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Originally Posted by RWood
Sorry for the delay in reporting back. It is bad enough to miss someone else’s deadline; but, when you miss one that you established….
Outside of the “collected” volumes identified with such titles as “Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern”, it seems that about 65% of the Harvard Classics are available at Gutenberg. Some are part of larger works such as Manfred by Lord Byron is available somewhere in one of the four volumes of his complete works and the two selected plays of Sophocles are part of his plays volume. Many of John Milton’s works are still missing.
On a good note, twenty-four (24) of the volumes are complete. There are additional sources I can look for in addition to Bartleby site. So we can create a complete series.
We can make our own version of the Harvard Classics. Maybe a production rate of a volume or two a month would be possible, given the other interferences going on like job and family. I have the base text files on my machine to start.
The production would not necessarily be in sequential order. I would propose to use FeedBooks for this project as they produce very nice looking output and then everyone could get the format that they wanted for their own reader. I am sure that Hadrien will allow us to use FeedBooks for the task.
Before I would start on such a long project I ask one question, “Is there interest in the end product and perhaps some support for such an effort?”
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Well... anyone can easily submit a book on Feedbooks. I just took a look at the Harvard Classics and some of these authors/books are already online. Are you trying to release all of them as volumes though ? I can see than in some volumes there's several books and I believe it would be better to release all of the books included in these volumes separately.