This freebie offer could be known to most of you, but this is for those who don't know about it. Gutenberg is a project where you can download free ebooks from their site. All the ebooks downloaded from Gutenberg are copyright free and can be freely downloaded and can also be freely distributed provided you do not make any changes to the content. Apart from downloading these huge collection of ebooks, you can actually request for free CD and DVD with around 10,000 ebooks from Gutenberg and you can read and enjoy for free.It has some of the best collection of ebooks ranging from classics, fiction, science, literature, history, etc.
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have indeed got both these CDs and DVDs and indeed enjoyed it and even copied both and have shared with many of my friends and relatives. They do send some really good classics which are worth more price in its printed edition, but all those we are getting it for free through this great service called Gutenberg.
I have seen many people selling both CD and DVD in many places across the city. The CD was priced at Rs. 100 and DVD was priced at Rs. 500. I don't know whether they will indeed donate the 20% share to Gutenberg or not. I was surprised at that time to see a huge crowd turned up to buy those CDs which was actually available for free. Hence I thought of writing about this free service here, so that you don't end up paying or buying those CD or DVD elsewhere in the future, but can indeed get it for free.
The CD contains best 600 ebooks of Gutenberg. The DVD contains 9400 ebooks from Gutenberg. You can order both at a time, each one, but not more than that.
Although it might take up some 2 weeks for them to process your free CDs but they do indeed send you the ebooks promptly
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