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Re:Standard Ebooks by stew-j on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:32PM (#32219994)
My wife is an admin on the PG project. She puts in a lot of effort to keep the site secure. I think they welcome efforts like yours, and reuse is part of why they exist! They also research the copyrights, to make sure they are clear to share.

I use Project Gutenberg a lot personally, and in fact I'm using one of their books as a study for my upcoming startup:

https://github.com/carter-brothers/hand-propped#first-stage-...

One thing I really like about the PG site is that a few years ago they removed most of the JavaScript, which IMO makes it more usable. I haven't looked at Standard Ebooks yet, but I look forward to. Thanks!

One book I'd like to see on Standard Ebooks is "The Flying Girl", which my wife and I just read and loved. It's by L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz), and is about a flying startup in 1911, which I previously posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142757

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Re:Standard Ebooks by acabal on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:22PM (#32220201)
The Flying Girl would make a good first production, if you'd like to take it on! See https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...

Make sure to thank your wife on my behalf for her hard work at PG!

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Re:Standard Ebooks by stew-j on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:42PM (#32220272)
What a great idea! There was also a sequel:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53692

I'll look into doing these, I also know a librarian who might be interested.

I really can't believe Disney or Pixar, or some studio didn't make "The Flying Girl" into a movie. It really was bold and quite moving to see Baum (writing nom de plum as Edith Van Dyne) make the female character the hero, back in 1911.

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Re:Standard Ebooks by muyuu on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:22AM (#32306341)
first link is dead
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