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For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.
If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.
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For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.
If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.
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For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.
If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.
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For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.
If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.
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For this #FridayReads, my first #SpinsterSeptember read of the year, Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes", a book originally published 100 years ago, a very early example of #feminist #fiction, and "one of the 100 Best Novels in English" according to The Guardian.
If you're curious and like to read in electronic formats, you can read it for free from a nice #StandardEbooks edition, made from the #wikisource transcription of the book.
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It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: 100 years of The Blue Castle
Today I’m bringing you a suggestion I have on my TBR, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery, the same author of Anne of Green Gables. Contrary to Anne, this book was written for adults, so check its trigger warnings.
The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, so it’s a good excuse to read it this year and celebrate its centenary. You can get the book through Project Gutenberg or, if you have a Kobo, through the specific format at Standard Ebooks.
What are you reading?
#BookLook #books #ebooks #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #StandardEbooks -
It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: 100 years of The Blue Castle
Today I’m bringing you a suggestion I have on my TBR, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery, the same author of Anne of Green Gables. Contrary to Anne, this book was written for adults, so check its trigger warnings.
The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, so it’s a good excuse to read it this year and celebrate its centenary. You can get the book through Project Gutenberg or, if you have a Kobo, through the specific format at Standard Ebooks.
What are you reading?
#BookLook #books #ebooks #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #StandardEbooks -
It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: 100 years of The Blue Castle
Today I’m bringing you a suggestion I have on my TBR, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery, the same author of Anne of Green Gables. Contrary to Anne, this book was written for adults, so check its trigger warnings.
The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, so it’s a good excuse to read it this year and celebrate its centenary. You can get the book through Project Gutenberg or, if you have a Kobo, through the specific format at Standard Ebooks.
What are you reading?
#BookLook #books #ebooks #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #StandardEbooks -
It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: 100 years of The Blue Castle
Today I’m bringing you a suggestion I have on my TBR, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery, the same author of Anne of Green Gables. Contrary to Anne, this book was written for adults, so check its trigger warnings.
The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, so it’s a good excuse to read it this year and celebrate its centenary. You can get the book through Project Gutenberg or, if you have a Kobo, through the specific format at Standard Ebooks.
What are you reading?
#BookLook #books #ebooks #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #StandardEbooks -
It’s Weekend, Let’s Read: 100 years of The Blue Castle
Today I’m bringing you a suggestion I have on my TBR, The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery, the same author of Anne of Green Gables. Contrary to Anne, this book was written for adults, so check its trigger warnings.
The Blue Castle was first published in 1926, so it’s a good excuse to read it this year and celebrate its centenary. You can get the book through Project Gutenberg or, if you have a Kobo, through the specific format at Standard Ebooks.
What are you reading?
#BookLook #books #ebooks #OldBooks #ProjectGutenberg #publicDomain #StandardEbooks -
Feed Recommendation: Standard Ebooks - Newest Ebooks
https://quokk.au/c/rssfeeds/p/1126844/feed-recommendation-standard-ebooks-newest-ebooks
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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So, how do you manage #StandardEbooks in #Bookwyrm? Or #Goodreads? How do you add them manually?
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…and released! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/short-fiction
No idea when it was that anyone last read “Trooping with Crows” but it must have been years if not decades. It turned out to be a novella about a strong young Victorian woman falling into an unsuitable relationship despite the best efforts of her aunts. Fairly typical Pirkis fare but well written and paced, and with a selection of dogs as per usual.
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…and released! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/short-fiction
No idea when it was that anyone last read “Trooping with Crows” but it must have been years if not decades. It turned out to be a novella about a strong young Victorian woman falling into an unsuitable relationship despite the best efforts of her aunts. Fairly typical Pirkis fare but well written and paced, and with a selection of dogs as per usual.
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…and released! https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/short-fiction
No idea when it was that anyone last read “Trooping with Crows” but it must have been years if not decades. It turned out to be a novella about a strong young Victorian woman falling into an unsuitable relationship despite the best efforts of her aunts. Fairly typical Pirkis fare but well written and paced, and with a selection of dogs as per usual.
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Quite pleased with my latest #standardEbooks cover, managed to find a werewolf-esque wolf (that has more than a passing resemblence to my scottie) in the background of a much larger 17th century Dutch painting: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Satire-on-the-Trial-of-Johan-van-Oldenbarnevelt--268c4128e80a5ed0e5234c7fb496a12e
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Quite pleased with my latest #standardEbooks cover, managed to find a werewolf-esque wolf (that has more than a passing resemblence to my scottie) in the background of a much larger 17th century Dutch painting: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Satire-on-the-Trial-of-Johan-van-Oldenbarnevelt--268c4128e80a5ed0e5234c7fb496a12e
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Quite pleased with my latest #standardEbooks cover, managed to find a werewolf-esque wolf (that has more than a passing resemblence to my scottie) in the background of a much larger 17th century Dutch painting: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/Satire-on-the-Trial-of-Johan-van-Oldenbarnevelt--268c4128e80a5ed0e5234c7fb496a12e
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Bookmarked!
You should definitely check out https://standardebooks.org/ for beautiful hand-crafted ebooks taken from #ProjectGutenberg
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/22/26
At All Dead Generations, there was a look at what a Beholder might look like as a biblical angel. Wejia Cheng, an editor with Standard Ebooks, wrote about how eschewing automated shortcuts and doing the work can sometimes further our goals better than having the work done for us. At Sly Flourish, there's a discussion of mixing and matching preferred rules from different 5e versions. Standard Ebooks Releases The Pearl Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward Olney Hymns by John […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/22/interesting-links-week-of-4-22-26/
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/22/26
At All Dead Generations, there was a look at what a Beholder might look like as a biblical angel. Wejia Cheng, an editor with Standard Ebooks, wrote about how eschewing automated shortcuts and doing the work can sometimes further our goals better than having the work done for us. At Sly Flourish, there's a discussion of mixing and matching preferred rules from different 5e versions. Standard Ebooks Releases The Pearl Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward Olney Hymns by John […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/22/interesting-links-week-of-4-22-26/
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/22/26
At All Dead Generations, there was a look at what a Beholder might look like as a biblical angel. Wejia Cheng, an editor with Standard Ebooks, wrote about how eschewing automated shortcuts and doing the work can sometimes further our goals better than having the work done for us. At Sly Flourish, there's a discussion of mixing and matching preferred rules from different 5e versions. Standard Ebooks Releases The Pearl Lady Rose's Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward Olney Hymns by John […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/22/interesting-links-week-of-4-22-26/
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I think this is a personal record! (Added a specific MARC role to a third of the #standardEbooks corpus.)
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I think this is a personal record! (Added a specific MARC role to a third of the #standardEbooks corpus.)
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I think this is a personal record! (Added a specific MARC role to a third of the #standardEbooks corpus.)
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/1/26
Charlie Jane Anders wrote about the difficulties of making YA Star Trek as a reaction to the cancelation of Starfleet Academy. It's an interesting look at the ethos at the core of the YA genre, of Star Trek, and of Star Wars. There's interesting overlaps of Star Wars and Star Trek both being visions of the role of the United States post-World War II. Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy wrote a review of the third edition of OSRIC, a first-edition AD&D retroclone. I like the analysis of retroclones […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/01/interesting-links-week-of-4-1-26/
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/1/26
Charlie Jane Anders wrote about the difficulties of making YA Star Trek as a reaction to the cancelation of Starfleet Academy. It's an interesting look at the ethos at the core of the YA genre, of Star Trek, and of Star Wars. There's interesting overlaps of Star Wars and Star Trek both being visions of the role of the United States post-World War II. Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy wrote a review of the third edition of OSRIC, a first-edition AD&D retroclone. I like the analysis of retroclones […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/01/interesting-links-week-of-4-1-26/
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Interesting Links–Week of 4/1/26
Charlie Jane Anders wrote about the difficulties of making YA Star Trek as a reaction to the cancelation of Starfleet Academy. It's an interesting look at the ethos at the core of the YA genre, of Star Trek, and of Star Wars. There's interesting overlaps of Star Wars and Star Trek both being visions of the role of the United States post-World War II. Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy wrote a review of the third edition of OSRIC, a first-edition AD&D retroclone. I like the analysis of retroclones […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/01/interesting-links-week-of-4-1-26/
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Putting together a compilation of short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective fame) and I really love this archaeology part.
I’ve already transcribed 2–3 shorts from 1870s magazine scans that aren’t on her Wikipedia page. But there’s a novella called “Trooping with Crows” with no public scans available. Luckily you can pay British Library to digitise books from their collection, so #standardEbooks will have the first publication since 1880 (for free of course).
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Putting together a compilation of short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective fame) and I really love this archaeology part.
I’ve already transcribed 2–3 shorts from 1870s magazine scans that aren’t on her Wikipedia page. But there’s a novella called “Trooping with Crows” with no public scans available. Luckily you can pay British Library to digitise books from their collection, so #standardEbooks will have the first publication since 1880 (for free of course).
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Putting together a compilation of short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective fame) and I really love this archaeology part.
I’ve already transcribed 2–3 shorts from 1870s magazine scans that aren’t on her Wikipedia page. But there’s a novella called “Trooping with Crows” with no public scans available. Luckily you can pay British Library to digitise books from their collection, so #standardEbooks will have the first publication since 1880 (for free of course).
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Project Gutenberg are amazing and the source of the majority of the works on Standard Ebooks, but they specifically don’t do editorial things like this that I’m quite proud of: a little compilation of the available US public domain English translations of Noh plays by Zeami: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/zeami-motokiyo/plays/various-translators
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Project Gutenberg are amazing and the source of the majority of the works on Standard Ebooks, but they specifically don’t do editorial things like this that I’m quite proud of: a little compilation of the available US public domain English translations of Noh plays by Zeami: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/zeami-motokiyo/plays/various-translators
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Project Gutenberg are amazing and the source of the majority of the works on Standard Ebooks, but they specifically don’t do editorial things like this that I’m quite proud of: a little compilation of the available US public domain English translations of Noh plays by Zeami: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/zeami-motokiyo/plays/various-translators
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Wonderful to see that a Standard Ebooks edition of Mary Butts’ brilliant but somewhat neglected modernist novel Armed With Madness has been released today.
#MaryButts #ArmedWithMadness #Modernism #ModernistLiterature #StandardEbooks #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness
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Wonderful to see that a Standard Ebooks edition of Mary Butts’ brilliant but somewhat neglected modernist novel Armed With Madness has been released today.
#MaryButts #ArmedWithMadness #Modernism #ModernistLiterature #StandardEbooks #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness
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Wonderful to see that a Standard Ebooks edition of Mary Butts’ brilliant but somewhat neglected modernist novel Armed With Madness has been released today.
#MaryButts #ArmedWithMadness #Modernism #ModernistLiterature #StandardEbooks #Ebooks #FreeEbooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-butts/armed-with-madness
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That feeling when your hobby finds you attempting to read 17th-century German set in blackletter to work out whether the ellipses in the English ePub edition you’re producing are elisions. (They were: the original German has “leckt mich im Hintern” and “im Arsch lecken”, both of which the translator declined to work on in 1912.)
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That feeling when your hobby finds you attempting to read 17th-century German set in blackletter to work out whether the ellipses in the English ePub edition you’re producing are elisions. (They were: the original German has “leckt mich im Hintern” and “im Arsch lecken”, both of which the translator declined to work on in 1912.)
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That feeling when your hobby finds you attempting to read 17th-century German set in blackletter to work out whether the ellipses in the English ePub edition you’re producing are elisions. (They were: the original German has “leckt mich im Hintern” and “im Arsch lecken”, both of which the translator declined to work on in 1912.)
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Bei #StandardEBooks gibt es neben englischsprachigen Ausgaben von #AgathaChristie-Büchern auch so einiges von #LordDunsany, den ich bisher nur aus dritter Hand kenne. Und aus einem Rollenspiel von #TrollishDelver.
Für Leute, die sich nicht sicher sind, ob ihr Englisch ausreicht, es gibt zu den E-Books einen Hinweis, wie schwierig die Sprache ist.
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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
#HackerNews #StandardEbooks #PublicDomainDay #Literature #BookLovers #DigitalBooks #2026
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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
#HackerNews #StandardEbooks #PublicDomainDay #Literature #BookLovers #DigitalBooks #2026
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Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
#HackerNews #StandardEbooks #PublicDomainDay #Literature #BookLovers #DigitalBooks #2026
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I contributed three books to Standard Ebooks for the next round of works entering the US public domain: Kafka’s “The Castle”, Agatha Christie’s “Giant’s Bread”, and Stella Benson’s “The Faraway Bride”. Hope you enjoy them. https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
(N.b. levels of racism commensurate with novels published in 1930, please bear that in mind before downloading.)
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I contributed three books to Standard Ebooks for the next round of works entering the US public domain: Kafka’s “The Castle”, Agatha Christie’s “Giant’s Bread”, and Stella Benson’s “The Faraway Bride”. Hope you enjoy them. https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
(N.b. levels of racism commensurate with novels published in 1930, please bear that in mind before downloading.)
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I contributed three books to Standard Ebooks for the next round of works entering the US public domain: Kafka’s “The Castle”, Agatha Christie’s “Giant’s Bread”, and Stella Benson’s “The Faraway Bride”. Hope you enjoy them. https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
(N.b. levels of racism commensurate with novels published in 1930, please bear that in mind before downloading.)
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Celebrating Public Domain Day 2026
Every year, I get excited to check out what the new books and movies and songs entering the public domain are. I first learned of Public Domain Day while the US Public Domain was on pause, when the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School would post lists of what would have entered the public domain in a specific year either under the pre-1978 twenty-eight year maximum term or under the Life-Plus-50 rule used in most of the rest of the world at that time. I've enjoyed […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/01/01/celebrating-public-domain-day-2026/
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Celebrating Public Domain Day 2026
Every year, I get excited to check out what the new books and movies and songs entering the public domain are. I first learned of Public Domain Day while the US Public Domain was on pause, when the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School would post lists of what would have entered the public domain in a specific year either under the pre-1978 twenty-eight year maximum term or under the Life-Plus-50 rule used in most of the rest of the world at that time. I've enjoyed […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/01/01/celebrating-public-domain-day-2026/
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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
