Thread: Dangerously e-books: How do I know if my ebooks have been altered?
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Old 07-19-2014, 07:40 AM   #305
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
There's Wikisource, of course. The epubs their site generates won't win a beauty contest, but the intention there is to present authoritative texts. As is the intention of many uploaders to the Patricia Clark Memorial Library, btw., including myself. (Though one of my uploads has been altered: If you read one particular poem you will receive a subliminal message that will make you travel to my hometown and do unspeakable things to my neighbours' nasty fat cat. Nobody's done it yet - it's a shame that no-one seems to read poetry anymore...)
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
IIRC the OP is looking for free self help books mainly and mostly these are under copyright.

So under the assumption this is still the case.

@EbookNovice
There is no place to get these books for free legally AFAIK. There is no website that can tell you for sure that there are no alterations made. Sure maybe they can say that, but you would be foolish to believe them.

I don't think you are trying to get illegal books, just that what you are looking for is not there.

Your best source is the public library if you want free books that have not been altered in a harmful way.

Helen
Right, I don't want to do anything illegal or unethical. I'm just looking for a source of free .epub files that I can be sure haven't been altered.

I just thought an .epub site with a large community would be a good way to know that the .epub files haven't been altered because so many people would have downloaded them.
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