I’ve talked about the project and listed my ebook contributions previously<\/a> (2019 update<\/a> and the 2020 update<\/a>) but briefly “Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from open-sources repositories like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style manual, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to create a new edition that takes advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.”<\/p>\n Alex, the founder, wanted to try and build in some support as the project has been growing by leaps and bounds so he has made the shift to a non-profit (it’s way more complex than that in reality) and invited a core group of us to help represent the project. As the project gains more and more momentum in the broader community he is trying to negotiate the shift from self-funded hobby to a full-time commitment. Wish us luck and be sure to check out the growing list of books<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oh and feel free to contribute…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So this happened… I’ve been working with the Standard Ebooks Project for a few years now and it turns out I’m among the top contributors. So as a reward we got promoted \ud83d\ude42 I’ve talked about the project and listed my ebook contributions previously (2019 update and the 2020 update) but briefly “Standard Ebooks takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14220,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/standardebooksabout-889x1024.png\")
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