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Arabian Nights

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Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by robin_reala »

nbonaparte wrote: post #9
Ambolia wrote: post #8

Unfortunately the format of most ebooks at Project Gutenberg is usually really bad. Usable on computer screen, but unusable on eBook readers. Just checked the "mobi" version of the volume 1 from this link, and it looks like all paragraphs are just walls of texts with no paragraphs and the footnotes don't really work unless you scroll manually. I guess it's better than nothing, but not very comfortable to read. Usuall…

Standard Ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org ) is what you’re looking for.

Arabian Nights has been on my list to produce for SE for a couple of years now, but its sheer size is imposing. I’ll probably do it in the not too distant future though.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by Tepix »

Meta-comment: The text on this page is tiny! 12px according to the stylesheet.

I have to increase it to 150% to get a comfortable font size. That's crazy.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by chrisseaton »

Tepix wrote: post #23

Meta-comment: The text on this page is tiny! 12px according to the stylesheet. I have to increase it to 150% to get a comfortable font size. That's crazy.

It's exactly the same font-size as on this site, isn't it? I don't think it's an unusually small font-size.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by robin_reala »

CAT0 wrote: post #18
nbonaparte wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Standard Ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org ) is what you’re looking for.

The Internet need something like this for all languages, not only english.

This question comes up a lot. The source to our production pipeline is GPLed and freely available,[1] but the biggest part of why we produce good work is that we have a high quality manual of style.[2] Unfortunately, that second part is very specific to English, and that’s the difficult part to replicate for other languages.

[1] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/

[2] https://standardebooks.org/manual/

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by 0-_-0 »

robin_reala wrote: post #21
nbonaparte wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Standard Ebooks ( https://standardebooks.org ) is what you’re looking for.

Arabian Nights has been on my list to produce for SE for a couple of years now, but its sheer size is imposing. I’ll probably do it in the not too distant future though.

Did you produce the Edgar Allan Poe Short Fiction collection? I'm reading it right now, it's great! And huge!

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by extrememacaroni »

chrisseaton wrote: post #24
Tepix wrote: post #23

Meta-comment: The text on this page is tiny! 12px according to the stylesheet. I have to increase it to 150% to get a comfortable font size. That's crazy.

It's exactly the same font-size as on this site, isn't it? I don't think it's an unusually small font-size.

I have HN zoomed in to 200% on my monitor.

Re: Arabian Nights

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Post by Zababa »

chrisseaton wrote: post #24
Tepix wrote: post #23

Meta-comment: The text on this page is tiny! 12px according to the stylesheet. I have to increase it to 150% to get a comfortable font size. That's crazy.

It's exactly the same font-size as on this site, isn't it? I don't think it's an unusually small font-size.

I personally use HN zoomed to 125% on a 23 inches monitor that's about 25 inches from my eyes. I like how the simple design scales well.
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