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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I love the uploads section and wanted to contribute some titles that I'm particularly interested in reading. I have 18 that I've been preparing to convert and upload here. I've been reading Harry T's tutorial, have installed BD, and I've looked at what other people have been doing for indexing, TOC, fonts, cover art, etc. Today, I stumbled on ManyBooks.net and found 16 of the titles available there for free and in more formats than I could count. I know we just hit the 2000 mark a few weeks ago here but they have nearly 20,000. I'm guessing that site grew up after the MR uploads started. Still, can you tell me why it is beneficial to continue to build a separate set of files here? Is it for reasons of special formatting, correction of errors, or something else? If so, I will be more selective in choosing titles for conversion. I'm hoping I'm not asking a sensitive question. If so, just say so and I'll upload the files anyway (when I'm done).  |
Manybooks is good but the automatic conversions from Project Gutenberg can be faulty on occasion. And they never include a clickable ToC.
The advantage of the MobileRead uploads is that our books have been hand-made. Some people add clickable tables of contents, hyperlinked footnotes, illustrations and/or spellcheck for errors. Some people have spent a long time working on books that are personally significant to them. So, often the result is noticeably better.
HarryT, for example, is revising his earlier uploads in the light of experience gained with Book Designer and consistently produces beautiful books: see his Sherlock Holmes. RWood has done the Harvard Classics series and has made lovely books in versions that are infinitely better than any automatic versions. I habitually restore accents to the French classics. J S Woolf has uploaded modern science fiction unobtainable elsewhere in lrf format.
So there is still a justification for our uploads section.