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Always check here on MobileRead for public domain books before you pay for them. The books here were converted and formatted by MobileRead members out for the love of books, not because they think they can make a quick six bucks off them, and tend to be extremely well edited -- by readers, for readers. Some of the earlier books by Project Gutenberg aren't as good as they could be, but those from the past few years are generally excellent. The Distributed Proofreading people (have you proofed a page today?) do a great job.
Feedbooks and ManyBooks mostly scrape PG, but they have additional books as well. I find ManyBooks in particular to be slightly superior to PG. Munsey's is ... weird. And annoying. But they often have books and short stories that nobody else does. Google Books is inconsistent, often ranging from bad to hideous. Think really bad unproofed OCR. Worse, they're prone to slapping copyright restrictions on books a century or more old, at the behest of the people who have read those "make a mint reselling public domain books", which complicates things even more. I've pretty much given up on them.
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