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Majority of web apps could just run on a single server
Sure, at some point you're going to be relying on some 3rd party somewhere. We use a VPS and not a bare-metal hand-installed rack, and we rely on an electrical company and not a hand-turned crank to power our servers. As far as email goes, It's simply not possible to self-host transactional email in 2024 if you want it to arrive in an inbox and not a permanent spam blackhole; likewise it's not possible to accept money without involving a 3rd party service like Fractured Atlas or Stripe or PayPal. (Moving away from GitHub towards a self-hosted Git solution is actually on our long-term todo list[1]).
All those things doesn't mean you can't run your web app on a single tiny server, and that outsourcing the basic underpinnings of your web app, like the OS, runtime, and database to some cloud service, or that resorting to flavor-of-the-month frameworks or containers, will result in complexity and bloat.
[1] https://github.com/standardebooks/web/blob/master/README.md#...
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Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
Hey a little later to the party here but I'm really enjoying this. I started reading a book with it and while I agree with others it's not great for grammar it certainly shows me many new words without requiring me to read at a glacial pace.
PS: You should def try to include some books from https://standardebooks.org/ which are much nicer formatted than the ones you're using from Project Gutenberg.
Good luck and I hope you can keep building this out. Already the update to tap anywhere to close the word definition is a nice improvement :)
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Librum: Open-Source e-book platform
A number of e-book platforms are discussed on my blog, which dives deeply into the technical nuances of typesetting a few[1]. Ultimately, I typeset a classic from Standard EBooks[2], Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde[3].
[1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/11/project-gutenberg-p...
[2]: https://standardebooks.org/
[3]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...
- E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance
- 请教各位,除了zlibrary外还有哪里找到更多的电子书?谢谢🙏
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Can odsp check your bank account if they feel like it?
As an aside, for anyone looking for free classic books to read on their various eReaders, these are very well done: https://standardebooks.org
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Conversion from epub to kepub, and related Calibre use
It is the same when you download a kepub book from standardebooks.org. You will have the epub file with kepub features.
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It is important that ebooks be sold without DRM
> https://standardebooks.org/
Standard Ebooks is seriously impressive. One of my favorite sources of books in the public domain.
I’d also add in addition to this excellent list of DRM-free ebooks, it’s always worth looking into borrowing a book from the library via Libby/Overdrive.
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Ask HN: What are the best eBook authoring tools today?
This violates the "One Tool" constraint that OP requested, but the Standard Ebooks tool chain is available on Github for anyone interested: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools
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Standard Ebooks
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 :)
- Hobbes: “Leviathan” in Modern English. Introduction
- Fish 3.4.0
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Today I learned ePub is just HTML/CSS
I'll give a shoutout to some other excellent software.
The first is the "Standard Ebooks"[1] toolset, which is a suite of Python scripts to create, process, and build ebooks in all common formats. The results on the Standard Ebooks site speak for themselves. They're impeccable in every way, and far better than many big name, commercially produced efforts.
GitHub: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools
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17-volume Arabian Nights available in its entirety at Project Gutenberg
This question comes up a lot. The source to our production pipeline is GPLed and freely available,[1] but the biggest part of why we produce good work is that we have a high quality manual of style.[2] Unfortunately, that second part 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/
What are some alternatives?
calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
epub3-samples - EPUB 3 Sample Documents
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
syncabook - 📖🎧 A tool for creating ebooks with synchronized text and audio (EPUB3 with Media Overlays)
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
leech - Turn a story on certain websites into an ebook for convenient reading
stylegan2-pytorch - Simplest working implementation of Stylegan2, state of the art generative adversarial network, in Pytorch. Enabling everyone to experience disentanglement
ebook-diffuser - An end to end, customizable, ebook automation tool
RegExr - RegExr is a HTML/JS based tool for creating, testing, and learning about Regular Expressions.
Sigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
trace.moe - Anime Scene Search by Image
PyQtGraph - Fast data visualization and GUI tools for scientific / engineering applications