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A Website keeping forgotten books alive (neglectedbooks.com)
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I came across this website that focuses on highlighting books that are out if print but still worthy of reading, if you can find them. The most recent post (Feb. 29 2024) talks about the various reasons books become neglected.

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[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

This is awesome, thank you. It's a bit hit or miss, but the site Project Gutenberg has a lot of obscure texts in the public domain converted to various eBook formats and available for free. I'm going to scan through and see what they have that's discussed on this site.