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Huh. My favourite book-merchant, Book Depository, is offering free ebooks, with over 11,000 titles.

As far as I can tell, it's all public domain texts, but offered in very nicely typeset PDFs of the kind that make far better ebooks than Project Gutenberg text files. There's the complete Sherlock Holmes, a lot of Victorian fiction and nonfiction, as well as the Chinese classic The Dream of the Red Chamber, or Schiller's The History of the Thirty Years War.

I believe it's time to top up my mobile phone's collection :)

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Date: 2010-01-29 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wottie.livejournal.com
Ooh, definitely read Dream of the Red Chamber! It's sort of soap opera except really, really sweet. I have no idea what the English translation is like because I've only ever read the original, but now it looks like I can get my hands on the translation, too! Sweet. ♥

(also, I have no idea if you can actually get my comments on your DW posts? I comment via my LJ feed from this account, but they don't show up on your DW page, so i'm wondering if I should start commenting via DW)

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Date: 2010-01-29 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wottie.livejournal.com
Man, this is so confusing. It's cool, I have a DW account, so I'll just have to remember to sign in next time.

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Date: 2010-01-29 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zenicurean.livejournal.com
Thanks for the link! Somehow I get the feeling I'll be spending some time with this.

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Date: 2010-01-29 01:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alice_montrose
Oh, I've grabbed a few... erm, dozens. ^^;;;

I love the typeset PDF format they offer, and there are such great titles to choose from.

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Date: 2010-01-29 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] of-carabas.livejournal.com
Shiny! Thanks for the heads up!

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Date: 2010-01-30 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galynthia.livejournal.com
Free books, yippe!

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