e-Book Requests and Begging (Public Domain Books Only!) - Page 13

DMcCunney · 02-08-2008, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i will take a look at that too ; i don't know Rinehart and i am always happy to find new (old) mystery writers...

Rinehart is worthwhile. You might also look at Anna Katherine Green. Her father was a judge, and she grew up around judges, lawyers, and police. Her stories are authentic as to the police procedures of the time, and legally accurate. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, sold 750,000 copies, and was used by Yale University to demonstrate the fallacy of circumstantial evidence. She was one of the first women to succeed as a writer of mystery fiction, and produced 40 books.

Her language is stilted and formal by our standards, but her stories hold up fairly well.

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a541

http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/a...atherine_green
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Dennis

zelda_pinwheel · 02-08-2008, 07:11 PM

thanks for the suggestion, i will add Anna Katherine Green to my list as well. i'm not afraid of stilted language, if the story is good i can usually get past it.

i think i will start with Rinehart though, she sounds good to me ! (but first i have to finish my current book). i just made an imp format of "The Man in Lower Ten" so i will be starting with that.

i read her bio on wikipedia ; she sounds like an amazing woman, i'm glad to have found out about her. i can't beleive there was another agatha christie out there all this time and i never heard of her.

JSWolf · 02-08-2008, 10:45 PM

In MOST cases, hand crafted conversions will be better then automated scripts. Munsey's LRF conversions are dreadful.

DMcCunney · 02-09-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

In MOST cases, hand crafted conversions will be better then automated scripts. Munsey's LRF conversions are dreadful.

I'll take your word for it. If you have suggestions on doing it better, drop a note Munsey's admin. AFAIK, he's not as automated as Manybooks - he does conversions manually on an XP box, and FTPs the results to the Munseys server. I think he'd be receptive to process improvement suggestions.
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Dennis

bookwoman · 02-09-2008, 06:26 PM

Hi! I'm a total newbie with a Sony prs500 from the promotion a couple of months ago. I'd like to download a couple of books from Gutenberg but I haven't got a clue about how to download or convert them, especially since they are from a "Build a Book" initiative and all that's on the Gutenberg site are individual chapters (48 in the first book alone). The books are "The Semi-Attached Couple" and "The Semi-Detached House" by Emily Eden, who wrote a while after Jane Austen and is supposed to have a style somewhat like hers. The books are out of print so I'd really like to get an ebook version. I'm hoping maybe some very kind person would be interested in reading them and posting them here!

By the way, I am nervous about downloading the libprs500 program because I read in the FAQs that it interferes with the Sony software, which I would like to keep. Is that true? Is there a simpler way to convert HTML to Sony format? Thanks to all of you for all the books you post and helpful advice you provide. This is a wonderful website!

Patricia · 02-09-2008, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by bookwoman

Hi! I'm a total newbie with a Sony prs500 from the promotion a couple of months ago. I'd like to download a couple of books from Gutenberg but I haven't got a clue about how to download or convert them, especially since they are from a "Build a Book" initiative and all that's on the Gutenberg site are individual chapters (48 in the first book alone). The books are "The Semi-Attached Couple" and "The Semi-Detached House" by Emily Eden, who wrote a while after Jane Austen and is supposed to have a style somewhat like hers. The books are out of print so I'd really like to get an ebook version. I'm hoping maybe some very kind person would be interested in reading them and posting them here!

I'm about to upload The Semi-Attached Couple. I'll do the other one tomorrow. They weren't on Project Gutenberg, but on the 'A Celebration of Women Writers' website.

There are several ways of joining up books that are in sections. I usually download the first section then open it in Word and copy and paste the rest into it, chapter by chapter. Then I edit it. This one needed some spelling corrections and I added curly quotes and emdashes.

bookwoman · 02-10-2008, 03:17 PM

Thank you, Patricia! You are extremely kind to donate your time in this way. If I ever manage to understand the software, I will try to upload some books myself as a way of passing on the favor.

Patricia · 02-10-2008, 04:15 PM

You are very welcome, bookwoman.
Welcome to the forum, by the way.

vivaldirules · 02-24-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Nate the great

I see that the translator died in 1942, and Gandhi died in 1948. Canadian copyright law is life+50. We can host this ebook.

I have today posted a second book (Hind Swaraj) by Gandhi that was translated by the same person (Mahadev Desai) assuming that it is legal to do so for the same reason as before.

zelda_pinwheel · 02-24-2008, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by ashkulz

I don't know if this has already been requested, but I would suggest the illustrated
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). It's a classic.

i've just posted an .imp format of this book (which is indeed a classic, and one of my favorites). The book was already available here, but without the illustrations.

If anyone wants to make a different format, i can share my html file (which is not perfect, but acceptable... it could stand a bit more cleaning, if i / someone else have the time), just let me know.

Manichean · 02-25-2008, 11:23 AM

Does anybody here have (or know how to get) the diary of John Evelyn? All I've managed to dig up is a pretty bad OCRed text on archive.org (alternatively the scanned pages are also available), all other sources have come up empty. It doesn't really have to be an ebook format, I'm willing to do the conversion work myself, given a usable text source.

DMcCunney · 02-25-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Manichean

Does anybody here have (or know how to get) the diary of John Evelyn? All I've managed to dig up is a pretty bad OCRed text on archive.org (alternatively the scanned pages are also available), all other sources have come up empty. It doesn't really have to be an ebook format, I'm willing to do the conversion work myself, given a usable text source.

Try

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftB...4/ed_hold.html

or

ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/humanities/John_Evelyn/
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Dennis

Manichean · 02-25-2008, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/humanities/John_Evelyn/

Thanks, that's pretty much what I had in mind. I'll go ahead and convert these to Mobipocket, should anyone be interested, I could upload them here.

igorsk · 03-05-2008, 04:54 AM

I would like to request a BBeB version of the CIA World Factbook. I tried doing a quick conversion myself using html2lrf but the tables are not fun to deal with...

HarryT · 03-05-2008, 05:40 AM

Do you think they're going to be more fun for someone else?

. Sorry, but some of these things just ARE hard work.

A MobiPocket conversion would probably be more straightforward, since Mobi Reader does support (simple) HTML tables.

You could always do what I've done with some of my books: make a screen dump of the table in the web browser, and include it as a graphical image in the book.

02-10-2008, 03:17 PM	#187
bookwoman Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: sony prs500	Emily Eden books Thank you, Patricia! You are extremely kind to donate your time in this way. If I ever manage to understand the software, I will try to upload some books myself as a way of passing on the favor.

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02-08-2008, 07:11 PM	#182
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	thanks for the suggestion, i will add Anna Katherine Green to my list as well. i'm not afraid of stilted language, if the story is good i can usually get past it. i think i will start with Rinehart though, she sounds good to me ! (but first i have to finish my current book). i just made an imp format of "The Man in Lower Ten" so i will be starting with that. i read her bio on wikipedia ; she sounds like an amazing woman, i'm glad to have found out about her. i can't beleive there was another agatha christie out there all this time and i never heard of her.

02-08-2008, 10:45 PM	#183
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,037 Karma: 129333114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	In MOST cases, hand crafted conversions will be better then automated scripts. Munsey's LRF conversions are dreadful.

02-09-2008, 06:26 PM	#185
bookwoman Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: sony prs500	Hi! I'm a total newbie with a Sony prs500 from the promotion a couple of months ago. I'd like to download a couple of books from Gutenberg but I haven't got a clue about how to download or convert them, especially since they are from a "Build a Book" initiative and all that's on the Gutenberg site are individual chapters (48 in the first book alone). The books are "The Semi-Attached Couple" and "The Semi-Detached House" by Emily Eden, who wrote a while after Jane Austen and is supposed to have a style somewhat like hers. The books are out of print so I'd really like to get an ebook version. I'm hoping maybe some very kind person would be interested in reading them and posting them here! By the way, I am nervous about downloading the libprs500 program because I read in the FAQs that it interferes with the Sony software, which I would like to keep. Is that true? Is there a simpler way to convert HTML to Sony format? Thanks to all of you for all the books you post and helpful advice you provide. This is a wonderful website!

02-10-2008, 04:15 PM	#188
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	You are very welcome, bookwoman. Welcome to the forum, by the way.

02-25-2008, 11:23 AM	#191
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	Does anybody here have (or know how to get) the diary of John Evelyn? All I've managed to dig up is a pretty bad OCRed text on archive.org (alternatively the scanned pages are also available), all other sources have come up empty. It doesn't really have to be an ebook format, I'm willing to do the conversion work myself, given a usable text source.

03-05-2008, 04:54 AM	#194
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	I would like to request a BBeB version of the CIA World Factbook. I tried doing a quick conversion myself using html2lrf but the tables are not fun to deal with...

03-05-2008, 05:40 AM	#195
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Do you think they're going to be more fun for someone else? . Sorry, but some of these things just ARE hard work. A MobiPocket conversion would probably be more straightforward, since Mobi Reader does support (simple) HTML tables. You could always do what I've done with some of my books: make a screen dump of the table in the web browser, and include it as a graphical image in the book.

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