I absolutely cannot believe what amazing people there are out there! Check out:
manybooks.net
librivox.org

Can you believe the integration?! Go to manybooks, locate a great book like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and it links you to the audiobook! You can then download the audiobook if you wish, transfer it to a nice and fat (2 GB) SD card on your Sony Reader and theoretically follow along as the book is read through your headphones. All for free!! (well, $350)

And they have TONS of books! It's too bad the commercial book sellers couldn't figure out a different model. It just seems like wow---what a competition! I can pay $10 for the book and another $15 for the audiobook and not have any rights. Or I can find tried and true classics and get all that for free! And the interface for getting it all is amazing, too. Those two sites have incredible UI compared to some of the other free book sites I've seen. It's so easy to use and they have lots of formats for about any reader!

Way to go!

It is good, isn't it :grin:.

"ManyBooks" is about as good as you can get for "machine" book conversion. You can do a lot better, though, with hand-formatted books; if you've not done so already, take a look at the "Book Uploads" forum for a pretty fair selection of books, many of which are not on "ManyBooks".

hmmm. lol. It's good to know the general info. I didn't know it was completely machine generated. So there will be a lot more errors?

They also often grab the book while still in proofreading on Distributed Proofreaders so the books often still contain OCR errors.

It is good, isn't it :grin:.

"ManyBooks" is about as good as you can get for "machine" book conversion. You can do a lot better, though, with hand-formatted books; if you've not done so already, take a look at the "Book Uploads" forum for a pretty fair selection of books, many of which are not on "ManyBooks".

You can do better with machine book conversion too, at least that's our aim on Feedbooks. Using a more advanced typesetting software (like LaTeX), dividing the books into real parts/chapter with a TOC, supporting real footnotes and not just a * with the footnote writtent under it, adding pages about the author and what's available for this author on the website (we just added that one), helping the user by providing informations about similar books based on what the other users downloaded etc... and many other upcoming features.

hmmm. lol. It's good to know the general info. I didn't know it was completely machine generated. So there will be a lot more errors?

No, not errors as such, but when you're formatting by hand you can take full advantage of the capabilities of the specific device, and also nicely format things which should be done differently to the bulk of the text, like letters, verse, and that sort of thing.