09-16-2008, 03:13 PM | #1 |
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Shakespeare..Any good formatting out there?
Im having a helluva time coming up with reasonable copies of Shakespeares plays. I have:
1) Converted a pdf from google books to a word file to a mobi file...fonts got all screwed up, tried fixing it, inserted TOC etc, but still hard to read the verse properly 2) purchased 2 different versions from Amazon...both are crap... Does anyone have another source out there reading shakespeare on continuous lines instead of the way the verse was written is unbearable. if anyone wants a pdf or word doc of the complete works, let me know. |
09-16-2008, 04:00 PM | #2 |
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There are several titles here at MobileRead (but not all are plays).
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20578 [A Midsummer Night's Dream] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17650 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17652 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17649 https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17651 Feedbooks.com http://feedbooks.com/book/2846 [Hamlet] Manybooks.net http://manybooks.net/titles/shakespeetext94shaks12.html [The Complete Works of William Shakespeare] http://manybooks.net/search.php?search=shakespear [more Shakespeare and related] I have not downloaded or looked at any of these titles personally but they're all free and might have what you're looking for. |
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Is there any good HTML source for Shakespeare ? I'd like to add his complete works on Feedbooks, and of course, they will have a proper TOC.
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Thank you both, here's Macbeth: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2935
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FBReader does not break at the end of each line with the MOBI version, but the ePub looks good. |
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blockquote + p {text-indent: 0.0em;} Don't know how it'll work for Mobipocket though, they probably add this indent automatically on p tags. You can change the PDF font size using the custom PDF option. |
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<p width="0"> or by using a "<br>" rather than a "<p>". Look here for more information. |
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09-18-2008, 11:03 AM | #11 |
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as the Bard would say..."oh hellz yes"
Thanks for working on this people's...ill take a look at macbeth a little later. In the meantime im going to try to get my money back from Amazon for these unreadable texts. |
09-19-2008, 11:08 AM | #12 |
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got a chance to download macbeth, hamlet and romeo and juliet. thank you so much for putting these up. they are by far the best formatted ebooks of shakespeare
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I got a Complete Works off of KindleKorner on Yahoo. Not sure who did it, but it is nicely formatted and has a good TOC.
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10-01-2008, 06:42 AM | #14 |
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All of his plays are online now: http://www.feedbooks.com/author/494
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10-01-2008, 03:33 PM | #15 |
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Thanks, Hadrien.
Now to download the "Scottish Play"... Will |
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