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Such a remarkable and useful project. I had to look this up in Wikipedia; it was started in 1971 (!) by Michael S. Hart. They've never done much for aesthetics
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Such a remarkable and useful project. I had to look this up in Wikipedia; it was started in 1971 (!) by Michael S. Hart. They've never done much for aesthetics or curation. I like https://manybooks.net/ https://manybooks.net/ as an alternative. It's mostly Gutenberg sources (with credit) but the site and epub downloads are nicely designed. Although they've gotten pretty spammy.
If Sci-Hub is more your speed then Z-Library has 10 million books available for download. However most of them are not licensed copies. The neat thing about Gutenberg is it turns public domain books into something easily accessible.
- NelsonMinar 5y agoWanted to highlight https://standardebooks.org/ https://standardebooks.org/, another alternative for copyedited Gutenberg texts that is mentioned in other HN comments.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoAlso library genesis, which searches z-library and I guess some other sources. It looks like it’s maybe built on IPFS which seems cool.