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• Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever

  If you are willing to relinquish copyright claims on your work, for example by including a copyleft statement in the book’s preface, an organization like Project Gutenberg may be willing to host it, ostensibly in perpetuity. Other considerations are whether the book can stand alone as text-only, or will it rely on additional media to convey its message to the reader? More about Project Gutenberg:... - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

• [Advice] How to quit social media and not be bored?

  You can also read free books at archive.org and gutenberg.org. Source: 12 months ago

• Device Agnostic Books?

  If you like classics you can get public domain books from gutenberg.org. Source: about 1 year ago

• [Schedule] Gutenberg Read - The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy

  Now, there is a bit of a twist to this read. While all 4 of these short stories are available on gutenberg.org, they are not always printed as a single collection of short stories. In fact, if you search online for The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, then the table of contents may list a completely different set of "other stories." If you prefer to purchase a copy of the works and/or acquire a physical... Source: about 1 year ago

• Verification on Public Domain Book Usage

  "This is an altered version of [book name] that's freely available at gutenberg.org.". Source: over 1 year ago

• Reliable French edition of the Leroux novel?

  I'd like to get the Leroux novel in the original French (I know it's on gutenberg.org, which is great but I'd like a paper one too), but there are so many editions out there, many of which are either self-published by randos or are in simplified French. On top of that, it's tough nowadays when online booksellers' listings either lump all the editions together or don't seem trustworthy to actually send the one... Source: over 1 year ago

• What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

  Gutenberg.org - so many books, both famous and obscure and anything in-between. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is a kindle worth it if I only want to get Libby books?

  If you like classics (Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare, etc.), you can get thousands of free public domain books at gutenberg.org. Transfer to kindle via USB cable or send to kindle feature. Source: over 1 year ago

• Using deepL for translating books to learn language?

  Hello! I've recently started learning German, and I really wanted to use books for that - by basically re-reading ones that I already know, but this time in German. But the thing is, finding books in German is hard online, and it's also quite expensive. I know about stuff like gutenberg.org, but there isn't a lot of books in German for free. So I thought about getting English .pdf, and putting it through deepL to... Source: over 1 year ago

• Gift for dad's 70th bday

  Lots of the old westerns and sci fi books and magazines are free on http://gutenberg.org If he reads that might be something worth considering. I seem to have taken the lead in encouraging friends to read again old favorites. Several of us are reading books we loved way back when. Bonus is that on Gutenberg the copies are free. Source: over 1 year ago

• Universities are planning on implementing "holistic" admissions policies to reduce Asian admission - here's what people can do

  University education is becoming increasingly expensive and obsolete in the face of free information on the internet. The contents of the average bachelor's in science are completely available on gutenberg.org or libgen.rs, or other free sites. It's just that outside of the university you lack a robustly defined and segmented incentive structure, where you get rewarded in the short, medium and long term for... Source: over 1 year ago

• Save me from book purgatory

  There are of course the public domain works at places such as Project Gutenberg and Project Gutenberg Australia which have some texts of genre interest, but there are also a good number of online magazines that publish genre fiction (usually short fiction). For example, over at tor.com there's a new story every week or so; you can browse them all here. But this is just one of many places. If you're interested in... Source: over 1 year ago

• Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions; John Cowper-Powys; (Kindle; $0.00)

  Both I think are always available free from gutenberg.org. "Good Press" is the ebook publisher, they make kindleized copies free frequently (and charges for them other times). Source: over 1 year ago

• Question About Epigraphs and Copyright

  His stuff is on gutenberg.org. That's a very strong indicator that it's in public domain. Source: over 1 year ago

• She wasn't that bad but she could also have been better

  What did or did not occur after the event, the circumstances surrounding the other three children she adopted, or how the wikipedia article chooses to reflect those events are wholly and entirely immaterial to the matter we're discussing. Take your complaints to the wikipedia editors or offer some proof that the gutenberg.org record is inaccurate, that Campans record is inaccurate, or I'll thank you to sit this... Source: over 1 year ago

• Usage of the word "shook"

  It's not been "over recent months." If you search for "was shook" in gutenberg.org, you can find it used quite naturally by good mainstream authors in exactly the present meaning back to the very early 1800s, more than 200 years ago. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where do you all purchase your ebooks that aren't from Amazon?

  I sometimes use gutenberg.org but not as often as the two above. Source: over 1 year ago

• Kindle books?

  Project Gutenberg is great, it has all the public domain books. Just download them and either use send to kindle option, or download Calibre on your computer to convert them to AZW3 and transfer to your kindle. Source: over 1 year ago

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare eBook Free Download

  How is this not spam? They are re-packing a public domain book from project Gutenberg to get clicks on their shady website. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to Verify the Authorship of Quotes ?

  Other than that if you know the book you can go to Project Gutenberg and search, or if you have an eBook you can usually search it. Source: over 1 year ago

• Just unsubbed from r/FreeEBOOKS. There used to be actual books, but now it's just self-published and sex-ed books.

  If you haven't come across it yet, Project Gutenberg is great. Source: over 1 year ago