[hedora]

Standard Ebooks has the ability to filter books by reading level.

That seems much better for people trying to learn English.

https://standardebooks.org/

They carefully curate and copy-edit their books, and go for quality over quantity. I think that is probably the right choice. We already have free access to an effectively infinite amount of mediocre content on the internet.

[davidzweig]

I did check that out. The thing is, the criteria is a little different. This is for learners who need to practice reading English. The scripts surface a lot of material in Gutenberg that otherwise would be time-consuming to find. 1950's science fiction that still reads well, or story books for children. Someone could certainly call these books 'mediocre', but I think that's a bit adjacent to what we're trying to do here. If this idea is worth the effort relative to other sources of material.. still undecided.