[acabal]

I'm shocked and saddened to hear this. Greg was a deep source of knowledge and support as I started and shepherded Standard Ebooks. He was generous with his time and experience, and unbelievably patient with me, some guy he had never heard of or met before who was just another cold-email in what must have been an endless stream in his inbox. We should all aspire to his high spirit of camaraderie, charity, and kindness. The world has lost a champion of both literature and the free web.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

Why are there no unique numbers assigned to Standard Ebook's ebooks? I understand that there is a cost associated with ISBNs, but it's very irritating to not have something that identifies them uniquely. Most (all?) aren't even in Worldcat, so I can't use OCLC numbers for that purpose either.

[everybodyknows]

> no unique numbers

This suggests a misunderstanding of the Standard Ebooks process, which allows continual incremental corrections to the authoritative source of individual books (in XHTML, on GitHub). So, a truly unique identifier would only be valid to the production output(s) from a particular state of the Git-repo sources.

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/report-errors

Recall also that final user content is made available in multiple formats, currently at least six. Example:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/geronimo/geronimos-story-o...

Asynchronous to the correction process, Standard Ebooks updates its own production tools. So if an individual book's content requires correction, should the "respin" be done with TOT tools, or with the versions available at time of first publication? Disclaimer: I don't actually know which is current practice -- but using the TOT tool suite is obviously vastly easier.

For most practical purposes, I'd suggest the git-commit date, along with short substrings of author name and title, would suffice.

[testdelacc1]

> very irritating

I think it’s possible to express this in a less caustic way. Because Standard E-books is high quality and free of charge right?

[contact9879]

the ebook identifier uniquely identifies every ebook. standard ebook ebooks use the url as their unique identifier

[9dev]

Have a little respect, for fucks sake. This does not belong here.