[First Project] The Wouldbegoods, by E. Nesbit

[Nicolai Plenk]

Hi,

I've long enjoyed Standard Ebooks and would like to produce The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit, which is not on the list of wanted books, but I thought it'd be nice to finish that entire collection.

Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/794

I don't have a scanned book, but I do have a printed version handy.

Cheers,

Nicolai

[Alex Cabal]

Great, that one would be a good start.

You can use these page scans:
https://archive.org/details/wouldbegoods00nesbgoog

Please don't use your print book because we cannot verify if it matches
the transcription.

This book is in British-style quotation, so you'll have to run `se
british2american` and it will make a lot of mistakes. You'll have to
carefully proofread the direction and nesting of quotation marks.

PG stripped a lot of formatting, so you'll have to convert all caps to
italics, and eyeball page scans to restore any missing formatting. I see
some letters are also missing formatting like the block starting with
"We are very, very sorry about the turnips and things,..."

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 4/9/26 4:13 PM, Nicolai Plenk wrote:
> Hi,
>

> I've long enjoyed Standard Ebooks and would like to produce /The
> Wouldbegoods/ by E. Nesbit, which is not on the list of wanted books,

> but I thought it'd be nice to finish that entire collection.
>
> Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/794
>
> I don't have a scanned book, but I do have a printed version handy.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolai
>

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