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Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better by eulerpoolapi on Saturday May 16, 2026 @09:37AM (#48160175)
The biggest lever: make the reading experience great. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/245/pg245-images.html is still hard to read: lines are tooo long (macbook), no great way for pagination/remembering where I was, notes
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Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better by tangledhelix on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:31AM (#48161081)
The ebook editions are very good for this. Most of the e-reader software provides all the amenities (bookmarks, highlighting, notes, control of margins, etc).
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Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better by SwampertX on Saturday May 16, 2026 @10:02AM (#48160348)
Firefox's reader mode works amazingly for these situations.
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Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better by drzaiusx11 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:42AM (#48161163)
A while back I attempted to extract the FF reader code to make it a front end to various non-web clients (email with pine key bindings etc)

I got it to a prototype level but then shelved it after having difficulty getting good results with various test datasets. Probably would make a fantastic ereader though

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Re:Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better by elch on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:48PM (#48161766)
Lines aren't too long. They look great on all my devices.

Use ⌘ + + until you get the line length you like.

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