<story><title>Standard Ebooks</title><url>https://standardebooks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions!&lt;p&gt;Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexcabal.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexcabal.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(This post is slightly out of date as there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a database now; but it&amp;#x27;s used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as described in the post.)&lt;p&gt;Our volunteers have spent the last few months preparing a few notable books published in 1928 to be released today, Public Domain Day. Those are the top 5 books in the ebook list, starting with &lt;i&gt;The Mystery of the Blue Train&lt;/i&gt;. Check them out!&lt;p&gt;We welcome new contributors if you&amp;#x27;d like to work on producing a new ebook. In the next week we&amp;#x27;ll also have a brand new cover art database launched, so if you&amp;#x27;d rather help by cataloguing new cover art for future ebooks, get in touch at our mailing list!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pauloxnet</author><text>Hi Alex, I shared the SE link here to help with donations and I hope it&amp;#x27;s working.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your beautiful project.&lt;p&gt;For a few years, every January 1st, for public domain day, I have been promoting SE on social media, the thread on Mastodon is the one with the most involvement.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fosstodon.org&amp;#x2F;@paulox&amp;#x2F;111680544393923401&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fosstodon.org&amp;#x2F;@paulox&amp;#x2F;111680544393923401&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be nice to have an SE account on Mastodon that posts about every new book published, since IMHO it&amp;#x27;s the social network more aligned with the spirit of SE.</text></comment>
<story><title>Standard Ebooks</title><url>https://standardebooks.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>acabal</author><text>Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions!&lt;p&gt;Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexcabal.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexcabal.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(This post is slightly out of date as there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a database now; but it&amp;#x27;s used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as described in the post.)&lt;p&gt;Our volunteers have spent the last few months preparing a few notable books published in 1928 to be released today, Public Domain Day. Those are the top 5 books in the ebook list, starting with &lt;i&gt;The Mystery of the Blue Train&lt;/i&gt;. Check them out!&lt;p&gt;We welcome new contributors if you&amp;#x27;d like to work on producing a new ebook. In the next week we&amp;#x27;ll also have a brand new cover art database launched, so if you&amp;#x27;d rather help by cataloguing new cover art for future ebooks, get in touch at our mailing list!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkflame91</author><text>I have a suggestion: You could optimize the website to be easily readable and navigable on the Kindle&amp;#x27;s web browser, and recommend it as an option. I&amp;#x27;ve often found it to be the easiest way to get non-store books on my Kindle. I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed that cover images are handled correctly when the ebook is downloaded straight onto the device, with no need for a separate image file.&lt;p&gt;A hurdle for this though, is that building a good website for the Kindle browser is a pain, as the browser&amp;#x27;s support for various html&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;js features and standards is all over the place, with no debugging tools available.</text></comment>