
http://books.google.com/ebooks They are using Adobe's DRM so their efforts should be compatible with most epub dedicated readers. They are also offering their free line of classic books through this forum as well as Google Books, via PDF "photocopies" if you read online, or via their computer-generated OCR epubs if you want it for your dedicated ebook reader. Their computerized OCR seems much better nowadays than it used to be, but, in terms of making a pleasantly-usable epub product from that OCR they still have a long ways to go, IMHO. They attempt to put a happy face on their "free" offerings by hand-crafting a "top 100" classics list, roughly speaking. Now news media is talking about how they're keeping your ebooks "in the cloud" is something new and different, but I don't see how that's any different than Kindle which keeps track of and allows you to download books again forever, and keeps your place synced across devices. In fact, this seems identical to me. ? However epub Adobe DRM'ed is better than Amazon's DRM'ed MOBI file format, at least in terms of number of independent ebook readers it can run on. Do I *want* Google to know everything I read so that they can help advertisers target me? Well, with the number of old books I read, presumably Google tells their advertiser-sponsors "Give Up, He's Not Going to Buy Anything!"