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by Erlangen 433 days ago
Hi, Alex. Is there anyway to browser the ebooks filtered by languages? I tried to find some texts in French, but it doesn't seem to have any.
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Standard Ebooks only works on English-language books, as typography varies between languages and we're only experts in English.
I can tell you there is a lot of appetite for other languages. I looked at the project and the amount of stuff that would need to be rewritten to work with multiple languages was daunting. I would consider working on making your documentation and workflow functional with multiple languages.
Lots of people have tried similar projects in other languages but as far as I know none have persevered.

Personally I think it's important to have one person in charge who is able to approve of the quality of all the project's output; for now, at SE, that person is me and I'm only an expert in English.

Project Runeberg seems to be still going after 30-odd years.
Project Runeberg is trying to be a nordic Project Gutenberg, not a nordic Standard Ebooks.
Enlightening comment!
Same for me. I think it's english only.