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by Bishop_ 1286 days ago
Where are you getting them for free? Every time I tried to download books they end up having a ton of weird errors that make it difficult to read.
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reginaldo 1286 days ago
Take a look at Standard Ebooks[1] as well, which I heard from here at HN. Their motto is "Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover", and they live up to that standard.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks

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tastyfreeze 1286 days ago
Text in various formats: https://libgen.li/ or https://www.gutenberg.org/

Audio books: https://librivox.org/

Libgen like Project Gutenberg often has poor formatting on eBooks. Librivox recordings are donated by volunteers. A single book might have multiple readers. Not ideal but you get what you pay for. Audible also has some classics for free, with subscription.

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julienchastang 1286 days ago
Kindle ebooks though they are hard to find by design, I think. Amazon wants you to buy stuff, even when the work is in the public domain. There is also, of course, Project Gutenberg [0], but I have not tried to interface with that project through ereaders. I wonder if anyone reading this has any additional tips :-)

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/

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