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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
I am not sure it is likely we will ever reach the point of being able to download them; publishers will still want to sell the books if possible. Not very easy to do if you can download it for free and then convert it to your format of choice.
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Even the ones you can read all of will be problematic for download/convert. They have PDFs which are essentially scanned page images, and a "View as plain text option", but the plain text would require a
lot of editing and cleanup. (I grabbed a copy of Max Weber's _The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism_ with a view to converting, and gave up when I saw the work required.)
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Dennis