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Well, do you know that both of these books are available for free? http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ and http://calibre-ebook.com/ http://cali
by vtail 16y ago
Well, do you know that both of these books are available for free? http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ and http://calibre-ebook.com/ http://calibre-ebook.com/ are your friends.
- papachito 16y agoCame here to post just that. Both of these books are very old and as such did fall under the public domain a while ago. One of the biggest advantage of ebooks is that you can get public domain books for free. I don't understand why would anyone buy them.
- sliverstorm 16y agoSometimes I'd rather pay $0.99 for an e-book that is formatted well than acquire it for free in a messy unfriendly e-book.
- holdenk 16y agoHow can you tell when its going to be well formatted versus just a paywalled copy of the free one?
- glhaynes 16y agoBoth Kindle and the iBookstore offer free samples. They usually work really well though they do sometimes have problems, such as cutting off before the main text starts due to a long introduction. (And I downloaded a sample of the famously footnoted Infinite Jest from iBooks... didn't include any footnotes. Anybody know if that's just a limitation of the sample? My purchase decision depends on how easy it is to get to/back from the footnotes...)
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- joubert 16y agoI agree. In fact, a little while back NPR had a story about Shakespeare's Double Falsehood. There's a free ebook but the quality sucks. I spent some time putting together a decent ebook and put it up for sale on my startup's catalog - http://fifobooks.com/Catalog?bkid=629c4fc4-cac6-4702-ad97-3b2c35e62620 http://fifobooks.com/Catalog?bkid=629c4fc4-cac6-4702-ad97-3b...
- malloreon 16y agoI did find them for free, but not until later. I suddenly had a hankering to read each book, and $2 total ended up being an acceptable spend.