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**💻📰 [Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)** Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-run project focused on creating high-quality, professionally formatted ebook editions of public domain works. Building upon the efforts of projects like Project Gutenberg, they acquire existing transcriptions of texts and meticulously reformat them, ensuring proper typography and correcting any errors. This involves utilizing a carefully designed style manual and taking advantage of modern ereader and browser technology to improve the reading experience. The goal is to provide book lovers with aesthetically pleasing and technically advanced ebooks that can also serve as templates for creating their own. The project's output is open source, free of copyright restrictions in the United States, and available at no cost to users. The main takeaway is that Standard Ebooks provides a valuable service by elevating the quality of freely available ebooks. [Read More](https://standardebooks.org) 💬 [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43599637) (96)