[First Project] The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish

[Chris Spurgeon]

Hello!

Having read a number of Standard Ebooks, I thought it's time I helped out. I saw The Perennial Bachelor by Anne Parrish listed among the wanted books suitable for beginners, so I thought I'd give that a shot. If nothing else, by the time I'm done I'll finally know how to spell "Perennial".

Got the toolchain installed, ready to dive in!

Text source on fadedpage.com: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140612

Scanned book on books.google.com: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Perennial_Bachelor/nO1LAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Perennial+Bachelor&printsec=frontcover

Thanks!

Chris Spurgeon

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

There's a dedication, see the manual for how to style that. You'll also
have to include a half title page. Convert chapter headings to a single
roman numeral.

It looks like there's quite a bit of verse, see the manual for how to
style that too.

Cut "The end" and everything after in the transcription.

Make sure to read the Standard Ebooks Manual of Style before starting,
as you won't know what to fix if you haven't read the standards. In
particular, please closely review the semantics, high level patterns,
and typography sections:

https://standardebooks.org/manual

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns

https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography

The step by step guide will take you from start to finish. Please follow
it exactly:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step

This page on common issues in older books may be useful:

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/how-tos/common-issues-when-working-on-public-domain-ebooks

Please email often if you have any questions at all. Our standards are
well-established so there is probably already a standard for formatting
whatever problem you've encountered.

When you're ready, email back with a link to your Github repository so
that I can assign you a manager and reviewer.

Have fun! 🙂

On 3/25/26 9:09 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Having read a number of Standard Ebooks, I thought it's time I helped

> out. I saw /The Perennial Bachelor /by Anne Parrish listed among the

> wanted books suitable for beginners, so I thought I'd give that a shot.
> If nothing else, by the time I'm done I'll finally know how to spell
> "Perennial".
>
> Got the toolchain installed, ready to dive in!
>
> Text source on fadedpage.com: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?
> pid=20140612
>
> Scanned book on books.google.com: https://www.google.com/books/edition/
> The_Perennial_Bachelor/nO1LAAAAIAAJ?
> hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Perennial+Bachelor&printsec=frontcover
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris Spurgeon
>

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[Chris Spurgeon (gmail)]

OK, repo set up at https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor .

Off to dive in!

Chris Spurgeon

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[Alex Cabal]

OK, Vince will manage with Robin reviewing.

On 3/27/26 2:34 PM, Chris Spurgeon (gmail) wrote:
> https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor
> <https://github.com/chrisspurgeon/anne-parrish_the-perennial-bachelor> .