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Maybe we can create database that stores digital signatures/hashes of the ebooks signed by the authors/publishers/creators. That is more akin to checking integrity of downloaded files off the internet. One needs digital certificates to compare against.
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The other thread got closed, so I have to ask tubemonkey here if his tinfoil roof ever gets cats on it when it is hot.
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What do you do about DRM? Especially digital watermarks?
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I created another thread asking for a website that offers free .ePub files for download, but I didn't get any help.
What's a popular website that offers .ePub files? I want a popular website so that I can know the .ePub files haven't been altered. Thanks! |
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You've been told this time and time again. Any of the major ePub bookstores, eg Kobo. The answer won't change, merely for asking the question over and over again.
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Are you actually asking for a pirate site that hasn't added viruses or malware to its downloads? If so, you won't get an answer here.
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No, he is asking which bookstores can serve as an authoritative source which checks that anyone who uploads a self-pubbed copy of Public Domain works hasn't secretly filled it with errors and subliminal mind-control messages...
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Ok, there's Gutenberg. Lots of older public domain books that offer epub. No... Wait... Those have been altered too in some way. Looks like you're out of luck and will have to go back to paper, but then there's no guarantee that they haven't been altered between editions. Looks like you're just going to have to go back to television, because we all know television shows are *never* altered. ![]() |
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While the OP's concerns seem much broader and rather paranoid--malicious, outright falsification of material--I do think that overzealous tinkering with public domain material is a legitimate concern. |
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There's Wikisource, of course. The epubs their site generates won't win a beauty contest, but the intention there is to present authoritative texts. As is the intention of many uploaders to the Patricia Clark Memorial Library, btw., including myself. (Though one of my uploads has been altered: If you read one particular poem you will receive a subliminal message that will make you travel to my hometown and do unspeakable things to my neighbours' nasty fat cat. Nobody's done it yet - it's a shame that no-one seems to read poetry anymore...)
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What makes an official version, anyhow? Look at what happened to The Picture of Dorian Gray (via Wikipedia):
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Why complicate matters by introducing new questions which have nothing to do with the OP’s question? |
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IIRC the OP is looking for free self help books mainly and mostly these are under copyright.
So under the assumption this is still the case. @EbookNovice There is no place to get these books for free legally AFAIK. There is no website that can tell you for sure that there are no alterations made. Sure maybe they can say that, but you would be foolish to believe them. I don't think you are trying to get illegal books, just that what you are looking for is not there. Your best source is the public library if you want free books that have not been altered in a harmful way. Helen Last edited by speakingtohe; 07-11-2014 at 03:30 PM. |
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