A Gutenberg classic for book-lovers on the web. Read the book here.
This book uses the Superbook format and is brought to you by Bubblin—The Book Publishing Company for The Web.
Date of publication: April 29, 2020
Superbooks are naturally responsive and work on all browsers, all viewports and devices and all operating systems. See support information here and the full list of supported devices here. In general, the most ideal surface to read these books on (recommended) are the ~9" tablets like the iPad or the Galaxy Tab or Kindle Fire HD, ala 'on-web'.
This book is offline-first. Is uses a Service Worker under the hood, so no explicit download is required to read or share the book OFFLINE.
We try and suppport cross-platform books—feel free to raise an issue or submit a PR if you face a problem.
The manuscript on this repo has been generated programmatically using Bookiza Abelone, h2s and a few other sanitization libraries.
👉 As part of the vocabulary of publishing with Bookiza, this git repo is the manuscript whereas the 'consumer-ready' distributable form i.e. book is hosted live on the url at the top.
To be able to read the book in fullscreen mode, please try the following steps:
- Open the book on iOS (> 12.00) Safari
- Tap the
...button at bottom right of the screen to open Superbook controls. - Tap
⤮on the top right (middle button) to go fullscreen.
iPadOS Safari v12.0 and above only.
Contributions are super welcome.
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If you are good at spotting typographical errors, detect (and fix) the widows & orphans and understand how line-tracking works for texts, go ahead submit your PR.
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This book may contain older illustrations. Feel free to replace those with new art of your own. All approved art will be reciprocated with credit (link) on the book to the artist.
Optionally, you can also fork this book and publish your own edition of the work with your own take. See details below.
Follow the below given steps to mint your own edition with different typesetting, art or illustrations or to make a translation in another language:
- Fork this repository on Github,
- Clone the forked repository,
- Install the Bookiza binaries (this step requires node and npm both),
cdand$ npm installthe dependencies- Start the dev server with
$ bookiza server
Bookiza will stitch up the manuscript and serve the book on localhost:4567. Open the project on your favorite editor (VSC, Sublime, Atom) and hack away!
Feel free to submit a PR or republish your own new edition! If you end up creating a new avatar of this book, please leave us a note here. We love looking at interesting new takes from people across the world and share it with the community.
PRs are welcome but only for issues pertaining to this book (on this repository).
Translation to other languages or new takes of the current text itself can earn you a copyright. If you fork out a new edition with a translation in your own language we will automatically consider the new work for a premium publication.
The scroll (or file) of this book was sourced from Gutenberg.org.
Contact us by mail once if someone on our team doesn't already respond within 24 hours. Sometimes we get a lot of mail. Do not follow-up with a second mail unless absolutely necessary.
The body of work on this book i.e. manuscript (text, illustrations etc.) is either in public domain or is available under a Free Culture license as indicated below:
The sourcecode (libraries) in use for this book have been licensed by their respective owners.