I have recently discovered the excellent Fadedpage web site; which is done by volunteers, and provides free, high quality, downloadable e-books from a variety of authors in the public domain of Canada (which, sensibly, has 50 year copyright laws).
I stumbled across it in search of Biggles books; but have since discovered a remarkably rich seam of Charles Williams's works (some them very difficult, or expensive, to get in hard copy); plus a large number of CS Lewis texts - also including some rarities!
Even if you already have these books on paper, Fadedpage could provide handy portable versions to take on holiday or journeys.
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And searchable, when checking for memorable expressions, and such like!
David Llewellyn Dodds
@David - Yes, searchability is one genuinely useful way in which e-books score over paper. e.g. You might already know I am a keen reader of Philip K Dick's Exegesis; and I have found it useful to have paper, e-book and audible versions - to get their various advantages.
Of course, the same applies to Tolkien! - although I use some online text versions for the search function. e.g. for the Notion Club Papers
https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/138987/Tolkien_09_Sauron_Defeated.pdf
Awesome, thank you.
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