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Slight self promotion, but Standard Ebooks has a few of the classics, and a few more of the classic fiction available as nicely formatted and accessible PD eboo
by robin_reala 8y ago
Slight self promotion, but Standard Ebooks has a few of the classics, and a few more of the classic fiction available as nicely formatted and accessible PD ebooks (epub, Kobo variant epub, and Kindle formats for each):
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/benjamin-franklin/the-auto...
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditations/george-long https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...
- Don Quixote by Cervantes: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/don-quixote/john-ormsby https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/miguel-de-cervantes-saaved...
- Pride and Predudice by Jane Austen: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prej...
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-makepeace-thackera...
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copperfield https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/david-copp...
- Washington Irving collection: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sketch-book-of-geoffrey-crayon-gent https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/washington-irving/the-sket...
- Father Goriot by Balzac: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-goriot/ellen-marriage https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/honore-de-balzac/father-go...
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/r-d-boylan https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-w-von-goethe/the-sorrows...
- Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/crime-and-punishment/constance-garnett https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodor-dostoevsky/crime-an...
These are nearly always taken from the Gutenberg source transcriptions, but tidied up typographically and marked up using modern technologies. If you notice any problems with any of these we’ll happily take PRs!