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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'll have to go have a look and see which ones you've already converted. Thank you!
Where are you getting your source material? I'm interested in the Ben Franklin one.
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Franklin in in Volume I which is not yet completed. I can do a special of just that book if you like as it was one of the first books I downloaded from Project Gutenberg. I have read it about 20 times over the years and it is one of the finest examples of American autobiography I have ever read. It inspired me as a young man and has always made me feel better after reading it again.
As to sources for material, Project Gutenberg is great. Contributions are always welcome there. A lot of their books have been machine converted by ManyBooks to other formats although a lot of their books do have uncorrected errors when they source their material from Distributed Proofreaders before it is finished and posted on Project Gutenberg. There are also other books at Project Gutenberg Australia that are not on the US Project Gutenberg. There is also Project Gutenberg Consortia that has still more titles. There are also many sites on the Internet that have a lot of the classics posted. Of course there are some titles that I have to scan and OCR as I have not found a source for them on the Internet, yet.
In copyrighted material, the most known free site is the Baen Free Library. As one of the best publishers of science fiction they post selected complete books by most of their writers on the wen for free. They feel that by offering the public a sample of their wares that people may find a new writer that they like and come back and buy more by them. (It worked for me.)
There are also a number of other sites that offer DRM free books such as Steve Jordan's site with great SciFi and noir books in multiple formats.
There is also FeedBooks that offer free copies of many public domain books that are delivered in custom PDF files for your specific reader including the Sony Reader.