
A few weeks ago, I appended to this forum asking if PG was interested in hosting hand-crafted epubs. Such replies as I received suggested that this was not BAU for PG at the moment. So, although I would rather have offered them to PG, I have just added 6 of these to the MobileRead website. I have retained the PG branding and credited the volunteers who produced the originals - please let me know if you think this is breaking the license terms, I can easily anonymise them. The intention of remastering is simply to make the books easier to read on an inherently limited portable e-reader. (I haven't knowingly made any decisions of taste as I have no ambition to be a book designer or typographer.) The remastering includes: - breaking the xhtml up into smaller files (one per chapter plus one each for front and back matter. - paginating the front and back matter into title page, edition notice, contents, etc. - cleaning up the existing hyperlinks, where necessary. - adding some hyperlinks (at chapter heads)- you might disagree with doing this, I haven't entirely made up my mind myself. - toning down some of the markup (font sizes and margins) to better fit onto the limited size of an e-reader screen. - changing some of the markup to be more scalable and reflowable (usually by expressing font sizes, margins, offsets, etc in what I hope are more scalable units). If you have any comments on whether the remastered books are either more or less readable than the generated originals, please append either to this forum or to the MobileRead threads documented below. I'm particularly interested in what does or doesn't work on particular devices as I have only one device (a Sony Reader) on which to test the books. The books are: - The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall - PG969 - Anne Bronte - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122349 - Almayer's Folly - PG720 - Joseph Conrad - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122348 - The Portrait Of A Lady - PG2833 & PG2834 - Henry James - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122346 - The History Of Henry Esmond - PG2511 - William Makepeace Thackeray - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122345 - The Belton Estate - PG4969 - Anthony Trollope - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119515 - Ayala's Angel - PG33500 - Anthony Trollope - - http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122337 (I also have 3 other books I've worked on: - Persuasion - Jane Austen - The Forsyte Saga complete - John Galsworthy - The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas pere but I haven't added them to MobileRead because there are already versions of the books there.) Bob Gibbins