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This may be old news to most of you but over 100,000 books are available from the Gutenberg website < Main Page - Gutenberg >.
The copyright has either expired on the books in their collection or they have been given permission to make them available by download. All the legal stuff is explained on their website. A lot of the books they have are no longer in print so if you have been looking for hard to find titles a search there may help you.
One of my favorite authors of all time is Mark Twain. Gutenberg has an extensive collection by him. A lot of his short stories and essays that never made it to publication are there.
I can spend hours browsing through their collections.
I love that place myself, I find the most interesting stuff there (especially old medical texts and philosophy) that would usually not be found anywhere.
GL2, thanks for the tip. I've bookmarked it. Some of my "Five Favorites" are there:
Main Street and Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
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Mike,
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is one of my favorites also. I read OIL by him a few weeks ago. The movie THERE WILL BE BLOOD was supposedly based on OIL but it had very little of the books plotline in it. The book was great but IMHO the movie sucked.
I think I got The Great Lone Land, by William Francis Butler and Autobiography of August Bondi by, of course, August Bondifrom eitherGutenberg/and or something very similar linked by the New York Public Library. There are now lots of those sites.
I’ve used it to download little-known quirky books and an Ambrose Bierce book.
I love that there exist such sites and volunteers. This long-ago-common aspect of the long-ago early Internet has been overshadowed and all but made extinct by flash, greed, worship of form over substance. Old sites with only text loaded much faster, too.
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GL2, thanks for the tip. I've bookmarked it. Some of my "Five Favorites" are there:
Main Street and Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
I'm also a fan of Elmer Gantry
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