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Standard Ebooks - A curated and entirely free repository of public domain ebooks, carefully converted by volunteers to be the best digital version possible (standardebooks.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/books@lemmy.world

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nice any recommendations? Any exceptional instances of books?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson is an absolutely brilliant horror book, one of my favorites!

The Coming Race is an eerie early sci-fi book, considered one of the first, in fact.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks!

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Sparrow

[-] Omnificer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I check Standard Ebooks regularly and primarily get my public domain stuff from it. It is slow to get new content, but that's just the price to pay for free volunteer driven content.

The Ebooks are really well formatted and consistent. They've even got copies formatted especially for kobo readers. I don't actually know the difference between epub and kepub myself but it's nice to know it's meant to work with my e-reader.

I know there's some kind of small drama about the more technical aspects or style guides the volunteers are supposed to use, but whatever that is it's never impacted my ability to read the books or caused obvious breaks in the visuals.