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The Public Domain Review
An online journal devoted to works that have fallen out of copyright: curious prints, forgotten essays, marginal science. Good for an hour you did not plan to spend.
The Public Domain Review
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Standard Ebooks
Volunteers take public-domain texts and typeset them properly. The same books everyone else gives away, minus the broken formatting.
Standard Ebooks
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Project Gutenberg
The oldest digital library there is. Plain, fast, and enormous. Start from the top-downloads list and go sideways.
Project Gutenberg
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Wikisource
Transcribed primary documents: speeches, treaties, court rulings, letters. Useful when you want the wording rather than the summary.
Wikisource contributors
That's the whole collection — 4 discoveries so far. More when there's something worth adding.