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08-18-2009, 01:17 PM | #317 |
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Can anyone find an electronic version of Selma Lagerlöf's "The Story of Gösta Berling" (in English)? There's a couple of PDFs available at the Internet Archive, but I'd prefer a text-only version.
And, by the way, can you find, as well, the year Pauline Bancroft Fach (the translator) died? (The translation is dated 1898, so it should be PD in the US anyway.) |
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08-18-2009, 02:39 PM | #319 | |
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I'd prefer just the text, without page numbers, reflowed as paragraphs (either separated by blank lines or in HTML <p></p>. Just the bare minimal formatting needed (italics, if any, marked with underscores or <i></i>). I think http://www.archive.org/details/storyofgstaber00lageuoft is fine, but tell me if you use a different version (there is a "full text" available, but I fear these automatic OCR conversions...). PM me when you have something |
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09-05-2009, 05:07 PM | #320 |
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I'd be super happy if someone could put up "South" by Ernest Shackleton. It was published in 1919, so I can't see why it's not in Public Domain. I'm suprised it's not up here yet.
Ahh I found it on Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5199. Last edited by lilac_jive; 09-05-2009 at 05:11 PM. |
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As an exercise, I converted PG Etext-No. 5199 using my GuteBook preprocessor and then tweaked a few things (added all illustrations at the end, added styles for centering headings, etc.) and am able to produce an illustrated version of that HTML ebook in the .epub, .lrf, .mobi, and both .imp formats, at the same time. The GuteBook original output took only two to three minutes whereas the tweaking to make the ebook look better took about an hour. As I mainly convert from HTML to ebook formats, I know a lot of work-arounds when things don't look just right. A lot of that knowledge was instilled into GuteBook, but manual intervention is always required when the HTML ebooks are complex. I'll later compare with Patricia's offerings to see how "automated + tweaked" faired with Patricia's BD methods. In the meantime, if you would like to see the .epub version, I'll post it here, as Patricia normally doesn't do .epub... EDIT: .epub attachment moved to it's own thread here. Last edited by nrapallo; 09-07-2009 at 09:16 AM. Reason: moved .epub attachment to it's own thread |
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I must take a closer look at GuteBook, Nick.
We were both lucky, in that this was a nice, clean text. You've added more pictures than I have. However, my version of the Appendix on Whaling has a clearer diagram of the types of whales, and I replaced the ditto marks in the list of whale-oil prices with text. But GuteBook seems to handle the bulk of the text very well. |
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That sounds great and I'm glad you may find it useful. If you need any help getting started/oriented, post here, post in the GuteBook thread, or just PM me.
GuteBook is still evolving as I convert more and more PG ebooks, but the ebooks with Etext-No. greater than 10,000 work better as the HTML produced is more consistent and convertible to ebooks. The Etext-No.'s below 3,000 should not even be attempted... Quote:
I did notice that those ditto marks ("" "") didn't translate well into the eboks as well as that Whaling chart, but didn't think of your solution. It now looks very nice WITH your corrections, thanks for the advice. BTW, I did notice that your Whaling chart had some jpeg artifacting so I used a .gif instead for my version. Crisp and clean without artifacting! Do you mind if I upload my versions to your ebook posting for comparison purposes; otherwise I can post them ALL in my GuteBook thread? Also, with GuteBook, I create .lit and .pdb (ereader) versions but have no way of testing them on hardware/software readers and would like to see the members' reactions to same. |
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Thanks nrpallo, but I'm going to take Patricia's because I prefer LRF format. That is a cool thing though.
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12-27-2009, 11:17 PM | #328 |
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I would dearly love to see a nicely formatted version of 'The Golden Treasury' edited by Francis Turner Plagrave. Manybooks.net has the PG version, but the extra space between the lines looks terrible. I am not sure that illustrations may be available either. This is one that really needs to be fixed by by hand but I lack the software to do this myself.
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