to clarify, perhaps, the works in which I am interested are in the public domain, but I don't mind paying for them for a good publication. The problem I find of the translation being a "surprise" (that is, you never know what you are going to get it seems) is a problem that i am finding whether it is free or not.
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Originally Posted by osnova
Well, the nature of the Public Domain is that anybody can take it and do with it whatever they want, including publishing/selling it for profit. For example, I searched for War and Peace by Tolstoy in the Kindle Store and found 94 results from the free ASIN B002RKRUPE to 3-volume set each of which costs almost $50 (ASIN B003N18Y7E).
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and using your above example, I can find the latter with a search on Amazon and to my point above, there is no mention of what translation it is. This is the frustration I am talking about.
So my post is to see if this is as good as it gets. This is not so much a problem with printed books.