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jimad · 03-19-2009, 06:01 PM

The free Google PD books via Sony are apparently converted monkey-free via a very good OCR, but still have a lot of errors compared to Gutenberg.

Gutenberg in turn is now offering EPUB format on their books, some including illustrations, but currently the Gutenberg file format translations to EPUB have a lot of errors.

I've tried taking the Gutenberg EPUB books, open them in Stanza, and Export them to .mobi to make them compatible with my Kindle. It works, but seems to lose any illustrations, and adds in some more errors of its own.

Still, for simple books it works well enough.

If you are a Kindle person you are still much better off first trying to find your free book prepackaged as a .mobi file already, such as at manybooks or freekindlebooks.

I hope Amazon decides to add non-DRM EPUB support native to Kindle, and that Gutenberg makes progress cleaning up their conversions to EPUB format!

How many different ways can the myriad players find to fight amongst themselves???

03-19-2009, 06:01 PM	#93
jimad Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 52 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle	Google vs Gutenberg vs other free e-book sites The free Google PD books via Sony are apparently converted monkey-free via a very good OCR, but still have a lot of errors compared to Gutenberg. Gutenberg in turn is now offering EPUB format on their books, some including illustrations, but currently the Gutenberg file format translations to EPUB have a lot of errors. I've tried taking the Gutenberg EPUB books, open them in Stanza, and Export them to .mobi to make them compatible with my Kindle. It works, but seems to lose any illustrations, and adds in some more errors of its own. Still, for simple books it works well enough. If you are a Kindle person you are still much better off first trying to find your free book prepackaged as a .mobi file already, such as at manybooks or freekindlebooks. I hope Amazon decides to add non-DRM EPUB support native to Kindle, and that Gutenberg makes progress cleaning up their conversions to EPUB format! How many different ways can the myriad players find to fight amongst themselves???