok to extend and adopt them so that they can be used for other languages?
Feel free to ask on the mailing list if you have any questions, more likely to be picked up there than in a random HN thread :)
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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 designed by people who seem to hate books. Buy almost anything else.
Recommendations?
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I think that makes sense, but it still seems a bit arbitrary, I don’t see bookshops having these issues
Part of the issue would be that the nooks are translations and the copywriter data would be from the translation date. So modern versions of e.g. the Bible could not be in Standard Ebooks. So easiest to not carry any translations. Bookshops have no problem with this as part of the purchase price will go to the copyright owners of the translation.
There are modern translations that are permissively licensed and are of surprisingly high quality. See the NET Bible as a prime example. It's also the only one I know of with good translation notes that can be had for free.
Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions! Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-... (This post is slightly out of date as there is a database now; but it's used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as des…
Amazing that you don't use front-end javascript at all. Is there anything you wish HTML+CSS could do better? Re XHTML - It looks like the website is being served with a text/html content type. Did you give up on your XHTML experiment? How did it go? Maybe it would help if browsers reported back errors to the server, like how "Content Security Policy" reporting works.
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The site actually hosts several "religious books" (try filtering by the "Spirituality" tag -- I've even produced several books on religious topics myself for SE). What it doesn't host are "Religious texts from modern world religions" (what some might call "scriptures," e.g. the Bible or the Quran) which is a much narrower category than "religious books." As a religious person myself, I actually think this policy is v…
It seems like most of the Christian books on SE are Roman Catholic in orientation (Belloc, Chesterton, etc.) Pilgrim's Progress is a Protestant work, but it would be good to see a better representation of both pre-Reformation and Protestant titles.
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It seems like most of the Christian books on SE are Roman Catholic in orientation (Belloc, Chesterton, etc.) Pilgrim's Progress is a Protestant work, but it would be good to see a better representation of both pre-Reformation and Protestant titles.
Can you provide any specific recommendations?
The Didache
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo
Anselm, Proslogion
Augustine, City of God
Augustine, Confessions
Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
Luther, The Bondage of the Will
Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Pascal, Pensées
All of these are in public domain.