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Formatting an ebook for the Kindle is not something automatic. This is real work. If someone does this for me and then charges me 99 cent for "Pride and Prejudi
by lulin 16y ago
Formatting an ebook for the Kindle is not something automatic. This is real work. If someone does this for me and then charges me 99 cent for "Pride and Prejudice", I have nothing against it.
- martey 16y agoExcept Project Gutenberg has already put its books in MOBI format, which is supported by the Kindle. Also, did you read the article: "They took the text version, stripped off the headers and footer containing the license, re-wrapped the sentences, and made the chapter titles bold," That does not exactly sound like strenuous editing and curation.
- wolfish 16y agoUnless you download them from Amazon they will not sync across devices. But, I see you're point, they are already formatted.
- maw 16y agoAre they properly formatted for the Kindle, though? In the Gutenberg-derived version of Moby Dick that I read, they capitalized words italicized in the original, and replaced £ with L. Aesthetically displeasing, to say the least. I'd pay a dollar to avoid the bad results of storing masters in a lossy format (which Gutenberg's masters seem to be, although I'm not sure about this), but I rather doubt that this can be had for just a dollar.