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I can remember project Gutenberg as far back as 2013/12-ish when I had my first kindle, so it’s not just new. And that’s only when I became aware of it.
Project Gutenberg (a reference to the inventor of the printing press) specifically digitizes old books (this year published before 1931) because they are in the public domain and will not cause problems for the project to distribute. They are volunteer run and you can help by making sure the pages that were run through OCR are correct.
EPUB is a file format that is intended for digital readers. The main benefit (over PDF) is that it is reflowable, allowing the digital reader to change display format if you need something like larger text or a specific font while still “keeping your spot” in the document.
I'm interested to try it. Too bad, I can't see an online community. Maybe this is just new, but I've heard of kindle long ago already.
I heard there might be some ways of getting epubs for books that have come out after 1931
Different countries have different lengths of copyright. For example, I know that you can get some books from the Australian Gutenberg website that are not allowed on the American Gutenberg website yet.
Yes, but not through Project Gutenberg. You want Library Genesis or Anna's Archive for that... if you're feeling nautical.
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