What is the purpose of 'Standard Ebooks', a project to convert various classic works into e-books for free and with high quality?



Anyone can access a high-quality, is the e-book of free public domain in the open-source, non-profit efforts of volunteers led to create an e-book and equal to or higher than that of the quality that is commercially available 'Standard Ebooks'.

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.

https://standardebooks.org/

You can find out what kind of works are actually published in Standard Ebooks by reading the following article about how to use them.

From Holmes to Aristotle, you can read classic masterpieces for free in the overseas version of Aozora Bunko 'Standard Ebooks' --GIGAZINE



All published e-books can be read for free. The covers used in Standard Ebooks ebooks are drawn or prepared by project participants. File of e-books EPUB format, AZW3 format for Kindle, KEPUB format for Kobo, in addition to being distributed in Advanced EPUB format, also provides the page as it is read in the browser.



The text columns are very simple and easy to read. Standard Ebooks has been carefully and thoroughly read against the original page scan to correct as many typographical errors as possible before the e-book is released. If you miss a typo or omission, the e-book is stored in the

Git repository, a version control system, so anyone can easily submit a correction.



Project Gutenberg has already made an attempt to convert public domain works into electronic books and publish them on the Internet since 1971. Project Gutenberg hosts files in EPUB and Kindle formats, but the quality of e-books is not uniform, and many of them lack details such as cover images and title pages. That thing. It's also designed for researchers and archivists, making it difficult for the casual general reader to read.

Therefore, Standard Ebooks has the following five purposes to create e-books that are easy for general readers to read.

1: Create an e-book that employs the latest e-book technology standard.
2: In the same quality and typography and format of e-books that are commercially available, to create an e-book intended for the modern reader of sensibility.
3: so that it can be used as the basis for other e-book project, to create an e-book along to a variety of formats standard.
4: Create e-books with abundant semantic data and easy-to-machine and predictable structures.
5: Enrich and disseminate the world's public domain.

In other words, Standard Ebooks is not just an open-source e-book project, but 'assuming the general reader, eliminating ephemera such as obi and bookmarks, making the most of modern e-book technology, and then ancient times. This project is underway with the concept of 'creating e-books with consistent standards of content and quality.' All Standard Ebooks activities are hosted on GitHub , making it transparent and easy for anyone to fix or improve.

Standard Ebooks says, 'We publish our e-books in the public domain. By doing so, Standard Ebooks e-books are not only'Free'but also'Libre'. People all over the world deserve a more liberal culture. '

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