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Old 01-06-2010, 04:57 PM   #8
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by dear dogma View Post
I don't mind paying for good usable copies of important texts but if they are just as readily available for free why not? My first look at the Sony library site listed the five volumes of Aquinas' Summa theologica at about $25ea totaling over $100. the download is available free through guttenberg, but in about 5 different formats not sure which one would be best for me. The site also offers a free download of the Catholic Dhuey-Rhems Bible but as yet I've yet to find any download free or not for the Catechism of the Catholic church.
In many cases, the free versions are as good or better than the for-pay ones. Especially look here at Mobileread first--the ebooks uploaded here are hand-formatted by people who know what looks good in an ebook reader. You can read any of the Spirituality books in LRF or EPUB format. (And if there's one in another format that you'd like, that's not in LRF or EPUB, ask about it; someone is probably willing to convert it.)

If you find one at Gutenberg (or archive.org or googlebooks) that you like, but the formatting is awful enough that you can't enjoy reading it, you can visit the eBook Requests and Begging thread and ask for it. A lot of the ebook conversion & formatting people here love new projects and don't mind picking their next one based on what some random person would like.
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