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I made This Soviet World in EPUB. Its a great book, READ IT. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I would have just added a comment under the current weeks general thread. If it weren't for the fact that I really like the book and REALLY think you should read it.

Strong writes in a way that is easy to read. And, as she has done before, she writes about the successes of the Soviet Union and Socialism. My liberal brain-worms were writhing, chapter by chapter they could not accept what was written, too good to be true, propaganda! Though I must have gotten very happy reading about these success, because I at one point got teary-eyed.

quote from where it boiled over.

When a winter childbirth in a distant Arctic station developed complications, the neighbors got the Dixon Island surgeon on the radio and for more than three hours he directed over the air every detail while the whole of a much-worried Arctic listened in. When the child and mother were safe, congratulations poured in from thousands of miles of icebound waterfront.

Please read it, not because I made an epub (although yea, also that), but because I think it's a great book.

Download my EPUB version: https://comlib.encryptionin.space (or https://archive.org/details/this-soviet-world-anna-louise-strong)

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[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Very cool project! How do you go about making (I assume) a PDF into an EPUB?

[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Calibre. You can actually download this book and add it to calibre, then click edit book to see what I've done with it.

If you already know how to do HTML+CSS, you are going to have an easier time.

But it goes something like: Find book, search for it on annas-archive to find the best/cleanest copy I can, run that through OCR (I use OCRMyPDF, just because it's easy, but it doesn't have to be it, just anything that will output a TXT file), create a new book in calibre and add an empty EPUB, open that EPUB and add the "ComLib standard [CSS] imports" (see This Soviet World), then just copy from OCR into EPUB, read through it (with the PDF open on another screen) while adding HTML+CSS and re-writing anything that isn't quite correct.

If you need help with anything, do ping me! If you finish one, do send it over to me so I can upload it on ComLib!

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Awesome, ty! I won't promise I'll pick it up just yet, but if I do, I will definitely send you any of my conversions. Have been listening to your EPUB using text-to-speech while reading along and it's much easier to stay engaged. Enjoying the book so far!

[–] ComradeEd@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Awesome.

Two things I think could be helpfull: Adding a new book in calibre is done in the drop down (small arrow) next to Add Books, you can also add an empty epub there.

EPUBs are XHTML, so HTML 4 and ... CSS 2? Essentally keep any HTML and CSS simple. I tried to use grid once, that worked in calibre, but once I opened it in koreader, it was borked.

[–] JucheStalin@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, one way is calibre.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Great, I have this but haven't really used it yet. Will look into how to do these conversions, thanks!