[LordGronk]

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.

[poidos]

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

[squigz]

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.

[eesmith]

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.

[hombre_fatal]

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?

[carlosjobim]

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.

[acabal]

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