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Old 07-07-2009, 03:56 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
Definately the best advice. Before I found Mobile Read I had downloaded quite a few free classics from Gutenberg and the like. I have since replaced pretty much all of these with the same but better formatted from here.

This is not to denigrate Gutenberg etc by the way. Their aim is to get as many books as possible on-line as quickly as possible. That's an entirely laudable aim. If sites such as Mobile Read can then use those as a starting point for creating 'nicer' versions then that's an equally laudable, if slightly different, aim.
Actually, since they started using Distributed Proofreaders, I think there is every reason to assume their etexts have become very high quality. The problem is that a lot of the good stuff predates DP, and is thus of also hit-and-miss quality.

What license do the books available at MobileRead fall under? I presume commercial use is prohibited.

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