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Worldwalker · 07-26-2010, 05:21 AM

Nathanael, check out the free ebooks here on MobileRead; they have the best formatting of any ebooks (including commercial ones) on the Web.

I tend to prefer ManyBooks or Feedbooks over Project Gutenberg because they tidy up a bit. Those three, along with MobileRead, are my main sources of PD ebooks. Google Books is terrible; what's good isn't unique, and what's unique isn't good. Anything they have that isn't either a bad scan, or a worse OCR of a bad scan, is available somewhere else and better.

I also buy a fair number of ebooks from MobileRead authors on Smashwords. Dunno why, but I just enjoy reading something written by someone I've spoken to, even if it's just chatting on a forum.

07-26-2010, 05:21 AM	#66
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	Nathanael, check out the free ebooks here on MobileRead; they have the best formatting of any ebooks (including commercial ones) on the Web. I tend to prefer ManyBooks or Feedbooks over Project Gutenberg because they tidy up a bit. Those three, along with MobileRead, are my main sources of PD ebooks. Google Books is terrible; what's good isn't unique, and what's unique isn't good. Anything they have that isn't either a bad scan, or a worse OCR of a bad scan, is available somewhere else and better. I also buy a fair number of ebooks from MobileRead authors on Smashwords. Dunno why, but I just enjoy reading something written by someone I've spoken to, even if it's just chatting on a forum.