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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I'd be super happy if someone could put up "South" by Ernest Shackleton. It was published in 1919, so I can't see why it's not in Public Domain. I'm suprised it's not up here yet.
Ahh I found it on Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5199. |
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Originally Posted by Patricia
I'll convert it.
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This is the very reason I created
GuteBook, so that one could do it themselves or have an experienced ebook creator have a head start.
As an exercise, I converted PG Etext-No. 5199 using my GuteBook preprocessor and then tweaked a few things (added all illustrations at the end, added styles for centering headings, etc.) and am able to produce an illustrated version of that HTML ebook in the .epub, .lrf, .mobi, and both .imp formats,
at the same time.
The GuteBook original output took only two to three minutes whereas the tweaking to make the ebook look better took about an hour.
As I mainly convert from HTML to ebook formats, I know a lot of work-arounds when things don't look just right. A lot of that knowledge was instilled into GuteBook, but manual intervention is always required when the HTML ebooks are complex.
I'll later compare with Patricia's offerings to see how "automated + tweaked" faired with Patricia's BD methods.
In the meantime, if you would like to see the .epub version, I'll post it here, as Patricia normally doesn't do .epub...
EDIT: .epub attachment moved to it's own thread
here.