What do you consider the best sites for downloading free versions of public domain texts?
To break down the sites I most regularly go to:
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Gutenberg obviously has the largest number of books on offer. And I can't complain too much about their epub implementation, they mostly work reasonably well on my reader (Kobo Aura).
http://gutenberg.net.au/
Still, whenever one of the Gutenberg books is available on Gutenberg Australia, I tend to find its formatting is better (better margins, adjustable margins &c).
http://www.feedbooks.com/
Even better are what free public domain texts can still be found at Feedbooks. Gutenberg is always their source, but they've made them into nice real ebooks with covers &c.
However, it seems they're offering fewer and fewer public domain titles for free and seem to want to push commercial versions of the same titles. That's their good right and mostly those editions aren't expensive, but still. I'm not sure I want to pay anything if all they've done is apply some formatting (as opposed to real proofreading & editing of texts, as real publishers like Penguin and OUP tend to do, for instance).
I mean really, what's the difference between
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4500
and
http://www.feedbooks.com/item/446972...ith-collection
that it would justify paying 2 euro (rather than donate 2 euro to Gutenberg!)?
(Incidentally, why is it that this particular novelist's work is packed into a single file and separate titles are hardly available? That didn't use to be the practice on Gutenberg.)
http://manybooks.net/
Then there's Manybooks. It's been awhile since I've tried that. It used to be my experience those editions were somewhere in between the raw Gutenberg files (in the days when they weren't so e-book friendly) and Feedbooks: good enough, but if a better alternative was available I'd try that.
http://girlebooks.com/
And then there's this site for female authors exclusively. Good epubs, I *think*. It's been quite a while since I've tried any from here.
Any worthwhile additions or alternatives to this list?
(Apart from the mobileread forums itself, where some titles can also be found.)