e-Book Requests and Begging (Public Domain Books Only!)

[BookCat]

If anyone fancies making a nice MR epub The Sorrows of Young Werther in an epub English translation, it would be appreciated.

The library has an lrf copy, but I've discovered that lrf doesn't convert well to epub (using Calibre) as it leaves a weird embedded font. The lrf version does contain some images - it would be nice if the epub did too.

Thanks lots in advance.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by BookCat

If anyone fancies making a nice MR epub The Sorrows of Young Werther in an epub English translation, it would be appreciated.

Standard EBooks (R. D. Boylan translation)

[BookCat]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Standard EBooks (R. D. Boylan translation)

Thanks. I've also downloaded the PG version, which seems, strangely, to have a nicer layout (justified text). I've always prefered books from mobileread, but the library seems to have some peculiar gaps.

to everyone who works on the MR gorgeously-formatted books.

[BookCat]

I was looking for an epub version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in the MR library - no epub - so I checked all other formats. The only version which exists is in German (epub).

I was looking for a copy to replace the awful, unreadable version downloaded from Gutenberg. Would be nice if someone could make an English version.

Thanks.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by BookCat

I was looking for an epub version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus in the MR library - no epub - so I checked all other formats. The only version which exists is in German (epub).

I was looking for a copy to replace the awful, unreadable version downloaded from Gutenberg. Would be nice if someone could make an English version.

Thanks.

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ch...doctor-faustus

[Ntsimp]

Apologies if it's not ok to resurrect this thread, but I've searched everywhere for the mystery novels of Gret Lane (pseudonym of Margaret Lane Chapman, died 1944). She was an American expat in England, and published about a dozen books there, including The Stolen Scar (1925) and The Cancelled Score Mystery (1929). Anybody?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Ntsimp

Apologies if it's not ok to resurrect this thread, but I've searched everywhere for the mystery novels of Gret Lane (pseudonym of Margaret Lane Chapman, died 1944). She was an American expat in England, and published about a dozen books there, including The Stolen Scar (1925) and The Cancelled Score Mystery (1929). Anybody?

Several seem to have been published on Amazon, including a nine book omnibus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07DRPC533

I haven't found any copies available for free download, although they're clearly out of copyright in the UK and EU, and probably their copyright wasn't renewed in the USA, so might be out of copyright there too.

Looking on AbeBooks, they have only three second hand books (total!), the cheapest of which is £75.

There don't seem to be any of her works at argive.org.

I suggest getting the copies off Amazon, although I suspect they'll need a bit of cleaning up, which will be difficult without any original scans. But who knows - perhaps they're good copies.

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Several seem to have been published on Amazon, including a nine book omnibus: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07DRPC533

I haven't found any copies available for free download, although they're clearly out of copyright in the UK and EU, and probably their copyright wasn't renewed in the USA, so might be out of copyright there too.

Looking on AbeBooks, they have only three second hand books (total!), the cheapest of which is £75.

There don't seem to be any of her works at argive.org.

I suggest getting the copies off Amazon, although I suspect they'll need a bit of cleaning up, which will be difficult without any original scans. But who knows - perhaps they're good copies.

I am going to start a thread for people to list the best quality PD versions of books that they have found. Sort of an add-on to this thread.