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Originally Posted by WillAdams
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Yes, that is a good website. Thanks.
This may be the ego rearing its ugly head again, but I don't trust this or any other single website to have anywhere near an exhaustive list of free ebooks nor to list anywhere near all of the other websites which have them. I think that I know of websites with many more additional ebooks to what they have listed. I do appreciate the fact that they ask viewers to submit any ebooks that aren't listed on their site. I wonder how many people actually do it, though (I confess: I'm one who is guilty of not doing it).
The
Internet Archive probably comes closest to having all of the freebies (
Google Books earns the Honorable Mention award), if for no other reason than it seems to be the best known website of its kind.
* However, I know of no way to sift out the wheat from the chaff--the ebooks which are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired (generally much less desirable) from
quality free ebooks that have been recently published (generally much more desirable). Maybe they will address that shortcoming (as I perceive it) by instituting something like a customer feedback and/or rating, system on at least for the non-public-domain-type books.
So, as for me, I'll keep checking upenn's website, and websites like them, but I'll also keep looking for ones that they have missed.
* The founder of the Internet Archive, whose name I have forgotten, has a goal of getting a copy of
every book ever printed that is still extant (sadly, many have disappeared forever). While third parties have made a huge number of scans and submitted them, IA does a lot of their own scanning. People send IA books from places all over the world. After scanning the books, the IA stores the physical books in a facility in or around San Francisco. It's a very interesting story.