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Originally Posted by crich70
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
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True, and they often don't have proper indents and will sometimes have blank lines between paragraphs. (block format)
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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.
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Well I did say "I find
most everything at Gutenberg." Unfortunately a few of my favorite authors wrote between 1930 and 1960 (CS Lewis, Arthur C Clarke, and Charles Williams in particular). But the vast majority of readable material for anyone in the upper half of the IQ spectrum is going to be in public domain. My friend Ann and I have desperately tried to find some modern authors who are worth reading but have had very little success. That post that linked to the page where you try to tell male from female authors is a good example. Of the ten samples given, only one or two of them didn't read as though they were written by grade schoolers. I can't say I was shocked though when the key to the authors was given and I found that most were well-known modern authors. It's just that bad today.