 So long story short is I'm going to be starting a business and it's a business of course that I want I've wanted for like decades I don't know why someone hasn't done this already I mean honestly if you start a business on something you don't want you're probably like defrauding people But here's the idea behind it and I want some consultation on this if any of you guys are can help me out Here's the idea for the longest time. I've wanted a company to Take out of print books that are in the public domain Anyone could go on the internet and download these books in HTML format I've wanted a company to take a lot of lesser-known books and Print them professionally not just some idiot which some people do there are some idiots out there who literally just copy and paste the Web page into a book and print it. I don't want that. I don't want some more on I once bought this copy of Tacitus's histories Which was literally just someone who photocopied a book and sent it out improperly formatted on if to other people It pisses me off. What I all I want is someone who knows a little bit of shell scripting They can take some HTML convert it into LaTeX They know how to use LaTeX and they know the original languages so they can successfully edit These you know different books or whatever a lot of the ones I want are in Latin Of course, there are some that I want in English and stuff like that But a lot of the ones I really wanted in are in Latin So I've wanted someone who can do the shell scripting do the LaTeX do the Latin do whatever languages or just be generally competent And I realized I guess wait. Oh, no, I do all those things So maybe I should just make it my own business and make money off of it because I'm sure someone else will want something like this So here's that's what I'm doing basically I'll talk about the specific books that I've been doing recently I have three of them so far that I've worked on in the past week But there are others I'm looking into soon But I'll go ahead and say if you know if you have published books or if you have friends who have public self published books I'm thinking about using a print-on-demand service and that's just to minimize risk as I'm starting this up So basically there are a bunch of companies a lot I mean the one that people know about is Amazon, which I don't really want to use But of course you can give Amazon basically your PDF and what you want your cover to look like and they will print your book on demand To anyone who buys it. Okay, so there are other companies that do this that I'm looking into, you know, there's like Lulu there's like Book baby or something like that if anyone has any recommendations for which ones to use please tell me But you know that that's what I'm basically doing. So anyway, let me show you the works. I've done so far Or at least I have in progress. So in the last video I put up yesterday. I mentioned that I was re-reading Dante's or not this one Devulgare a loquencia. Okay Now this book Well, basically I've done this book. Okay, because I sort of wanted a physical copy of it You can get a physical copy of it for like $40 on eBay or something stupid like that Which probably has everything well a lot of times you can't even find it in Latin, which is so stupid You can just get the text in Latin online Anyway, I already complained about all this but basically what I've done is I've put it into a la tech document I've done a lot of formatting. I'm still trying to get like what I want my formatting for everything to look like There are a bunch of errors. You have to correct. There are a bunch of just other things that go into this kind of stuff And in this case, this is a shorter book. So I've actually decided to add sort of my comments and these are in you know the Frames or whatever But it's a pretty short book all things considered. I want to see let's see So it's only 58 pages or maybe I don't have the second book in here yet But so I'm basically going through all this and editing it. I'll probably add in an editor's introduction in English But you but again, this is like the original Latin The other one that I pull up just a second ago is actually by Dante as well I forget why I originally wanted to do that I've actually talked about this book on the channel as well I think in one of the podcast episodes the one that was like what was the title something like Democracy rule of the NPCs or something like that, but I talked briefly about this book but Demo not a key is sort of a political treaties. I guess by Dante. It's also pretty I don't know interesting I suppose but Doing this one as well. It's a little little bit longer I don't know if I'll put a commentary in this but there's a lot more to edit in here But so another thing I'm thinking about doing is this is a another sort of public question for people Now one of the best artists ever right that we all I don't know Maybe you've probably seen his works is Gustav Dore and I'm he has a million different engravings And those are good because they're black and white so I can put them in books and you know They're all public domain nowadays, so I'd like to be able to put his engravings in my books At least in ones that are relevant But I can't seem to find high-definition Pictures of his his engravings if anyone knows where to find those please tell me But yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about adding those to work those where it's proper Anyway, so I have these two books about Dante and I have this other book that I had over here And this is the big one and this is one you probably have not heard of probably by someone that you don't know about it's is a Doris of Seville So this book Again written in 625 so way back in the day. This was basically the textbook that was used I mean it was like the book the textbook for like, you know young students all over the place It is really it's supposed to be a book on etymology, but it's really more like an encyclopedia Because the idea behind it is there are 20 different books in it sub books and they're on you know different topics So, you know one on animals, you know one on you know Buildings and and the fields and stuff like that church stuff, you know they're a bunch of different topics and he goes into the I it's sort of an Encyclopedia on one side and it's also a primer in Latin on the other side and that is It's written in this extremely simple Latin that you know a Latin 201 student could understand and it's supposed to be Explaining words and sort of defining them And giving etymologies for them a lot of the etymologies are of course like not really accurate But they're good mnemonics for like remembering the words if you're learning Latin or something like that and so So this book is actually really cool and it's enormous. It's like nearly 700 pages I'll probably actually like break this up probably like in you know four volumes with five of the books Again, there are like 20 sub books of it But so this one is the big one and I really like this book I actually haven't read the entire thing, but I think in the process of editing it There's a lot to go over here. I mean I again I have like I have said scripts and stuff that'll do a lot of the Stuff automatically, but there's a lot you just need to look at yourself and you know Especially when he has like Greek letters and stuff a lot of things mess up so Anyway, so this is what I'm doing and then now if you have any suggestions for books that you would like to have printed Please give them to me and again. I'm still deciding on how to print these print on print these on demand So if you have any service you recommend, let's say, you know, you you really love Lulu as a service or something like that I've heard bad things about Lulu as well But if you really think that one of these services particular is particularly good, please tell me again I can do all the text formatting myself obviously That's sort of the point, but I'm still sort of thinking of how to publish these but um Anyway, I'm gonna keep working on these so again if you have any suggestions for the kind of books to do Drop them in the comments or something and I'll probably see you guys next time Although I might be doing Videos on stuff that's related to the books that I'm going over just because they're on my mind all the time I'm like reading all of these but anyway, that's about it. I'll see you guys next time