Archive: Project Gutenberg category
Not too long ago I downloaded Eucalyptus, a slick new ebook reader for the iPhone. I love it.
After a couple of hours of work, I've finished the Latin edition of Martin Luther's 95 Theses and made it downloadable at Riverglen Press. There are actually two versions: the learner's edition has large print and lots of extra space for making notes between the lines (as well ...
I've started my first project for Riverglen Press: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, in Latin. It'll be a learner's edition, for printing out and translating. I'm working off the Project Gutenberg text. ...
It's done! Translating Scripture is back from the press and I'm pretty impressed with the result -- it's just like it's supposed to look. Phew! :) It's crazy to see the months of work in InDesign come to fruition in a real, physical book I can ...
As for Riverglen Press, things are coming along slowly but surely. I'm deciding what font to use for the body text for my Riverglen Classics -- probably Garamond Premier Pro or Minion Pro, I think. The main thing now is to learn enough Perl that I can process ...
It's done! I finished up Translating Scripture, exported the whole thing to PDF, and sent it to the author, who'll take it to the press tomorrow morning on CD. It's a great feeling to be done -- I've been working on the book for the past few ...
But not quite yet. We moved the deadline to tomorrow morning so we could review the book (Translating Scripture) again and fix any remaining problems. As soon as we send it to press I'm sure the inevitable dread will set in -- what if there's some glaringly ...
Okay, I'm getting really excited about this classics project. :) I went on Project Gutenberg's websites and found that they only have a little over 100 PDFs (118, I think), and all of the ones I looked at were...less than satisfactory. Most likely machine-generated, in fact. And ...
In my History of the Book class today, a riveting idea took hold of me: take Project Gutenberg texts (of classics) and make them into beautiful books with InDesign, and put them up for download as PDFs on my website. Why? It's nice to have freely available ...
