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Originally Posted by CRussel
You might want to check Open Library. They often have scanned OCR versions of physical books from public libraries. They're unedited, so you'll need to do cleanup. But you can get to 90% clean with just a few well chosen edits, if my experiences with the Modesty Blaise books are any indication. (REGEX edits in the Calibre book editor are your friend here!)
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Originally Posted by BenG
Open Library only has the DAISY format which I think is audio.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
I believe that to not be correct. I'm on hold for at least one that looks like it's a scanned PDF & OCR'd ePub version. (It's always hard to tell with them, I admit.)
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Having just gotten my loan from them, I can confirm that Open Library provides both scanned PDF and OCR'd ePub. The OCR is unedited and has the usual level of crud.