[HN Gopher] Standard Ebooks
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Standard Ebooks
Author : tosh
Score : 497 points
Date : 2022-07-24 16:59 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (standardebooks.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (standardebooks.org)
| Thrymr wrote:
| The Kindle FAQ [0] is interesting:
|
| > Why don't you provide mobi files in addition to azw3 files?
|
| > Standard Ebooks is a small, volunteer-led project, and we don't
| have the time or resources to support a second proprietary file
| type just because Amazon can't get its act together. We have time
| for one or the other, and azw3 is the technically superior format
| that provides the better reading experience.
|
| > Why can't I use "Send to Kindle" to send an azw3 file to my
| Kindle?
|
| > We don't know! You'd think that Amazon would allow you to send
| the very file format it invented to its own devices. But Amazon
| hasn't made it possible to send azw3 files via "Send to Kindle,"
| even though they surely could. You should complain to Amazon, or
| vote with your wallet and buy a better ereader.
|
| [0] https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-
| ebooks#kindle...
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Caliber's maintainer has similarly pithy remarks about Amazon
| if you ever check the MobileRead forums.
|
| Amazon should officially be supporting EPUB as the send-to-
| Kindle option now, so that might no longer be necessary. You
| might still have an issue with missing covers, though.
| acabal wrote:
| This is technically true, however when you do that they
| simply convert the epub to mobi on the backend, which is even
| worse.
| hollandheese wrote:
| They're converting it to AZW3 actually. Which makes them
| not allowing AZW3 in Send-to-Kindle even more baffling.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I'm suspicious whether they're still using MOBI on the
| backend, given that they sent me an email about it a few
| days ago when I tried to share a mobi file to my mother's
| Kindle. The email is below:
|
| ---
|
| Dear Kindle Customer,
|
| Thank you for using the Send to Kindle service to send
| personal documents to your Kindle library. We noticed that
| the following document(s), sent by you at HH:MM AM on Sun,
| Jul DD, 2022 GMT are in MOBI (.mobi, .azw) formats:
| <<REDACTED>>
|
| We wanted to let you know that starting August 2022, you'll
| no longer be able to send MOBI (.mobi, .azw) files to your
| Kindle library. Any MOBI files already in your library will
| not be affected by this change. MOBI is an older file
| format and won't support the newest Kindle features for
| documents. Any existing MOBI files you want to read with
| our most up-to-date features for documents will need to be
| re-sent in a compatible format.
|
| Compatible formats now include EPUB (.epub), which you can
| send to your library using your Send to Kindle email
| address. We'll also be adding EPUB support to the free
| Kindle app for iOS and Android devices and the Send to
| Kindle desktop app for PC and Mac.
|
| If you have any questions, please visit our help page or
| contact our Customer Service team.
|
| Regards, Amazon Kindle Support
|
| ---
|
| I would think they might be converting it to some other
| format? Otherwise, why yank the feature to send direct
| MOBIs anymore?
| acabal wrote:
| The technical decisions Kindle makes are shrouded in
| obscurity, both in logic and in execution...
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| I have to assume it's at least a precursor to rolling out
| broader support for EPUB.
|
| Unfortunately, I am using a ~12 year old Kindle which
| isn't going to be seeing any updates, so discontinuing
| send-to-Kindle for MOBI will basically just mean I can't
| use that feature anymore.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Any reason why you haven't upgraded? I keep an old Kindle
| around as well, but just for having a physical Kindle
| registered to my account so that I can download the books
| I purchase and remove the DRM. All my actual reading is
| done on a Kobo.
|
| At some point Amazon sent me an email that my Kindle
| would soon lost storefront access and offered me some
| kind of voucher for an upgrade (like 30% off and a $40
| ebook credit). Surely with all that you could've grabbed
| a new model during the Prime Day sales for next to
| nothing?
| jdougan wrote:
| I can't speak for him, but my old devices are a pair of
| Kindle DXs. AFAICT there is no real upgrade for those.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| acabal wrote:
| As I'm fond of saying, Kindle is an ecosystem invented by
| people who hate books. It's a pity they're the first thing many
| people think of when they hear "ebooks."
| aorth wrote:
| I love this project. Just became a patron. Thanks for all the
| hard work and commitment over the years.
| virtualritz wrote:
| This is fantastic!
|
| The flabbergasting quality (or absence thereof) of ebooks I
| purchase on Amazon is regularly driving me nuts.
|
| Particularly forced justified layout (lacking hypenation, no
| less) - on a mobile phone. Wtf? Don't get me even started about
| the 'typography'.
|
| Great to see there are other people who care about these things.
| spansoa wrote:
| Bookmarked. Another reminder we are drowning in information on
| the web. There's no excuse for not becoming a better version of
| yourself due to The Internet. I will certainly read some of the
| books hosted on this site.
| [deleted]
| radicalriddler wrote:
| Slightly off topic, but how has Amazon and Kobo picked up the
| rights for ebooks? Can anyone set up a ebook marketplace? I'm
| assuming it takes quite a bit of negotiating with publishers and
| other distributors?
|
| Anyone have any insights into this process?
| [deleted]
| jibbers wrote:
| I've only read a handful of books from Standard Ebook, but
| they've all been amazing quality ebooks -- better than some
| ebooks I've paid for through an Amazon Kindle back in the day.
|
| These folks keep an RSS (love it) with each new book they add to
| the collection. The hoarder/collector in me likes to have all
| these perfectly formatted books and thanks to the hardworking
| people at SE I have, and you can too, some 700 classics for free!
| acabal wrote:
| Glad to hear you're liking the project! We just added bulk
| downloads too, for the collector in you:
| https://standardebooks.org/bulk-downloads
| willhinsa wrote:
| Completely off topic, but the name "standard" makes me think of a
| hilarious Bob Mortimer story on "World I Lie To You?" where he
| accidentally set his house on fire as a child with a box of
| "Standard Fireworks", which he assumed would be very basic and
| safe because of the name.
|
| https://youtu.be/Rqmd39GdDww
| mdp2021 wrote:
| Lots of philology this weekend... "Standard" is the symbol you
| place up high, to "stand hard [firm]", a mark to behold, as if
| - then - a parameter.
|
| So, 'Standard Ebooks' is read as "model ebooks, exemplary of
| how they should be made", and the same for the fireworks... In
| spite of David Mitchell who wanted to joke on "standard" as
| "common" - which is an overly optimistic deviation, and
| Mitchell fumbled there, while remaining a good support act for
| international treasure the Bob Mortimer, the "Standard" (of
| himself).
| bdefore wrote:
| But standards can be low or high. Can one firmly stand on
| unfirm ground?
| akprasad wrote:
| Wonderful project! I'm working on something similar for a
| different language.
|
| How closely do you work with Distributed Proofreaders? [1]
|
| [1]: https://www.pgdp.net/c/
| fernly wrote:
| As a long-time PGDP volunteer and a some-time Standard Ebook
| one, I would say the connection isn't close. The "distributed
| proofreaders" at the wonderful PGDP put zillions of hours into
| cleaning up and formatting books which are then fed to Project
| Gutenberg for distribution. Standard Ebooks picks up the PG
| books and re-formats them to their standards.
|
| Back in the day I was the "post-processor" for a number of PGDP
| books. This meant I received the page scan files which had
| already been through five (5!) separate passes by volunteer
| proofers and compiled them into a single etext in (initially)
| HTML, and later Ebook.
|
| The fact that Standard Ebooks finds typos in PG books (and they
| do, and kudos to them for their work) simply underscores the
| huge difficulty of cleaning OCR'd text. In the example on the
| linked Standard Ebooks front page, the typo of "tne" for "the"
| is a very typical "scanno" as they are called at PGDP. Both the
| software and the wetware have overlooked the missing vertical
| stem of the letter "h".
|
| However, that particular scanno should never have reached
| distribution at PG, because the last two volunteer passes at
| PGDP _require_ the volunteer to apply spellcheck before
| committing a page as complete, plus the post-processor should
| use spellcheck on the finalized book. That example typo must
| have come into the PG library at least 20 years ago, or else it
| didn't come through PGDP.
|
| From experience I can say that as an organization Standard
| Ebooks are much more tightly managed than most open-source
| volunteer outfits, and if you can fit into their system, you
| can put in very satisfying hours building books there. (Despite
| having formatted some (I thought) handsome works for PGDP, I
| couldn't meet the standards of Standard Ebooks, or maybe I was
| burned out, and didn't stay with them.)
| acabal wrote:
| PGDP is an incredible project. We mostly work on the
| transcriptions they produce and we specifically avoid creating
| our own transcriptions, because PGDP already has such a good
| system in place. When people ask for a new transcription we
| point them to PGDP instead.
|
| (We have occasionally done our own transcriptions, since in the
| past few years the US public domain has started expanding
| again. In these cases we may transcribe a popular book
| ourselves to have it ready at the start of the public domain
| year, instead of waiting for PDGP's process.)
| mike_n wrote:
| Is there a set of standard open-source textbooks for k-12 levels?
| If not, can we make it happen?
| gnicholas wrote:
| Yes, CK12. [1] Fun fact: it's run by Neeru Khosla.
|
| 1: https://www.ck12.org/student/
| llaolleh wrote:
| The ebooks here on this website are great. I've been reading
| Tolstoy's Confessions from there and it's been a delight.
| alexalx666 wrote:
| Amazing
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Big fan of Standard Ebooks. Another similar project, which I
| discovered on HN, is Global Grey:
| https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html
| acabal wrote:
| They've been around for a while, and now I notice that their
| cover art format and ebook page layout look vaguely familiar
| ... :)
| squidbeak wrote:
| I appreciate this project very much and constantly wish ebook
| standards at the big commercial publishing houses were even half
| as good as SE's.
| qqquackk wrote:
| Can anyone recommend a high quality ebook reader app for Android,
| that would be compatible with one or more of the formats this
| site offers?
|
| Also what is this "advanced epub" format they have? I can't see
| where they describe the actual difference with "compatible epub".
| tharen wrote:
| > Can anyone recommend a high quality ebook reader app for
| Android, that would be compatible with one or more of the
| formats this site offers?
|
| I use [Librera Reader](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foob
| nix.pro.pdf.reader/] and
| [Voice](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/) for
| audio books.
|
| [KO-Reader](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launch
| er.fdroid...) is also recommended, but the one above I found
| easier to use, though both seem highly recommended.
|
| I found these Android apps from this [post on r/androidapps](ht
| tps://old.reddit.com/user/Jackie7610/comments/lr5gag/list_...)
|
| Basically just look for epub, as that is the open standard -
| though really it doesn't matter if you use
| [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/) as it can convert between
| them, but you have to check the types supported yourself...
|
| > Also what is this "advanced epub" format they have? I can't
| see where they describe the actual difference with "compatible
| epub".
|
| They have [an explanation
| here](https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-
| ebooks#which-...), but I would say, when in doubt, just go with
| the compatible one.
|
| _Besides, it 's just a book, I doubt anything will explode if
| you use the wrong the version..._
| acabal wrote:
| Editor-in-chief here, happy to answer any questions!
| badtension wrote:
| How do you calculate the reading difficulty?
| acabal wrote:
| Using the Flesch-Kincaid scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
| /Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
| BossingAround wrote:
| I wish there was a difficulty for non-native speakers.
| Flesch-Kincaid score does nothing for the majority of
| readers if it doesn't distinguish between Night and Day
| (Woolf) and Shakespeare's Coriolanus. From purely the
| language's perspectives, non-native speakers will struggle
| with Coriolanus much more due to outdated language.
|
| Flesch-Kincaid makes little sense to me for books aimed at
| adults in general.
| lumb63 wrote:
| Love this project! I've read several books from Project
| Gutenberg and owe a great deal to the project. I love seeing
| this extension of it and will be sure to avail myself of it and
| possibly contribute one day!
|
| Not a question, so much as a suggestion from an interested
| netizen: it would be great to see changes flowed back up to
| Gutenberg. I know they have a process for submitting updates -
| I've made several to The Wealth of Nations myself.
|
| Thanks for sharing the project, and I look forward to my next
| read!
| robin_reala wrote:
| It's down to the producer, but 95% of the SE books I produce
| have changes upstreamed to PG. There's no competition between
| us: we both serve different niches.
| stevage wrote:
| How many volunteers do you have? What motivates people to keep
| working?
| ioblomov wrote:
| What a great project! Would you have a need for a veteran web
| dev who also happened to be an English major? Took a look at
| the volunteer page, but nothing jumped out.
| acabal wrote:
| Absolutely! Creating epub ebooks is basically creating web
| pages. Epubs are just zipped up XHTML files, with exactly the
| same semantic structure and CSS styling you'd find on a well-
| made web page. That makes web devs with English majors our
| ideal type of volunteer!
|
| Check out our step by step guide to creating an ebook[1] and
| then our Wanted Ebook list[2] for some good first-time
| productions. Then send a note to our mailing list and we'll
| help you through it.
|
| Creating an ebook is a very satisfying endeavor - I always
| say it's like building your own lightsaber.
|
| [1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-
| ste...
|
| [2] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks
| [deleted]
| fimdomeio wrote:
| Just a note, the line height (leading) when reading a book
| online seems too small.
| nynx wrote:
| I'm curious what format the advanced epub is -- epub v3?
| acabal wrote:
| Yes, the advanced epubs are just the zipped source repo,
| which is epub 3.2, including any "advanced" CSS selectors and
| so on. "Advanced" here just means that the epubs are written
| with a modern web rendering engine in mind, while most
| ereading platforms in the wild are still at an IE6 level of
| CSS/HTML rendering support.
|
| The "compatible" epub is the same epub, but with various
| compatibility enhancements automatically added for different
| ereading platforms.
|
| Currently only web browsers can render the advanced epubs at
| 100% fidelity. iBooks might be the only non-browser ereading
| platform that does a pretty good job with the advanced epubs,
| as I believe it uses modern Webkit as its renderer. For any
| other ereader, use the compatible epubs. (Or kepubs for
| Kobo.)
| BossingAround wrote:
| Would you have any Android reading app recommendation for
| advanced epubs? There are android ereaders, those should
| surely be able to handle any epub given the right app,
| right?
| acabal wrote:
| Lithium seems to be fairly good in terms of rendering our
| advanced epubs, but it's not perfect; note especially
| that it doesn't invert black-and-white SVGs correctly so
| unless you set it to a dark page theme, they'll be
| "invisible". There are also some other rendering quirks
| for things like very big tables used for play formatting.
|
| Poor renderers are a perennial problem in the epub world
| and there seems to be little interest in improving the
| situation. Just use the compatible epubs - for reading
| purposes they're almost equivalent except in some rare
| edge cases. Or, you can use our 'read online in browser'
| option to read ebooks directly in your web browser, which
| will serve you the source of our advanced epubs. But of
| course reading in a browser is less than ideal.
| Beldin wrote:
| just curious, not planning...
|
| Would you accept novel translations of non-English classics?
| The policy suggests yes, but I imagine such a work would fall
| under US copyright (which the policy forbids).
| acabal wrote:
| If by "novel" you mean "modern", then potentially, but they
| would have to be actually good translations, and released to
| the public domain via CC0. We only work on public domain
| books.
| [deleted]
| voxl wrote:
| Have any of the ebooks included any serious math? I see that
| MathML is the expectation, but I wonder if the rules around the
| math aren't just ignored because of the rest of the culture
| around which books are selected and worked on.
|
| Indeed, in academic writing I never see MathML used in an HMTL
| setting, it's always MathJax or KaTeX. For your purposes this
| is probably fine, but imagining if someone wanted to author a
| high quality math textbook following the same standard I would
| wager they'd run into a brick wall
| anjbe wrote:
| It's certainly not "serious math," but I'm rather proud of
| this revision I made to the MathML used for a throwaway
| equation in an obscure short story:
| https://github.com/standardebooks/fritz-leiber_short-
| fiction...
| acabal wrote:
| _Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus_ , _Passages from the Life of
| a Philosopher_ , and _A Tangled Tale_ are probably our most
| MathML-heavy books.
|
| Books from the PD era are not very likely to feature math
| serious enough to require MathML. This is probably for the
| best... MathML support in ereaders is poor, with the
| exception of iBooks and Kobo. Raw MathML is retained in our
| "advanced" epubs, but it's converted to PNGs in our
| "compatible" epubs, for this reason.
|
| https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-
| wittgenstein/tracta...
|
| https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-
| babbage/passages-f...
|
| https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll/a-tangled-
| ta...
| firstbabylonian wrote:
| Do you have any plans to support (and accept contributions to)
| non-English books? It'll be amazing to see original Russian
| classic texts redone with the same level of care.
| acabal wrote:
| This is a common request and the answer is unfortunately no.
| Typography varies across languages and we are only experts in
| English typography. People have tried to start up various SE-
| like projects for other languages, but as far as I know none
| have taken off.
| politelemon wrote:
| Would you consider creating a Goodreads collection/list of all
| the books in Standard Ebooks? Though I can appreciate if it's
| too much work to curate or manage.
|
| Edit -- oh, is this the list?
| https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/140305.Standard_Ebooks
| acabal wrote:
| We did have one volunteer adding items to Goodreads as we
| produced them, but the process was manual and very tedious,
| and the ROI was questionable at best. So IIRC he no longer
| does that. I'm not against the idea but someone has to
| volunteer to pick up the task.
| politelemon wrote:
| Yeah it's a shame that Goodreads stopped giving out API
| keys, that could have helped with automating the list to
| some extent at least.
| labrador wrote:
| I'm getting old and my eye sight is going. Are there any read-
| a-loud options you can recommend? The Edge browser does a
| decent job on PDF's in a voice you can select, but it's kind of
| hacky for an entire book.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| if you have an Alexa it can read ebooks you've bought on
| Amazon.
| compscistd wrote:
| What's something you'd recommend to a friend as a beach read?
| anjbe wrote:
| I'll second Alex's recommendations of P. G. Wodehouse
| (especially _Jeeves Stories_ ) and Agatha Christie.
|
| A personal favorite of mine is Jules Verne's _Around the
| World in Eighty Days_ :
| https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/around-the-
| wor...
| acabal wrote:
| The Book of Wonder is a series of weird short stories, some
| of them gloomy and pessimistic but many with a thread of dark
| humor. "Chu-bu and Sheemish" is one of my all-time favorite
| short stories - it's creative and hilarious. [1]
|
| I also liked _A Voyage to Arcturus_ , which has become a
| modern cult classic. It's probably my favorite book I've read
| for SE, though it might be a little heavy for a "beach read."
| [2]
|
| P. G. Wodehouse is always a good bet for lighter reading. [3]
|
| The Martian books are also light swashbuckling sci-fi. [4]
|
| _The Murder of Roger Ackroyd_ is considered to be one of the
| best murder mysteries ever written. [5]
|
| [1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lord-dunsany/the-book-
| of-w...
|
| [2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/david-lindsay/a-voyage-
| to-...
|
| [3] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-g-wodehouse
|
| [4] https://standardebooks.org/collections/martian
|
| [5] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-
| murder...
| technothrasher wrote:
| The first book I downloaded from standard ebooks was a PG
| Wodehouse book. I'd never read him and figured I'd give
| both him and the service a try. Neither disappointed.
| malshe wrote:
| Thanks a lot for doing this! I just downloaded a PG
| Wodehouse book on the iPad and I am thoroughly impressed by
| the quality of the book! I read PG's books when I was
| young. I used to borrow them from a local library so I
| don't own any of them.
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| Do you have a plan for ensuring that Standard Ebooks never gets
| overtaken by profit-seeking spam the way Manybooks was?
|
| Love your project, thank you!
| acabal wrote:
| There are no guarantees in life, but as long as I'm at the
| helm I hope to avoid spam!
|
| We do accept donations because as SE becomes more popular and
| attracts more contributors, managing the project is
| approaching the time required for a full-time job.
| [deleted]
| vmilner wrote:
| In general, I love the format, however I notice that (for
| example), Hugh Lofting's "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" has
| none of Lofting's illustrations - which seems a shame in a
| children's book - is this a deliberate policy choice?
| acabal wrote:
| Yes, we purposely don't include decorative illustrations in
| any ebook. (With some very rare exceptions.)
| jacobolus wrote:
| Is that just to cut down on file size?
| gault8121 wrote:
| What's the rationale for not including illustrations?
| acabal wrote:
| The ebooks we work on are often very old, and have been
| illustrated various times over the years. We don't want
| to have to pick and choose a single set of illustrations,
| nor do we want to forced to constantly justify exceptions
| for everyone's pet book, so we just have a blanket "no
| decorative illustrations" policy.
|
| Note that this only refers to _decorative_ illustrations,
| which is not the same as an illustration required to
| understand the text. As someone pointed out elsewhere,
| books like Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie, which can
| include narrative-critical illustrations like a map of a
| murder scene, or nonfiction which can often have relevant
| pictures but are not "illustrated" in the decorative
| sense, get to keep their images.
| orzig wrote:
| I super respect your thoughtful principles. the focus has
| clearly paid off!
| vmilner wrote:
| Thanks - as I suspected, one of those seems to be "The
| Return of Sherlock Holmes" where "The Dancing Men" story
| needs the illustration to make the story understandable.
| Brakenshire wrote:
| From someone reading with a Kobo device:
|
| * Have you considered putting the books onto the official
| store? It would make it much smoother to get books on the
| device. You could charge a small fee to pay for the effort, I'd
| pay the extra to support the project and avoid the hassle of
| doing an upload. I just saw above you now do bulk downloads,
| which will help also.
|
| * Although your covers are beautiful, they only appear in a
| small corner of the screen for the Kobo devices I've used, even
| using the Kepub format, is that a known issue?
|
| And also to thank you for the effort. This project plays a
| really important role and has been a source of pleasure for
| many of my friends and family.
| acabal wrote:
| We've been in touch with Kobo but they haven't expressed a
| lot of interest. We do have an integration with the Google
| Play store, so if you search for an ebook we have in our
| catalog, it should appear near the top.
|
| I use a Kobo eink device myself and haven't noticed the cover
| art problem you're describing. Make sure you're on the latest
| firmware, and that you're transferring our kepub files using
| a USB cable and not Calibre. (Calibre may attempt to apply
| their own conversion on top of our own conversion, which can
| result in unexpected things happening.)
| Brakenshire wrote:
| Thanks for both answers, I use Calibre, so that's the
| reason why I'm getting that.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| I've taken to just opening the SE website in the Kobo
| experimental browser and downloading the books directly
| onto the device that way. The browser is pretty sluggish,
| but even then it only takes a few clicks if you know what
| book you're looking for.
| acabal wrote:
| There's been some talk about improving the Kobo browser
| experience, if you want to take a crack at it!
| https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/126
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Are you aware that someone is selling your books on Kobo
| with the Standard Ebooks publisher name?
|
| https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=standard%20ebooks&a
| c...
| acabal wrote:
| Yes, that's going to happen. The books are in the US
| public domain and anyone in the US can do anything they
| want with them, including reselling them. Obviously we
| are not the ones selling these.
| AequitasOmnibus wrote:
| The stories may be public domain but your arrangement,
| and more importantly your trade name _are_ protected. You
| may not have the desire to take action like a dmca
| takedown, but you 're definitely within your rights to do
| so.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| That's fair, but I'd think the issue was less about
| copyright and more...trademark infringement? Since
| they're selling _as_ "Standard Ebooks", I think there's
| reasonable grounds for confusion that someone browsing
| the Kobo store might see one of the books being offered
| as coming _from you_ and make a purchase as a kind of
| donation, thinking that it 's going towards SE's upkeep
| rather than into some random's pocket.
| Farbklex wrote:
| What would be a good affordable ebook reader to enjoy this books?
| TheFreim wrote:
| I have a KOBO Libra H20, it is very good. I loaded KOReader on
| to it which adds functionality
| (https://github.com/koreader/koreader).
| pronoiac wrote:
| Huh. Choosing a book at somewhat random - Mike by P.G. Wodehouse
| - neither the compatible or advanced (experimental?) epubs are
| working terribly well in Bluefire Reader on my iPad. I might poke
| at this with Calibre. Or if there are recommendations for another
| epub reader, with the caveat that I need annotations.
|
| It looks like the workflow is per book. That ... seems odd.
| acabal wrote:
| iBooks is at the moment the best ebook renderer for iPad, hands
| down. If there are specific issues that look very bad on
| Bluefire Reader, please send a note to our mailing list with
| details so we can take a look!
| dirkt wrote:
| Calibre actually does horrible things to the HTML source that
| hides in each epub. While Standard Ebooks do promote awesome
| HTML. If you run Calibre on it, it's ruined.
|
| An epub is just a zip file. Open it up, look inside, see for
| yourself.
| rkapsoro wrote:
| Isn't this only if you use Calibre to do a _conversion_ on
| the epub?
|
| Calibre can just be used as a library, right?
| zufallsheld wrote:
| Can you explain or link to some resources on what calibre
| does with ebooks?
| hackernewds wrote:
| Sad this only has 9/70 patrons??
| billybuckwheat wrote:
| This is a great project. It's really prodded me to reread some
| classics, and read more than a few I've never tried to tackle
| before.
|
| I really should donate a few dollars to the project to show my
| appreciation and to try to help (in a small way) keep it going.
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