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…but now I know to watch out for the differences. Can you say a few more words about the library https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ? Can it generate ePub3 from markdown files or do I have to feed it HTML already. Any repo with usage…

comment by ivansavz · 2026-01-06 · in How HTML changes in ePub

…reviewers as you get started. Our toolset has a help wanted section and some outstanding issues: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools#help-wanted

comment by acabal · 2026-01-02 · in Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

…[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict... [3] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools [4] https://standardebooks.org/manual/

comment by robin_reala · 2026-01-02 · in Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

…civil. Yet only one side receives a rebuke. The whole incident seems strange to me. More weirdness: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/pull/828 https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/pull/829

comment by throwaway150 · 2025-11-29 · in Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship

For future reference this approach was tested at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/issues/815 . No errors were found in a selection of books.

comment by robin_reala · 2025-04-08 · in Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

Hardly AI, just a simple Python function that implements the Flesch reading ease algorithm: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/effcf0f6db05729...

comment by robin_reala · 2024-05-31 · in Standard Ebooks' 1,000th title: Ulysses

…that OP requested, but the Standard Ebooks tool chain is available on Github for anyone interested: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

comment by sparker72678 · 2024-03-07 · in Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?

The code is GPL-3 and the templates are CC0: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/LICENSE.... Feel free to ask on the mailing list if you have any questions, more likely to be picked up there than in a random HN thread :)

comment by robin_reala · 2024-01-03 · in Standard Ebooks

We use the Flesch Reading Ease algorithm. You can find the implementation at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/forma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...

comment by robin_reala · 2024-01-02 · in Standard Ebooks

…as such and contain no non-editorial changes. The tools for compiling ebook files are available at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools , so creating your own versions with only the work you're interested in is straightforward (and can…

comment by jcurtis · 2024-01-02 · in Standard Ebooks

Sorry to disappoint you, but https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/184056d3112cef8...

comment by robin_reala · 2022-12-27 · in Hobbes: “Leviathan” in Modern English – Introduction

…format is epub, and the conversion is part of our toolkit. Azw3 conversion is done using Calibre: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

comment by acabal · 2022-07-25 · in Standard Ebooks

…in comparing and contrasting, the Standard Ebooks tooling has the same completions for: Bash: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/compl... ZSH: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/se/compl... Fish:…

comment by robin_reala · 2022-03-19 · in Fish 3.4.0

…some pointers on the tech stack you use for producing these? Do you have something similar to https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ?

comment by gyulai · 2022-02-16 · in Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

…impeccable in every way, and far better than many big name, commercially produced efforts. GitHub: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools How to use: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste... The second is Sigil,…

comment by walton_simons · 2021-04-08 · in Tell HN: Today I learned Epub is just HTML/CSS

…is very specific to English, and that’s the difficult part to replicate for other languages. [1] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/ [2] https://standardebooks.org/manual/

comment by robin_reala · 2021-04-01 · in Arabian Nights

…I'll fork the project", and then fizzle out. Another example is that whole swathes of code in https://github.com/standardebooks/tools , SE's core workflow, become useless once you're targeting something other than English. By browsing…

comment by hombre_fatal · 2020-11-18 · in Free and liberated e-books, carefully produced for the true book lover

…end result is a free, public domain work which looks and feels like a professional production. [0] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools [1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/typography [2] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/produc…

comment by AdmiralAsshat · 2019-08-02 · in Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964

Done, thanks! https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/issues/63

comment by jventura · 2017-12-20 · in Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018

Maybe you could file a bug at https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ? Alternatively, I had a similar problem with my Kobo and Calibre, which was messing with the file in some way even though I had all conversion options disabled. I just…

comment by robin_reala · 2017-12-20 · in Artists and writers whose works enter the public domain in 2018

…however it turns out, instead they actually have the opposite rule: Shakespear -> Shakespeare [0]: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools/blob/master/moderniz... [1]: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools#british2american

comment by icc97 · 2017-06-17 · in Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced

…page) for details. You can also check out our toolset, which automates a lot of what we do: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

comment by acabal · 2017-06-16 · in Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced

…only at the moment, we're working on converting everything to Python but we're not there yet): https://github.com/standardebooks/tools I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has. We're also more than happy to have new contributors, if…

comment by acabal · 2017-06-16 · in Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced