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  1. Roger_Irrelevant's avatar
    Good post OP.

    There's also archive.org that has millions of out of copyright texts, as a result of Google's efforts to digitise the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide. You can even search the contents of these books from the website.

    They also have copyrighted books that you can "borrow" for an hour or day, but there are ways to download them to your PC.
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