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@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@ +# Constance Ring by Amalie Skram + +This is a digital, free version of +[Constance Ring (English Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Ring), +[Constance Ring (Norwegian Wikipedia)](https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Ring) +by [Amalie Skram (English Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Skram), +[Amalie Skram (Norwegian Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Skram). +It is based of a scan of the book published in 1943 publication by Gyldendal, +[available at the Norwegian National Library](https://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013112808046). + +The book is available in the [public domain license](https://www.nb.no/tilgang/lisens/#public-domain). +This license allows republication of the material, even for commercial purposed. + +However, *this* edition of the book is available under the +[CC BY-SA 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) allowing +for commercial reproduction of the book as long as it is attributed back to this +book. + +# Conversion + +This book is created by downloading the PDF with all the pages from nb.no, +extracting the images and then performing OCR on them. The default OCR from the +national library wasn't very good. + +The text files are then slightly massaged by removing headers and footers, +making chapters headers into Markdown headers and de-hyphentating the text. + +The Epub is then generated by Pandoc. + # Proofreading Run `make spellcheck-words` to run hunspell over the document. It will read |