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Old 04-04-2010, 08:13 AM   #7
brauckmiller
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Boris, great info. Yet more bookmarks to add to my list.

Just in case no one has seen this before, here is a great free book site for older books and stuff I would assume other ebook sellers just ignore due to them being in the public domain.

Haven't looked to deep into the selection, but will eventually. They do support EPUB (some with images) which is pretty cool.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here is their list of the top 100 authors downloaded for the past 30 days:

Top 100 Authors last 30 days

1. Carroll, Lewis (63155)
2. Twain, Mark (42181)
3. Dickens, Charles (39725)
4. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir (39705)
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6. Shakespeare, William (28607)
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8. Verne, Jules (21284)
9. Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) (19910)
10. Wilde, Oscar (17519)
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14. Doré, Gustave (14173)
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17. Grimm, Jacob (13407)
18. Stevenson, Robert Louis (13344)
19. Burton, Richard Francis, Sir (13002)
20. Burroughs, Edgar Rice (12981)
21. Dumas père, Alexandre (12901)
22. Poe, Edgar Allan (12781)
23. Tolstoy, Leo, graf (12096)
24. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (11723)
25. Dante Alighieri (11644)
26. Maspero, G. (Gaston) (10973)
27. Homer (10469)
28. Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) (10306)
29. Joyce, James (10236)
30. Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) (10166)
31. Litchfield, Frederick (10085)
32. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (9996)
33. Sunzi 6th cent. B.C. (9980)
34. Vatsyayana (9804)
35. Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud) (9773)
36. Indrajit, Bhagavanlal (9413)
37. Bhide, Shivaram Parashuram (9413)
38. Conrad, Joseph (9382)
39. Lang, Andrew (9276)
40. Potter, Beatrix (9168)
41. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (9131)
42. Kipling, Rudyard (9032)
43. Hugo, Victor (8615)
44. Plato (8609)
45. Defoe, Daniel (8593)
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57. McClure, M. L. (7679)
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59. Kafka, Franz (7524)
60. Ukers, William H. (William Harrison) (7504)
61. Jowett, Benjamin (7437)
62. Cary, Henry Francis (7315)
63. Widger, David (7315)
64. Pope, Alexander (7244)
65. Spicer, William Ambrose (7239)
66. Library of Congress. Copyright Office (6998)
67. Eliot, George (6973)
68. Maupassant, Guy de (6955)
69. Beard, Mary Ritter (6920)
70. Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin) (6920)
71. Rackham, Arthur (6897)
72. Brontë, Charlotte (6873)
73. Garnett, Constance (6854)
74. Scott, Walter, Sir (6851)
75. Ibsen, Henrik (6588)
76. Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian) (6587)
77. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (6529)
78. Nichols, J. L. (James Lawrence) (6528)
79. Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant) (6528)
80. Landor, Arnold Henry Savage (6474)
81. Giles, Lionel (6291)
82. Crane, Walter (6171)
83. Hubbard, Elbert (6133)
84. Maclise, Joseph (6028)
85. Machiavelli, Niccolò (5982)
86. Winter, Milo (5865)
87. Hardy, Thomas (5860)
88. Maude, Louise Shanks (5801)
89. Maude, Aylmer (5669)
90. Thoreau, Henry David (5612)
91. Berens, E.M. (5563)
92. Shaw, Bernard (5548)
93. Burnett, Frances Hodgson (5466)
94. Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) (5461)
95. Zimmern, Helen (5432)
96. Guizot, M. (François) (5424)
97. Campbell, Douglas Houghton (5327)
98. Buckley, Theodore Alois (5256)
99. Wyllie, David (5228)
100. Burbank, Emily (5135)


Enjoy.

Craig