Book stuff

[supergee]

* Remembering forgotten children’s books

* Standard Ebooks: Project Gutenberg Improved

Thanx to Metafilter

Comments

[violsva]

Oh, Standard Ebooks look like my kind of people.

[carbonel]

Ooh, I wish Standard Ebooks would take on Richard Burton's Arabian Nights (1000 Nights and a Night). I was so happy to see that Project Gutenberg had transcribed that -- and then gave up after 10 pages or so, because it was totally unreadable to me, both in terms of format and transcription errors.

Also, I'm a little sad to see Pat Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles listed with the obscure books, since it's never been out of print, and is now selling well in ebook format.

re: Standard Ebooks

[bibliofile]

I'm happy about the better formatting (PG started out as plain text for everything, which is possibly better than nothing....) but I draw the line at "Light & tasteful modernization" of the text. As a proofer for DP, I certainly understand the temptation, but JUST SAY NO.

As for the Wrede books, note that the person who wrote in is all of 28: 18 years ago is more than half their life ago! And the extra publicity maybe won't hurt?