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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Ugh, I dislike stock Gutenberg books.
I appreciate what they do. I think it is very important. But then I'm also glad for the likes of Standard eBooks for making stuff better.
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Started in 1972, the base format is supposed to outlast fashions such as mobi, azw3, epub2, epub3 etc.
I guess designed for teletypes and 80 x 24 Terminals.
I put them through a filter that automatically changes extra paragraph space to a first line indent and mostly fixes typewriter quotes to real quotes.
Sometimes TOC, file divisions and Blockquotes need manually edited.
I started by downloading plain text and doing formatting of it about seven years before Kindles even existed. Then for a while downloaded the mobi with images version. Now I download their "epub3" and convert it to epub2 with "smarten punctuation", make spaced to indented, remove line-height and white-space.
Gutenberg have a different aim to GlobalGrey or StandardEbooks or even
https://sacred-texts.com/
BTW, the CD, DVD or FlashDrive from Sacred Texts is likely a copy of the their web pages. Copy & Paste of any PD stuff on their site to LO Writer seems to be the only solution. They don't seem to have discovered ebooks.
Gutenberg have a base format(s) and auto converted other formats which is why they won't fix TOC/formatting stuff in most actual ebooks they offer. Fix it and re-offer it here?
Their unenforceable licence is also a bit mad.
OTOH, The Internet Archive / Library of Alexandra really only has scans and they are not as fussy as anyone else on copyright. All their ebooks seem to be the OCR from the TIFF or PDF with no proofing. The Gutenberg proofing is mostly OK.