All along, I always tried to get my mom to read it, to see what she thought about it, to no avail.
But, last year I was browsing through Reddit and I found that r/bookclub would be doing a readalong through August. I translated the post for my mom and that convinced her to read it, as long as I read it as well, so I took the chance. She read my high school copy in Spanish and I picked up the ebook from #StandardEbooks, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. 3/x
#bookstodon #classics

Also plugging one of my favorite online projects, #StandardEbooks https://standardebooks.org/ So many excellent #books there, go and browse!

@Big_Worker @theotherotherone @bookstodon
#Standardebooks has a process to produce very high quality ebooks...meaning, they have strict copyedit standards and stick to them. Usually a pleasure to read.
On #LibGen you can get anything from a raw scan, to a Gutenberg one somebody uploaded, to an amateur effort...or maybe even the one from Standard. It's hunt and peck there.

Took me a year, but my production of Beatrix Potter’s US public domain “Tale of” stories has been released. I wrote alt text for all 602 images 😊 https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/beatrix-potter/short-fiction #standardebooks

Right now, the quality of free e-books is being discussed. #standardebooks was rightly featured as a wonderful project by @paulox . In addition to the aspects mentioned so far, the quality of the e-book also depends on the text basis. In my view, the choice for each title should be well justified. I don't see that in the project. Did I miss something?

https://fosstodon.org/@paulox/109609301599142588

I’ve downloaded a few #StandardEBooks over the past couple of years, and they’re always excellent quality.

You should fully jump on that shit.

@bookstodon For what is worth, the more popular books should be appearing for free as #ebooks in #ProjectGutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) and #StandardEbooks (https://www.standardebooks.org) very soon.
PG does straight transcriptions, without any editorial changes (generally, since there are exceptions), while SE tries to produce beautiful ebooks that have a more homogeneous look and style (quotes, citations, how to format letters, etc.) .
There should be cheap paper editions by others also.
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Just read 'You Can't Win' by Jack Black.

First published in 1926 it is now made available freely in many forms by #StandardEbooks at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-black/you-cant-win .

"Jack Black recounts his gradual journey towards a life of crime and his adventures within the lawless underworld as a professional thief, hobo, and member of the notorious “yegg” safecracking brotherhood in the American and Canadian West between the 1880s and 1920s."

The Communist Manifesto @ Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks takes public domain works and publishes them as highly polished free ebooks. Their edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is a very pleasing read.

https://apollolemmon.com/2019/08/10/the-communist-manifesto-standard-ebooks/

#Communism #epub #FriedrichEngels #KarlMarx #StandardEbooks