Comment by revolvingocelot
5 years ago
PG's goal is the digitization and long-term storage of public-domain written materials, and I'm glad that's all they're doing.
I think you're looking for Standard Ebooks [0][1], which utilizes (usually) Project Gutenberg-sourced text, original-edition illustrations, and volunteer editors to create professional, free-as-in-beer ebooks.
[0] https://standardebooks.org/
[1] I tend to write, or only ever see, "eBooks", but Standard Ebooks styles it "Ebooks". That's the only thing I don't like about them, and I really really don't like it. Given my uncontroversial acceptance of the capitalization used when starting a sentence with the word "Email", I imagine I'll live.
Free-as-in-speech as well: each publication including SE additions like the blurb is put back into the public domain.