[margoguryan]

Google Play Books is a behemoth of rare, obscure, archaic and poorly formatted free stuff. I have a massive collection of books on New France, Canadian history, very old folklore and poems, screenplays, pretty much every classic in the public domain.

Gutenberg is wonderful, especially for history. I've been using them a ton to stock up on non DRM stuff.

Do you use an eReader? I just got one of the newest Kindle models and I'm having a really hard time getting things to convert or whatever - even stuff that is, like, already formatted for eReader purposes gets mangled. Should I have not bought the Kindle in the first place? Haha

Thank you for all this, that newsletter tip is great.

[themodelplumber]

The classics are so fun! I picked up a bit of a micro-hobby in rating my favorite ebook covers for classic texts. For example, Tor Classics' _The Invisible Man_ cover--I really like that one. Or Enriched Classics' The War of the Worlds cover, or the one by Usborne Young Reading.

Unfortunately it couldn't be more obvious that the distributors think readers don't GAF about covers beyond the shopping spree though, which is pretty frustrating when I want to stare at a nice cover and let the imagination soak it in for a while.

Good Q about the eReader. I was looking at picking up one of the randomly interesting ones that I saw on Aliexpress a while back, but got then sidetracked and ended up with an ODROID-Go Super. lol.

And then some publishers got into special hardcover editions, like Palladium Rifts Ultimate Hardcover Edition. But someday I'd like to get back on that ereader path. Doubt I would buy a Kindle though, personally. I did notice that the bundle sites and indie publishers are the go-to solutions for solving layout problems, since you get PDF, MOBI, EPUB, and sometimes other formats too.

Not to mention Archive.org which also has some phenomenal collections and pretty much everything is in multiple formats.