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Quoth · 10-13-2025, 07:03 AM

Project Gutenberg's formatting of epub is based on text as they started in 1971 – 1972. It's easily automatically reformatted by Calibre on an epub to epub conversion. Then it's often better than Standard Ebooks. See also Global Grey.

https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html

PDF is terrible except for print, or content that needs fixed layout like textbooks, illustrated children's books, graphic novels or comics.

ebookzy looks tiny and could easily be created from Gutenberg. So I downloaded "The 39 Steps". Other sites have far more of John Buchan's novels. It is from Project Gutenberg.

So ebookzy is pointless.

EDIT:
It's also a poor website as the categories miss titles they have and the covers are using stupid web page coding such than on my 4K 23" monitor I have to scale the page to 67% to avoid all the covers being cropped on the right.

10-13-2025, 07:03 AM	#3
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,860 Karma: 110496601 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	Project Gutenberg's formatting of epub is based on text as they started in 1971 – 1972. It's easily automatically reformatted by Calibre on an epub to epub conversion. Then it's often better than Standard Ebooks. See also Global Grey. https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/index.html PDF is terrible except for print, or content that needs fixed layout like textbooks, illustrated children's books, graphic novels or comics. ebookzy looks tiny and could easily be created from Gutenberg. So I downloaded "The 39 Steps". Other sites have far more of John Buchan's novels. It is from Project Gutenberg. So ebookzy is pointless. EDIT: It's also a poor website as the categories miss titles they have and the covers are using stupid web page coding such than on my 4K 23" monitor I have to scale the page to 67% to avoid all the covers being cropped on the right. Last edited by Quoth; 10-13-2025 at 07:07 AM.