Darius KazemiIt is sad to me that in 2024 if I search "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville" (no quotes) on Google, the free Project Gutenberg ebook isn't even in the top ten results
Rachel Greenham@darius @anildash these days for old books i tend to go first to Standard EBooks https://standardebooks.org (and yes, Moby Dick is there 🐳)
Luis Villa@StrangeNoises @darius @anildash yeah, the serious answer these days is go to Standard Ebooks first.
The unserious answer is that obviously the best way to read Moby Dick is http://clickhole.com/the-time-i-spent-on-a-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-c-1825124286/
@luis_in_brief @StrangeNoises @anildash they're great but they only offer epub-style formats which is usually not what I'm looking for! (However I fully agree they should be in the top results and it's a shame they aren't)
@darius @StrangeNoises @anildash It’s interesting (and depressing) how Google’s pivot from “we prioritize the oldest and best” to “we prioritize the newest and shiniest” completely failed to spot some future web-treasures like Standard.
If I may ask, what is your use case these days for raw Gutenberg text?
@luis_in_brief remixing the text and/or doing a very quick Ctrl+f for a passage I remember