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Standard Ebooks - a source of free, classic ebooks

Posted 2020-11-15 4:41 AM (#22631)
Subject: Standard Ebooks - a source of free, classic ebooks

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Hi!

I'd like to recommend Standard Ebooks - a volunteer-driven project devoted to taking public domain works (from Project Gutenberg) and publishing high-quality ebooks (with modern typesetting, checked against page scans of the original and proofed by users). They have produced many sci-fi classics, including Wells, Verne and many others:
https://standardebooks.org/tags/science-fiction

They have a bunch of fantasy novels as well:
https://standardebooks.org/tags/fantasy

The ebooks are a joy to read and you can contribute as well, either with small corrections or producing a whole book yourself.

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Posted 2020-11-15 1:25 PM (#22637 - in reply to #22631)
Subject: RE: Standard Ebooks - a source of free, classic ebooks

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SSSimon - 2020-11-15 4:41 AM Hi! I'd like to recommend Standard Ebooks - a volunteer-driven project devoted to taking public domain works (from Project Gutenberg) and publishing high-quality ebooks (with modern typesetting, checked against page scans of the original and proofed by users).

What a great resource! As much as I like PG they're not always the best quality scans. The selection in this site is already pretty decent for genre works and the site layout is a treat. I dipped into a couple books just to see and it all looks really well done. Thanks for letting us know about this site. Lots of titles worth exploring!