Search out-of-copyright books at Project Gutenberg
Any search for free ebooks has to start at Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org), home to 70,000 titles. The reason they’re free is because they are all out of copyright in the US (which is where the site is based). American law extends copyright to 70 years after publication, except for works created before 1 January 1978, which are protected for 95 years.
Earlier this year Gutenberg added books written in 1927, including The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, which contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s final two Holmes stories, and Now We Are Six, AA Milne’s book of poetry. Also new is the first Hardy Boys story The Tower Treasure, plus titles by Agatha Christie () and Ernest Hemingway ().
