I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚
«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»
@paulox Yes, it’s a great project.
But public domain books, by virtue of their age, tend to contain allusions that are opaque to modern readers. That’s why it would be helpful to allow the community to annotate classics on the Internet.
This thread has some thoughts on annotation: https://social.tchncs.de/@babelcarp/109592403529564429
I just tumbled to a beautiful example of someone realizing there was a need for information and then doing the work to amass and publish it on the Web: http://www.powermobydick.com/ I was rereading Moby Dick and doing Web searches for obscure references when, more than halfway through, I found Margaret Guroff’s annotated version of the book online. I’ve ditched the dead-trees version.
Paolo Melchiorre
Lew Perin