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Originally Posted by Luke King
The best way to find the free public domain books at Amazon is to type in the title and "public domain" - e.g. type "mansfield park public domain". If you simply search for the title you want, the free version often won't appear.
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The best way to find free public domain books is to go to a free book website, not to Amazon.
MobileRead is my first choice, followed by ManyBooks, Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, Munsey's, the Internet Archive, and Google Books (the latter two having formatting that will make you scream, but they sometimes have books the others don't). Project Gutenberg comes in various national flavors, as well. Sure, you have to think ahead and won't get the instant gratification of having your book delivered
right away; you'll need to load it from your computer. But in exchange, you aren't just getting a temporary license to read the book from Amazon, who can, and has, taken "their" books right out of people's Kindles. Pick out fifty or a hundred PD books at once and you won't have to worry about what to read for months, solving that whole problem. There are about 2500 books on my 505 and its SD card, and over 2,000 of them are PD. I really should stop buying books (or some indie authors should stop writing them; that might be easier) or I'll never get caught up.