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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I don't count buying Open Road freebie classics as "buying ebooks", since they are generally public domain, and sometimes there's an illustrated edition available at Project Gutenberg, if you like illustrated editions. For example, Open Road's edition of Darwin's Origin of the Species is missing the book's one illustration, which helps explain long-term helps explain long term characteristic drift.
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I don't count them as "buying", but I have a habit of downloading any freebie that even remotely catches my interest. I should really go through and prune my freebies and make an actual "TBR" list one of these days.
I like how Open Road formats their classics and that they are available through Kobo - which is why I grab them.
Right now, I'm trying to replace my "B&N classics" that I got for free some years ago because I dislike the stripped nookbook epub format.
I'm not a huge fan of Project Gutenberg's formats (though I appreciate what they do!) because in the past they seem to be severely unedited scans and almost completely unreadable. It's been a couple of years since I've bothered to grab anything from them though, so maybe there is changes.
I will definitely keep that in mind for necessary illustrated editions!