▲ 492 ▼ Kobo ereaders are integrating with Goodreads alternative StoryGraph (www.engadget.com) submitted 4 months ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments The integration launches in June and will automatically sync progress with the reading platform. https://www.engadget.com/2178088/kobo-ereaders-are-integrating-with-goodreads-alternative-storygraph/
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (4 children) standardebooks.org is a great place for classics permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago (3 children) I appreciate the heck out of the Gutenberg project but holy crap they need to invest some resources into putting 1/5 of the amount of effort Standard Ebooks puts into making every single one of their releases look and function so well in the real ebook reading scenarios of actual people Honestly if the Gutenberg project had such a program for improving the formatting of their collection I would actually strongly consider volunteering some time towards it. Just like how I would not mind reading for Librivox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children) Project Gutenberg has around 50 times more than Standard Ebooks (~75 000 vs. ~1 400) and in a lot of different languages, Standard Ebooks only cares about English. Putting only 1/5 of the amount of work into it would be a drop in the bucket. Edit: In general I agree, it's hard to figure out how to contribute to Project Gutenberg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing permalink fedilink source parent [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago I bet the top ten percent of titles on Gutenberg make up 90% of downloads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago (3 children) I appreciate the heck out of the Gutenberg project but holy crap they need to invest some resources into putting 1/5 of the amount of effort Standard Ebooks puts into making every single one of their releases look and function so well in the real ebook reading scenarios of actual people Honestly if the Gutenberg project had such a program for improving the formatting of their collection I would actually strongly consider volunteering some time towards it. Just like how I would not mind reading for Librivox permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children) Project Gutenberg has around 50 times more than Standard Ebooks (~75 000 vs. ~1 400) and in a lot of different languages, Standard Ebooks only cares about English. Putting only 1/5 of the amount of work into it would be a drop in the bucket. Edit: In general I agree, it's hard to figure out how to contribute to Project Gutenberg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing permalink fedilink source parent [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago I bet the top ten percent of titles on Gutenberg make up 90% of downloads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children) Project Gutenberg has around 50 times more than Standard Ebooks (~75 000 vs. ~1 400) and in a lot of different languages, Standard Ebooks only cares about English. Putting only 1/5 of the amount of work into it would be a drop in the bucket. Edit: In general I agree, it's hard to figure out how to contribute to Project Gutenberg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing permalink fedilink source parent [–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago I bet the top ten percent of titles on Gutenberg make up 90% of downloads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 point 4 months ago My thinking was they need to do a project like Wikimedia's Wiki Loves Momuments, where you put some banners up for a month out of the year, see if you can get donors to put up some money to reward people who do a good job at cleaning up some of the texts they have, and just make it an event about it to try to draw in new contributors, and of course some might end up sticking around after the event and continue contributing permalink fedilink source parent
[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 point 4 months ago I bet the top ten percent of titles on Gutenberg make up 90% of downloads. permalink fedilink source parent