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<p>The best place to look for public domain ebooks to produce is <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org">Project Gutenberg</a>. If downloading from Project Gutenberg, be careful of the following:</p>
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<p>There may be different versions of the same publication on Gutenberg, and <em>the best one might not be the one with the most downloads</em>. In particular, there could be a better translation that has fewer downloads because it was produced later, or there could be a version with better HTML markup. A great example of this phenomenon is the Gutenberg version of <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Seas</i>. The most-downloaded version is an <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164" rel="nofollow">old translation widely criticized as being slapdash and inaccurate</a>. The less popular version is a <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2488">fresh, modern translation dedicated to the public domain</a>.</p>
<p>There may be different versions of the same publication on Gutenberg, and <em>the best one might not be the one with the most downloads</em>. In particular, there could be a better translation that has fewer downloads because it was produced later, or there could be a version with better HTML markup. For example, <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18857">the version of <i>Journey to the Center of the Earth</i> with the most downloads</a> is a less accurate translation than its <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3748">less-frequently downloaded counterpart</a>. However, you must verify that whichever version you ultimately select is not copyrighted. For example, <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2488">this modern translation of <i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas</i></a> compares favorably to the most-downloaded <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/164">older translation</a>, but because the modern translation is copyrighted (see the disclaimer at the top of the HTML file) it is ineligible to be the basis of a Standard Ebooks production.</p>
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<p>Gutenberg usually offers both an HTML version and an epub version of the same ebook. Note that <em>one is not always exactly the same as the other!</em> A casual reader might assume that the HTML version is generated from the epub version, or the other way around; but for some reason the HTML and epub versions often differ in important ways, with the HTML version typically using fewer useless CSS classes, and including <code class="html"><span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">em</span><span class="p">&gt;</span></code> elements that the epub version is often missing.</p>