So apparently these hippies have 22,000+ eBooks to give away. Are any of these good? Or are they mostly public domain crap? Anyone trolled through their website and found something worth reading?
They have a torrent of a bunch of Science Fiction books over at gutenberg.org but I haven't found anything cool yet. I'm hoping to snag a book that talks about FLYING CARS IN THE YEAR 2000 WHEN COMPUTERS ARE SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN JUST ONE ROOM!
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Anonymous2007-09-09 14:11 ID:sH5auKpu
It's not "public domain crap", it's just s bunch of books written before 1923 or that the copyright's lapsed on. The sci-fi is before the age of computers, really. It's mostly the source material for steampunk on there (Verne, Wells, etc.).
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Anonymous2007-09-11 18:23 ID:xYMXgdhp
so anything good in gutenberg besides verne and wells?
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Anonymous2007-09-11 23:23 ID:kawaDeiS
Unfortunately most of it is garbage, really.
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Anonymous2007-09-12 0:02 ID:eQlIfmKU
Depends on what you want to read. Maybe if you're interested in some Lord Dunsany.
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Anonymous2007-09-12 0:37 ID:7v4kJZsv
zOMG Jane Austen.
I kid. How about some Mark Twain? Snarky dead bugger, wasn't he?
Maybe Dumas?
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Anonymous2007-09-12 18:45 ID:jUYohO/q
>>6 >>5
just list some shit off, i dont know what to look for in there. talk about needle in a haystack.
Basically stuff like this, Shakespeare etc, if you aren't interested in historical texts then you'll find the site boring and mostly useless. Take a look at their top 100 list for some examples of the sort of thing you can find there, most of it is shitty.
Best bet is probably to use some random torrent site and search for ebooks on it. Can find a giant .rar of thousands of authors with some you might have heard of or want to read.
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Anonymous2007-09-13 0:56 ID:bCbanwYA
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Yeah, but there were some great pieces of literature in the stone age. It's sad how many people fap over drivel like Dan Brown or Robert Jordan when there's some great stuff just floating around out there.
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Anonymous2007-09-14 20:45 ID:rsUYO4OG
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aw man I bought Frankenstein at a library book sale for fifty cents! What a rip off I could have gotten it for free!
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Anonymous2012-12-24 16:59
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But it's a hard-copy in paper! If you have electrical problems, you can still read it in the sunlight.
Isn't that what really matters?
>>2 It's not "public domain crap", it's just s bunch of books written before 1923 or that the copyright's lapsed on.
You just gave the textbook definition of what public domain is. Yeah, I know, REPLYING TO A FIVE YEAR OLD POST, deal with it.
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Anonymous2013-04-07 23:57
There is a better Australian version of this site that has more recent books than gutenberg does, I suppose because of different public domain laws.