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Open Library vs Standard Ebooks

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Open Library

An open, user-editable online catalog of books that aims to have a page for every published book, with free reading and borrowing of digitized books through controlled digital lending, run by the Internet Archive.

Standard Ebooks

A volunteer-run digital library of free public domain ebooks, sourced from Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, then proofread, typeset to a consistent style manual and released as open source editions in ereader-compatible formats.

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