Books for Free (Public Domain)

I've posted some of these on my wall previously, but I think they deserve a thread, and as an avid book collector this is quite close to my heart.

There are a lot of books out there that are now in the public domain but you might find sites like Amazon still charging for printed or kindle copies of them.

Below are some websites where you can find these public domain books:

Books Should Be Free

Project Gutenberg

Global Grey (This one is a bit easier to look through than the first two and has some interesting stuff, especially for religion, philosophy, history and occult subjects)

Feedbooks

Authorama

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Note that sometimes, there is a copyright on the digitization of a public domain work. meaning that a copy is only public domain if based on a work that fell in the public domain, and the copyist specifies that the copy is also in the public domain :dry:

I know that there are some funny rules, and you always need to check in your own country... but some of the books are very old (especially on Global Grey).. I think mostly you'd be safe..

Some of the sites say on the pdfs confirmation of public domain status.

The site to this link provides horror (Lovecraft) and a broad selection of the Occult...
http://darkbooks.org/collection/categories.html

Edan wrote: I've posted some of these on my wall previously, but I think they deserve a thread, and as an avid book collector this is quite close to my heart.

There are a lot of books out there that are now in the public domain but you might find sites like Amazon still charging for printed or kindle copies of them.

Below are some websites where you can find these public domain books:

Books Should Be Free

Project Gutenberg

Global Grey (This one is a bit easier to look through than the first two and has some interesting stuff, especially for religion, philosophy, history and occult subjects)

Feedbooks

Authorama

(Perhaps a nice mod could sticky this?.... maybe, maybe )

Each of those links was added to the library: http://www.templeofthejediorder.org/library

Thank you.