: Re: Public domain search tools/websites Is there a united resource or program to search public domain works? By united I mean it searches in more than 1 website for my search term.

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Apart from Internet Archive mentioned by Mr. Jenkins: archive.org/ You could try Project Gutenburg, which has a search bar on the top left hand corner: www.gutenberg.org/
Their site says:

Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide
publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Here is a list of their "Partners, Affiliates and Resources" which has listings for over 100,000 books: www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Partners,_Affiliates_and_Resources As a last resort (unless you live in Australia) Project Gutenberg of Australia is good if you're looking for something that you cannot find elsewhere, or as the the above link explains:

As a general rule the works of authors who died before 1955 are in the public domain in Australia. Works by George Orwell (died 1950), Virginia Woolf (died 1941), and James Joyce (died 1941), just to name a few authors, are in the public domain in Australia.

This applies to just Australia, and they go on to say:

Works which are in the public domain in Australia may remain copyrighted in other Countries, even for several decades. People may not download, or read online, such works if they are in a country where they are still under copyright. That still leaves a lot of readers out there to enjoy etexts of some of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century.

Good Luck! :)

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