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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
If you know of an weird-greekie-name publisher who issued an book which didn't come from Gutenberg ?
PG now issues some books with clickable TOCs but the older ones never have this so a good reason may exist for taking the Kindle freebie.
The question is, why do they omit illustrations ?
Their plan is to add a cover image and a clickable TOC and push it out so I don't see how taking the non-illustrated version helps unless Amazon objected to the larger file size.
Does anyone review PG output for points like that ?
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I think that Amazon charges publishers download fees for their books based on the size, so adding illustrations may cost them more.
I have seen some PD works from "a weird-greekie-name publisher" that were not from PG, but not many.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by clickable TOC, as in does the ebook have a TOC accessible to ereaders TOC function (e.g., Nook's Contents menu) vs. if there's a TOC within the book, are the entries clickable. I think in general, PG books generally have the former, not necessarily the latter. The TOC also looks to be potentially multi-level, which may not work with some ereaders.
I think PG has an automated html to ebook conversion process that they run periodically, so reloading ebooks that were downloaded from PG from several years ago might give you what you are looking for. The Calibre ebook viewer says that the .mobi files available now are KF8 MOBI of type 'joint'.
I can tell from the size of the files that about half the PG ebooks actually have images, but I have no idea if the images are covers or internal illustrations. Many of the older PG books omitted illustrations from the original print books, and don't have covers, especially if the scanned print book has some sort of plain library binding. Since the PD publishers are probably using stock images of PD paintings or illustrations, I don't know if that matters. Then again, the illustrations in those PG books could have been the stock images of the original print book's era...
Finding, buying, and downloading a free PD book to one's Kindle is always going to be easier at Amazon than at Project Gutenberg or here. I'm just ambivalent about whether a thread like this needs to be 60% or 70% announcements that some publisher is selling some PD books free at Amazon. I don't know or care what the actual percentage is, and I'm really not trying to start a debate. If people want to post them, knock yourself out. I just ignore them, most of the time. I was just curious what sort of illustrations, if any, Medieval Medicine might have had. I was really hoping that it would have a bunch of illustrations of medieval medical instruments, and it had at least one.