Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by surprisetalk » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 2:43 AM UTC

Planet eBook: free literature for your device
planetebook.com

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by throawayonthe » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 3:57 AM UTC

the about section says the books are public domain in Australia. I wonder if there’s much catalog difference between this and https://www.gutenberg.org/ (books under public domain in the U.S.)

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by sphars » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:10 AM UTC

Looks similar to what standard ebooks[0] has done with public domain books. Anything different compared to them?

[0]: https://standardebooks.org/

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by TheMechanist » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:20 AM UTC

sphars wrote: post #3

Looks similar to what standard ebooks[0] has done with public domain books. Anything different compared to them? [0]: https://standardebooks.org/

Standard eBooks has nicer covers...

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by nadow » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:26 AM UTC

Maybe I'm missing something but this seems like Project Gutenberg with less options

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by reanimus » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:40 AM UTC

nadow wrote: post #5

Maybe I'm missing something but this seems like Project Gutenberg with less options

There's something to be said for groups like this one and Standard eBooks (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) doing some work to clean up and beautify public domain books like the ones in Project Gutenberg. Even Standard eBooks mentions that their books are all sourced from Gutenberg.

This group seems much less complete than SE, and in my opinion, they're not nearly as nice looking. I think that's more a matter of personal taste though.

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by zdw » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:45 AM UTC

The amount of ads thrown randomly over this site, including ads that pop up when trying to navigate is too damn high.

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by adorton » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:48 AM UTC

throawayonthe wrote: post #2

the about section says the books are public domain in Australia. I wonder if there’s much catalog difference between this and https://www.gutenberg.org/ (books under public domain in the U.S.)

The big one I noticed is 1984, which won't be out of copyright in the US for 20ish years.

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by october8140 » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:50 AM UTC

This is just a few gutenberg.org books with a ton of ads.

Re: Planet eBook: free literature for your device

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Post by jwilber » Mon, Jul 29, 2024, 4:59 AM UTC

On mobile the book titles take up ~15% of the available screen width, requiring much more scrolling than necessary and makes for a bit of a jarring experience reading the titles.