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There are nearly 60,000 public domain/out of copyright/free ebooks that have been human proofed on gutenberg.org
The Canadian fadedcovers.com also seems to be human proofed. Nearly 5,000 decent quality public domain/out of copyright/free ebooks.
Archive.org (wayback machine) is the place of last resort. Very many Google and Microsoft scans to PDF with poor OCR (I can do better OCR) and no proof reading.
There are also quality public domain/out of copyright/free ebooks at many university websites and also sacred-texts.com
Some are in HTML only, but LibreOffice is free, paste and edit, save as docx and convert using calibre.
Amazingly I bought two real paper books in the local bookshop. The cost and time saving is slight, so I've stopped buying paper books in print on Amazon as my local bookshop will order anything in print. They will find it when I can't quite remember the title and author. I do also buy ebooks from Amazon and Smashwords.
I've seen bundles on ereaders and sold on Amazon that are POORER versions than on Gutenberg. There is a lot of public domain/out of copyright content that's simply scanned and OCRed with little or no proofing and sold on Amazon.
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