online books

Today I was discussing this topic with a friend, saying how annoying/dissappointing it is when a free book (because old enough or because the author intended it so) is offered online, but actually isn't a text file, but just image files from a scan of the actual book: impossible to search the text, which is dumb because that's what Spotlight is for, very long to load in a time and age where everything needs to be immediate, impossible to copy/paste sections of text (for quoting in an article or e-mail).

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