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Apr 22, 2022

One of very few sites that can truly be called venerable, predating the web itself. They have a zillion classics and other public-domain books. Even better, they have them in multiple formats including plain text and HTML along with the usual eBook formats.

So you can read them on just about anything!

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It's only good for classics

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An excellent resource to find books in the public-domain.

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Exactly as the information above says. Definitely includes some of the greatest works, including a great many of Shakespeare's writings.

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