For those unaware, they take public domain books and create really high quality, free versions that can be read on any ereader or online. Every book also has an oil painting that is also public domain chosen to be its cover.

I have discovered a lot of amazing lesser known literature over the years from here, and wanted to suggest it in case anyone had not heard of it. The people running it do amazing work and there seems to be a steady stream of three or four new releases almost weekly.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks. It has previously occurred to me that Amazon Kindle deliberately made their Project Gutenberg content deliberately ~~shit~~ (edit) badly implemented so that they could say they had a ton of free ebooks while still steering users towards paying for them anyway.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

? I've never had any trouble with the gutenberg stuff, but i'm not big into ereaders. i mostly just read it on my phone tho. what's shit about it?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’m referring specifically to Amazon Kindle’s implementation.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

gotcha. thanks for clarifying.