We know and appreciate the vast collections of books in the public domain from Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive. As an example of making titles into beautiful crafted digital books, explore Standard eBooks “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.”
Browse the library and find something of interest, notable for the work or the digital reading experience:
Standard Ebooks differs from those etext projects in that we aim to make free public domain ebooks that are carefully typeset, cleaned of ancient and irrelevant ephemera, take full advantage of modern ereading technology, are formatted according to a detailed style guide, and that are each held to a standard of quality and internal consistency.
Each Standard Ebook features carefully chosen cover art based on public domain artwork, and is presented in an attractive way in your reading app or device.
For technically-inclined readers, Standard Ebooks conform to a rigorous coding style, are completely open source, and are hosted on GitHub, so anyone can contribute corrections or improvements easily and directly without having to deal with baroque forums or opaque processes.
Yes, getting access to the text of a book is valiuable, buit note the difference the collection at Standard eBooks – carefully proofreading, expanded metadata, and clean semantic markup
One of our weekly series of interesting open resources, tools, web sites shared as monday-connect