Post #932432

2025-12-18 16:48 UTC

A semi-regular shout-out from me about the brilliant Standard Ebooks (@standardebooks) the &quot;volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.&quot; Their books really are a joy to read. https://standardebooks.org/ #Ebooks #StandardEbooks #FreeEbooks #CopyrightFreeEbooks #DRMFree

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@allysseriordan@mastodon.art 2025-12-18 17:02

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social thanks for the shout out. I'd not heard of them but shall immediately go and investigate 😁

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@Zekovski@pouet.chapril.org 2026-01-02 10:55

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social This is wonderful ! But english only ?

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@christof@fedihum.org 2026-01-02 11:10

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social Awesome initiative! Made me want to bring some people together and start producing nice ebooks from the #ELTeC collections. Alas, they have an English-only policy... 😮‍💨 https://standardebooks.org/contribute/collections-policy I guess the best way forward would be to copy the idea for multilingual literary texts... but of course that is harder than joining a group with established structures and workflows and experience...

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@kepstin@tenforward.social 2026-01-02 15:17

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social their style guide and formatting are so nice that I honestly wish commercially produced ebooks would use the standard ebooks tooling. (Which is actually possible, the tools have a "white label" mode which doesn't add the public domain boilerplate.)

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@marcintosh@mastodon.social 2026-01-02 15:39

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social Thanks for the shout out! These look amazing.

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@Henwhen@mastodon.online 2026-01-07 20:02

@brian@beige.party @standardebooks@mastodon.social wow, thanks for this resource!

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