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What are the best public domain books that you've read? My currently downloaded books include "The Time Machine", "Pride and Prejudice", "Frankenstein", "War and Peace", "On Liberty", "Metamorphosis" (all from Librivox), etc. I especially like "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov" and others by Dostoevsky since they delve deeper into human psychology, values, and morality. Also to add, Librivox is so fucking cool and now I have something to listen to on my daily bus/car rides.

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[-] garden 26 points 2 months ago

Not a book suggestion, but I cannot recommend Standard Ebooks highly enough as a source of public domain ebooks. Professionally typeset, with consistent standards, all while being free and volunteer-driven!

[-] b72@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the link. I didn’t know about Standard Ebooks: looks like a very broad range of material!

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Saving this for later. I love project Gutenberg, but the quality is kinda all over the place.

[-] vhj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Legit my favorite place to get books. Actual stores that sell books wish they had the quality StandardEbooks releases have.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Do you happen to know if they have any in other languages than English?

[-] garden 2 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, they don't accept non-English books... but they do provide all the tools and guidelines they use for their books, so if someone wanted to make & release non-English books elsewhere I don't imagine there'd be problems.

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