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View Poll Results: Have you ever purchased a public-domain eBook? | |||
Yes | 7 | 77.78% | |
Yes, by accident (didn't realize it was PD) | 1 | 11.11% | |
No | 1 | 11.11% | |
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Yesterday, 07:39 PM | #1 |
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Have you ever purchased a public-domain eBook?
I noticed Kobo had a sale for a bunch of PD eBooks which made me wonder about this.
Question is in the title. Note that if it wasn't in the PD at the time (e.g. The Great Gatsby before a few years ago), it doesn't count. Neither do physical copies. A few years ago, I accidentally purchased an eBook and read it before realizing I could've gotten it from Project Gutenberg. It was less than a dollar so I wasn't too upset. Last edited by ownedbycats; Yesterday at 07:42 PM. |
Yesterday, 07:54 PM | #2 |
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I have to say I don't know. Maybe I have and I no longer remember, or I have done so unknowingly. I'd have to check most of my calibre library to know for sure, as any PD books I have there aren't specifically marked/tagged as such.
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Yesterday, 07:57 PM | #3 |
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Dang, I can't find an option to edit a poll
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Yesterday, 07:58 PM | #4 |
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I did, back in the early 2010's during my dark ages of ebook knowledge.
Saw Treasure Island, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins and a few others at a very cheap price of a couple of dollars on Amazon, so quickly snapped them up. It was only a few years later that I realised that these were public domain books and I could have avoided the cost. |
Yesterday, 08:27 PM | #5 |
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There are two situations where I'll purchase a public domain book.
When the front matter is significant. A Penguin or Oxford edition, for example. Price does matter here; I'll pay a few bucks for it, but otherwise I'll go with the free version. When it's a case of a recent and better translation. I know this is apples and oranges to an extent, but I mention it because good translations matter. No point in struggling with an archaic translation of a challenging work when a recent translation would make it accessible. |
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Today, 01:04 AM | #6 |
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I purchased several PD books when I knew the company that produced the editions had put the work in to produce a better formatted edition compared to Gutenberg. It was worth the 99¢ per book rather than editing the books myself.
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