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That one website that lets you read classic books for free

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Project Gutenberg has 79,000+ free ebooks of public-domain works you can read online or download for Kindle and other e-readers, with no fees, ads or registration. The catch is that public domain means mostly older books, so don't expect anything recent.

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Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org Carefully formatted, proofread editions of public-domain classics FreeNo signup Link checked Oct 1 Open Library openlibrary.org Borrow digitized books, including newer ones, with a free account FreeSignup required Link checked Oct 1

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