AI-generated books create a dumpster fire on Amazon and Goodreads

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There are tons of them available. Here's the Creative Commons Search portal: https://search.creativecommons.org/ I tried Openverse and Europeana. Some of these appear to categorize eBooks as "images", or perhaps they are just promotional images for unfree books. Tens of thousands of results. Here's a Google Books search. I was unable to find a "search for license" type thing, but you can search for "Fully viewable" or "Google eBooks only": https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=-copyright&tbs=,bkv:f&num=100 My father loves HathiTrust, and so do many other people who love freedom: https://www.hathitrust.org/ Of course you know the Internet Archive and Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/ Never forget the O.G. PD site, Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Also, while it is not the written word, it is based on awesome freely-available books, and perhaps you could consider adding to the library at LibriVox: https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=0&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results My classmates at school ate this stuff up when I volunteered that there are sites where you can find awesome public domain reference material that's often better-quality than the paywalled stuff you pay for. Don't forget the Open Textbooks and freely licensed academic materials. Community colleges and universities will direct you to those. https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks Don't forget niche uses and special interests. Want to overcome your addiction to porn? Download some free eBooks: https://www.covenanteyes.com/e-books/.

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Open Library

There are tons of them available. Here's the Creative Commons Search portal: https://search.creativecommons.org/ I tried Openverse and Europeana. Some of these appear to categorize eBooks as "images", or perhaps they are just promotional images for unfree books. Tens of thousands of results. Here's a Google Books search. I was unable to find a "search for license" type thing, but you can search for "Fully viewable" or "Google eBooks only": https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=-copyright&tbs=,bkv:f&num=100 My father loves HathiTrust, and so do many other people who love freedom: https://www.hathitrust.org/ Of course you know the Internet Archive and Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/ Never forget the O.G. PD site, Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Also, while it is not the written word, it is based on awesome freely-available books, and perhaps you could consider adding to the library at LibriVox: https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=0&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results My classmates at school ate this stuff up when I volunteered that there are sites where you can find awesome public domain reference material that's often better-quality than the paywalled stuff you pay for. Don't forget the Open Textbooks and freely licensed academic materials. Community colleges and universities will direct you to those. https://oercommons.org/hubs/open-textbooks https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks Don't forget niche uses and special interests. Want to overcome your addiction to porn? Download some free eBooks: https://www.covenanteyes.com/e-books/.

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