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Originally Posted by auntlee
I searched and didn't find that this had been announced before -- several works by C. S. Lewis are public domain in Canada and available to download from Gutenberg Canada: http://www.gutenberg.ca/
All the Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, plus Out of the Silent Planet and The Problem of Pain. |
Good find.
A reminder to those of us in the U.S.: it is not legal for us to download these from the Canadian site, at least if they are not in the public domain here in the U.S. I don't remember now if that applies to anyone who is physically in the U.S. (I think that that is correct) or just to U.S. citizens. We all do want to be legal, now don't we?
I wonder if Gutenberg Canada actually blocks downloads requested from foreign (to them) countries. I'm sure that that is possible--as we probably all know, that can be done, and is done all the time by other sites that we go to. I thought about testing the idea by trying to download one of the Lewis books, but then I remembered that it's illegal. ha
If it's one's physical presence that matters, I'm going to try to remember to download the books, and maybe others, if I find some more that I want, the next time that I'm in Canada. I wonder if archive.org has a Canadian site?
There was a discussion in this forum, several months ago, of the downloading-ebooks-from-foreign-websites-that-are-not-in-the-public-domain-in-the-United-States question. Someone very knowledgeable chimed in and gave some great detailed information about this issue (and maybe information that would correct something that I've written above).