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sbeam
12-09-2020 at 10:50 AM.
12-09-2020 at 10:50 AM.
These books, and over 60,000 others, are also available for free from the gutenberg project.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
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SmackyTheFrog
12-09-2020 at 12:37 PM.
12-09-2020 at 12:37 PM.
Quote from sbeam :
These books, and over 60,000 others, are also available for free from the gutenberg project.
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Pretty sure that The Great Gatsby isn't public domain and, therefore, not on the Gutenberg site.
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ebooks_lover
12-09-2020 at 01:01 PM.
12-09-2020 at 01:01 PM.
Quote from SmackyTheFrog :
Pretty sure that The Great Gatsby isn't public domain and, therefore, not on the Gutenberg site.
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slickernsnot
12-09-2020 at 01:14 PM.
12-09-2020 at 01:14 PM.
Quote from SmackyTheFrog :
Pretty sure that The Great Gatsby isn't public domain and, therefore, not on the Gutenberg site.

you're right, but it will be in public domain in three weeks https://www.mentalfloss.com/artic...lic-domain
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slickernsnot
12-09-2020 at 01:17 PM.
12-09-2020 at 01:17 PM.
Quote from sbeam :
These books, and over 60,000 others, are also available for free from the gutenberg project.
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Download Project Gutenberg Books to a Kindle (walkthrough) https://libguides.sdstate.edu/c.p...&p=1878083
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jhon.i.guifarro
12-09-2020 at 01:30 PM.
12-09-2020 at 01:30 PM.
Thank you!!! Got them all
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SmackyTheFrog
12-09-2020 at 01:47 PM.
12-09-2020 at 01:47 PM.
Quote from slickernsnot :
you're right, but it will be in public domain in three weeks https://www.mentalfloss.com/artic...lic-domain

Ah ha! That explains why Amazon has it as a "pre-order" for Jan 1.
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RobR8949
12-09-2020 at 08:41 PM.
12-09-2020 at 08:41 PM.
Awesome. Added to my library. Hoping my kids might read some of these classics. Thanks for sharing!
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macosxfiles
12-12-2020 at 01:14 PM.

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12-12-2020 at 01:14 PM.
These three are no longer free:
- Beyond Good and Evil, by Nietzsche
- The Republic, by Plato
- Meditations: A New Translation, by Marcus Aurelius
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