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   Steven Hoefer (troublewithwords@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 12:45:16 JST Steven Hoefer

   Standard Ebooks dropped a bunch of beautifully formatted books newly in the public domain today.

   Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest” and “The Dain Curse” defined hard-boiled detectives. But also Agatha Christie, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Mahatma Gandhi…

   (Standard Ebooks is Project Gutenberg with editing and typesetting. They also have an RSS feed for new releases!)

   https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

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     Steven Hoefer (troublewithwords@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 22:58:11 JST Steven Hoefer

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     • Alex Keane

     @squishymage42 Excellent point! For folks who are comfortable with git and want to know how they might make a nicely formatted ebook, or non-technical folks who want a decent manual of style, the section “For People Wanting to Produce A New Ebook” at the link below has all the resources.

     https://standardebooks.org/contribute

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     Alex Keane (squishymage42@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 22:58:13 JST Alex Keane

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     @troublewithwords Also, they have their own standards for what they want but give away their tools and instructions for if you want to take matters into your own hands with something outside their interests

     Stefan Monnier repeated this.