Books

7872 readers

4 users here now

A community for all things related to Books.

Rules

Be Nice. No personal attacks or hate speech.
No spam. All posts should be related to discussion or reviews related to books. (Please avoid posts that are just a link to the book and a generic summary)
No self promotion.

Official Bingo Posts:

Related Communities

Community icon by IconsBox (from freepik.com)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

dresden@discuss.online

dresden_do@lemmy.world

JaymesRS@literature.cafe

JaymesRS@lemmy.world

dresden@piefed.world

174

Standard Ebooks Is My Favorite Place for Books (standardebooks.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Bookish_Gaudi@piefed.social to c/books@lemmy.world

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Anyone have some favorites available here? Been getting back into reading and looking for some recommendations that aren't the same top 100 books of all time lists that are all over the internet. Many of those books killed my interest in reading for a bit...

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

Luckily they list estimate read times at the top of the book pages, so you can dive into some short reads to get a feel for authors and content.

I read mostly non-fiction, but if you're down for sci-fi:

H G Wells Invisible Man is a short favorite of mine.

And Edgar Rice Burroughs has a bunch of fun shorter stories, many are part of a Martian Series, which the movie John Carter was based on (one of my and my SOs fav comfort movies).

load more comments (4 replies)