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View Poll Results: Why have you purchased public-domain eBooks?
Better formatting 6 31.58%
Better translation 11 57.89%
Additional things (front matter, annotations, artwork) 9 47.37%
By mistake (e.g. didn't realize it was PD) 1 5.26%
Other (specify) 4 21.05%
I haven't purchased public-domain eBooks. 1 5.26%
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Old Yesterday, 04:28 PM   #16
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Should I be counting the 100 PD ebooks that came on the original Kobo and Kobo WiFi?
I'd forgotten those! I think I have a list somewhere of what all of those were.
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I've got a zip file of them I downloaded years back. Reminds me of my first contact with Kobo support when the original refused to open a book with a ' in the title. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court). Dug out an epub with the list of the books which should be attached to this message.
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If you want the last poll option removed, how about deleting the second post since it is not about a copyrighted book?
It most certainly is about a book in copyright. The translation and the images make it in copyright.
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It most certainly is about a book in copyright. The translation and the images make it in copyright.
My apologies. The question was about books in the public domain. The second post starts talking about a post that isn't in the the public domain. The second post needs to be deleted.
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I seem to recall purchasing some PD books on a CD back in the '90s when I was reading them on a Sony Clie

Same here (but I had a Palm Pilot). My reason was "other." Specifically, convenience.
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