Make bilingual parallel books, sentence by sentence, each language on opposite pages. This kind of books can be used by learners to increase reading fluency: - Ancient Greek - English - Latin - English - Parallel bible: koine - latin - Vulgata with makra - Parallel renaissance books: latin - english - Latin and greek editions with makra (e.g. Gallic Wars) - Interlinear editions of classics
Oh, this is a really good idea. I have a bilingual print of The Bible in Aramaic (Syriac) and Arabic printed in this manner because Aramaic is the language used in the church I use to belong to. It is a very good way to learn a language.
"Interlinear editions of classics" sounds right. Inter ligare! HTML and maybe some js (at least, being usefull for meanings o.o' not just greedy cookies) should do the trick. But epub/pdf are dead to me for that digital matter, html is key.
"All I need is a shell scripting, latex knowing, latin speaking, generally competent person to do all the work... oh no wait I'll do those things myself" :D Anyway, I'll support your business for sure and order some books.
Luke you should try to get in contact with Tom from Switched to Linux channel. He writes Christian books. He could probably give you some pointers about how to publish from experience.
Ha, edit and print Machiavelli's The Prince original as a test run. You could also go with the bible's "originals", which are a great hit among religious scholars. Good luck in your new endeavor!
This is honestly the best thing one can do, to honestly take old obscure books, scan them and write out the text in a simple searchable format and make them available online. Bonus points for taking a good tts or investing in a good mic and releasing audiobooks (librivox is good but the quality is always spotty with different mics and accents that are hard to understand).
You could try upscailng them with neural nets like waifu2x (black and white engravings are close enough to anime that it should work). There are many free services with already trained nets, they work very well.
My religious order's province uses Lulu mostly for printing those kinds of texts, since the demand is not so great. Our biggest complaint is that the binding is not super great, and for our purposes does not allow us to lay the book flat easily. I would certainly spread word of your work among my brethren! I took a college class on Dante, and I loved all his works! (PS - I'm a Dominican, Order of St. Thomas Aquinas, whom I assume you have on your thumbnail).
lol I thought you were serious until it came to the end and said "ok, this should be enough for the NSA to ignore this video. I'm not starting a books thing - I'm gonna start *cookin' meth*" Whew, you almost got me, gotta tell you
Luke, if you're searching for Gustave Doré's work, you can find it on the "Gallica" website gallica.bnf.fr, it's in English. Also, I would be interested to translate some of your comments in French if you feel like it.
This reminds me a lot to the German publishing company "Reclam Verlag" that sells small paperback editions of literary classics for a very low price (because the books are public domain). We use them in school and university a lot. Most of them are by German authors or German translations, but Latin, English, ... classics (like by Ovid, Cicero, Shakespeare) are also available. Btw, Latin is a pretty common subject in school, I had it for six of my school years. Taught me a lot about how languages work and definitely helped me a lot while learning other languages.
I'd really love a LaTeX'd version of E.T.Bell's *Men of Mathematics*. It's public domain (1937) but has lot of math diagrams. I swear I saw some machine learning algo demonstration somewhere that produced tikz as of the diagrams as accurately as possible and the results were good. If you can handle (even simple) images I'm sure your business would be huge success.
Something else that could be really interesting it would definitely increase the price of the books but you could bind them by hand. It's not super hard and you could make the books look absolutely fantastic.
Next video - The Lindy Order of Luke starts building a monastery compound with abbey school attached. To preserve and protect ancient and hence very politically incorrect knowledge in the Progessive Dark Ages of online and offline knowledge erasure and revisionism. In addition the monks will grow organic crops, herd healthy grass fed cattle and dig wells for water free of fluoride and estrogen pollution.
In my experience, Amazon does printing quite well. My friend wrote a few books and publishes them through the Amazon system you mentioned and they're your run-of-the-mill paperback standard quality book.
The Making of Americans goes into the public domain next year - I’d love to buy a hardcover edition. A section of my thesis was on Gertrude Stein, so I could pitch in an introduction and/or some footnotes.
Apparently he's been active on github, probably too busy taking care of his subsistence farm to make any videos. It would also be very characteristic of him to just drop youtube and never come back just because he sees no point in making videos anymore. classic luke
Loeb Classics style with translation would be great, assuming the work is already done. I've read LLPSI 1&2 and still don't come close to being able to read some more obscure latin sentence structures.
I think this is a great idea, and I'll totally buy some of your books if they end up coming out. I've never published a book before, but I have a novel idea for self publishing that I think you would at the very least get a laugh out of. You could just buy a used electric typewriter for real cheap, hook it up to your computer and write a program to basically automatically push the buttons, so you can just send it to your "printer" and it will type it out for you with actual ink. If you want to change the font, just change the plates. P.S. I bought a few domains off name cheap as per your suggestion, I replied to the CEO's email and said you referred me and to send some credit your way, so who knows you might be able to setup a website for this project for free.
Regarding Paul Gustave Dore: I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago, and have some stuff bookmarked. I was not able to find any complete high resolution catalog of his works, but have a few piecemeal links. Some of these might require slight image editing (color correction, cropping) to be put in a book. Some anon posted the woodblock prints for the divine comedy in 4chan’s /hr/ a while back. Here is the thread: archive.4plebs.org/hr/thread/2632062/#2648658 Here is the relevant mediafire link: www.mediafire.com/file/qaw9kq3eic3rdik/Dante%27s+Divine+Comedy+HRthread+Inferno%26Purgatorio%26Paradiso.zip A site hosting biblical illustrations: uncatolico.com/ilustraciones-de-la-biblia/ Wikimedia commons has what I only assume is close to his complete catalog of carvings, but the quality is hit or miss. Some works (like “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) are high resolution, while others are not. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9 If you’re still affiliated with a university, hi res images are probably somewhere in a uni/govt/art museum database. Hope this helps.
I think Gustav Dore is the artist in my old "Faust" book. It's in old swedish (where I live and come from) from the middle 1800s. Edit: I had to look it up, the artist name is "August Von Kreling".
very interesting. you should give a try to Machiavelli, Ariosto, Petrarca and Leopardi (I'm Italian and I studied them at school). for the LaTeX part, did you consider tufte-book class document? btw I like your efford and this is a very interesting project
Dover Publications republishes some good old public domain works, especially science and mathematics. I don’t think they do print on demand, but the reason I bring them up is I like their style and content so they might be good to look at for how they handle some of the old works
how about different typesetting options, like "I wanna be able to write down a lot of stuff on the borders" or "I wanna write down my own comments after each chapter" kinda option?
Considering the probable audience for these works (academics, bibliophiles, most of whom likely older with moderate wealth), I suspect many would pay a premium for a really well-made fancy edition of your releases. Maybe look into collaborating with some higher-end printers like Easton Press or the Folio Society
I imagine you'll want to sell through Amazon - and because "print on demand" is only a first step, to be abandoned as soon as you can - I would seriously consider using Amazon's print service (but I'm not familiar with it). Great idea btw! :D
I'd say there is forgottenbooks , but that is just Photocopies of old books (and the only one I bought feels terrible holding it in my hands). they have PDFs with auto-recognition of letters and words and it's not reliable. So conversion wouldn't look great either.
Great idea. Be careful with copyright on photographs of public domain works though. Not sure how it is in the US, but wouldn't be unprecedented for copyright to apply to the photo itself, even if not the work photographed. Consult a lawyer on that.
Here is a list of classic authors that I would love to be published. Achilles Tatius Aelian Aelianus Tacticus Aelius Aristides Aeneas of Gaza Aenesidemus Aenesidemus of Cnossus Aeschines Aesopus Aetius Agapius Agatharchides Agatharchides of Cnidus Agathias Agathocles Albius Tibullus Alcinous Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexis Ambrosiaster Ammianus Ammonius Grammaticus Ammonius Hermiae Andocides Antiochus of Syracuse Apollonius Dyscolus Apollonius Paradoxographus Apollonius Rhodius Aptonious Apuleius Aratus Archytas Aristaenetus Aristarchus Aristotle Aristoxenus Arnobius Arrian Artemidorus Asconius Aspasius Athenaeus Atthidographer Augustine Aulus Celsus Aulus Gellius Ausonius Avianus Babrius Bede Bion Boethius Caecilius of Calacte Caecilius Statius Caelius Aurelianus Caius Julius Phaedrus Calcidius Callimachus Callinicus Calpernius Siculus Censorinus Chariton Cicero Claudian Claudius Aelianus Claudius Claudianus Claudius Rutilius Clement of Alexandria Colluthus Columella Cornelius Nepos Ctesias Cyril of Alexandria Cyril of Scythopolis Decimus Laberius Demosthenes Dexippus Dicaearchus Didymus Chalcenterus Dio Chrysostom Diodore Tarsus Diodorus Siculus Diogenes Laertius Diogenes of Babylon Dionysius of Alexandria Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius Petavius Dionysius the Areopagite Dorotheus of Sidon Duris of Samos Empedocles Ephorus Ephorus of Cyme Ephrem the Syrian Epicurus Epiphanius Eratosthenes Erotian Eubulus Eudemus of Rhodes Eudoxus Eusebius Eutropius Evagrius Ponticus Evagrius Scholasticus Fabius Planciades Fulgentius Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Gaius Julius Hyginus Gaius Musonius Rufus Gaius Valerius Catullus Gargilius Martialis Gnaeus Naevius Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus Grattius Faliscus Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa Gregory of Tours Harpocration Hecataeus of Miletus Hellanicus of Lesbos Hellenistic Collection Hephaestion Heraclides Lembus Heraclitus Hermias Hermippus of Smyrna Herodas Herodian Hesychius of Alexandria Hippocrates Hippolytus of Rome Hirtius Homer Hyperides Iamblichus Iordanis Isaeus Isocrates Joannes Zonaras John Rufus John Tzetzes Julian the apostate Julius Caesar Julius Capitolinus Julius Exuperantius Julius Firmicus Julius Firmicus Maternus Julius Obsequens Juvenal Lactantius Libanius Livius Andronicus Livy Lucian Lucius Ampelius Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Lycophron Lysias Machon Macrobius Maimonides Manetho Manilius Marcus Justin Marcus Manilius Martial Memnon of Heraclea Menander Michael of Ephesus Musonius Rufus Mysticism Neanthes of Cyzicus Nicander Nicolaus of Damascus Nietzsche Nonnos Numenius Ocecumenius Olympiodorus of Thebes Onasander Oppian Orosius Ovid Palaephatus Paul the Deacon Pausanias Pedanius Dioscorides Pelagius Peregrinus Proteus Persius Petronius Pherecydes Philo Philo of Byblos Philochorus Philodemus Philoponus Philostorgius Philostratus Phlegon Phrygius Dares Phylarchus Pindar Plato Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the younger Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Pomponius Mela Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Procopius Propertius Prudentius Publius Papinius Statius Quintilian Quintus Curtius Rufus Quintus Ennius Quintus Smyrnaeus Roger Bacon Rufinus Rufus of Ephesus Sacra Pagina Sallust Sanchuniathon Satyrus the Peripatetic Scylax of Caryanda Seneca Sextus Empiricus Sidonius Silius Simplicus Socrates of Constantinople Soranus Sozomen St Basil St Jerome St John of the Cross Stephanus of Byzantium Stesichorus Strabo Symmachus Syrianus Tacitus Terence Tertullian Themistius Theocritus Theodore of Mopsuestia Theodoret Theodoret of Cyrus Theon of Smyrna Theophanes of Mytilene Theophilus of Edessa Theophrastus Theopompus Thucydides Tyconius of Carthage Valerius Flaccus Valerius Harpocration Valerius Maximus Velleius Paterculus Victorinus of Petovium Virgil Vitruvius Xenophon Xenophon of Ephesus Zosimus
It's not a perfect solution but some of those have been published by Delphi Classics in volumes collected by author containing translations, original text and parallel texts. You can find them on Libgen.
I know this is an old vid but this is a grave matter: where are you sourcing this literature from? Where do you find it? Is it from libgen or some other source?
Curious if you're still working on this? I'm learning Latin, and trying to get my hands on Latin translation of Homer's Odyssey. Found some public domain stuff online, but haven't yet been able to find a physical copy to buy.
I don't have some "big brained" suggestion to give, most of the books I read are basic bitch classics but I'm a sucker for interesting covers and first editions. If you manage to get a decent europe distribution I will definitely pick one up!
I've been trying to find the works of Tacitus of Rome's Annals and Flavius Joesephus' Antiquities of the Jew both in the original languages, with a translation in English within the same books. So if you wouldn't mind doing that I would pay a decent amount.
I doubt it. It's already comprimised. There's a better alternative that's known as a search engine. I heard that there's some, like Qwant, Mojeek, and Jive Search, that avoids any sort of tracking. If I wanted to use RU-vid, I'd have some protection through Invidio(dot)us.
yeah its basically free money if you just do some """editing""" on them so that they fit into book pages. Virtually zero expenses, and total profit off free domain products.
@@user-wl4sr4tl7f Styx has written little short pamphlet tier books, but he as hundreds of "edited" works of obscure (sometimes ridiculously obscure, more like 19th century schizo ramblings) occult literature on amazon, which is what we are referring to. Styx can just pull them from the free domain, format them, and basically prints money. Maybe 10 hours of work per book, for hundreds of dollars, sometimes thousands, in profit. Styx isn't even translating things, so Luke is already talking about doing more stuff than that.
@@veganstoiclinuxwarriormonk8187 I know these comments are a year old but who is Styx and where do I get these book. Googling just gives me some video game
