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usonian

(17,241 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:16 PM Apr 9

Standard Ebooks.

Last edited Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:36 PM - Edit history (1)

Many public domain books are scanned and OCR'ed, and of uneven layout and accuracy.

https://standardebooks.org/

Free and liberated ebooks,
carefully produced for the true book lover.


Free and liberated ebooks,
carefully produced for the true book lover.



Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.

What makes Standard Ebooks different?
• Modern & consistent typography
• Full proofing with careful corrections
• Rich & detailed metadata
• State-of-the-art technology
• Quality covers
• Clean code & semantic markup
• Free, open-source, & public domain

So, what's not to like?

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Standard Ebooks. (Original Post) usonian Apr 9 OP
The editions are beautifully produced. This is coming from an e-book addict! HeartsCanHope Apr 9 #1

HeartsCanHope

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1. The editions are beautifully produced. This is coming from an e-book addict!
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:20 PM
Apr 9

Well worth a look to see if there are any books you'd like to have in your e-book stash!

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