I tried playing "Last Train Home". I couldn't, it was too stupid for me. It got me interested in the [Russian] civil war though, anybody got anything good to read?
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.
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!
Thanks! This is also hard work. I crammed... I guesstimated 1 hour per chap. yesterday, so somewhere along ~16 hours in these three last days.
It's great because I also get to read these things. I have some difficulty with sitting down and reading stuff (I have only read 3 of the 5 in crits beginner list + what's on my website... yea, in ~7-8 months.), so this helps.
Welp, on to the next book! (whatever that's gonna be, not sure, if you want something you might just get it.) I'll start on it, then [ADD] on it for a month or two before cramming it in a few days, just as I have done the last three books.
The mood of the Soviet Union today is a mood of tremendous struggle and incredible conquest in which individual values and problems pale before the brightness of one great problem whose solution is told off by the ever-rising curve of production, the opening of steel mills, the successful mastery of tractor plants, machine building works, textile factories. It is a mood in which a newly literate servant girl will hail the rain running into her leaky shoes if that rain means harvest.Harvest somewhere far off on farms she never sees.
Anna Louise Strong, This Soviet World (Chapter VII) [Emphasis added]
This probably goes harder in context of the book. I'll work my hardest to get it done, because this thing is soo good.
Let me answer your quote with my own (I have nobody to send it to, but I want to tell people about this great book I am epub-ing).
All over the country for more than a month elections had been going on in far-away factories and villages. Soviet elections do not take place on a single day but are determined by local convenience within a period of several weeks prior to the convening of an All-Union Congress. Localities choose dates which will enable their outgoing governments to finish their business, and give the incoming governments time to prepare demands for the All-Union Congress. These candidates and demands had been subjects of much discussion. But the attitude to the elections expressed itself rather in action than in talk. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were joining collective farms "to break with the past and enter the elections as collective farmers." Factory workers were energetically completing new models of locomotives, turbines, inventions, to send as presents to the coming congress. There were, in fact, so many of these presents that the sending of most of them was ordered confined to reports.
If you want to, do help, it's a tiny project of mine, very... creatively... called "Comrades Library" and I'm just trying to create EPUBs of stuff, so there will always be something on the backlog. Maos Five Essays is currently the only one my list.
In this case I used OCRMyPDF to get text out of the PDF (Calibre doesn't do that), and then I'll create an empty EPUB in Calibre and import the text slowly, going through it with the PDF open to ensure it is correct, then finally add tags.
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I tried playing "Last Train Home". I couldn't, it was too stupid for me. It got me interested in the [Russian] civil war though, anybody got anything good to read?