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[–] 166 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  • [–] [S] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is remarkable how many books available for free on Gutenberg are sold in the same format on Amazon (it'd be one thing if they were special editions, new translations etc, but they're the same!)

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    People out to make a quick buck are banking on suckers not knowing about Project Gutenberg, or failing to check it, or not wanting to do a couple of extra steps to get something onto their Kindle.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Check out standard ebooks. They take public domain books and "clean" them up with really good typesetting, spelling fixes, and other things. All free too

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Standard is fantastic! The books are better quality than what they charge for on “marketplaces” and can be read for free or downloaded wholesale for a song. Add to that they host an opds catologue that fbreader can browse and you have incredibly convenient public domain books right to the ereader.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    You can also use Book Bounty to integrate LibGen support into Readarr. It’s a workaround for one of Readarr’s biggest weaknesses, as torrents historically aren’t great for ebooks.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://libbyapp.com/

    Assuming you have a card from a participating library.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Every time I go to checkout a book on Libby it's like 6-10 weeks' wait. If I put a hold on it then I'm just not in a place to read/listen at that time and then I feel bad for hogging it instead.

    Better to just pirate or buy from a non-DRM distributor.

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