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Originally Posted by knc1
Of course they are, in general, going by popularity.
So if you have a book that only you and the author ever read . . . .
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Indeed!
I've been aware of the date correlation. And I mean no criticism of Project Gutenberg; it was one of the great days of my life when I found it and saw all those books I'd despaired of ever finding on a dusty shelf in a used book shop were there for the reading. It's just unfortunate that we can't quite make a blanket recommendation for good formatting at Gutenberg and the errors have been promulgated by the cheesy uploads at Amazon. That said, the classics are presumably safe for the reason you mention; anything that Oxford, Penguin et al. would publish likely has a clean copy at Gutenberg.