Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
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Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
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Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#2It's great that these are in a consistent formatting style. When trying to extract some contents programmatically from some Gutenberg texts, I kept running into different formatting styles. That combined with being able to check out the entire repository makes it much simpler to do data processing on the works.
And, of course, fixing more errors is of course a noble goal. Are these corrections going to make it upstream to Gutenberg?
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#3It's great that these are in a consistent formatting style. When trying to extract some contents programmatically from some Gutenberg texts, I kept running into different formatting styles. That combined with being able to check out the entire repository makes it much simpler to do data processing on the works. And, of course, fixing more errors is of course a noble goal. Are these corrections going to make it upstre…
> Standard Ebooks puts significant work into designing, formatting, marking up, and hosting our ebooks. While some think we could, or even should, release our work with some kind of copyright notice, instead Standard Ebooks dedicates the entirety of each of our ebook files, including markup, cover art, and everything in between, to the public domain.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#4> Other free ebooks don’t put much effort into professional-quality typography: they use "straight" quotes instead of “curly” quotes, they ignore details like em- and en-dashes, and they look more like early-90’s web pages instead of actual books.
True. I hope you guys get proper funding and keep this project on.
Contribute: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/
(I was thinking a Slack or Discord would be better than Google groups mailing list for this?)
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#5I don't like these books.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#6Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570035
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#7> Other free ebooks don’t put much effort into professional-quality typography: they use "straight" quotes instead of “curly” quotes, they ignore details like em- and en-dashes, and they look more like early-90’s web pages instead of actual books. True. I hope you guys get proper funding and keep this project on. Contribute: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/ (I was thinking a Slack or Discord would be better tha…
Mailing lists are superior for async communications IMHO for endeavors such as this. Nothing needs to be addressed immediately (and as everyone is a volunteer, realistic expectations should be set for response latency; email helps that, Slack/Discord does not), and the mailing list archive is a natural log of conversations and decisions that are open and accessible (Free Slack only keeps 10k lines of conversation history if I recall). A mailing list is also free (can be, not always, but can be), and does not require a chat client installed.
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#8Discussed in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570035
Dang, could you lift vvillyd's rate limit as new user in case this still exists?
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#9I'm really curious why a book (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-w-chesnutt/the-con...) originally published in the US would need to include this:
"This ebook is only thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that the contents of this ebook are free of copyright restrictions in the country you’re located in before downloading or using this ebook."
Can anyone speak to this?
Re: Standard Ebooks: Free public-domain ebooks, carefully produced
#10I'm really curious why a book ( https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-w-chesnutt/the-con... ) originally published in the US would need to include this: "This ebook is only thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that the contents of this ebook are fre…
Copyright laws differ between countries.
https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ#C.2._...