The most time consuming part of making an ebook for me, has been transcribing the text. OCR certainly helps immensely, but there are still errors and problems. If you have some time and want to help you can transcribe PDFs into HTML.

Step 1: Find a PDF

The first step is to look for the best possible PDF.
A "true text" PDF (as opposed to an image with OCR-text PDF) is the best case scenario, as they can be transformed into an EPUB using Calibre.^[I will enable the "Do not split on page breaks" and set "Split files larger than" to 0/Disable in EPUB Output, as otherwise it can split in weird places] You will likely still need to find a scan of the book to compare to.
If you can’t find a "true text" PDF, look for the highest quality scan. If the PDF doesn’t contain OCR, or it’s of bad quality, you’ll have to do OCR yourself. I usually use ocrmypdf to do so, although I haven’t gotten Calibre to create an EPUB from the outputted PDF with OCR, and instead used ocrmypdf for it’s --sidecar option which gives me plain text.^[In this ocrmypdf is essentially just a front-end for tesseract (the actual OCR program) because tesseract can’t take PDFs as input] You can send me a message with a link to the PDF asking to do the OCR or EPUB-ification and I’ll send back the result. If you don’t need my help, do still send me a message saying you intend to transcribe the book, and do include links.

Step 2: Transcribe

Once you have your EPUB or plain text, you’ll start on the actual "transcription."
The EPUB can be opened in Calibre’s ebook editor (simply click "Edit book" in the UI) or opened with a ZIP manager and the HTML file extracted and edited with your favourite editor. The plain text can be opened in any kind of editor^[Maybe also something like MS Word or LO Writer, although I don’t know if it can export as HTML and how well it will be, I’d rather you use something else], even notepad, but you may want to use a more capable editor like [EDIT: notepad++ and VSCode are not good. TODO: suggest something else].

Then your job is to:

• Proofread. OCR is good, but not perfect. The true-text PDFs are usually great, but may still have minor errors, so you should proofread no matter what source you have.
• Ensure headers/titles are inside heading elements, and they are at the correct level. Do not use a heading for it’s font size, use it for it’s semantic meaning! The books title is h1, so the chapters titles are likely to be h2, unless they are inside a part, then the part title is h2 and the chapter titles are h3. Also see the Standard Ebooks’ SEMOS for more information.
• Ensure paragraphs are inside elements. For EPUBs that means ensuring there isn’t some incorrect breaks in the ’s, this especially happens on page breaks. For plain text adding around each paragraph.
• Ensure italicized text is inside ^[You may see on this MDN link that is not always the correct element, and that there are other "more appropriate" elements for some things, and this is true. It would be nice if you did use the appropriate element, otherwise I will have to change them, but you don’t have to. See the Standard Ebooks’ SEMOS for when an element is appropriate] elements.
• Re-create tables with
• Re-create lists with and elements
• Ensure footnote/endnote numbers are linked with , the actual footnote should be moved to the end of the chapter or section or to the end of the book. The paragraph element of the footnote should be given an id so that the can reference it with href=#insert_id_here (the hashtag is necessary, do not replace it with the id)

(TODO: Anything else?)

For EPUBs, calibre likes to add a bunch of unnecessary stuff, like <span>s and class="calibre1". So before you start working on it, you may want to remove them.
If you are using Calibre’s ebook editor—or some other editor with regex capabilities—you can remove them by opening up the find and replace, selecting "Regex" in mode (or how that works in your editor), inputting class=".*?" in Find and nothing in Replace and clicking Replace all. Then inputting <\/span> in Find (and still nothing in Replace.)
Also if you are using Calibre’s ebook editor, it has a preview on the right and it may not look good. But don’t worry your job is to ensure the text and HTML is correct, and I’ll make the ebook and ensure it looks good.

Step 3: ???

Once done, send the finished HTML (or EPUB if you’ve been working inside one) over to me. Otherwise if you are making an EPUB for yourself and not just transcribing for ComLib, I suggest you look at Standard Ebooks’ Step by Step guide

Step 4: Profit!

Your EPUB is now ready

tried libgen/zlibary/annas-archive and a yandex search

it's weird the author as many of his or book are available and this as been out for many years and is on a popular topic

Recommended by @MF_COOM@hexbear.net in this post

Looks great but I can't find it on LibGen or Anna's Archive.

Thanks for the help!

Thank you in advance <3 Let me know if I missed any info

Dead links at https://dublingaelic.blogspot.com/2022/09/donn-piatts-gaelic-dialects-of-leinster.html and https://red.ngn.tf/r/ireland/comments/7ye749/here_is_how_irish_was_spoken_in_co_dublin/

I tried archive.org , annas archive, and Lib Gen

How to access a book submitted to the LibGen upload queue

When a user fulfills a request and uploads a book to LibGen, it will appear in their upload queue for approval to be added to their library. It can take a few days before a book uploaded to LibGen will appear in their main search index but you can access it fairly easily as soon as it has been uploaded by accessing their upload queue by logging in under their generic login:

The uploader should provide you with an interim link to access the book upload. When prompted to log in, use the following credentials:

Username
genesis
Password
upload

You can store this login info in your browser if you like. Upon logging in you will see a page like this:

Just click on the link beside at Download: [from the upload queue] and you'll have access to your book.

Once your book has moved from the upload queue to the main search index, it can be accessed via the normal search options.

How to upload a book to LibGen

Check that the book hasn't already been uploaded to LibGen

Click 'Upload' in the top bar and select 'Fiction' or 'Non-fiction' based on which is appropriate from the drop-down menu

Log into LibGen using the credentials
genesis
upload

Select your file to upload

Fetch the metadata for the book by selecting which site to pull the data from and using the appropriate book identifier (e.g. ISBN), then click 'Fetch'

If the incorrect metadata is fetched or none is fetched, try a different site or a different book identifier

If the book does not have a listing on mainstream websites like Amazon or if the metadata fetched is incorrect, you can manually enter the metadata yourself on the same page.
Leave fields blank unless you know the correct info. It's not uncommon to only have partial metadata available for an upload. Do your best but don't fret - as long as the key info is accurate then the rest is less important and the entry can be updated later if someone sees fit.

When you are done entering the metadata, click 'SUMBIT!' at the bottom of the page

On the following page copy the link located beside at Download: [from the upload queue] and provide this link in a reply to the book request in this comm

In your reply to the request, please ask the user to update their post title by appending FULFILLED to the end of it
If anyone else has asked to be notified when the request has been fulfilled, reply to them letting them know or ping them.
Please ensure that the requester does not delete their post as this will allow others to find the upload.

An account is necessary to upload to TankieTube, sign up if you don't have one yet.

For all audio-only sources, please strip the audio from the video, if there is any, in order to reduce the server load and storage requirements. There are different programs available to achieve this and guides on this can be found on Google. If you have an M4A or M4B file, please convert it to MP3 before uploading.

Select Publish in the top-right of any page on TankieTube
On the 'Upload a video' page, click 'Select the file to upload' navigate to the file

On the subsequent page, select the preferred channel to upload the audiobook to (this can be changed later via editing the upload)
Set the privacy to 'Public'
Either add a thumbnail now by clicking on the 'Edit' button (note it cannot be changed in this option), or later once the upload has begun. See step below for more info.
Click the 'Upload' button

On the subsequent page, enter all relevant details as the file is uploaded and navigate to the 'Advanced Settings' tab

At the 'Video thumbnail' section, click 'Select from your device' and navigate to the image you would like to use as the video thumbnail and upload it
When the file has completed uploading and you are satisfied with the information and metadata you have entered, click the 'Publish' button once it appears.

Congratulations! You just uploaded your first audiobook. Thank you for contributing to this comm and to TankieTube to make learning more accessible!

(Note that once the audiobook is uploaded, if you do not feel comfortable being responsible for maintaining the upload and managing the moderation of comments please consider changing the ownership of the file to a larger, active channel.

This can be done by navigating to your uploaded videos and selecting the '...' menu beside the relevant upload, then selecting the 'Change ownership' option and entering the name of the user (the account who maintains your preferred channel, not the name of the channel itself) and once you have confirmed that you have entered the correct account name, click submit and await the channel to respond to your request.)

9780099466031 [Providing an ISBN helps, especially for foreign language books, helps but it isn't strictly necessary except for textbook requests]