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Originally Posted by Ransom
Considering how few good authors there have been during the past 50 years, I find most everything at Gutenberg like everyone else.
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I find Gutenberg good for a starting point as far as classic PD books, but the site does have two drawbacks.
1. The books at Gutenberg often don't have a proper working TOC for moving round in the text and
2. If you're searching for a book that isn't PD you'll not find it there. So a book by Bram Stoker would be there, but books by writers like Issac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke aren't there.
If a person wants to stick to reading only the classics then Gutenberg does have a lot to offer (aside from the TOC problem), but if you want something more contemporary you have to go somewhere like Amazon or Barnes & Noble (depending on your ereader). Myself I like MR for classic fiction because the books here do have working TOC's as well as colorful covers. Most of Gutenberg's Kindle files seem to have a one size fits all cover that's kinda bland looking.