> Is there a legal alternative? I would really really want something like Netflix for books, where I can easily discover and read books. Plenty of books (and o

> Is there a legal alternative? I would really really want something like Netflix for books, where I can easily discover and read books. Plenty of books (and other written works, such as serial publications) are in the public domain, hence fully legal from a copyright POV. However discovery is still a major problem: many works in the public domain are still far from being easily findable or accessible online. (Even then, it's worth keeping in mind that the books people generally think of as the 'Greatest Books of the Western Canon' are, by and large, in the public domain, and that already is more books than you could feasibly read in a lifetime.)