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Comment by LordGronk | Hacker News Reader

I would love this if it were to produce viable unabridged ebooks of Francis Parkman’s “France and England in North America” vol 2-7. All the existent digital editions were poorly scanned and don’t separate footnotes from the main text.

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If you have the cash, you can pay them to do so! Scroll down to “SPONSOR A NEW EBOOK”:

https://standardebooks.org/donate

> Sponsoring a new ebook of your choice calls for a donation of $900 + $0.02 per word over the first 100,000

I love this project and don't want to disparage the work that goes into it, but 900 USD, and it has to be a book that is already transcribed online? That seems a bit much to me.

That sounds quite reasonable to me. That's about what a freelance proofreader charges to edit a book, if https://thewritelife.com/how-much-to-pay-for-a-book-editor/ is correct, and that's working with a (likely Word) document which isn't poorly scanned from paper.

You’re paying a human to remaster the book word for word and hand transform it into epub html paragraph by paragraph.

How much less would you do it for?

If you pooled the funds with 10 other people who want the book, it would be $90 each. Or imagine pooling it with 100 people.

You can also join our Patrons Circle to have this book added to our Wanted Ebooks list, which is a list of suggestions for our volunteers to work on: https://standardebooks.org/donate#patrons-circle

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